Exterior view of the Shell Oil Company, showing four cylindrical towers, ca.1940

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Title	Exterior view of the Shell Oil Company, showing four cylindrical towers, ca.1940
Description	Photograph of an exterior view of the Shell Oil Company, showing four cylindrical towers, ca.1940. The four towers stand across center with the tallest on the far left. Ladders with rounded guard rails climb up the sides of three of the towers to the circular platforms t their tops. The second tower from the left, has no ladders, but two thin platforms which circle around the circumference at separate levels of the tower. The towers stand above the knot of intersecting pipes below.
Subject	Shell Oil Company
Subject (adlf)	industrial sites
Subject (file heading)	Industry -- Oil -- General
Subject (lcsh)	Petroleum industry and trade Petroleum refineries
Geographic subject (state)	California
Geographic subject (country)	USA
Coverage date	circa 1940
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Date created	circa 1940
Type	images
Format (aacr2)	1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Format (aat)	photographic prints photographs
Accession number	41041
Call number	CHS-41041
Identifying number	unidentified no: 180
Microfiche number	84-1-1368
Legacy record ID	chs-m12255; USC-2-1-1-12408
Part of collection	California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Part of subcollection	Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960
Project	USC
Rights	California Historical Society
Access conditions	Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343.
Repository name	USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository address	Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Repository email	specol@usc.edu
Filename	CHS-41041
Full text	UK
Archival file	chs_Volume78/CHS-41041.tiff

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