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 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
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 ...
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 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 ...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
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, 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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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 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
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 ...
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
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 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 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 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 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
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...
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 (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
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, ...
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 ...
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...
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 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, ...
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...
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
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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 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 ...
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
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
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...
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 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 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 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 ...
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...
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 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.
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
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, 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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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, ...
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...
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
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
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 ...
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 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 ...
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,...
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, 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...
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...
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 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 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