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Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library, Guthrie, OK

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Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library

Guthrie museum of artifacts, photographs, and paintings from Oklahoma's territorial period, joined to a 1902 Carnegie library.

Guthrie, OK

About Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library

Run by the Oklahoma Historical Society, this museum uses artifacts, photographs, and paintings to tell how early settlers laid groundwork for the state. It shares a building with the Carnegie Library, which was erected in 1902 with Carnegie Foundation funding. Exhibits cover the 1889 Unassigned Lands opening, early homestead life, the creation of Oklahoma Territory in 1890, and Guthrie becoming the territorial capital. The museum was added in 1973 after a push to save the library from demolition.

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