The stage which daily brings in mail, freight, express and passengers to Pie Town, New Mexico

June 1940, printed c. 1960s

Russell Lee

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Russell Lee

Artist, American, 1903 - 1986

This is a photograph of a rural post office and gas station. The scene features an old-fashioned gas station with an adjacent wooden building marked as a U.S. Post Office. A vintage car is parked at the gas pump, with luggage and cardboard carriers on the roof and trunk. The car's appearance suggests it is a working vehicle, possibly a taxi or delivery vehicle. The building has a corrugated metal roof and visible signs like "Prince Albert" on the wall. There are barrels or containers near the gas pump. A dirt path leads around the gas station, with trees and a small shed in the background.
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Provenance

Dorothea Lange, Berkeley, CA; private collection, CA; (Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York); Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Van Nuys, CA, 3 July 2009; gift to NGA, 2016.

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Inscriptions

on verso, center stamped in black ink: PHOTOGRAPH BY / DOROTHEA LANGE / 1163 EUCLID AVENUE / BERKELEY / CALIFORNIA; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: DLA-00060-SP; bottom right, partially erased: DL-C-ILL-139

Wikidata ID

Q64169859

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