Name/Title
Pamphlet, AdvertisingEntry/Object ID
2015.099.0011Scope and Content
One of a series of eleven pamphlets published by The Associated Oil Company and addressed to Mr.E. B McNear. Each piece is a 9"x24" folded stock with a full page photograph plus a facing page of explanatory verbage. Ten of which involve the building of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay Bridge Both bridges commenced contruction in 1933. The eleventh pamphlet is similiar but involves the Tacoma Narrows Bridge project.
The Associated Oil Company supplied the motor oils and lubricants used by the construction equipment.
Pamphlet proclaims "The March of Steel" and the progress of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is chronicled in photographs.
Aeriel view looking east from over San Ferancisco showing the construction of the San Francisco Bay Bridge including the Yerba Buena cantilevered bridge construction.Collection
Benicia Arsenal Collection
