Resource Type

[Photograph 2012.201.B0241.0591]

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.
Date: December 27, 1940
Creator: unknown
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1201.0280]

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Stagcoach running between Oklahoma City and El Reno soon after the run."
Date: December 27, 1940
Creator: Brown, Connery & Co.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1229.0265]

Caption: "Ted Savage, Hammon, Roger Mills County, student at Oklahoma A&M college is such a firm believer in farming that he introduced a bill in the Oklahoma Junior legislature session here requiring that all Oklahoma school children must have four years of agricultural training."
Date: December 27, 1940
Creator: Johnson, Bill
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.B1261.0482]

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.
Date: December 27, 1940
Creator: Thomas, Gene
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

[Photograph 2012.201.OVZ001.4987]

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 …
Date: December 27, 1940
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History