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[Photograph 2012.201.B0171.0277]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0156.0290]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0224]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "1st Territorial Convention at Guthrie, Ok., July 20th '89."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0182]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "the realism of Swearingen's photograph of the entertainers at the club Theatre takes much of the romantic glamour from Hollywood's version of western theatres but detracts nothing form the interest in this rare picture. The company included five men, three women and two child performers, a bull fiddle player, two violinists, a cornetist a trombonist and a drummer. Footlights were seven shielded kerosene lamps."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0177]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "June 28, 1889 -- This picture ought to start some discussions among the old-timers. It's the Noble street bridge across Cottonwood creek, which divided east and west Guthrie. A concrete viaduct four blocks long is now located where this bridge stood. The viaduct passes over the creek and the Santa Fe."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0241]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Guthrie's first brick building was not long in taking shape and by May, when Swearingen returned to the town the National Bank Block had its first occupants: Grant Stanley, Lawyer, Whitley-Orput loans and investments and the McNeal Little Banking Company. Even in 1889 everyone liked to "mug the camera" even if it meant stopping work."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0183]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Election day June 4, 1889. Guthrie, Okla."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0247]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Crowded Street in Guthrie. April 25, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0251]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Guthrie, Oklahoma - May 13, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0244]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Swearingen's photograph long outlived this early banking institution whish was organized overnight as a self constituted firm that folded soon afterwards. Outdoor salesmen such as the operating near the bank appear in many of the young photographer's pictures."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0174]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Except for a few hurriedly constructed frame buildings, Guthrie was for a considerable time, a city of tents. Signs on tents indicated law and land offices, lunch rooms and hotels, blacksmith shops and grocery stores. The tent city extended for some distance on both sides of the railroad tracks."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0186]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "All work stopped in Guthrie on June 4 to hear the speeches of candidates who would be judged by the voters on the following day."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0180]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Breaking ground--virgin Oklahoma soil near Guthrie, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0200]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The original Guthrie postoffices is the largest center tent, pictured here on the day before the opening. The land office is at the right."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0194]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "these women posed in front of a voting booth in Guthrie after they had cast their ballots, 30 years before woman suffrage was accepted in the United States"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0231]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With this crude equipment the Walker brothers ground out enough bricks to construct several major Guthrie stores. they learned the business by trial and error."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0178]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "June 4, 1889 -- These citizens of a new land were interested in their governments. On election day there was no lack of attention, and every one turned out to vote. a large percentage of the city population is represented here."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0188]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "GALA OCCASION -- Guthrie was less than three months old when this picture was taken at the first celebration, but it was then a city of more than 10,000 inhabitants as settlers lined a main street for this July 4 horse race."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0240]
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."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0190]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0246]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Harrison Ave., Guthrie, I. T. One month old - June 7, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0171]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0225]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "April 27, 1889 -- Guthrie promised to be the most important town in the new territory. Frame buildings started going up immediately. Masses of People moved in."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0199]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Iowa Indians visiting Guthrie, OT May 1889"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0232]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Wagons used to make the run were converted easily into drays for transporting goods from depot to stores in early-day Guthrie"
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0243]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Guthrie, Ok., April 24, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0187]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A long line waits before the post office tent at Guthrie for mail. One man, Dennis Flynn, did all the handling."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0245]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Engineers and surveyors gather at the Guthrie land office in April 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0213]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Early city and street scene in Guthrie, 1889. Buildings being erected on a busy street."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0189]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Taken before noon April 22, at or near Guthrie."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0176]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Reidener district in west Guthrie two weeks after the opening."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0242]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Crowded Street in Guthrie. April 25, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0184]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Guthrie, April 22, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0164]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Merchants Bank was open for business when this picture was taken May 14, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0250]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma Ave., Guthrie I. T. June 8, 1889."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0351.0469]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0351.0468]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0115]
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."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1271.0232]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Cherokee Female Seminary - 1889 - Now Northeastern State University - Tahlequah, Oklahoma"
[Photograph 2012.201.B1271.0233]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Barbecue pit for Dedication Day, Cherokee Female Seminary, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, May 7, 1889. Now Northeastern State University."
[Photograph 2012.201.B1271.0231]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Female Seminary Speaker's Gallery, on dedication day, May 7th 1889 - Tahlequah, Oklahoma."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0968.0837]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma City, June 11, 1889"
Early Post Office
Photo copy of a photograph of an early Oklahoma post office circa 1889. Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
[Photograph 2012.201.B0968.0976]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
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