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Charlotte, North Carolina - Gasoline truck making a delivery at a filling station March 1943 crop

Charlotte, North Carolina - Gasoline truck making a delivery at a filling station March 1943. Man with hose running to underground tank from a tank truck labeled "Gasoline - ESSO - Motor Oil". The building behind labeled "ESSO - Scott's Service". Sign painted on brick wall behind says "ESSO Dealer - care saves wear - We're here to make your car LAST". Notes: Domestic civilian production of new automobiles was suspended during World War II.

Date
1943-03
Photographer / author
John Vachon
Collection
FSA/OWI
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
photograph
Original size
11,907 × 8,769 pixels

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Reason: a US government work (Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information).

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"Charlotte, North Carolina - Gasoline truck making a delivery at a filling station March 1943 crop" (1943-03). John Vachon. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charlotte,_North_Carolina_-_Gasoline_truck_making_a_delivery_at_a_filling_station_March_1943_crop.jpg

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