Print, Photographic

Name/Title

Print, Photographic

Entry/Object ID

1999.011.0176

Description

B/W aerial photo of early construction of the Humble Oil Refinery (later Exxon and Valero) looking northwest: at top: empty rolling hills; across the center: East Second Street, administration buildings, refinery equipment being assembled, storage tanks under construction, graded pads, railroad cars on sidings, warehouses, curve of hiway 680; across the bottom: St. Dominic's cemetery, residences, National Guard Armory, private vehicles and military vehicles, rows of trees, more storage tank construction and concrete pads

Collection

Benicia Industrial Collection

Made/Created

Date made

Sep 24, 1967