Is That a Giant Fish? The “Roadside America” of John Margolies

—This is a guest post by Zoe Herrera, an intern in the Office of Communications. It also appears in the July-August issue of the Library of Congress Magazine.

What would you have found along American roadways in the latter half of the 20th century? The answer lies in Roadside America, a collection of more than 11,000 photographs that captures the unique, odd and one-of-a-kind commercial structures that lined the country’s main streets, byways and highways in that era.

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