verso top in ink: Panell 5-px 2[circled] 78775; bottom edge left to right in pencil: Mano, Denmark 385 (a) SONJ / # 78775; under typed paper label in pencil: 78775

not signed

Verso center a stamp in red:PLEASE CREDIT / STANDARD OIL CO. (N.J.);lower right a stamp in red:PLEASE RETURN UNUSED PHOTOS TO / STANDARD OIL CO. (N.J.) / PUBLIC RELATIONS DEPT. / 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA / NEW YORK, 20, NEW YORK;
center a typed paper label: Denmark / 78775 Monthly deliveries of Esso fuel oil, gasoline and kerosene / are made to the island of Mano, four miles offf the coast / of Jutland, by a tank truck from the storage plant at / Esbjerg. During ebb tide the sea between Mano and the / mainland is low enough so that the loaded truck can cross / in about half an hour following a track marked by dead / by dead trees pushed into the sandy bottom. After each / trip the truck is washed thoroughly to prevent salt water / corrosion. Fuel oil is pumped into underground tanks at / the dairy, gas and kerosene are delivered in metal / containers. A view of the truck making its island rounds.