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Title
Office buildings at Alhambra site of the Standard Oil Company, ca.1950
Creator
Stone, R.H
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1950
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California
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Description
Photograph of office buildings at Alhambra site of the Standard Oil Company, ca.1950. The office buildings stand, at center, with the left one bearing the sign "Alhambra Standard Oil Company" on its roof. Off to the right is a building with a sign advertising Pearl Oil for heating and light. To the left is a parked tank car. Storage tanks stand at the rear. The area is sealed off by a wire fence behind a dirt road. Grass dots the soil at left, and an arborous area can be seen in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m8014
USC-2-1-1-8145 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41121
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8014
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41121.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Los Angeles County
Petroleum industry and trade
Standard Oil Co
Pearl Oil
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1950
Place
Alhambra
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41121 [Accession number]
84-1-1381 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41121 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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