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This black and white photograph shows a group of people gathered at the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Guthrie, Oklahoma. The railroad company is distributing seed wheat for the first winter wheat crop in the territory. The farmers gave their notes for the seed and paid the notes when their crop was harvested. F. B. Houghton, former traffic vice president for ATSF, is sitting in the buggy drawn by the white horse.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: September 1889
Item Number: 228371
Call Number: ATSF Series 1, #74-069
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 228371
Agriculture - Crops - Wheat
Built Environment - Function - Transportation - Rail-Related - Depot
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Depots
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1880s - 1889
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Other States - Oklahoma
Transportation - Non-motorized - Buggy
Transportation - Non-motorized - Wagons
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Depots
Type of Material - Photographs
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