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Bayway Ref., Linden, NJ. During the topping-out of the main section of the new catalytic cracking unit. The 80-ton top section of the cat cracker being swung clear of the ground in the first stage of lifting to the top of the unit.

Artist Charles E. Rotkin (American, born 1916)
Title Bayway Ref., Linden, NJ. During the topping-out of the main section of the new catalytic cracking unit. The 80-ton top section of the cat cracker being swung clear of the ground in the first stage of lifting to the top of the unit.
Date May 1949
Medium Gelatin silver print
Dimensions Image: 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (19.1 × 19.1 cm)
Credit Line Henry Holmes Smith Archive, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 79.200.XX.32.2

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Publisher Standard Oil Company, New Jersey

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