Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.011.0291

Description

B/W aerial photo construction of Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking north west: bottom section: left to right: St. Dominic's Cemetery, homes on Hillcrest Ave, National Guard Armory, storage buildings, rows of trees, six storage tanks and pads under construction, curve of Hiway 680 and railroad tracks; center section: left to right: East Second Street, empty fields, refinery equipment being assembled, smoke stack, rows of storage tanks under construction, railroad cars on sidings, warehouses, in-hill bunkers; top section: Lake Herman and empty hills (tip of airplane wing appears at very bottom).

Collection

Benicia Industrial Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Nov 26, 1967