cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12261
title: Shell Oil Company employee, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a Shell Oil Company employee, ca.1940. The torso of a man can be seen on the right with a lightly-colored lab coat and large, dark gloves which gently handle the thin piece of machinery on the right. He's protected by a thick, dark apron and a shield for his face with dark straps that secure it to his face. He appears to manipulate the small device using an apparatus consisting of stained pipes and tiny, delicate dials.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12262
title: Shell Oil Company employee at work, showing a man moving slabs of rock across a machine, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a Shell Oil Company employee at work, showing a man moving slabs of rock across a machine, ca.1940. The man on the left wears stained coveralls as his bandage-wrapped fingers shift large, rectangular slabs of rock across the machine at center. The machine consists of a wide conveyor belt which apparently leads the slabs to an opening in a large, metal container in the back.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12263
title: Shell Oil Company employee at work in the interior of the building, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a Shell Oil Company employee at work in the interior of the building, ca.1940. Thick, oil-stained pipes on the left connect to a central pipe overhead and to smaller pipes which appear to run into the floor at center. Dark boxes stand with dials monitoring "gallons" sit in a row on a metal platform which lies in front of the pipes. A man in oil-spotted coveralls and glasses manipulates the farthest box on the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12264
title: Shell Oil Company employees at work, showing two men standing in front of machinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of Shell Oil Company employees at work, showing two men standing in front of machinery, ca.1940. The two men in suits stand on the left, each with one leg up on the platform behind them. The man on the left leans his left arm over his raised knee while leaving his right hand in his pocket as he looks towards the ground. The man on the right shows his back to the foreground as he holds a clipboard toward the other man. They stand next to a wall of metal pipes which connect to what appear to be pots beneath them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m16609
title: Front arches at Mission San Juan Bautista, ca.1903

description: Photograph of the front arches at Mission San Juan Bautista, ca.1903. Three arches are visible. Stucco has fallen from part of the wall revealing the brick structure underneath. Tile covers the roof. A glass window with twelve panes is in the center of the wall under the arches. Flowers grow in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12265
title: Shell Oil Company employees at work, ca.1940

description: Photograph of Shell Oil Company employees at work, ca.1940. A woman with dark hair, glasses, and dark high heels stands at center in a lightly-colored lab coat turning a dial on the wall to the left. What appear to be silver pipes hang from the wall next to metal yard sticks while dark boxes with dials on their tops sit on short benches below them. A man in glasses and a long lab coat stands on the right, behind the woman, turning dials that hang on the wall of a cabinet to the left of the man. A second man sits in a chair on the far right, next to a similar cabinet, with his back to the foreground as he leans over a notebook on the desk behind him.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12266
title: Shell Oil Company employee at work, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a Shell Oil Company employee at work, ca.1940. A man in stained coveralls with "Earl" embroidered over the right breast kneels beside the controls of the machinery on the left. What appear to be large, circular tanks stand in a row along the right wall with thick pipes extending from the tops. The pipes continue to the ceiling where they extend out of sight to the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12221
title: Exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, showing a cluster of towers, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, showing a cluster of towers, ca.1940. Thick pipes run parallel between two opposing concrete platforms where many tall towers stand. The towers are cylindrical with ladders connecting the small platforms along their sides. Small lamps stand at the top of each tower while thick pipes bend in a knot at their bases. A massive building stands on the left with a tall staircase climbing the side wall to the fenced roof at top while a cylindrical tank labeled "161" stands in the background on the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12222
title: Exterior view of an oil refinery, showing a fluid cooking unit for petroleum processing engineering, procurement, and construction by the Ralph M. Parsons Company, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an oil refinery, showing a fluid cooking unit for petroleum processing engineering, procurement, and construction by the Ralph M. Parsons Company, ca.1940. Thick, metal pipes bend up the tall building in a maze of intersecting paths. Beyond the wall of interweaving pipes are levels of grated, metal floors, each with machinery inside. Smaller platforms protrude around a large, cylindrical apparatus on the right while wires connect the entire structure to a tall, lightly-colored pole in front of the structure on the far right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12225
title: Exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. Thick clusters of parallel pipes line the raised platforms which support the short, cylindrical structures in the foreground. Several short, wooden buildings stand among those structures with a row of skeletal, octagonal towers standing behind them on the right. Staircases and platforms cling to the sides of the octagonal towers and the view is slightly obstructed by the cloud of smoke which floats in from the right. A row of pipes which seep smoke from their tops stands parallel to the towers while a skeletal skyscraper stands above them on the left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12226
title: Exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. Short cylindrical structures with wide diameters stand in oil-stained yards with pipes surrounding them. Short, wooden structures stand among these cylinders with the taller structures crowded behind them. Many skeletal, octagonal buildings stand in a row on the right with tall pipes in a parallel row to the left of them. A taller, frame-like structure stands on the left while shorter, cylindrical towers surround it in the yard below.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12227
title: Exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. Two thick, cylindrical structures with ladders leading up their left sides stand in a bare field at center while a pile of long, metal pipes and a small, wooden structure stand along the side of a paved road in the foreground. Many small cylinders lie on their sides in a row in front of a skeletal building on the right while tall pipes stand among the buildings on the left. Similar buildings and machinery extend towards the background where a faint city can be seen in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12228
title: Exterior view of the third Petroleum refinery, ca. 1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of the third Petroleum refinery, ca. 1940. Short, cylindrical structures with staircases leading to their tops stand in rows in the foreground with tall cylindrical towers standing behind them. Several platforms wrap around various levels of the towers and an apparatus sits at each tower's top. Below the towers, the floor is crowded with interweaving pipes which wrap around the many machines of the refinery. Beyond the field of pipes stand many long, low-standing building which extend into the distance on the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m16608
title: Dominican sister in the garden at the convent at Mission San Jose de Guadalupe, ca.1906

