Little Falls by John Collier Jr., 1941 Author Teijiro Tamura

Teijiro Tamura

It continues to astound me how intensely garish and saturated colours are in the 1940s

and counter-cultural luminaries - everyone from Nikita Khrushchev to Gamal Abdel Nasser

as well as looking for good examples of period blue shirts

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Little Falls by John Collier Jr., 1941 Author Teijiro TamuraABOUT THIS PHOTOGRAPH Collier's brilliant shot captures a car transport from the Eastern Auto Forwarding Co. from Buffalo, New York stopping over to fill up for gas. To the left of the Dodge COE (Cab Over Engine) truck in Eastern's distinctive livery is a Wayne 60 Series gas pump rolled out during the early 1930s, characterised by its arched top detail over the dispenser dials. The main pump on the right is a Bowser 575, a newer generation of