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[Automobile service station for Sinclair Oil Refining Co. Plan and elevation] / A.B.H. – Historic Reproduction

[Automobile service station for Sinclair Oil Refining Co. Plan and elevation] / A.B.H., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings — historic drawing
[Automobile service station for Sinclair Oil Refining Co. Plan and elevation] / A.B.H., And Engineering (ADE) Drawings. Historic drawing from the Automobiles collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few pictures on this board show the business side of the roadside boom as plainly as this 1946 set of plan and elevation drawings for a Sinclair Oil Refining Co. automobile service station. Done in graphite and color pencil on tracing paper, it lays out the site and the building's exterior as the company intended them to be built. After World War II, oil companies standardized station designs so their brands would be easy to spot from the highway, and Sinclair, whose green dinosaur mascot was already a familiar sight at its pumps, was one of them. The colored pencil work shows how the planners wanted the finished station to look.

Created / publishedAnd Engineering (ADE) Drawings
Medium1 drawing : graphite and color pencil on tracing paper.
Genre1946
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,126 × 5,137 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-226527

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