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This is a photograph of an industrial scene with multiple barrels and a building with pipes and machinery. The image shows wooden barrels in the foreground and industrial buildings made of brick in the background. There are large pipes and structural beams visible. The equipment appears worn and the image conveys a historical industrial setting.
National Gallery of Art · Photograph
Back of Stills, Clark & Sumner, Standard Petroleum Refinery, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Thomas H. Johnson
- Date
- c. 1865
- Medium
- stereoscopic albumen silver prints
- Dimensions
- image/sheet (each): 7.7 × 8 cm (3 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.) mount: 8.1 × 17 cm (3 3/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Classification
- Photograph
- Accession number
- 2017.93.5
- Credit line
- Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
- Time span
- 1851 to 1875
- Department
- CPH
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Johnson’s Photographic Views in the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania
Subjects and terms
- American
- albumen silver print
- Landscape
- exterior
- architecture
- Industry
- Architecture
- Pennsylvania
- Men
- industrial
- Stereograph
Provenance
Richard Healey, Hants, UK; NGA purchase, 2017.
Inscription
on verso, by unknown hand, upper center in black ink: Standard Petroleum Refinery.; center printed in black ink: JOHNSON'S PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS / IN / THE OIL REGIONS OF PENNSYLVANIA. / No. [by unknown hand in black ink: 1337. Back of stills] / Published by T.H. JOHNSON, 390 Bowery, New York / [BAILEY, PRINTER.]; by unknown hand, lower center in black ink: Clark & Sumner. / Pittsburgh, Pa.
NGA object ID 211365. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.