Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1999.011.0315Description
B/W aerial construction of the Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking east:
at top: Mt. Diablo; above center: small refinery on Contra Costa side of straits and Suisun Bay Reserve/Mothball Fleet (three groups of ships only); across center: Hiway 680, warehouses, railroad cars on sidings, rows of storage tanks in various stages of construction, tall smoke stack and crane, refinery equipment being assembled, various buildings, graded areas, Benicia Martinez and SP Railroad bridges; at bottom: East Second Street, empty fields and a small farm with buildings and trees.Collection
Benicia Industrial Collection
