Name/Title
Pamphlet, AdvertisingEntry/Object ID
2015.099.0008Scope 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.
Dramatic view looking up at the partial completion of the San Francisco Bay Bridge'
The verbage brags about "Great is the city boasting a skyline of buildings seventeen to twenty stories in height....". Further description of the Bridge construction.Collection
Benicia Arsenal Collection
