Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Oklahoma City, June 11, 1889"

Photo copy of a photograph of an early Oklahoma post office circa 1889. Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. OHS note: This is likely a photograph of five Sisters of Mercy nuns who arrived by train in the territory in 1884 from Lacon, Illinois. The Sisters were met by Father Isidore Robot and Brother Dominic Lambert from the Sacred Heart Mission and some Native American scouts. Information source: "Tenacious Monks" by Joseph F. Murphy, a priest from St. Gregory’s College.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Cherokee Female Seminary - 1889 - Now Northeastern State University - Tahlequah, Oklahoma"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Barbecue pit for Dedication Day, Cherokee Female Seminary, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, May 7, 1889. Now Northeastern State University."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Female Seminary Speaker's Gallery, on dedication day, May 7th 1889 - Tahlequah, Oklahoma."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Workers were making improvements to the railroad in 1899 photo. carefully preserved between sheets of heavy plastic in David Sasser's office is a fragile piece of Perkins history, a yellowed flier once sent out by the town fathers to attract people people to this area settled in the Land Run of 1889."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This photograph of the Boomer leaders was taken in 1884. They are, from left (seated), A. C. McCord, David L. Payne, W. L. Couch, (standing) H. H. Stafford, G. F. Goodrich, and A. P. Lewis. Payne was principal leader of the movement."

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

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."

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."

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."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Election day June 4, 1889. Guthrie, Okla."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "A Crowded Street in Guthrie. April 25, 1889."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Guthrie, Oklahoma - May 13, 1889."

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."

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."

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."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Breaking ground--virgin Oklahoma soil near Guthrie, 1889."

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."

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"