It is 1944 in the oil fields of southern Louisiana. A woman stands at the stove in the kitchen of her home while her daughter Anna plays with Esso, the family’s cat, at the kitchen table (figure 1). The caption of the photograph identifies the woman simply as “Mrs. Moseley,” and she appears to be making coffee or tea at a stove that has been retrofitted with a gas range. The calendar on the wall displays the amiable face of a dog. The cat, Esso, is named after an oil company mascot who would later appear in advertisements as a much larger feline admonishing drivers to “put a tiger in your tank.”1
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