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

c. 1865

Thomas H. Johnson

Associated Names
Thomas H. Johnson

Artist, American, born 1821

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.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stereoscopic albumen silver prints

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.93.5

  • Series Title

    Johnson’s Photographic Views in the Oil Regions of Pennsylvania

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Healey, Hants, UK; NGA purchase, 2017.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

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.

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