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
- 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. - Caption
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Handwritten on negative: New Gen'l Pet. Service Sta. Aliso & Alameda, 12-5-35.
Text from negative sleeve: 3046. General Pet. Gas Station at Aliso & Alameda St. 12-5-35. [Stamped:] Dec 11 1935.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph
- Medium
- b&w nitrate negative
Keywords
- Genre
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architectural drawings (visual works)
cellulose nitrate film
news photographs - Subjects
- Automobile service stations--California--Los Angeles
- Names
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Mobil Oil Company
General Petroleum Company (San Francisco) - Location
- Los Angeles (Calif.)
- Resource type
- still image
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
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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
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Funding Note
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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 .