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Photo taken from the corner of 2nd Street and Spring Street looking towards the 2nd Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles
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Photo taken from the corner of 2nd Street and Spring Street looking towards the 2nd Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles
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Description
Photo taken from the corner of 2nd Street and Spring Street looking towards the 2nd Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles. On the corner is the United States Post Office, and in view are the Golden State Department Store, Owl Drug Company, and Civic Center and Northern Buildings. In the background, at right, the 2nd Street tunnel can be seen. Just above the tunnel entrance, the Northern Hotel (aka Hotel Northern) is visible located at 420 West 2nd Street, and on top of the hill is the pointed turret of the Dome Apartments at 201 South Grand Avenue. The 1938 and 1939 editions of the City Directory list the address of the Post Office as 201 South Spring Street. Streetscape. Horizontal photography. Note: originally, the image was captioned as, "Photo taken from the corner of Temple Street and Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles".
Asset Metadata
Title
Photo taken from the corner of 2nd Street and Spring Street looking towards the 2nd Street tunnel in downtown Los Angeles
Tags
OAI-PMH Harvest
Place
201 South Spring Street
(roadway),
California
(states),
California, Southern
(region),
Downtown Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Golden State Department Store
(manmade features),
Los Angeles
(city or populated place),
Los Angeles
(counties),
Northern Building
(manmade features),
Owl Drug Company
(manmade features),
Second Street
(roadway),
United States Post Office
(manmade features),
USA
(countries)
Temporal Subject
1939
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
1939
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-m1647
Identifier
DW-B5-48-1 (
call number
), DW-B5-48-1-ISLA (
filename
), isla id: 1981 (
identifying number
), isla id: S-2208 (
identifying number
), whit-m1 (
legacy collection record id
), whit-c170-20493 (
legacy record id
), whit-m1647 (
legacy record id
)
IIIF ID
[Document.IIIFV3ID]
DM Record ID
20493
Unique identifier
UC12077565
Legacy Identifier
DW-B5-48-1-ISLA.tiff
Type
Image
Internet Media Type
image/tiff
Resolution
12.1 in × 9.8 in at 300dpi
30.7 cm × 24.9 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
Linked assets
Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
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