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Title
Exterior view of an unidentified 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 an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. Short cylindrical structures with wide diameters stand in oil-stained yards with pipes surrounding them. Short, wooden structures stand among these cylinders with the taller structures crowded behind them. Many skeletal, octagonal buildings stand in a row on the right with tall pipes in a parallel row to the left of them. A taller, frame-like structure stands on the left while shorter, cylindrical towers surround it in the yard below.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
19 x 24 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12226
USC-2-1-1-12379 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41057
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12226
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41057.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--General
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
California
USA
Source
41057 [Accession number]
84-1-1762 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41057 [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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