Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.011.0577

Description

B/W aerial photo construction of Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking north west: across top: empty hills dotted with trees, access roads; across center: administration building on East Second Street, refining area, tall smoke stack (in center), storage tanks, a few railroad cars on sidings, warehouses, storage buildings, in-ground bunkers, curve of hiway 680; across bottom: future housing site (Casa Grande), homes on Hillcrest Avenue, St. Dominic's cemetery, National Guard Armory, rows of trees, small group of storage tanks.

Collection

Benicia Historical Museum Collection

Made/Created

Date made

May 5, 1968