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A classic, if quite a bit larger than most others, old Pure Oil station, with its trademark high-pitched roof in Bramwell, West Virginia, a well-preserved town best known for having the largest number of millionaires per capita of any U.S. town in the late 1800s. This station which, atypically, featured three repair bays, was built in 1938

A classic, if quite a bit larger than most others, old Pure Oil statio...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Gas-station window at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas

Gas-station window at the East Texas Oil Museum on the campus of Kilgo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. This museum depicts the era of oil discovery and production in the early 1930s, from the largest oil field inside U.S. boundaries, in ... More

A derelict gas station and appropriately aged car in Sweetwater, Texas

A derelict gas station and appropriately aged car in Sweetwater, Texas

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in El Paso, Texas, was restored by antiques business owner Rod Davenport

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old gasoline station in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera County, Texas

Old gasoline station in Pipe Creek, a small community in Bandera Count...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in El Paso, Texas, was restored by antiques business owner Rod Davenport

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old, but still operational, gas station and convenience store in Shell, Wyoming

Old, but still operational, gas station and convenience store in Shell...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A well-preserved, or beautifully restored, old Sinclair gasoline station in Green River, Wyoming

A well-preserved, or beautifully restored, old Sinclair gasoline stati...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

Old car and older gasoline pumps at a re-created station along old U.S. Route 66 in Williams, Arizona

Old car and older gasoline pumps at a re-created station along old U.S...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in El Paso, Texas, was restored by antiques business owner Rod Davenport

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A carefully restored early Conoco gasoline station in the town of Shamrock, in the Texas panhandle

A carefully restored early Conoco gasoline station in the town of Sham...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was constructed as three separate businesses: 1. The Tower Conoco Station, so named for the tall tower gracing its roof.... More

The pumps have long been dry at this little truck stop east of the town of Sabinol, Texas

The pumps have long been dry at this little truck stop east of the tow...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Mar...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The station was constructed with large stones, a technique popular throughout Texas Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Ph... More

An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Marion County in East Texas on whose main street almost every commercial building, and many nearby homes, have a historic marker

An old gas station (now a motorcycle shop) in Jefferson, a town in Mar...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The station was constructed with large stones, a technique popular throughout Texas Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Ph... More

The gas prices, but not the "open" sign, are accurate at this little truck stop east of the town of Sabinol, Texas, for the pumps have long been dry

The gas prices, but not the "open" sign, are accurate at this little t...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Long-closed rock shop in little Shell, Wyoming. Places like it, snake farms, and such were popular tourist destinations in the early days along America's two-lane, cross-country roads

Long-closed rock shop in little Shell, Wyoming. Places like it, snake ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A meticulously restored Sinclair gasoline station in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

A meticulously restored Sinclair gasoline station in Albany, Texas, se...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1935, it closed in the 1960s and was used as a bus station and bait shop and sat vacant for many years until brothers Hank a... More

A classic 1949 Chevy truck, parked at a former gas station of some vintage as well, across from at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming

A classic 1949 Chevy truck, parked at a former gas station of some vin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

An original Pure Oil gasoline station building, with its distinctive pointy roof, in Marshall, a city in far-east Texas

An original Pure Oil gasoline station building, with its distinctive p...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Unlike many such prized stations across the nation, this one even retains its old insignia. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collecti... More

Even its beer and ice trade didn't save this old gas station in Carrizo Springs, Texas

Even its beer and ice trade didn't save this old gas station in Carriz...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A restored Gulf service station in Albany, Texas. The gasoline pumps were gravity-driven; the low pumps in the center island dispensed kerosene

A restored Gulf service station in Albany, Texas. The gasoline pumps w...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

A carefully restored early Conoco gasoline station in the town of Shamrock, in the Texas panhandle

A carefully restored early Conoco gasoline station in the town of Sham...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The building was constructed as three separate businesses: 1. The Tower Conoco Station, so named for the tall tower gracing its roof.... More

A onetime gas station and cafe, partially made of large stones in the West Texas vernacular, in the town of Gail, seat of Borden County, Texas

A onetime gas station and cafe, partially made of large stones in the ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Red Crown Mini-Museum is a restored 1920s Standard Oil gas station that displays service-station memorabilia in Lafayette, Indiana

The Red Crown Mini-Museum is a restored 1920s Standard Oil gas station...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in El Paso, Texas, was restored by antiques business owner Rod Davenport

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old Magnolia-brand gasoline station at the Buffalo Gap Historic Village in the unincorporated Taylor County, Texas, town of the same name, near Abilene

Old Magnolia-brand gasoline station at the Buffalo Gap Historic Villag...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The museum showcases fifteen outdoor structures and West Texas artifacts that reach back to the late 19th century and the early 20th ... More

A onetime gas station, now an art gallery, in Marfa, a surprising city in Presidio County, Texas

A onetime gas station, now an art gallery, in Marfa, a surprising city...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Surprising because, unlike most surrounding farming and ranching towns in the high desert of the Texas "Trans-Pecos" region, Marfa ha... More

The original, greatly refurbished, Phillips 66 gasoline station in little McLean, a town along historic U.S. Route 66 in the Texas panhandle

