Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1999.011.0137Description
B/W aerial photo of early construction of the Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking east: top: Mt Diablo, a refinery near Martinez, City of Martinez and Benicia/Martinez and SP RR Bridges; upper middle: Carquinez Strait, some ships in Reserve/mothball Fleet, marshes, highway 680 and railroad tracks; middle: warehouses, railroad cars on sidings, storage tanks under construction concrete pads, refining equipment, storage buildings, access roads; lower middle: right: administration building with the roof showing, piece of burned ground; bottom: farm buildings, including a barn, trees and fences, open fields, access roads from East Second StreetCollection
Benicia Industrial Collection
