Exterior view of the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1949

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Photograph of an exterior view of the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1949. The large hotel can be seen in the background at center. Several large balconies can be seen on the top three stories of the building, and the name of the hotel is visible on the wall of the structure at center. A row of palm trees runs across the image from left or right, and several large cars are visible in a parking lot in front of the hotel. A wide paved road can be seen in the foreground and is bisected by a grassy median.

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Title Exterior view of the Beverly Hills Hotel, 1949

Subject Beverly Hills Hotel (subject), buildings (adlf), Hotels, taverns, etc. (lcsh), Los Angeles County -- Beverly Hills -- Architecture -- Commercial (file heading)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Beverly Hills (city or populated place), California (states), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1949

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. (aacr2), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection)

Date Created 1949

Creator Whittington, Dick (photographer)

Contributor Dick Whittington Photography (provenance)

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 Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m5427

Identifier 32752 (accession number), CHS-32752 (call number), CHS-32752 (filename), chs-m15009 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-25951 (legacy record id), chs-m5427 (legacy record id), USC-3-1-1-5540 (legacy record id), 04-49-03 (microfiche number), USC (project)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 25951

Unique identifier UC129647

Legacy Identifier CHS-32752.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 19.8 in × 16.1 in at 300dpi
50.5 cm × 41.0 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960

Description The California Historical Society Collection is incomparable for the documentary picture it provides of the growth of Southern California, particularly the development of the Los Angeles region, between 1860 and 1960. The collection contains more than 25,000 photographs. The full archive was placed on long-term deposit at USC in 1990 and includes the Title Insurance and Trust Company Collection, also known as TICOR, and the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Collection.

We are grateful to the following individuals who have improved the information in the Digital Library by bringing inaccuracies to our attention as well as adding information. C.J. Bell, Paul Boyle, James Cartwright, Phil Coscia, Bill Counter, Richard Davis, Ray DeLea, Mark French, Amanda Frye, Eric Gustafson, James King, Bill Morgan, Heather Pitts, Tim Poyorena-Miguel, Jo Anne Sadler, Ellen Lloyd Trover, Ruth Wallach, Kim Walters, Cynthia Wilson, Betsy Woodford, Chancy Woolridge, and many others.

Date Created 1860/1960

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