Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.011.0247

Description

B/W aerial photo of early construction of the Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking east southeast: across top: Shell Oil Refinery, City of Martinez, Contra Costa Hills; above center: one group of ships in Suisun Reserve/Mothball Fleet, SP Railroad and Benicia/Martinez bridges, Carquinez Strait; across center: warehouses, railroad cars on sidings, storage tanks under construction, refining equipment being assembled, empty fields, graded areas, access roads; across bottom: East Second Street, roads going under East Second Street, empty fields, access roads, small farm w/buildings and trees.

Collection

Benicia Industrial Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Oct 29, 1967