Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1994.558.0262Description
5X7, Feb., 1949, Ideal Motel, Texaco Station with cars and trucks.
Update 2008: Black and white print of Spruce Street between 15th and 16th during the blizzard of 1949. Photo shows deep snowy roadbed with piles of snow on the right side of road. A big truck with tarp covered load in back is seen top left with several other vehicles . A black car with wheel on back trunk is seen at Motel sign. Signs on roadway edge: Motel-Ideal, Texaco, Look Sign attached to light pole. The art deco styled Ideal Motel is on far right.
Photo is in good shape. It has staple holes on all four corners. Slight soiling top and bottom of print and on edges. Print has cracking of emulsion on photo top and bottom edges. there are scratches in emulsion and tiny prick marks throughout photo surface. Slight wrinkles on photo edges.
Written on back in pencil: Feb. 1949, between 15th and 16th on Spruce Street.Collection
Photograph Collection