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[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0081]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "British and American gunboats at Nanking on March 24th, laid down a barrage to protect a small band of foreigners who took refuge from riotous Cantonese soldiers on standard Oil Hill, Nanking."
Date: March 24, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0082]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Historic old Nanking, former capital of China and the City where Sun Yat-Sen first founded the provisional government of the Republic, was shattered and torn yesterday March 24 by shells from American and British warships."
Date: March 25, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0230.0173]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Welker Cochran, Real Estate operator of California, stood on the threshhold of the world's 18.2 balkline billiard championship on March 11th."
Date: March 12, 1927
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0224.0089]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "It is reported that the 120 Americans in Nanking have been escorted to safety, and are awaiting removal to the ships in the river."
Date: March 25, 1927
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0357.0051]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the San Francisco Bureau newspaper. Caption: "Three women and nine men were selected today to try Dorothy Ellingson, San Francisco girl matricide for the murder of her mother a short time ago."
Date: March 27, 1925
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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