Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.011.0470

Description

B/W aerial photo construction of Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking east: across bottom: empty fields, small farm, airplane wing tip, East Second Street, administration building; across center: warehouses, railroad cars on sidings, storage tanks, tall smoke stack, refinery equipment being assembled, towers and crane; across above center: Suisun Reserve/Mothball Fleet (four groups of ships) hiway 680 and SP Railroad and Benicia/Martinez bridges; across top: Contra Costa County, marshes, small refinery, Mt. Diablo, Shell Refinery, high clouds in sky.

Collection

Benicia Historical Museum Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Mar 10, 1968