Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This exclusive and unusual photo shows Floyd Collins (upper left hand corner) in Crystal Cave, Ky., which he owns with his father."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Running an electric light system into the cave where Floyd Collins, explorer, has been trapped by boulder for five days and nights in spite of all efforts to free him."

(back of photo) My beloved cousin Chas. Howard Blackshear II, son of Uncle Joe and Aunt Mollie Colbert Blackshear. This is his freshman year at University of Ky. and he has on the "Pledge Pin" of my own college fraternity. 1926 - I had sent C.H.B. (Chas. Howard Blackshear II) to "Bob" Massies School for Boys (Massie was son of the Dean of the Lexington Ky Cathedral. (Signed) William S. Blackshear. P.S. Chas. H.B. was the first of my several 1st cousins I sent to school and/or aided financially with their schooling. Photo is from the William Blackshear collection, which was donated to the Palestine Public Library.