The original, greatly refurbished, Phillips 66 gasoline station in lit...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old gas station, Truxton, Arizona

Old gas station, Truxton, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in El Paso, Texas, was restored by antiques business owner Rod Davenport

In 2008, nearly 90 years after it was built, this 1919 gas station in ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Old gas station in rural Alabama

Old gas station in rural Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vintage Dodge automobile at an old-style Crown Gasoline and service station at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, better known locally as simply the Mississippi Ag Museum, a living-history museum with dozens of old and reconstructed old-time Mississippi structures in Jackson, the capital city of the state

Vintage Dodge automobile at an old-style Crown Gasoline and service st...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A classic, if quite a bit larger than most others, old Pure Oil station, with its trademark high-pitched roof in Bramwell, West Virginia, a well-preserved town best known for having the largest number of millionaires per capita of any U.S. town in the late 1800s. This station which, atypically, featured three repair bays, was built in 1938

A classic, if quite a bit larger than most others, old Pure Oil statio...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Remains of an old gas station in Robert Lee, the county seat of Coke County, Texas

Remains of an old gas station in Robert Lee, the county seat of Coke C...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A vintage gas station in the settlement of Hualapai on lands of the Hualapai Indian Tribe in Mohave County, Arizona

A vintage gas station in the settlement of Hualapai on lands of the Hu...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Old gas station in Old Havana, Cuba

Old gas station in Old Havana, Cuba

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith; 2010; (DLC/PP-2... More

A restored Gulf gasoline station in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County

A restored Gulf gasoline station in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Brothers Hank and Ted Paup purchased and restored the station, along with an even more elaborate old Sinclair station across town Cre... More

Fields of tall grasses and flowers, including drooping sunflowers (above), near Shell, Wyoming

Fields of tall grasses and flowers, including drooping sunflowers (abo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Historic art-deco gas station-turned repair shop in Golden, Colorado

Historic art-deco gas station-turned repair shop in Golden, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within... More

Vintage cars at a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, Arizona, a tiny community between Flagstaff and Grand Canyon National Park

Vintage cars at a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A onetime gas station and cafe, partially made of large stones in the West Texas vernacular, in the town of Gail, seat of Borden County, Texas

A onetime gas station and cafe, partially made of large stones in the ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a gas station, convenience store, 20th-century small town, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

An old gas station, minus its pumps, became the home of an art gallery in Crown Point, Indiana

An old gas station, minus its pumps, became the home of an art gallery...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Vintage cars at a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, Arizona, a tiny community between Flagstaff and Grand Canyon National Park

Vintage cars at a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

A look inside a 1920s-'40s-style Crown Gasoline and service station at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, better known locally as simply the Mississippi Ag Museum, a living-history museum with dozens of old and reconstructed old-time Mississippi structures in Jackson, the capital city of the state

A look inside a 1920s-'40s-style Crown Gasoline and service station at...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Old gas station, now put to other uses, outside Lyman, Wyoming

Old gas station, now put to other uses, outside Lyman, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

This stained glass door on a 1925 filling station (or gas station) in Cedar Falls, Iowa

This stained glass door on a 1925 filling station (or gas station) in ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The station is now an unattended information office, providing directions with maps, brochures, and booklets to help visitors navigate... More

View of an old-style Crown Gasoline and service station at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, better known locally as simply the Mississippi Ag Museum, a living-history museum with dozens of old and reconstructed old-time Mississippi structures in Jackson, the capital city of the state

View of an old-style Crown Gasoline and service station at the Mississ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

The Red Crown Mini-Museum is a restored 1920s Standard Oil gas station that displays service-station memorabilia in Lafayette, Indiana

The Red Crown Mini-Museum is a restored 1920s Standard Oil gas station...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Purchase; Carol M. H... More

One of the old, architecturally iconic, English cottage-style Pure Oil gasoline stations with steep pitched roofs that once dotted the American landscape. This one, in Laredo, Texas, was added upon and, at the time of this photograph, served as a computer-repair shop

One of the old, architecturally iconic, English cottage-style Pure Oil...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Remains of an old gas station in Lula, an impoverished community in Northern Mississippi

Remains of an old gas station in Lula, an impoverished community in No...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Gas station turned restaurant and blues hall, all out of business, in Clarksdale, Mississippi

Gas station turned restaurant and blues hall, all out of business, in ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

What's left of a very old gas station in "downtown" Lula, Mississippi

What's left of a very old gas station in "downtown" Lula, Mississippi

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Forlorn sign for a long-closed gas station in Green River, Wyoming

Forlorn sign for a long-closed gas station in Green River, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

A look inside a 1920s-'40s-style Crown Gasoline and service station at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, better known locally as simply the Mississippi Ag Museum, a living-history museum with dozens of old and reconstructed old-time Mississippi structures in Jackson, the capital city of the state

A look inside a 1920s-'40s-style Crown Gasoline and service station at...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A peek inside a vintage Dodge automobile at an old-style Crown Gasoline and service station at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, better known locally as simply the Mississippi Ag Museum, a living-history museum with dozens of old and reconstructed old-time Mississippi structures in Jackson, the capital city of the state

