Fuel up for this #ThrowbackThursday!
This week’s highlight is a 4″x6″ nitrate negative photograph taken 8/13/1937 of the Diamond Gas Station in David City, Nebraska. A one-story, flat-roofed brick building with open garage door and car inside the bay with overhead “Diamond Greasing” sign, front display window with “Diamond” stacks of oil cans and entry door with overhead “Diamond” sign, with three gas pumps in the front flanked by street lights and a display rack with “Diamond” oil cans to one side.
This image is published as part of the Boston Studio Project collection, and is owned by both them and the Thorpe Opera House Foundation. The Boston Studio Collection consists of over 68,000 negatives that record life in and around David City, Nebraska from 1893 to 1979.
See this collection and many more on the Nebraska Memories archive!
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