Saturday, July 4, 2009

July 4, 1939



["A Fourth of July celebration, St. Helena Island, S.C." Photograph by Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990). Click for a larger view.]

Look carefully and you'll see two Texaco stars below the forty-eight stars of the American flag.

The Library of Congress has made this photograph available via Flickr.

Related reading
Marion Post Wolcott (Wikipedia)
The Photography of Marion Post Wolcott (University of Virginia)
Saint Helena Island (South Carolina) (Wikipedia)

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