[Workers Installing Roof]

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Photograph of Oliver Roofing workers in hard hats using machines to disperse gravel and hot tar on a flat roof. Three workers can be seen pushing two of the cart machines in the background. Another can be seen pushing the third cart in the foreground as steam from the tar trails out. Another man wearing sunglasses and clean clothing can be seen holding a rolled up piece of paper to the right in the foreground.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 5 x 4 in.

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Mears, Dewey G. April 22, 1980.

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  • Austin History Center, Austin Public Library

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Photograph of Oliver Roofing workers in hard hats using machines to disperse gravel and hot tar on a flat roof. Three workers can be seen pushing two of the cart machines in the background. Another can be seen pushing the third cart in the foreground as steam from the tar trails out. Another man wearing sunglasses and clean clothing can be seen holding a rolled up piece of paper to the right in the foreground.

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1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 5 x 4 in.

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Client/Job: Oliver Roofing - Clampett Paper Company installation

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Dewey G. Mears Photograph Archive

Dewey Gerald Mears was a noted architectural photographer based in Austin, Texas from the 1940s through 1990s. Photographs from his collection document the architecture, commercial businesses and people of Austin and Central Texas during the mid-to-late 20th century.

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  • April 22, 1980

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  • June 9, 2018, 8:26 a.m.

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  • Sept. 10, 2018, 12:48 p.m.

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Mears, Dewey G. [Workers Installing Roof], photograph, April 22, 1980; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1011134/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.

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