Photo Record
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Metadata
Title |
[Adam's Service Station] |
Object Name |
Negative, Film |
Photographer |
Flamm, Herbert A. |
Date |
January 12, 1949 |
Collection |
Herbert A. Flamm Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original B&W film negative. Diagonal front and side view of a Mobilgas service station on the corner of Victory Boulevard and Fiedler Avenue in Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Sign over the door of the building: "ADAM'S SERVICE." Rows of houses are behind the station at left, and two apartment buildings are seen in the background. The street in the foreground is paved with rectangular blocks. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Socony Vacum [sic] Oil 1-12-49 / 1 Ea 8x10." (Keywords: New York City, Twentieth Century) |
Film Size |
8 x 10 |
Acquisition |
Gift of Herbert A. Flamm |
Earliest Date |
1949 |
Latest Date |
1949 |
Subjects |
Automobile service stations |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
79.022.2500 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, February 2017. |
Legal Status |
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