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John Margolies Roadside America Archive

11,700 free photos of teapot gas stations and doughnut-shaped shops

John Margolies Roadside America Archive

Art historian John Margolies spent four decades touring America’s back highways with a Guggenheim grant, photographing the country’s most joyfully impractical architecture before it vanished — gas stations shaped like teapots, restaurants shaped like doughnuts and fish, mini-golf courses, theme motels. The Library of Congress now hosts 11,700 of his images free to download, use, and remix, no permission required.

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