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[Photograph 2012.201.B1410.0351]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dr. Guy Y. Williams. . . He Remembers the Day. One of the most recurring classroom tales heard on the campus at the university of Oklahoma has its central figure a chemistry professor who won a $1 bet by climbing through the transom. During the lecture, reference was made to the height and size of the transom, and one of the class wits laid down $1 that the professor couldn't climb through it. He lost in a hurry to the high … more
Date: December 10, 1936
Creator: Allred, G. R.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1286.0722]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "OVER WPA HERE--Verlin G. Thompson, former head of the McAlester district of the works progress administration, will take over management of the district offices here Tuesday."
Date: November 29, 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1322.0557]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Proving that not all the secret fraternities on the University of Oklahoma campus have been stamped out is the Loyal Knights of Old Trusty, the guardians of the traditions of the Sooner engineering college."
Date: March 13, 1936
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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