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 an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. Thick clusters of parallel pipes line the raised platforms which support the short, cylindrical structures in the foreground. Several short, wooden buildings stand among those structures with a row of skeletal, octagonal towers standing behind them on the right. Staircases and platforms cling to the sides of the octagonal towers and the view is slightly obstructed by the cloud of smoke which floats in from the right. A row of pipes which seep smoke from their tops stands parallel to the towers while a skeletal skyscraper stands above them on the left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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