Dome Gas Station at Takoma Park
A Library of Congress photo tells many early automobile tales.
Picturing history, images in the Library of Congress digital collection offer rare insights into the early U.S. petroleum industry.
Details found in just one 1921 black-and-white photograph of a Washington, D.C., suburb capture a scene of petroleum products and transportation infrastructure two decades after the first U.S. auto show. Originally printed from an eight-inch by six-inch glass negative, the Library of Congress image features Takoma Park, Maryland, and its railroad station on the northeastern border of the District of Columbia.