description: Photograph of a Dominican sister in the garden at the convent at Mission San Jose de Guadalupe, ca.1906. She is wearing a white habit and is surrounded by flowers. Palm trees are visible on either side of the nun. Trees and other plants dot the grounds visible behind her.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12229
title: Exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, showing rows of spherical tanks, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, showing rows of spherical tanks, ca.1940. Short, metal fences separate the sandy yards at center which each support a spherical tank. The tank at center is supported by a thick, metal frame which is imbedded in a concrete, octagonal platform directly below it. A tall staircase extends from the ground on the left up to a small platform at the center of the visible surface of the sphere. A second, winding staircase continues from the platform and curves to the machine which sits at the sphere's top. Beyond the rows of these spheres lies a tree-spotted field contained by a thin road in the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12230
title: Exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, showing spherical tanks, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, showing spherical tanks, ca.1940. Rows of large, spherical tanks stand in a sandy yard in the refinery at center. Staircases wind around each of the spheres leading to the apparatuses that stand at their tops. The spheres are supported by thick, metal beams which attach to heptagonal platforms below. A road cuts through the bare field in the background which extends to the forest of thin, skeletal towers which can be seen in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12231
title: Exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. Two tall, octagonal buildings stand side by side at center with men manipulating the apparatuses on each of the buildings' top levels where no walls fill the metal frames. Metal walls protect the lower levels of the buildings while walkways protrude from the frame and tall staircases climb along the sides to the concrete platform below. Tall pipes stand among the skeletal towers which crowd the left side while wide, lightly-colored cylindrical structures blanket the background.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12232
title: Exterior view of a modern refinery for oil, the third Petroleum refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of a modern refinery for oil, the third Petroleum refinery, ca.1940. Interweaving pipes lie across the refinery with tall, cylindrical towers shining above them. Each cylinder has a ladder and guard rails attached to the sides which lead to a small platform on top. Beyond the towers, short, long building lie across the background with a large, bare field extending into the distance behind them.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12233
title: Exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery at night, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an exterior view of an unidentified oil refinery at night, ca.1940. The lights of the inner rooms of the structure at center shine through the windows and doorways while the walls are blackened with night. The pipes which line the towers above the structure shimmer with the tiny streams of light from the lamps which hang along the walls. Large lamps provide orbs of light which illuminate the platforms which top the towers while the bottoms of the structures remain invisible.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12235
title: Fire at an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a fire at an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. Rows of metal barrels of oil stand on the left while a long structure burns in a massive fire on the right. The barrels which stand along the walls of the burning structure appear to be unharmed while the other supplies as well as the walls and ceiling are disintegrating. A large cloud of dark smoke rises from the flames on top, obstructing the view of the tall, cylindrical structure in the background on at center.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12267
title: Thermofor catalytic reformer at the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery in Torrance, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a thermofor catalytic reformer at the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery in Torrance, ca.1940. An open-air rectangular-shaped structure with at least fifteen stories can be seen at center composed of metal beams. A staircase can be seen running up the structure. Four men are visible standing in front of many intertwined pipes in front of the structure, while a sphere can be seen at right. A few tall cylindrical-shaped stacks are visible in the left background. Photoprint reads: "The TCR takes low octane gasoline stock and turns this into a very high octane gasoline blending stock".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12268
title: Horton spheres at the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of Horton spheres at the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery, ca.1940. At least eight large spheres with staircases leading to the top of them can be seen at center. Poles with cables attached to them surround each sphere, while smoke can be seen emerging from the background. Two tall, rectangular structures composed of metal beams are visible in the background. Photoprint reads: "with two double TCC Units in background".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12269
title: Aerial view of the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of an aerial view of the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery, ca.1940. At least twenty stories comprise an open-air structure at left made up of metal beams. Steam is visible escaping from multiple tall cylindrical stacks to the right of the structure, while shorter and wider cylinders can be seen at right. Flat, open land is visible beyond the refinery, while a town can be seen in the distance.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12270
title: Catalytic polymerization unit at the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a catalytic polymerization unit at the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery, ca.1940. Metal beams criss-cross to form three levels on a tall, open-air, rectangular structure at center. Pipes can be seen along the sides of the structure, while five barrels are visible lined up on the ground to the right of the structure. A utility pole is visible at left, while a cylindrical tower can be seen in the right background.; Photoprint reads: "This new catzlytic polymerization unit at the Torrance (Calif.) refinery of the General Petroleum Corporation 'builds' 700 barrels of high quality gasoline daily out of what would otherwise be waste refinery gases. Over $400,000 was spent on the addition of this unit".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m16611
title: Boy standing in the back entrance to Mission San Juan Bautista, California, ca.1903

