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| Title | Aerial of Standard Oil tank farm and docks from southwest, Point Wells, 1932 |
| Photographer | Laidlaw, Charles |
| Date | 1932 |
| Caption | By the 1920s, more people were driving cars. In addition, power plants had begun to use oil rather than coal. Standard Oil Company of California, now Chevron, built a regional distribution terminal at Point Wells to meet the growing demand for gasoline and other petroleum products. Tanker ships brought the oil products from California refineries, and railroad tank cars carried them to local distributors. |
| Notes | Caption on image: Photo by Chas. Laidlaw, 1932.
Handwritten on sleeve: Standard Oil Richmond Beach Shell Oil 1932.
Caption by MOHAI staff. |
| Subjects | Storage tanks--Washington (State)--Shoreline; Petroleum industry--Washington (State)--Shoreline; Piers & wharves--Washington (State)--Shoreline; Waterfronts--Washington (State); Coastlines--Washington (State); Bays (Bodies of water)--Washington (State); Aerial photographs--Washington (State)--Shoreline |
| Places | United States--Washington (State)
Puget Sound (Wash.) |
| Digital Collection | Museum of History & Industry Photograph Collection |
| Image Number | 1983.10.18037 |
| 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 | 7532 |
