ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH / mrg 00197 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00197

Wigwam Village #6, Route 66, Holbrook, Arizona

Arizona ↗Holbrook ↗1979 ↗

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Holbrook, Arizona

A motel and a borrowed image

Holbrook’s freestanding rooms expose the difference between a marketing name and a cultural form.

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THE ORIGINAL RECORD

Archive details

Photographer: Margolies, John
Photographed: 1979.
Location: United States--Arizona--Holbrook
Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Digital ID: mrg 00197 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00197
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-mrg-00197 (digital file from original color transparency)
Call number: LC-MA05- 197 [P&P]
Subjects: Motels--1970-1980.
Mimetic buildings--1970-1980.
United States--Arizona--Holbrook.
Arizona--Holbrook
Motels--1970-1980
Mimetic buildings--1970-1980
United States--Arizona--Holbrook
Margolies categories: Mimetic motels; Lodging
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: Mimetic motels; Lodging.
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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