ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH / mrg 01435 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01435

Roy's Motel sign, Route 66, Amboy, California

California ↗Amboy ↗1991 ↗

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Amboy, California

A name scaled for the desert

Roy’s roadside identity joins a family business to the act of being seen from Route 66.

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THE ORIGINAL RECORD

Archive details

Photographer: Margolies, John
Photographed: 1991.
Location: United States--California--Amboy
Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Digital ID: mrg 01435 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01435
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-mrg-01435 (digital file from original color transparency)
Call number: LC-MA05- 1435 [P&P]
Subjects: Motels--1990-2000.
Signs (Notices)--1990-2000.
United States--California--Amboy.
California--Amboy
Motels--1990-2000
Signs (Notices)--1990-2000
United States--California--Amboy
Margolies categories: Not recorded
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 category: Motel signs.
Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-3).
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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