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Oklahoma Station

Description: Photograph of the Oklahoma Station, the first Santa Fe depot before the Land Opening, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory. The Post Office building is on the far right and later became the Arbeka Hotel. Photo by Ernest C Hamill, c. 1889.
Date: 1889~
Creator: Hamill, Ernest C.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma Boomers

Description: Photograph of Boomers using the first bridge across the North Canadian River from Oklahoma City to Capitol Hill with the caption, "Oklahoma Boomers adrift on the Canadian River" in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory. People used to cross the river on this drift when the first residents came to Oklahoma Station just below the Santa Fe Railroad on the river, c. 1887-1888.
Date: 1887~/1888~
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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