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Photographs of industry for Standard Oil of New Jersey

Title
Photographs of industry for Standard Oil of New Jersey [graphic] / Gordon Parks.
Author
Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006.
Publication
ca. 1944.

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Details

Additional Authors
Standard Oil Company.
Description
8 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 36 x 28 cm. or smaller.
Summary
African American workers, flames from burners behind them; four men in welders' masks, one welding; man lighting pipe while seated below laterns and tackle hung on wall; barrels on ship or dock; men working on pipeline to refinery; looking along pipeline toward refinery; looking toward dock and ship along pipeline; African American worker in Pittsburgh Grease Plant.
Subject
  • African Americans > Photographs
  • Petroleum industry > United States > Photographs
  • Petroleum industry > United States
  • Pipelines > United States
  • Shipping
  • Smoking
  • Welding
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Genre/Form
  • Portraits.
  • Photographic prints.
  • Silver gelatin prints.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Photographer and Standard Oil credited on verso of most photographs. One print has credit stamps for Standard Oil and photographer, and has caption, date (1944), numbering and photographer typed on paper affixed to verso. One image stamped Elizabeth McCausland on verso.
Provenance (note)
  • Transferred from Picture Collection, 1986; gift of Elizabeth McCausland, 1946.
Call Number
MFZ (Parks) 95-32
OCLC
NYPG95-F62
Author
Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006. Photographer
Title
Photographs of industry for Standard Oil of New Jersey [graphic] / Gordon Parks.
Imprint
ca. 1944.
Provenance
Transferred from Picture Collection, 1986; gift of Elizabeth McCausland, 1946.
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Added Author
Standard Oil Company.
McCausland, Elizabeth, 1899-1965. Former owner
Research Call Number
MFZ (Parks) 95-32
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