View of the American Shale Refining Company plant site near De Beque on Conn Creek in Garfield County, Colorado. Shows one-story houses with gabled roofs and tar paper siding. Identical buildings, possibly boarding houses or dormitories, an outhouse, and probably a cellar are in the valley. A road grade is on a layered rock mesa in the Roan Cliffs.
Accession number: 91.237.322; History Colorado.; Formerly F33408.; Handwritten on envelope: "C-DeBeque-Industry-Oil Shale."; Penciled on verso: "Plant site of the American Shale Refining Co., on Conn Creek, near De Beque, Colo." and "Pub. in R.R. Redbook Sept. 1920, p. 830."; Title supplied.; R7200052237
Physical Description
1 photographic print ; 20 x 24 cm. (8 x 9 1/2 in.)