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Title
Trainload of General Petroleum Company gasoline leaving the Los Angeles refinery for Oakland
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 a trainload of General Petroleum Company gasoline leaving the Los Angeles refinery for Oakland, [s.d.]. A steam locomotive can be seen in the foreground at left, headed towards the viewer. A long train of tanker cars can be seen behind the engine as the cars curve into the background at right. A group of people can be seen posing in front of the engine at left, while a larger group is visible at right. The refinery can be seen in the background at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9903 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36787
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9903
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36787.jpg
Subject
General Petroleum Company
Railroad features
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Locomotives
Railroad trains
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36787 [Accession number]
CHS-36787 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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