Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.011.0140

Description

B/W aerial photo of early construction of the Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking southwest: top: Marin County hills, Carquinez Bridge, Vallejo and Crockett (C&H Sugar Plant); upper middle: empty rolling hills and East Second Street going left to right; across center: refinery equipment being constructed, administration building is at right, fifteen storage tanks under construction, concrete pads and access roads; lower center: railroad cars on sidings, in-hill bunkers; bottom: warehouses (right) highway 680 (left)

Collection

Benicia Industrial Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Sep 3, 1967