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Gas station, van parked out front
Gas station, van parked out front
Object Number 2001.29.7571
Display Title Gas station, van parked out front
Descriptions
Department Photographic
Date 1961
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Africa / Namibia / Khomas
Additional Geographic Terms Between Windhoek and Walvis Bay, below Weissenfels
Materials slide, 35mm
Quantity 1
Provenance
Donor Lorna Marshall
Donor John Marshall

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Image Not Available for "The 'Door to Hell' is a 70-meter-wide, noxious gas-emitting crater created in 1971 when Soviet geologists were drilling in the desert and the ground gave way. It was ignited and has been ablaze ever since. Darvaza, Turkmenistan, 2012"
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