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(GULF OIL—KENTUCKY)
Album entitled
Photographs of Service Station Properties,Gulf Refining Company,Louisville,Kentucky.
With 106 professional photographs documenting filling stations throughout Kentucky, a few credited
to Jimenez, Maggard Studios, Ashland, KY; Burckhardt’s; and Knight Studio (identified with hand
stamps or in the negative). With wonderful views of local towns that include billboard signage,
vernacular architecture, and a variety of cool-looking cars. Silver prints, each measuring
approximately 7
3
/
4
x9
1
/
4
inches (19.7x23.5 cm.), mounted to linen recto only, a few with captions,
in ink, on print recto, and most with the town and intersection, typed or in pencil, on mount verso.
Oblong small folio, linen, with a calligraphic caption on the front cover; tall twin bolt binding, soiled
and corners worn. 1928
[2,500/3,500]
Originally in the collection of an employee of Gulf Oil Company; gifted to a colleague at Gulf, in 1980.
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(GAS & PIPELINES)
An album entitled
Northern Natural Gas Company Pipelines.
With approximately 66 photographs documenting the natural gas pipelines, stations, associated
support structures, and interiors of plants and power companies as the network travels throughTexas
(3), Oklahoma (2), Kansas (7), Nebraska (20), Iowa (10), Minnesota (19), and South Dakota (5).
Silver prints, 7
1
/
2
x9
1
/
4
inches (19.1x23.5 cm.), and the reverse, some with light airbrushed retouching,
mounted recto only to linen, nearly all with a typed caption, and some with a photographer’s studio
credit, on mount verso; a few with original glassine interleafing tissue. Oblong 4to, gilt-lettered
leatherette with twin-bolt binding; the photographs are grouped by state and separated with tabbed
sheets. 1930s
[1,500/2,500]
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