A peek inside a vintage Dodge automobile at an old-style Crown Gasolin...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A vintage truck peeks out of a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, Arizona, a tiny community between Flagstaff and Grand Canyon National Park

A vintage truck peeks out of a preserved old gas station and repair sh...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

"Main Street Gas" in rural Pocahontas County, West Virginia, has all the accountrements of an old gasoline station. But the closest Main Street of any size is miles away

"Main Street Gas" in rural Pocahontas County, West Virginia, has all t...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

What's left of an old Pure gasoline station in Bartow, an old Georgia cotton-ginning town

What's left of an old Pure gasoline station in Bartow, an old Georgia ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-5). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

A look inside a 1920s-'40s-style Crown Gasoline and service station at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, better known locally as simply the Mississippi Ag Museum, a living-history museum with dozens of old and reconstructed old-time Mississippi structures in Jackson, the capital city of the state

A look inside a 1920s-'40s-style Crown Gasoline and service station at...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Gas station, Truxton, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

Gas station, Truxton, Arizona - Drawing. Public domain image.

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Sign erected to march the bicentennial of little Shell, Wyoming

Sign erected to march the bicentennial of little Shell, Wyoming

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A diner in an old Mobil gas station in the little town of Gateway, near the Utah border in Mesa County, Colorado

A diner in an old Mobil gas station in the little town of Gateway, nea...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Remains of an old gasoline station and repair shop in Hooksett, New Hampshire

Remains of an old gasoline station and repair shop in Hooksett, New Ha...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-10). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the... More

An example of an early highway gasoline station, as well as a small sample of exuberant advertising signs at the American Sign Museum in the industrial Camp Washington neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio

An example of an early highway gasoline station, as well as a small sa...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Elsewhere are hundreds more of such signs, placards, posters, and giant roadside advertising figures. Credit line: Photographs in the ... More

Vintage vehicles, including a police car, at a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, Arizona, a tiny community between Flagstaff and Grand Canyon National Park

Vintage vehicles, including a police car, at a preserved old gas stati...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

John Rapp's 1925 filling station (or gas station) in Cedar Falls, Iowa

John Rapp's 1925 filling station (or gas station) in Cedar Falls, Iowa

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The station is now an unattended information office, providing directions with maps, brochures, and booklets to help visitors navigate... More

Old gas station along the road in rural upperstate Michigan

Old gas station along the road in rural upperstate Michigan

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Old car and gas station, Route 66, Truxton, Arizona

Old car and gas station, Route 66, Truxton, Arizona

Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010... More

Old gas station in rural Alabama

Old gas station in rural Alabama

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Phot... More

Vintage cars at a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, Arizona, a tiny community between Flagstaff and Grand Canyon National Park

Vintage cars at a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Vintage gas station and automobiles in the tiny railroad settlement of Bountiful in Conejos County, Colorado

Vintage gas station and automobiles in the tiny railroad settlement of...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More

Defunct gas station in Marks, Mississippi

Defunct gas station in Marks, Mississippi

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A restored Texaco gasoline service station in Batesville, Mississippi

A restored Texaco gasoline service station in Batesville, Mississippi

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Ben May Charitable Trust; 2016; (DLC/PP-2016:059). Forms part of the Ben May Charitable Trust Collection of Mississippi Photogra... More

A onetime roadside gas station whose owners have retained its rusting pumps, perhaps for nostalgia's sake, in Grandy, North Carolina

A onetime roadside gas station whose owners have retained its rusting ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-7). Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the ... More

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hackberry along old U.S. 66 in northwestern Arizona

Scene at the Hackberry General Store in the dot of a place called Hack...

Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as "the Mother Road," connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1... More

Swan hood ornament on a vintage Packard automobile at a preserved old gas station and repair shop in Valle, Arizona, a tiny community between Flagstaff and Grand Canyon National Park

Swan hood ornament on a vintage Packard automobile at a preserved old ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive. C... More

Built in the 1970s as a Pure Oil Co. station in the company's classic, pitched-roof design, the station and repair garage became a Union 76 station in the 1970s before becoming a solely service shop. Welch, West Virginia

Built in the 1970s as a Pure Oil Co. station in the company's classic,...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Vintage Shell station built in 1926 on Route 66 in Mount Olive, Illinois

Vintage Shell station built in 1926 on Route 66 in Mount Olive, Illino...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Old, but still operational, gas station and convenience store in Shell, Wyoming

Old, but still operational, gas station and convenience store in Shell...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

Abandoned former Sinclair gasoline station in the town of Powder River, Wyoming

Abandoned former Sinclair gasoline station in the town of Powder River...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph... More

This gas station, near the settlement of Kelly outside Grand Teton National Park in northwest Wyoming, may or may not be out of gas. But its sign is out one letter

This gas station, near the settlement of Kelly outside Grand Teton Nat...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Gift; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2002:038-13). Forms part of: Gates Frontiers Fund Wyoming Collection within ... More

A long-ago-abandoned combination car dealership-gas station in Ritzville, Washington

A long-ago-abandoned combination car dealership-gas station in Ritzvil...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-13) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the C... More