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Home / Oil and Industry / Construction of the mechanical shops at Humble Oil & Refining Company's Baytown Refinery, 1919
 
 
 
 
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Construction of the mechanical shops at Humble Oil & Refining Company's Baytown Refinery, 1919
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1919 scene of construction of mechanical shops. From right to left: old warehouse, carpenter shop, machine shop, tin shop, and blacksmith shop. African American and Hispanic tent city in the background. Scaffold in the foreground is the beginning of construction of No. 1 boilerhouse.
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Donated by ExxonMobil, 2004
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