Avery Avenue Storage plant in Detroit
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Description
View of two-story brick building with loading docks, possibly a factory and warehouse, at the Avery Avenue Storage plant in Detroit, Michigan. Mobilgas stake truck parked in front of loading dock; automobile parked in front of entrance. Sign on door: "White Star Division." Inscribed on building facade: "A.D. 1929." Top of brick smokestack visible behind building. Handwritten on front: "#1." Plot layout lists building #1 as factory and warehouse.
Details
- Creator:
- White Star Refining Co.
- Resource ID:
- na000350
- Subject:
- White Star Refining Co.
- Factories--Michigan--Detroit
- Warehouses--Michigan--Detroit
- Petroleum--Storage--Michigan--Detroit
- Trucks--Michigan--Detroit
- Petroleum industry and trade--Michigan
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- c.1939
- Format:
- 1 photographic print mounted on fabric ; 5 x 7 in.
- Department:
- Burton Historical Collection
- Location:
- MS/White Star Refining Co., Box 2
- Content Note:
- This photograph corresponds to na000356
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.