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Early Post Office

Description: Photo copy of a photograph of an early Oklahoma post office circa 1889. Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: 1889~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0150.0787]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Sketch of Edison from New York Daily Graphic of 1880."
Date: January 3, 1880
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0156.0290]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: October 27, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0171.0277]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: April 22, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0164]

Description: 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."
Date: May 12, 1889
Creator: Holmes, Helen
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0174]

Description: 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."
Date: April 27, 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0176]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Reidener district in west Guthrie two weeks after the opening."
Date: 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0177]

Description: 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."
Date: June 28, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0178]

Description: 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."
Date: June 4, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0180]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Breaking ground--virgin Oklahoma soil near Guthrie, 1889."
Date: 1889
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0182]

Description: 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."
Date: 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0183]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Election day June 4, 1889. Guthrie, Okla."
Date: June 4, 1889
Creator: Bryan Studio
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0184]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Guthrie, April 22, 1889."
Date: April 29, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0186]

Description: 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."
Date: June 4, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0187]

Description: 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."
Date: 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0188]

Description: 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."
Date: July 4, 1889
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0189]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Taken before noon April 22, at or near Guthrie."
Date: April 22, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0190]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.
Date: July 20, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0194]

Description: 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"
Date: June 6, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0199]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Iowa Indians visiting Guthrie, OT May 1889"
Date: May 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0200]

Description: 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."
Date: April 21, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0213]

Description: 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."
Date: 1889
Creator: Swearingen, A. P.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0224]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "1st Territorial Convention at Guthrie, Ok., July 20th '89."
Date: July 20, 1889
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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