Selected greasing stations, Southern California, 1931 [image 2]

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Title Selected greasing stations, Southern California, 1931 [image 2]

Description Photograph of greasing station, Southern California, 1931. "Motor Oils-only nationally advertised brands; Mobiloil motor oil, gargoyle mobiloil 'BB'; Lead base steering worm lubricant; Hyvis Motor Oil super refined pure Pennsylvania permit No. 4 guarantee 100% pure Pennsylvania oil; Quaker State Oil trademark reg. U.S. [ilg] guaranteed 100% pure Pennsylvania Oil permit the original certified Pennsylvania oil; Universal joint lubricant; Supreme quality Pennzoil motor oils and lubricants; Ri[ilg] Mot[or]" -- on signs. "Supreme Pennsylvania quality Pennzoil" -- on can. "Afemite" -- on machine. "Certified battery filling service, for your protection we use only Puritas distilled water" -- on sign on gauge. "Pints Pennzoil transmission differential lubricants, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11" -- on gauges. "Alert fire extinguisher, to start turn bottom [ilg]" -- on fire extinguisher.

Subject Lubricating oils (lcsh), Service stations (lcsh)

Tags oai:digitallibrary.usc.edu:whittington,OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

Source University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Access Conditions Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/whit-c170-15500

Identifier DW-1931-05-25-154~02.TIF (filename), whit-c170-15500 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15500

Unique identifier UC12056938

Legacy Identifier DW-1931-05-25-154/DW-1931-05-25-154~02.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 23.0 in × 32.1 in at 300dpi
58.4 cm × 81.6 cm at 300dpi

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Title Selected greasing stations, Southern California, 1931

Inherited Title Selected greasing stations, Southern California, 1931 (title)

Description 5 photographs of greasing stations and service stations, Southern California, 1931. "Subject: Selected Greasing Stations; Client: Pennzoil; Original print order: 2 ea[ch]; Size: 8x10; Finish: gl[ossy]; Re-order: 1 ea[ch] #1, 5; Year: 1931; Job: 5-25-154" -- on envelope front. "Operator's report: Frank; Original photographs: 5; Size: 8x10; Hours: 3, @2.00; Amount: 5.00, 6.00; Extra charges: Fonda" -- on envelope back.

Subject Fonda (personal name), Frank (personal name), Grey-Rock (corporate name), HyVis Motor Oil (corporate name), Lubricating oils (lcsh), Men (lcsh), Mobiloil (corporate name), Pennzoil (corporate name), Quaker State Oil (corporate name), Red Dot (corporate name), Richlube Motor Oil (corporate name), Rio Grand of Hollywood Maintainence (corporate name), Roy D. Ferguson (corporate name), Service stations (lcsh), Tom Penn (corporate name), Veedol (corporate name)

Coverage Spatial California (states), California, Southern (region), USA (countries)

Coverage Temporal 1931

Inherited Subject Fonda (personal name), Frank (personal name), Grey-Rock (corporate name), HyVis Motor Oil (corporate name), Lubricating oils (lcsh), Men (lcsh), Mobiloil (corporate name), Pennzoil (corporate name), Quaker State Oil (corporate name), Red Dot (corporate name), Richlube Motor Oil (corporate name), Rio Grand of Hollywood Maintainence (corporate name), Roy D. Ferguson (corporate name), Service stations (lcsh), Tom Penn (corporate name), Veedol (corporate name)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu

Date Created 1931

Creator Dick Whittington Studio (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images, texts

Format 5 photographs: b&w, negative, 5x7 in. in envelope (aacr2), 5x7 in. (format), B/W Nitrate (format), negatives (aat), photographs (aat)

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