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Pawnee in a Tipi

Description: Photograph of Pawnee men, women and a child gathered in a tipi. Baptiste Bayhylle, fifth from left, was a Pawnee interpreter and scout. Photograph taken by William S. Prettyman and Cornish in 1889.
Date: 1889
Creator: Prettyman and Cornish
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Home of William H. Ropp in Cimarron City

Description: Photograph of a log cabin with a team of bulls and people standing outside. The photograph is captioned "Home of William H. Ropp. 1889. Cimarron City, Payne County." Three people in the photograph are identified as "a neighbor's girl," Julia, and Lue Parks.
Date: 1889
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0241]

Description: 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."
Date: 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0232.0244]

Description: 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."
Date: May 14, 1889
Creator: Swearingen, Harmon Theodore
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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