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[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0211]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Ralph Hamer of Roff, manager of the Midcontinent Glass Sand Co., inspects one of the sump pumps which forces the sands studge from the pit to the washing machinery on the banks."
Date: November 22, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0205]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "CITY PARK, COMING UP. That's what Roff resident have been working and planning for This area, formerly an unsightly dumping ground for Roff's trash, is being made into 20-acre city park, complete with lake."
Date: 1956
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0202]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Members of the Indian Oak Grove Baptist church at Roff watch as the light is hung in front of their new building which will be dedicated Sunday with services starting Saturday with overnight camping on the church grounds."
Date: July 26, 1949
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0203]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Roff school district is building a four-bus garage for school buaes this summer and working over the highschool gymnasium is being increased from 200 to more than 700 and a new celling is being installed."
Date: unknown
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0209]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The tremendous pressure of water striking the base of this column will soon have the multi-colored pillar of sand down among the other chunks to be washed away in the rive of sand flowing in the foreground."
Date: 1950
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0208]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Thoroughly cleaned, the sand now has a powdery quality and is ready for preocessing. It has been washed, then heated to 2,000 degrees, and cooled."
Date: November 22, 1950
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1134.0207]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Dynamite blasts loosen sand for faster disintegration when struck by water from hydraulle gun Loaded with 10 sticks of 35 percent dynamite, the charges are set in 14-foot holes drilled six feet from the edge of the bank and spaced six feet apart. The man on the ground is tossing a coil of battery wire (arrow) to the man on the bluff Soon, this high wall will come tumbling down."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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