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Premium Gas Station, Toronto, Canada, 1977

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Artifact Overview

In the mid-1970s, John Margolies began to assemble a visual record of America's built roadside landscape. Over the following three decades, he traveled thousands of miles to photograph the overlooked and often quickly vanishing structures that had grown out of American automobile culture and main street commerce. His photographs of hotels, motels, diners, service stations, drive-ins and attractions celebrate and capture a unique chapter of American history.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Slide (Photograph)

Subject Date

1977

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2013.150.150

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Technique

Chromogenic processes

Color

Multicolored

Dimensions

Height: 2 in
Width: 2 in

Inscriptions

at top on slide mount: Premium Gas / 1650 Queen St. E. / Toronto / Set 1 / @1977
Premium Gas Station, Toronto, Canada, 1977