Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Aerial view over Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street looking east towards Barnsdall Park (4800 Hollywood Boulevard) in Los Feliz

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Aerial view over Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street looking east towards Barnsdall Park (4800 Hollywood Boulevard) in Los Feliz

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Aerial view over Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street looking east towards Barnsdall Park (4800 Hollywood Boulevard) in Los Feliz.; Streetscape. Oblique aerial photography.

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Title Aerial view over Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street looking east towards Barnsdall Park (4800 Hollywood Boulevard) in Los Feliz

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Barnsdall Park (city or populated place), California (states), California, Southern (region), Hancock Park (city or populated place), Hollywood (city or populated place), Hollywood Boulevard (roadway), Los Angeles (counties), Los Feliz (city or populated place), USA (countries), Vine Street (roadway)

Geocoordinate 34.101669,-118.326682 (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-m588

Identifier DW-X12-30-8 (call number), DW-X12-30-8-ISLA (filename), isla id: 784 (identifying number), isla id: S-900 (identifying number), whit-m1 (legacy collection record id), whit-c170-22010 (legacy record id), whit-m588 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 22010

Unique identifier UC12074060

Legacy Identifier DW-X12-30-8-ISLA.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 10.8 in × 8.8 in at 300dpi
27.6 cm × 22.3 cm at 300dpi

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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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