Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.011.0431

Description

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 bridges

Collection

Benicia Historical Museum Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Feb 25, 1968