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Title
Laying and reinforcing Floor for 1,000,000 Bbl. Concrete Reservoir at Tank Farm near San Luis Obispo, Cal
Creator
Aston Photo
Date Created and/or Issued
1910-09
Contributing Institution
Huntington Library
Collection
Photographs
Rights Information
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Description
View of the construction of a 1,0000,0000-barrel concrete oil reservoir, which was built by the Weber-Duller Company for the Union Oil Company near San Luis Obispo, California, with construction workers and machinery visible.
"Laying and reinforcing Floor for 1,000,000 Bbl. Concrete Reservoir at Tank Farm near San Luis Obispo, Cal. Sept. 6, 1910, Weber-Duller Co. of L.A. Aston-Photo-no. 81"--text on image. Postcard verso has handwritten message addressed to Miss Ethel Passmore at 945 St. Paul St. in Rochester, New York, from her mother.
Type
Image
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
1 photograph : print ; sheet 8.4 x 17 cm (postcard format)
Identifier
photCL_555
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/20306
Subject
Building sites
Construction workers
Oil fields
Reservoirs
Photographs. (aat)
Postcards. (aat)
Place
San Luis Obispo (Calif.)
Source
Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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