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[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0468]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mattie Beal at a lot auction in the "Beal addition." After proving her claim, Miss Beal and her brother platted it into lots and sold the lots at auction. (Photos from collection of Mrs. G. Leonard Wilson, daughter of Mattie Beal)"
Date: August 6, 1901
Creator: Markham, J. E.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0009]

Description: Caption: "Neither old age, long skirt or high buttoned collar deterred this proper lady from her game in 1900, just a few years after women took up the sport. Golf had been formerly been almost exclusively a gentleman's game."
Date: September 21, 1900
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0355.0467]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Lawton townsite was a collection of tents and hastily slapped-together shanties housing land-hungry people on the day of the opening, Aug. 6, 1901. This picture is from the collection of Mrs. G. Leonard Wilson, a daughter of Mattie Beal."
Date: August 6, 1901
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0582]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This is William H. Murray, left, as he was when guiding Oklahoma's beginnings as a state in 1907, as president of the constitutional convention and speaker of the first house of representatives. With him is Thomas H. Doyle of the criminal court of appeals."
Date: March 1, 1907
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0589]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "As first Oklahoma legislature convened on December 2, 1907, William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, left, was speaker of the House. At right is Thomas H. Doyle."
Date: March 1, 1907
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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