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Service Station on Centre Avenue

August 28, 1930

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Service Station on Centre Avenue
  • Title
  • Service Station on Centre Avenue
  • Creator
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.). City Photographer
  • Date
  • August 28, 1930
  • Identifier
  • 715.3012263.CP
  • Description
  • A truck loads up at the "Crank-Case Service" station on the corner of Centre Avenue at Chauncey Street. In the Hill District, this station located at 2352 Centre Avenue sells Atlantic gasoline, motor oil and air, but was also the site of a shop that sold tombstones. Looking southwest, the Centre Avenue trolley lines are also visible. The Atlantic Refining Company was Formed from the Dissolution in 1911 by the Federal Government when it Accused the Standard Oil Company, Originally Founded in Pittsburgh in 1868, of Being a Monopoly.
  • Extent
  • 6.5 x 8.5 in.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Streets
    Service stations
    Gasoline pumps
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection, 1901-2000
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Pittsburgh City Photographer Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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