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[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0115]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers were making improvements to the railroad in 1899 photo. carefully preserved between sheets of heavy plastic in David Sasser's office is a fragile piece of Perkins history, a yellowed flier once sent out by the town fathers to attract people people to this area settled in the Land Run of 1889."
Date: July 14, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0240]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "There was very little that the young photographer missed as he lugged his heavy camera and plates around Guthrie to make his photographic record. This is the U. S. Land Office and a detail of troops from the company sent to marshal the run."
Date: May 27, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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