Office buildings at Alhambra site of the Standard Oil Company, ca.1950

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Photograph of office buildings at Alhambra site of the Standard Oil Company, ca.1950. The office buildings stand, at center, with the left one bearing the sign "Alhambra Standard Oil Company" on its roof. Off to the right is a building with a sign advertising Pearl Oil for heating and light. To the left is a parked tank car. Storage tanks stand at the rear. The area is sealed off by a wire fence behind a dirt road. Grass dots the soil at left, and an arborous area can be seen in the background.

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Title Office buildings at Alhambra site of the Standard Oil Company, ca.1950

Subject industrial sites (adlf), Industry -- Oil -- Los Angeles County (file heading), Pearl Oil (subject), Petroleum industry and trade (lcsh), Standard Oil Co. (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Alhambra (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1950

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection, 1890-1960 (subcollection)

Date Created 1950

Creator Stone, R.H. (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Access Conditions Send requests to address or e-mail given

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m8014

Identifier 41121 (accession number), CHS-41121 (call number), CHS-41121 (filename), chs-m825 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-8340 (legacy record id), chs-m8014 (legacy record id), USC-2-1-1-8145 (legacy record id), 84-1-1381 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8340

Unique identifier UC125858

Legacy Identifier CHS-41121.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 21.1 in × 16.3 in at 300dpi
53.6 cm × 41.6 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection 1890-1960

Description The more than 3,600 unique photographs of this collection document the Chamber's promotional efforts during the city's early years. In addition to stock photographs, there are pictures of the elaborate booths and displays that the Chamber prepared for use at state fairs and international trade shows. The photographic collection contains images showing the growth of important municipal enterprises, such as ground transportation systems, aviation, and shipping. In addition there are about 1,000 lantern slides in this collection -- not yet fully digitized.

Date Created 1860/1960

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