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Metadata
Title |
Mercer's Garage customers, Wellsboro / Union Mills, Indiana, circa 1955 |
Catalog Number |
ia-0521-0012 |
Description |
Men wearing women's hats pose in front of Mercer's Garage. Nothing is written on the back. The print is stamped "E59142 Polaroid." Anna L. (Nelson) Mercer photographed many of the station's customers in the summer of 1948 before she and her husband Marion G. Mercer traded their gas station for one in Kentucky (but returned after just three months). She wanted to record the faces of their community before they moved. [This Polaroid was probably taken later than 1948.] The men were identified by a local resident as Marion Mercer and Benno "Fido" Bargholz. The Mobil Oil station was owned and operated by the Mercers from 1945 until 1978, then operated by their daughter and son-in-law Brenda and Byron Ward until it closed in 1995. The station was located on the southwest corner of Hamilton Street and Long Lane in Wellsboro (which later shared a post office with Union Mills). The station still stands on the site as of May 2024. |
Geographic Location |
7676 Long Lane, Union Mills, LaPorte County, Indiana, United States |
Subjects |
Automobile service stations Automobiles Wellsboro (Ind.) Union Mills (Ind.) LaPorte County (Ind.) |
Date of Original |
1955, circa |
Year Range Begin |
1955 |
Year Range End |
1956 |
Creator (Photographer, Author, etc.) |
Mercer, Annie L. (Nelson), 1921-1977 |
Process |
Photographic prints |
Format |
Snapshots |
Type |
Still Image |
Collection Name |
Brenda Ward Collection |
Copyright |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Catalog date |
2024-05-10 |