description: Photograph of a boy standing in the back entrance at Mission San Juan Bautista, California, ca.1903. His trousers are held up with suspenders. He carries a hat in his left hand and his right hand is jammed into the front pocket of his pants. The arched recessed entryway has a wooden door with a white doorknob. A birdcage[?] is attached to the wooden wall at left. A watering can sits on the ground at bottom right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12271
title: Men working at the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of men working at the General Petroleum Corporation's refinery, ca.1940. Three men wearing soiled clothing and hard hats are visible at center working at a machine while two other men look on at left. Poles lead up to a metal roof at top, while various chains and pipes can be seen at right. A pipe can be seen in the extreme foreground propped against the concrete flooring, while a shrub-filled hill is visible in the right background. Photoprint reads: "Derrick Floor: Hayes & Sprague crew. L. to R. -- L.D. Jackson (pusher), R. H. Colleman (correct), driller, J. D. Ester, W. D. Lacker, P. F. Breig" and "Derrick Floor -- Camulos Ranch #1 -- excavation(?) Piru Area".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12272
title: Birdseye view of the Jameson Oil Refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a birdseye view of the Jameson Oil Refinery, ca.1940. Cylindrical-shaped structures of varying sizes are visible throughout, while a long one-story building can be seen at top center. A tower is visible at center, while parallel roads can be seen running from bottom left towards the top right and intersect other various-shaped one-story buildings. Utility poles, automobiles, and trucks line the roads, while foliage can be seen on hillsides at the top right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12275
title: View of the Richfield vapor recovery plant in Watson, showing arrangement of equipment, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a view of the Richfield vapor recovery plant in Watson, showing arrangement of equipment, ca.1940. Two one-story buildings are visible to the left of center with sloped roofs and a few rectangular windows on the sides. Pipes can be seen amongst two tall stacks in between the buildings, while a longer one-story building is visible at right. A tall, rectangular structure with many levels and a staircase leading to the top of it can be seen behind the buildings. Cylindrical-shaped structures, one of which reads, "61", are visible at left and in the background amongst other structures. The dirt slopes downward in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12236
title: Four men working in an oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of four men working in an oil refinery, ca.1940. A man at center can be seen leaning over a round structure on the wooden floor. A second man is visible crouching on a platform behind and to the right of the structure, and is obscured by a few metal beams. A third man is visible on a raised platform towards the back left next to a rectangular machine reading, "Emsco", while a fourth man holds a rope to the left of him. The men can all be seen wearing hard hats, long sleeved shirts, and pants or overalls. A canopy can be seen in the background over a machine reading, "Caterpillar".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12237
title: Men working around a cylindrical object in an oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of men working around a cylindrical object in an oil refinery, ca.1940. Three men can be seen at center holding on to vertical pipes which emerge from a flat, round object on the ground. The men can be seen wearing soiled jumpsuits and hardhats. A fourth man is visible facing forward behind the men at left, while metal walls can be seen in the background. Barrels and bushes are visible beyond an opening at right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12238
title: Men working in an oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of men working in an oil refinery, ca.1940. Three men can be seen working around a cylindrical object on the ground. They are visible pulling down on lines, and wear pants, long-sleeved shirts, and hard hats. A fourth man can be seen from behind in the left foreground, while metal sheets, a spool of cable, and pipes are visible throughout. Photoprint reads: "Dup".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12239
title: Chief driller K.M. East inspecting a drill bit, ca.1940

