Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "These board smiles are the forerunner of many others if some screen or radio personage comes to Oklahoma City January 15 to launch the mile-o-dimes drive in the Oklahoma county infantile paralysis fund campaign, January 15."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Tub Jacobson"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Father become accustomed to making sacrifices for their children, so it was nothing new Monday when D. G. grimes, at the left above, passed up a petty officer rating in the naval construction battalion and shipped as an apprentice seamen so he could be with his son, 19-year-old J. L. Grimes, shown at the right, at least during their training period at San Diego, Calif."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Elisha Cook Jr. - Will Rogers Air Base - former movie actor"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Dahl Brown, jr., 15-year-old boy who took the straw votes on the races for governor and senator in more than 100 Oklahoma cities, big and little."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Quick action on the part of Robert B. Busch, manager of the Uptown theater, Tuesday."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMETHING BIG GOES WRONG, Weakened by heavy jerks designed to dislodge whip stock apparatus after the pulling of tons of pipe, the wreckage shown above shows vividly what happens when a towering steel derrick collapses and crashes to earth. In this tangled network of steel Claude L. Hight, 38-year-old field worker, was crushed to death late Sunday night. Another workman high up in the derrick whose duty it was to unhook and stack the pipe as it was pulled out, had descended only a few minutes before the framework buckled and collapsed."

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

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "OIL WORKER RUNS WRONG WAY, DIES UNDER DERRICK-Sudden death was the fate of Claude L. Hight, 38-years-old oil field worker, who ran toward his parked automobile instead of dodging from the path of a falling oil derrick in the 300 block Southeast Thirty-eight street late Sunday night. The picture shows how the tangled tons of steel crushed Hight's car, parked about 100 feet from the derrick."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "former assistant county attorney"

Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ted Roosevelt Baughman city - policeman (Deceased 9-23-58)"

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Three states were represented when aviation friends of James "Uncle Jim" Brazell honored him on his seventy-fourth birthday Saturday night."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph of the interior of the Redskin Theatre, 822 SW 29th St., Oklahoma City, OK. Photo by Meyers Photo Shop, Sept. 9, 1942.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "At 8:01 a.m. Monday Oklahoma City looked as it usually looks at 10 p.m. This picture made after the morning traffic rush was over."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in Chief of the U.S. in the Pacific pins the Navy Cross on uniform of L.H."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A. Z. Bradley, above, for seven years supply clerk at the main postoffice here, Friday traded bosses but wound up doing the same sort of work, except that he now is a first lieutenant in the army."

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