Camera Lens Case with Four Lenses, Used by John Margolies, circa 1971

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 celebrate a unique chapter of American history. He used this equipment on his travels.