"Picture Break"

NDHS-0030-059.jpg

Title

"Picture Break"

Description

Photograph appeared in the book "Nederland, 1898-1986, Texas Sesquicentennial ed.,", pg. 34 with the caption "Construction workers take 'Picture Break" atop condensers as work moves into final stages.' " ---- The photo also appeared in the Midcounty Chronicle, 21 Jan 1998, pg. 7B: with a different description: "Sun Oil employees are photographed at work on CHP#2 construction at Smith's Bluff in 1938, 17 years after the Lucas Gusher came in at Spindletop and changed the lives of Southeast Texans forever."

Subject

Pure Oil Company
Petroleum Industry
Refineries

Source

Photograph Collection - Nederland Historical Society

Publisher

Electronic version published by Marion & Ed Hughes Public Library, Nederland, Texas

Contributor

Nederland Historical Society

Rights

Permission to publish or reproduce materials from the Collection must be obtained from the Nederland Historical Society

Format

1030dpi, tiff, Epson GT20000

Type

Image

Identifier

NDHS-0030-059
474-69-4

Temporal Coverage

1920s

Date Created

abt 1923

Date Submitted

2016

Spatial Coverage

Nederland, Tex.

Original Format

5 x 7
black and white photograph