Sale 2531 | Lot 272v
272 •(GASOLINE STATION--LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA)
Album-cum-scrapbook of approximately 30 photographs entitled The Old and the New, made for the re-opening of a modernized gas station.
A charming album chronicling the grand opening of a modernized gas station in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The album depicting the new station and opening events such as an antique car show and band. With approximately 30 silver prints and 25 ephemeral items, including advertisements, advertising letters, exhibitors list, typewritten letters, and more. Silver prints, most of the images measuring 8x10 inches (20.3x25.4 cm.), and some smaller, and the reverse. Oblong 4to, cloth, the front cover with a hand-painted image of two cars and the hand-lettered title. 1954
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