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 aerial view of the Richfield Refinery in Hynes, ca.1940. Four one-story buildings with sloped roofs and rectangular windows can be seen at center. A tall stack can be seen behind the rightmost building, while a tower can be seen to the right of it. Multiple various-sized cylindrical structures can be seen behind the buildings, while a road lined with cars and a couple utility poles is visible at left. A road runs across the foreground and background, while open land dotted with a few homes are visible in the distance. Caption at bottom of image reads "All of the heat exchange and condensing apparatus of this 15,000 bbl. [...]".
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w 21 x 26 cm. photographic prints photographs
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