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Title
Exterior view of the Shell Oil Company, showing a yard of tall cylinders, ca.1940
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1940
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 exterior view of the Shell Oil Company, showing a yard of tall cylinders, ca.1940. Many tall, dark cylinders extend from the floor of intersecting pipes below, machinery which sit at each of their tops. The platforms which support the machinery are connected by thin walkways which extend through the tops of all seven cylinders at center. Another set of similar cylinders stand in the background on the left while a long building stands on the right.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
21 x 26 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12257
USC-2-1-1-12410 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-41043
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12257
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-41043.jpg
Subject
Industry--Oil--General
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum refineries
Shell Oil Company
Industrial sites
Time Period
circa 1940
Place
California
USA
Source
41043 [Accession number]
84-1-1841 [Microfiche number]
CHS-41043 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
USC
chs-m825

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