ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH / mrg 00109 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00109

Modern Diner, diagonal front detail, Dexter Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Rhode Island ↗Pawtucket ↗1978 ↗

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Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Built to Look in Motion

Pawtucket’s Modern Diner gave a stationary restaurant the visual energy of a streamlined vehicle.

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THE ORIGINAL RECORD

Archive details

Photographer: Margolies, John
Photographed: 1978.
Location: United States--Rhode Island--Pawtucket
Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Digital ID: mrg 00109 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00109
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-mrg-00109 (digital file from original color transparency)
Call number: LC-MA05- 109 [P&P]
Subjects: Diners (Restaurants)--1970-1980.
United States--Rhode Island--Pawtucket.
Rhode Island--Pawtucket
Diners (Restaurants)--1970-1980
United States--Rhode Island--Pawtucket
Margolies categories: Diners; Eating & drinking establishments: (roadside and Main Street)
Rights advisory — Library of Congress: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Rights & attribution ↗
Original catalog notes: Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Diners; Eating & drinking establishments: (roadside and Main Street).
Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Source: Library of Congress record ↗ · Image resource ↗
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