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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The General Petroleum company was acquired by Mobil (trademark of Standard Oil Company of New York, or Socony) in 1926.
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. - 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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news photographs
cellulose nitrate film
architectural drawings (visual works) - Names
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General Petroleum Company (San Francisco)
Mobil Oil Company - 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
- 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
- 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 .