Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1999.011.0431Description
B/W aerial photo construction of Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero)
looking east: across bottom: empty hills except for small farm w/buildings and trees; across center: warehouses, railroad cars on sidings, storage tanks, tall smoke stack, smaller towers and cranes, refinery equipment being assembled, administration building on East Second Street, empty hills; across top: Suisun Reserve/Mothball Fleet (four groups of ships), small oil refinery (on Contra Costa side of straits), Mt. Diablo, Shell Oil Refinery, more Humble storage tanks, SP Railroad and Benicia/Martinez bridgesCollection
Benicia Historical Museum Collection