Back of Stills, Clark & Sumner, Standard Petroleum Refinery, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Thomas H. Johnson, c. 1865

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.… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Thomas H. Johnson ¹
Date: c. 1865 ¹
Medium: stereoscopic albumen silver prints ¹
Original: 7,610 × 3,651 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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