Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 147

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(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 the Texaco logo, only occasionally including figures, but some with passing cars and the surrounding Western landscape. Silver prints, sizes ranging from 2 1/8x3 to 4 1/2x6 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