Audley P. Swearingen Photograph Collection
Scope and Contents
Black and white original prints and glass plate negatives of the settlement of Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. The collection includes images of street scenes, businesses, building construction, Guthrie as a tent city, railroads, and the United States military at Guthrie.
Dates
- Creation: 1889-1905
Restrictions on Access
On June 26, 2023, the Western History Collections began a preservation project that has made many of its collections unavailable for a period of time. This collection is among the materials temporarily unavailable. Please contact Western History Collections if you wish to be added to a contact list to be notified when this collection becomes available.
Open for public research.
Extent
140 items (140 items)
Language of Materials
English Lang
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Audley P. Swearingen.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Photoprints: Source of acquisition--Swearingen, Audley P. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1954.
Subject
- Broadwell, Dick, 1862-1892 (Person)
- Cook, Bill, 1873-1900 (Person)
- Doolin, Bill, 1858-1896 (Person)
- Cherokee Bill, 1876-1896 (Person)
- Swearingen, Audley P. (Person)
- United States. Army. Cavalry (Organization)
- United States. Army -- : Equipment. (Organization)
- Dalton Gang (Organization)
- Dalton family (Family)
- Blake, William, approximately 1859-1895 (Person)
- Wyatt, Nathaniel Ellsworth, 1864-1895 (Person)
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Guthrie (Okla.) -- Description and travel
- Lawyers -- Oklahoma
- Oklahoma -- History -- Land Rush, 1889
- United States -- Army -- Infantry
Topical
- Actors -- Oklahoma
- African Americans -- Oklahoma
- Banks and banking -- Oklahoma
- Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Oklahoma
- Carriages and carts -- Oklahoma
- Cities and towns -- Oklahoma -- Law and legislation
- Freight and freightage -- Oklahoma
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma
- Furniture industry and trade -- Oklahoma
- Grocers -- Oklahoma
- Hardware stores -- Oklahoma
- Hotels -- Oklahoma
- Iowa Indians -- Clothing
- Land settlement -- Oklahoma
- Lumber-yards -- Oklahoma
- Medical offices -- Oklahoma
- Outlaws -- Oklahoma
- Parades -- Oklahoma
- Railroad stations -- Oklahoma
- Railroads -- Rolling stock
- Restaurants -- Oklahoma
- United States marshals
- Wagons -- Oklahoma
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
Monnet Hall, 3rd Floor
630 Parrington Oval
Norman Oklahoma 73019
405-325-2904
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
