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Aerial view looking east down Melrose Avenue from La Brea Avenue
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Aerial view looking east down Melrose Avenue from La Brea Avenue
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Description
Aerial view looking east down Melrose Avenue from La Brea Avenue.; Streetscape. Oblique aerial photography.
Asset Metadata
Title
Aerial view looking east down Melrose Avenue from La Brea Avenue
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
California
(states),
California, Southern
(region),
Hancock Park
(city or populated place),
Highland Avenue
(roadway),
Hollywood
(city or populated place),
Hollywood Memorial Park
(manmade features),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Melrose Avenue
(roadway),
Paramount Studios
(manmade features),
USA
(countries),
Wilshire Country Club
(manmade features)
Geocoordinate
34.083517,-118.338559 (
point
)
Temporal Subject
1938
Type
images
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
(aacr2),
photographic prints
(aat),
photographs
(aat)
Source
Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
(collection),
University of Southern California
(contributing entity)
Date Created
1938
Creator
Dick Whittington Studio
(photographer)
Publisher
University of Southern California. Libraries
(digital)
Repository Email
specol@lib.usc.edu
Repository Name
USC Libraries Special Collections
Repository Location
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
Rights
For uses other than private, please contact the USC Digital Library at cisadmin@lib.usc.edu
Access Conditions
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Permanent Link (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.25549/whit-m587
Identifier
DW-X12-30-5 (
call number
), DW-X12-30-5-ISLA (
filename
), isla id: 783 (
identifying number
), isla id: S-899 (
identifying number
), whit-m1 (
legacy collection record id
), whit-c170-22009 (
legacy record id
), whit-m587 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
22009
Unique identifier
UC12073957
Legacy Identifier
DW-X12-30-5-ISLA.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
10.8 in × 8.7 in at 300dpi
27.6 cm × 22.1 cm at 300dpi
Inherited Values
Title
Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
Description
The "Dick" Whittington Studio was the largest and finest photography studio in the Los Angeles area from 1924 to 1987. Specializing in commercial photography, the Whittington Studio took photographs for nearly every major business and organization in Los Angeles; in so doing, they documented the growth and commercial development of Los Angeles. Clients included Max Factor, the Broadway, Bullock's, and May Co. department stores, the California Fruit Growers Association, Signal Oil, Shell Oil, Union Oil, Van de Kamp's bakeries, Forest Lawn, Sparkletts Water, CBS, Don Lee Television, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, real estate developers, construction companies, automobile, aircraft, and railroad companies, and drive-in theaters. Another notable client was the University of Southern California, which contracted with the Whittington Studios for coverage of athletic and other events. The collection consists primarily of roughly 500,000 negatives; the rest are photoprints.
Supporters
The collection is only partially digitized, but thanks to the generous help of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the USC Libraries has digitized 76,645 at-risk negatives in obsolete formats from the 1920s to 1940s.
Coverage Temporal
1924/1987
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Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
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