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(GAS STATIONS—TEXACO)
A contemporary and an accomplished typological study with 79 photographs depicting
Texaco gas stations throughout Idaho, Oregon, and Utah.
With scenes of gas pumps, patrons “filling up,” attendants,Texaco trucks and storage drums, service
stations, signage (Texaco and otherwise), and various coupes and classics, some passing and others
parked, amidst theWestern landscape. Silver prints, the images measuring 2
1
/
2
x3
1
/
2
to 3
1
/
4
x5
7
/
8
inches
(6.4x8.9 to 8.3x14.9 cm.), most with handwritten or typed notations on verso; mounted recto only,
with corners, to blue sheets, in the style of the original mounts (some images retain a border of the
original mount from which it was trimmed), as many as 8 to one sheet; with typed annotations
identifying the location, date, some with the camera direction, and almost half with the typed
captions, trimmed from original blue mounts, cornered to the sheets verso. 1930s-50s
[1,000/1,500]