description: Photograph of chief driller K.M. East inspecting a drill bit, ca.1940. East can be seen at center squatting over the drill bits which lie on the wooden floor below. His coveralls are lightly-colored with spots of oil and his large, leather gloves grasp the teeth of a drill bit on the right. The drill bit is darkly-colored with dirt dusting the worn teeth. A small machine sits on the left of East while two other drillers stand near the larger machinery in the background. Photoprint reads "K.M. East, chief driller who has nursed the record-breaking drill through which progress the earth's crust is shown here examing the teeth of the bit just withdrawn".
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12240
title: Men working in an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of men working in an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. Two men in work clothes, hats, and gloves lean over machinery at the end of a long, darkly-colored pipe at center. One man manipulates the apparatus from the right while the other holds a rope attached to a pulley on the left. A small, wooden broom on the right leans against the lightly-colored wall behind the men which is stained with oil splatter. Thick rope hangs in a bundle from an oil-stained, metal beam on the left while a lightly-colored metal slab leans into the foreground from the right.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12241
title: Men working in the "operating room" of the Nasa Well Number 11 in the Signal Hill oil field near Long Beach, ca.1940

description: Photograph of men working in the "operating room" of the Nasa Well Number 11 in the Signal Hill oil field near Long Beach, ca.1940. "Workmen are adjusting the rotary drill as it bites its way into the earth". Three men in oil-stained work clothes and hats grasp the large drill at center with their thick, leather gloves. The drill is pushed through the ground at the center of a circular platform which is decorated with oil splatters. A rug lies over the concrete floor behind the men where a small, wooden broom leans against a lightly-colored wall which is also spotted with oil. Rope extends from a portion of the drill's outer accessories down to a lower floor of the refinery in the foreground.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m76
title: Broadway looking north from Third Street, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1910

description: Photograph of the view looking north on Broadway from Third Street, showing such vehicles as electric cars and carriages, Los Angeles, ca.1895-1910. City hall (with the flag flying from a mast in front) is visible at center. Utility poles and lines run down both sides of the street. Pedestrians are on the sidewalks and in the street. The Bradbury Building is visible as well.; Legible signs include: street car "West Lake Park, 142", ..."Nort[...] real estate"..., "Single; Sole agents, the [...] Smith [...] premier [...] typewriter [...] ground floor [...] Leo E. A"..., "The C"..., "Singer Sewing"..., "Jerome Caldw"..., ..."120.000"....
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12242
title: Man posing in an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a man posing in an unidentified oil refinery, ca.1940. The tall, thin man stands on the left in coveralls and a hat grasping the levers of the machine at center with his thick, leather gloves. Thick, dark rope rolled on a spool at the bottom of the machine is pulled up to the ceiling by the upper portion of the machine. Chains hang on either side of the machine and a thick pipe stands along its left side just behind the man. A pathway leads to an outdoor portion of the refinery in the background on the far left.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12243
title: Man working in a Shell Oil Company refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of a man working in a Shell Oil Company refinery, ca.1940. What appears to be a small telescope hangs from the thick drill at center while a man leans from the left to look into the eyepiece. The man in stained coveralls and a hard hat balances along the edge of a circular platform which surrounds the hole where the drill penetrates the earth. A short, oil-stained wall inclines to behind the man on the left from the opposite side of the platform on the right. The wooden frame of a room of the refinery stands in the background behind the man and the wall.
DOI: 10.25549/chs-m12245
title: Compressors in the Triton oil refinery, ca.1940

description: Photograph of compressors in the Triton oil refinery, ca.1940. At least five conveyor belts can be seen on large wheels at center and into the left background. They are enclosed by mesh sides with rectangular control panels hanging on the sides. Lightly-colored pipes run across the ceiling from large cylinders that stand along the right wall. Dials can be seen on a dark, rectangular panel in front of the large cylinders on the right while ladders lean on the cylinders that stand in a row along the back wall towards the left. Photoprint reads: "Manufacturing Oleum Refinery. Triton solvent plant".