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Title
Aerial view of the Watson Junction Refineries, June 1931
Creator
Spence Air Photos
Date Created and/or Issued
1931-06-26
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 aerial view of the Watson Junction Refineries, June 1931. The storage tanks of the Watson Junction Refineries sit at the center of the image, with a group of small tanks to the left and larger tanks on the right. Among the large tanks is an oblong structure that reads "Shell". Undeveloped land is visible in the foreground of the image, while a dense urban area fills the background.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w
10 x 13 cm., 21 x 26 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12379
USC-1-1-1-12534 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-14626
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12379
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-14626.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--Los Angeles Basin
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Watson Junction Refineries
Industrial sites
Time Period
1931-06-26
Place
California
Los Angeles
USA
Wilmington
San Pedro
Source
1-115- [Microfiche number]
14626 [Accession number]
CHS-14626 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: 8064; unidentified no: C-527 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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