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[Photograph 2012.201.B1144.0237]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "These were pre-prohibition days, and there were bars to suit every purse and taste. The Hoffman House bar was one of the gayest in New York, and was sumptuously decorated with a very large nude by Bouguereau, which, unhappily, does not appear in this photo."
Date: September 6, 1934
Creator: Brothers, Harper &
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1144.0236]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Down on the Bowery beer and whiskey were quaffed with somewhat less style. In the background appears Chuck Conners, notorious as the "Mayor of Chinatown" - a gang leader of the pre-war model. (he is eighth from left, fourth from right."
Date: September 6, 1934
Creator: Brothers, Harper &
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0137.0727]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "No sport of pre-automobile days was attended by more fashionable pomp than coaching, which had its last fling in the early years of this century."
Date: September 6, 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0089.0470]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The bicycle dated back to 1876, but in the early days it was lofty and risky device with a very large front wheel and a little wheel behind."
Date: September 6, 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0247]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "John L. Sullivan " the strong boy of Boston," as Vachel Lindsey called him, lost his heavy-weight title in 1892 to James J. Corbett, who is shown in the photograph above, an instant before he lost his title to Bob Fitzsimmons in 1897."
Date: September 6, 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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