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Title: The Arctic Oil Works, San Francisco, monolithic construction
Contributor: Ransome & Smith Company
Date Created and/or Issued: [between 1893 and 1897]
Publication Information: San Francisco : Ransome & Smith Co
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 2008-0663
PHOTO: SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY: SAN FRANCISCO: BUILDINGS: ARCTIC OIL WORKS
Shows a portion of refinery including buildings, fence, stack of barrels and, in front, railroad tracks.
Arctic Oil Works refined oils obtained by whaling and fishing boats. Oils came from whales, seals, and other oil producing fish.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print on card mount ; 4 1/2 x 6 in. image on 7 x 10 in. mount.
Identifier: (C)001388499CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVW-1805
Subject: Buildings--California--San Francisco
Refineries--California--San Francisco
Whale oil
San Francisco (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Place: California
San Francisco
San Francisco (Calif.)

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