Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Stagcoach running between Oklahoma City and El Reno soon after the run."

Caption: "Sterrett, Jack - Tulsa University Basketball Coach" Man yells and points to something out of shot while a basketball player points with him and another player sits between them.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A 38-year-old man, formely a prosperous San Francisco businessman, plunged seven stories to his death from the Wells-Roberts Hotel Tuesday afternoon. A moment after he leaped, the hotel switchboard lighted up, and a woman's voice asked to speak to "905." Following a brief pause, operator Agnes Ward told the caller, "He doesn't answer." The woman hung up. Hotel assistant manager Jack Briscoe identified the dead man as Lowell Burton Brown. He said Brown signed the register early Sunday, giving Augusta, Kan., as his home. Briscoe said a woman had been calling Brown all day, but Brown wouldn't answer the phone. At 2 p.m. Brown called the switchboard and told the operate to call a doctor to "pronounce me dead. I'm going to jump." He named a city physicians as the one he wanted called. He Falls About 90 Feet "I figured it was just another drunk with a stunt. but thought I'd better check. I found the engineer and we went up there," Briscoe said. "Just as I opened the door, he yelled, 'I want you to see this.' Then he sort of squatted down and plunged right out …

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. George Woodward Pioneer Q"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Don McNeill, city, tennis player"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

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

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "One of the busiest men at the courts is William M. Brewer, who makes his living peddling fresh fruits and vegetables."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mrs. John Hawley Wilson Jr."

A photograph print showing the Santa Fe (ATSF) 610, 0-8-0, Nowers Yard, Oklahoma City, OK.

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

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Maj. Reuben G. Lewis"

Caption: "Emmitt L. Shackelford, city.. . accused of shooting wife's former husband, Melbourn Jones."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Charles F. Urschel - County Home"

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Bert Kemmerer, Guthrie"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Roy St. Lewis, former U.S. district attorney in Oklahoma City, now a Washington attorney, left, and David S. Ingalls, campaign manager for Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, chatted in the lobby of a hotel during the Republican convention here Monday."

Photograph of Fretwell Desoto Plymouth Dealer, 720 NW 4th St., Oklahoma City, OK. Photo taken by Meyers Photo Shop for the Dobbins Construction Co. Acct., March 27, 1940.

Photograph of the Polyclinic Hospital, 209 W. 13th, Oklahoma City, OK. Printed by EC Kropp Co. Milwaukee, WI, March 27, 1940.