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Fourth of July, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Rural filling stations become community centers and general loafing grounds. The men in the baseball suits are on a local team which will play a game nearby. They are called the Cedargrove Team (LOC)
Lange, Dorothea, photographer.
Fourth of July, near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Rural filling stations become community centers and general loafing grounds. The men in the baseball suits are on a local team which will play a game nearby. They are called the Cedargrove Team
1939 July 4.
1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller.
Notes:
Title and other information from caption card.
LOT 1497 (Location of corresponding print.)
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture
Division. Washington Division; 1944.
Published in: Baseball Americana : treasures from the Library of
Congress / Harry Katz, et al. New York : Smithsonian Books, 2009.
Subjects:
United States--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
Format: Nitrate negatives.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8b34021
Call Number: LC-USF34- 020010-E
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budderflyman (39 months ago | reply)
Filling Stations were local gathering points even into the 1960s
captainslack (39 months ago | reply)
Hell, they still are today!
Cassies grandma (39 months ago | reply)
Gas wasn't much more that that in the late 50's early 60's.
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