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Title
Birdseye view of the Jameson Oil Refinery, 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 birdseye view of the Jameson Oil Refinery, ca.1940. Cylindrical-shaped structures of varying sizes are visible throughout, while a long one-story building can be seen at top center. A tower is visible at center, while parallel roads can be seen running from bottom left towards the top right and intersect other various-shaped one-story buildings. Utility poles, automobiles, and trucks line the roads, while foliage can be seen on hillsides at the top right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
19 x 25 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12272
USC-2-1-1-12425 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41071
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12272
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41071.jpg
Subject
Genersal Petroleum Corporation
Industry--Oil--Assorted refineries
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Source
41071 [Accession number]
84-1-1356 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41071 [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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