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- Teepee Amoco Station, Lawrence, Kansas, 1977 - 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.
- 1977
- Collections - Artifact
Teepee Amoco Station, Lawrence, Kansas, 1977
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.
- "Lodge," 2012 -
- 2012
- Collections - Artifact
"Lodge," 2012
- Sunoco Gas Station, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1977 - 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.
- 1982
- Collections - Artifact
Sunoco Gas Station, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1977
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.
- "Indian Tepees, Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana," circa 1947 - Numerous Indigenous tribes utilized the lands in and around Glacier National Park in northwest Montana for thousands of years. When European explorers visited the area, Blackfeet controlled the eastern prairie boundary, while Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai inhabited the forested west side. This postcard suggests Native people's presence in the park but only through generic and stereotypical terms and images.
- 1929-1947
- Collections - Artifact
"Indian Tepees, Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, Montana," circa 1947
Numerous Indigenous tribes utilized the lands in and around Glacier National Park in northwest Montana for thousands of years. When European explorers visited the area, Blackfeet controlled the eastern prairie boundary, while Salish, Pend d'Oreille, and Kootenai inhabited the forested west side. This postcard suggests Native people's presence in the park but only through generic and stereotypical terms and images.