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| Title | Aerial of Union Oil Co. plant and dock, Seattle, ca. 1932 |
| Photographer | Laidlaw, Charles |
| Date | ca. 1932 |
| Caption | Union Oil Company maintained a large shipping and storage facility along the northern section of Seattle's waterfront. This view looks directly east towards Belltown and shows the many storage tanks that existed at this time between Railroad Avenue and First. |
| Notes | Signs in image: Grinnell Company - Automatic Sprinklers, Pipe, Valves, Fittings - Power Piping, Heating & Plumbing Supplies. Union Oil.
Handwritten on sleeve: Union Oil Co. Plant & Dock. |
| Subjects | Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Seattle; Waterfronts--Washington (State)--Seattle; Petroleum industry--Washington (State)--Seattle; Bodies of water--Washington (State)--Seattle; Aerial photographs--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
Puget Sound (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.17561.1 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions contact photos@mohai.org or phone us at 206-324-1126. Please refer to the Image Number and provide a brief description of the photograph. |
| Credit Line | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection, Museum of History & Industry, Seattle; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Museum of History & Industry, Seattle (MOHAI) |
| Repository Collection | PEMCO Webster & Stevens Collection |
| Type | Image |
| Physical Description | 1 nitrate negative: b&w; 5 x 7 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from print made from original negative as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 8-bit grayscale, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using Photoshop 6.0 and its JPEG quality measurement 3. |
| Photographer's Reference Number | T-218 |
