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Lot 147
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(INDUSTRIAL & CONSUMER)
Binder entitled “Leitz Ordner,”with more than 1200 photographs on approximately 130 pages depicting
European trade fairs and scenes of factories where the goods are being produced. Includes images of
consumer and office products, all highlighting the golden age of the post-World War II economy in
Western Europe. Also with many industrial images depicting the interiors of various factories, with
many modernist pictures of heavy machinery, generators, and unidentifiable oversized machine parts.
Silver contact prints, various sizes from 1
1
/
4
x1 to 2
1
/
4
x2
1
/
4
inches (3.1x2.5 to 5.7x5.7 cm.), mounted
recto/verso, many with a numeric caption, in ink, below the print, and a few with lengthy captions, in
German. Oblong 4to, 2-ring binder with stiff wrappers. 1949-50
[700/1,000]
Leitz was founded 1871 by Louis Leitz, who developed and introduced the Leitz-Ordner, i.e. the lever
arch file. Subsequently, the now-common round hole on the back of the file was added.
147
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(GAS STATIONS)
An archive of more than 600 photographs of Texaco gas and service stations primarily located in
the Western United States, including Montana, Idaho, and Utah. A fascinating typological study,
including service stations, storage drums, and other utilitarian buildings, nearly every image with
theTexaco logo, only occasionally including figures, but some with passing cars and the surrounding
Western landscape. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 2
1
/
8
x3 to 4
1
/
2
x6
1
/
2
inches (5.4x7.6 to 11.4x16.5
cm.), and the reverse, mounted recto only, nearly all to blue or green sheets, as many as 6 images
per sheet; some with the location in the negative, and nearly each sheet with a typed caption with
the location, date, and other identifying information, on recto; some photographs detached from
mounts and show typed or penciled captions on verso as well. Late 1930s-early 50s
[2,500/3,500]
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