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Title
Shell Oil Company employee at work, ca.1940
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940
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 Shell Oil Company employee at work, ca.1940. A man in stained coveralls with "Earl" embroidered over the right breast kneels beside the controls of the machinery on the left. What appear to be large, circular tanks stand in a row along the right wall with thick pipes extending from the tops. The pipes continue to the ceiling where they extend out of sight to the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
26 x 21 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12266
USC-2-1-1-12419 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41051
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12266
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41051.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--General
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Shell Oil Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
California
USA
Source
41051 [Accession number]
84-1-1742 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41051 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 80 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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