(OKLAHOMA) DeGroff Charles E; photographer Pair of promenade

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(OKLAHOMA.) DeGroff, Charles E.; photographer. Pair of promenade card photographs of the Oklahoma Land Rush. Albumen photographs, each about 7 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches, on original plain dark mounts; minor wear to mounts; both are dated and numbered in the negative, earlier photograph bears the photographer's very faint backstamp. [Guthrie, OK?], April [1889]

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Charles Elmer DeGroff (1861-1950) took a series of these photographs of the Oklahoma Land Rush in Guthrie. The first of this pair was taken on 22 April (#44), and shows about a hundred men surging across a field with guns and shovels. The second one was taken five days later (#69), and has been identified by the National Cowboy Museum as depicting the brand-new city of Guthrie, filled with tents, carts, and a few rapidly constructed wooden buildings. In the foreground is a small tent bearing the sign "Wilson & Co, Real-Estate Attorneys."