Image / [Calpet service station, Los Angeles]

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Title: [Calpet service station, Los Angeles]
Contributor: SoCa Digitization Project. C
Date Created and/or Issued: [ca. 1920]
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: 1998-0492
PHOTO: LOS ANGELES CO.: LOS ANGELES: BUILDINGS: CALPET SERVICE STATION
Front view of Calpet service station (Wilshire Boulevard?). Shows Art Deco Zig-zag decorative tile trim on dome (center) and on four service bays (right and left); men in attendant uniforms pose at each bay, two women wearing pantaloons, blouse, sash and boots, pose center front holding balloons. Los Angeles; ca. 1920.
Negative, no. 28,023 (4 x 5 in.)
Have 2nd copy.
Type: image
Format: Photographs.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 1 photographic print ; 8 x 10 in.
Identifier: (C)001377681CSL01-Aleph
(DRA)VVV-0907
Subject: California Petroleum Company
Automobile service stations--California--Los Angeles
Men--Clothing & dress--California--Los Angeles
Women--Clothing & dress--California--Los Angeles
Architectural elements
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Photographs
Photographic prints
Group portraits
Place: California
Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Calif.)

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