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Title
Birdseye view of the Standard Oil Refinery in El Segundo, January 25, 1926
Date Created and/or Issued
1926-01-25
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 a birdseye view of the Standard Oil Refinery in El Segundo, January 25, 1926. The refinery can be seen in the distance at centerl Several large buildings with smokestacks are visible. Dozens of cylindrical storage tanks are visible around the main refinery compound. Bare hills are visible in the foreground at right. The ocean is visible in the foreground, a pier is visible at center. A road runs along the edge of the sandy shore.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : negative, b&w
13 x 18 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m9092 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-36774
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m9092
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-36774.jpg
Subject
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Oil storage tanks
Piers
Pacific Ocean
Standard Oil Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
1926-01-25
Place
California
El Segundo
Los Angeles
USA
Source
36774 [Accession number]
CHS-36774 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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