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Booth No. 9

Photograph of a group of people and tents. Handwritten description: Booth No. 9, Sept 1893, Arkansas City, Kansas. Kansas towns like Arkansas City were the staging area prior to the 1893 Land Run into the Cherokee Strip. The reference to "booth" is likely related to the nine booths that were erected, five on the Kansas border and four on the border of Oklahoma, where people were to register and receive certificates. These certificates were to be shown before legal entry could be made to the strip on opening day, and they must also must be shown when filing claims.
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kickapoo Indians

Photograph of a Kickapoo home, May 1893.
Date: May 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kickapoo Indians

Photograph of Kickapoo Indian Grave Yard No. 1, March 1893.
Date: March 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Kickapoo Indians

Photograph of Kickapoo Indian Grave Yard No. 1, March 1893.
Date: March 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Erie Merchant

Photograph of Erie Merchant, later Mrs. Will Tuttle, wearing an Indian war bonnet, which was sent to the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, IL. The bonnet was not returned from the Fair.
Date: 1893~
Creator: Scribner, C. L.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B0171.0335]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Early Days Oklahoma, Poteau."
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Land Run Strippers

Street scene in unknown town. Handwritten description: Strippers on Thursday before opening 1893 (Sept). Strippers refers to settlers who gathered on the Oklahoma-Kansas border prior to the land run into the Cherokee Strip. The town is likely in Kansas.
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Arkansas City Depot

Handwritten description: Depot Sept 16, '93 at 9 o'clock a.m. Ark City, Kansas. It is likely "depot" refers to the railroad depot.
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Rachel Asquith

Portrait of Rachel Asquith, sister of George Asquith, Perry, Oklahoma Territory.
Date: 1893~
Creator: Shanafelt, W.F.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Cavalry Drill at Pond Creek in Grant County

Photograph of a cavalry drill at Pond Creek in Grant County around the time of the Land Opeining on September 19, 1893.
Date: September 19, 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

John Jackson Crumley

John Jackson Crumley, President of North Texas Normal College, 1893-1894. Man in suit
Date: [1893..1894]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Enid, O.T.

Photograph of Enid, O.T. while still a tent city, Sept. 1893.
Date: September 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Enid, Oklahoma Territory

Photograph of a large group standing in front of the law office of Havens, Orner, and Watson and Cherokee Pharmacy, Drugs, Paints, and Sundries, the first and best drug store in town, Enid, Oklahoma Territory.
Date: September 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Main Street

Photograph of Main Street, Duncan, Indian Territory.
Date: October 1893
Creator: Irwin, William Edward & Mankins, Jack
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Perry, Oklahoma Territory

Photograph of the East side Square, looking north, Perry, Oklahoma Territory.
Date: November 1893
Creator: Irwin and Mankin
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

U.S. Land Office Force

Photograph of members of the U.S. Land Office Force at the opening of the Cherokee Strip, Perry, Oklahoma Territory. L to R: front row: UNIDENTIFIED, Melone, King, Hudson, Louis Davis.
Date: 1893~
Creator: W.A. Flowers Capitol City Gallery
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Chaney Family]

Photograph of the Chaney family of Longview, Texas. Mr. Robert R. Chaney and Mrs. Mary Ellen Johnson Chaney are pictured with three of their unidentified children. The family moved from Longview to Lometa, Texas some time between 1900-1910, but later moved their family of nine children back to Longview.
Date: 1893~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

6th Ward School in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1893

Photograph of a large group of schoolchildren with their teacher in front of the 6th Ward School House in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1893. There are twenty-five boys, seventeen girls and one teacher. Some of the boys are seated or kneeling in the front row and the girls are taking up most of the middle row, standing. The boys are wearing knickers and jackets with boots and the girls are wearing dresses with jackets. There is a very large wooden door and arched doorway behind the group.
Date: 1893
Creator: Bryant Studio
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Photograph of Val Halla]

Photograph of the fine arts building and business office (also served as a men’s dorm), Val Halla, at Simmons College. Several men stand in front of the building. This building is located on the current Caldwell Hall site.
Date: [1893..1898]
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Employees of First National Bank of Fort Worth, Texas, 1893

Studio photograph of ten employees of the First National Bank of Fort Worth. All of the men are wearing suits with vests, five are wearing watches with chains, four are wearing bow ties, four are wearing neckties, and one is wearing a corsage. Two of the men have beards and mustaches and four have mustaches. Four men are seated on chairs in the front row. They are on top of a rug and in front of a fake backdrop. In the back row from left to right is J.M. Tewmey, T.P. Martin Jr., Norman Enelson, J.W. Valliant, Taylor Cupp, and J.P. Smith Jr. In the front row from left to right is W.D. Peak, M.B. Loyd, E.B. Harrold and T.W. Slack.
Date: 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Anne Marie Jordan Childers]

Portrait of Anne Marie Jordan Childers, also known as Mrs. T.A. Childers.
Date: 1893~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Second Graduating Class of Bloomfield Academy

Photograph of the second graduating class of Bloomfield Academy, c. 1893. The man is Professor Elihu B. Hinshaw, superintendent of the academy. The seated woman is Cora Chisholm. The woman standing on the right is Alice Hearrell. Chisholm and Hearrell are holding their diplomas. The Bloomfield Academy was established in the Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, in 1852. It was located approximately three miles south of Achille, Oklahoma.
Date: 1893~
Creator: William Hardy Snell
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

"The Race"

Photograph of a colorized version of "The Race." View looking west from the Chilocco Indian School grounds, noon, September 16, 1893. Printed by Curteich, Chicago, IL, December 7, 1909. Note: the text in the upper left corner of the photograph incorrectly identifies the photo as the 1889 Oklahoma land run. This picture is the start of the 1893 Cherokee Outlet land run.
Date: September 16, 1893
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

Robert M. Harris

Photograph of Robert M. Harris, c. 1893.
Date: 1893~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History