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How Much Then? — Historical Gas Prices in Photographs
An interactive archive of gasoline-price photographs that lets you move through more than a century of pump prices and compare them with U.S. averages.
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- People curious about prices, photographs, and everyday history
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- The timeline pairs photographed prices with U.S. annual averages and links source material to the Library of Congress.
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The archive combines photographed station signs with a long chronological price series, allowing a reader to inspect both a specific place and broader U.S. averages. Its source treatment names the National Photo Company and links to Library of Congress material marked as having no known restrictions. The extracted page also records a limitation in the interface: some dates have no nearby photograph and fall back to the nearest available image.
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