Architectural drawing of a General Petroleum service station, 1935
Item Overview
- Title
- Architectural drawing of a General Petroleum service station, 1935
- Date Created
- December 5, 1935
- Date
- 1935-12-05
- Publisher
- Los Angeles Times
- Collection
- Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Notes
- Description
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Architectural drawing of a General Petroleum service station with a Spanish style tile roof to be located at N. Alameda St. and E. Aliso St. in Los Angeles. The center has an enclosed room below a gable with two open wings on either side for fuel pumps. On the roof are two sculptures of Pegasus, trademark of the Mobil company which owned General Petroleum.
The General Petroleum company was acquired by Mobil (trademark of Standard Oil Company of New York, or Socony) in 1926.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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news photographs
architectural drawings (visual works)
cellulose nitrate film - Names
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Mobil Oil Company
General Petroleum Company (San Francisco) - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- Automobile service stations--California--Los Angeles
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
- Local Identifier
- uclamss_1429_10802
- ARK
- ark:/21198/zz002h9wxv
- Manifest url
Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted
- Rights Holder
- UCLA Charles E. Young Research Library Department of Special Collections, A1713 Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. E-mail: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310)825-4988
- Rights Country
- US
- Funding Note
-
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. - License
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .