Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.011.0283

Description

B/W aerial photo of construction of Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking east: lower section: small farm, empty fields and part of airplane wing; middle section: left to right: warehouses, railroad cars on sidings, storage tanks under construction, smoke stack, building crane, refining equipment being assembled, assorted buildings and vehicles; just above center: Suisun Reserve/Mothball Fleet and strip of water; top section: cloudy sky, Contra Costa County, small refinery on C.C. County coast north of Martinez, and Mount Diablo.

Collection

Benicia Industrial Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Nov 19, 1967