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 Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an exterior view of the Shell Oil Company, showing spherical tanks, ca.1940. Massive, spherical tanks stand in a row which extends from the foreground on the left into the background on the right. Each tank is supported by thick metal beams which stand beneath it and staircases wind around each sphere to the machinery which sits on platforms at their tops. A man stands to the right of the center sphere along the fenced walkways which lie throughout the yard. A small, wooden structure can be seen beyond the spheres at center with a skeletal, metal structure to its left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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