Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1999.011.0321Description
B/W aerial photo construction of Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking east:
top to bottom: hazy sky, Shell Refinery and City of Martinez, Carquinez straits, SP Railroad and Benicia/Martinez bridges, one group of Suisun Reserve/Mothball Fleet ships; across bottom:
railroad cars on sidings, narrow canal/water inlet, rows of storage tanks under construction, tall smoke stack and crane, refinery equipment being assembled, other buildings, access roads, trees and northeast side of Benicia (Highlands residential area); at very bottom is East Second Street, empty fields and a small farm.Collection
Benicia Industrial Collection
