Oil delivery to villager's home, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina, 1955. Public Deposited

Monk Garrish, brother of Esso distributor Jesse Garrish, talking to a village housewife while making oil delivery. Most villagers heat by oil during the winter months delivering oil is a full time job for Monk Garrish.

Item number

• ULPA SONJ 80743

Series

• Volume number LPFN66

Creator

• Roberts, Martha McMillan

Creator role

• photographer

Location

• Ocracoke Island (N.C.)

Subject

• Men
• Trees
• Buildings
• Houses

People represented

• Garrish, Monk

Date original

• 1955-07

Decade

• 1950s

Object type

• Safety film negatives

Source

• 5 x 7 in. b&amp
• w safety film negative. Item no. SONJ 27047 in the Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.

Collection

• Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection

Collection information

• https://archivescatalog.library.louisville.edu/resources/standard-oil-new-jersey

Repository

• University of Louisville Photographic Archives

Rights statement

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/

Ordering information

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