Chillers Tanks at Mid Continental Refinery, Tulsa, Oklahoma
October 1942
Artist, American, 1914 - 1975

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 7.5 × 9.9 cm (2 15/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
sheet: 10.1 × 12.8 cm (4 × 5 1/16 in.) -
Accession
2023.30.155
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 11 June 1998; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, signed by artist, bottom center in graphite: John Vachon 10/42, on recto, by unknown hand, top right in negative: OWI-10080-D; on verso, across top edge printed in black ink: Chiller tanks at Mid Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Okla.; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: PW7220; center Bureau of Public Relations, War Department copyright stamp in red ink; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: J645