Heading: (Sunderland, Clyde)
Author:
Title: Aerial Photographs, Richmond Refinery. (Cover title)
Place Published: Richmond, CA
Publisher:Standard Oil Company of California
Date Published: 1945-1960
Description:

Large folio album containing 23 large format aerial photographs, overall 51x79 cm (20x31") but a few slightly smaller and a few not utilizing the full sheet for printing, several are linen-backed. Brown cloth covers with post and screw binding.

All but one of the bound photographs are credited on the reverse to Clyde Sunderland, with his various studio stamps. The remaining photo (smaller than the others) has the stamps of the Hill Studio, Richmond on the reverse. Laid in are two additional photographs, one by Sunderland of similar large size, the other, 11x17", credited to the Richmond Refinery Photo Department. Likely assembled for publicity or media purposes, the album shows the Richmond Refinery from aloft, most dated 1948 or 1955. The approximate dates of the photographs have been affixed to the images on transparent labels. Clyde Sunderland (1900-1989) was a pioneering aerial photographer, operating out of his home base of Oakland, California beginning in the 1920's. He was commissioned by Franklin D. Roosevelt to write a textbook on aerial photography and train naval photographers in 1939 and he taught at Pensacola until the end of the war.

Light wear; very good.