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[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0600]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "SKYLINE CHANGE is taking place at SW 9 and Harvey. It's in the name of progress that a 30-year-old smokestack just south of Union Station is coming down."
Date: September 23, 1964
Creator: Brown, Don
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0604]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These smokestacks at U.S. Steel's Ohio Works in Youngstown will be out of use if a court appeal by steelworkers falls. The steelworkers filed suit, saying U.S. Steel broke a promise to keep the plants open as long as they were profitable. But a federal court judge ruled against the workers, allowing the plants to shut down. The closing of this and another plant will affect the jobs of 3,500 workers."
Date: 1980
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0587]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "HIGH WINDS puffed hard Sunday night at this smokestack atop the White Swan Laundry and Cleaners building at 15 Broadway circle. It cracked the top joint of pip. Result: it had to come down Monday."
Date: March 11, 1957
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0585]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "THERE SHE GOES! This toppling 192-foot giant was a Pittsburg, Kan., landmark for 55 years during which time it served the Kansas City Southern railroad shops there. The 286-ton smokestack was destroyed after it outived its usefulness."
Date: 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0599]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sidewalk engineers here won't get to see a big show when the smokestack, at left, in the unit block NW 2 comes down. It will not be blown with dynamite. Moore C. Hess, in photo above watching Fred Cox, construction worker, dig at the stack's base, said too large a charge of explosive would be necessary."
Date: March 24, 1954
Creator: Miller, Joe
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0590]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These pictures depict the death of a smokestack. The picture on the left above, is the New State Ice Cream Co. 's 165-foot smokestack just before workmen started tearingit down to make room for a new parking lot in the unit block NW 2. WORKMEN, ABOVE, GO HIGH IN THE AIR TO ERECT A SCAFFOLD NEEDED FOR TEARING DOWN THE OLD NEW STATE ICE CREAM CO."
Date: March 24, 1954
Creator: Lucas, Jim
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0588]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DYNAMITE CHARGE drops this 400-ton smokestack with as much precision as you could lay a pencil on a dime. Twelve feet to the right was a fire house and eight feet to the left was a compressor."
Date: 1962
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Smokestack demolition

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Smokestack ." This photo is likely the final demolition of the 165-foot smokestack that was located on N.W. 2nd Street. The smokestack was part of the New State Ice Cream plant that was torn down in late March and early April, 1954.
Date: April 3, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0586]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "DOOMED GIANT is this 180-foot smokestack, weighing some 800tons, at the Kansas City Southern Railroad shops in Pittsburg, Kan. Razing of the roundhouse and power plant at the shops is under way, as they are no longer needed in the age of diesels."
Date: 1961
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0601]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Reading a smokestack for emission of pollutants from the burning incinerator is Keith L. Standley, director of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department's air quality control division."
Date: June 10, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0594]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This is the end of a smokestack. Soon more workmen will move in and clear the ground and then there will be another place to park your car downtown."
Date: April 3, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0603]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Reading a smokestack for emissions of pollutants from the buring incinerator is Keith L. Stanley, director of the Oklahoma City-County Health Department's air quality control division."
Date: June 10, 1970
Creator: Taylor, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0593]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "These pictures depict the death of a smokestack. The picture on the right above, shows the stack at about the half-way point, Now look at the picture below."
Date: April 2, 1954
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1188.0595]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "When the stack was reduced to the height where it could fall and do no damage, workmen moved in with a crane and giant steel ball and gave it a couple of big wallops."
Date: April 3, 1954
Creator: Cobb, Richard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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