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Motor Oil Collection

Background imageMotor Oil Collection: On the move, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

On the move, Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On the move. Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma

Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Drought refugees in Phoenix, Arizona. One of the many cases of Tennessee ex-farmers drifting around, looking for work in cotton

Background imageMotor Oil Collection: Part of family arrived the night before...near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939

Part of family arrived the night before...near Holtville, Imperial Valley, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Part of family arrived the night before from Rockwell, Texas. Picked their way across the country. Encamped on the river bottom. Near Holtville. Imperial Valley, California

Background imageMotor Oil Collection: Crossroads store, Sprott, Alabama, 1935 or 1936. Creator: Walker Evans

Crossroads store, Sprott, Alabama, 1935 or 1936. Creator: Walker Evans
Crossroads store. Sprott, Alabama. [U.S post office, with signs advertising Arcadian nitrate of soda; Coca-Cola; Granger rough cut tobacco; Pan-Am motor oil and orange gasoline]

Background imageMotor Oil Collection: Exhibition at a Ford dealers in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964

Exhibition at a Ford dealers in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. A photograph showing Amocos range of Vigzol motor oils on a display stand on the right hand side of the photograph

Background imageMotor Oil Collection: Exhibition stand for Vigzol Oil from Amoco, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist

Exhibition stand for Vigzol Oil from Amoco, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964. Artist
Exhibition stand for Vigzol Oil from Amoco, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 1964

Background imageMotor Oil Collection: Advertisement for Yacco motor oil, c1937

Advertisement for Yacco motor oil, c1937. Poster featuring a world record-breaking Matford car driven by an all-woman team at the Montlhery motor racing cicuit near Paris in May 1937

Background imageMotor Oil Collection: Advertisement for Yacco motor oil, 1936

Advertisement for Yacco motor oil, 1936. A motorcycle and sidecar that completed the journey from Budapest to Paris in under 24 hours, quicker than the Orient Express

Background imageMotor Oil Collection: Malcolm Campbell breaks world land speed record, 19 February 1928

Malcolm Campbell breaks world land speed record, 19 February 1928. Castrol motor oils and lubricants advertisement: Captain Malcolm Campbell breaks Worlds Record at 206.95 Miles per Hour


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