(GULF OIL KENTUCKY) Album entitled Photographs of Service S

Sale 2406 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 8,750

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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 3/4x9 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

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Originally in the collection of an employee of Gulf Oil Company; gifted to a colleague at Gulf, in 1980.

A visual inventory of local gas stations and their distinctively efficient, period designs. The photographs were apparently taken in the early morning; there's not a trace of a pedestrian in any of the pictures. Includes views along the Dixie Highway, which was the brainchild of Carl Fisher, who went on to develop Miami, Florida and Montauk, Long Island.