Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Aerial view overlooking the entrance to Newport Bay and the tip of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California

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Aerial view overlooking the entrance to Newport Bay and the tip of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California

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Aerial view overlooking the entrance to Newport Bay and the tip of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California.; Streetscape.

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Title Aerial view overlooking the entrance to Newport Bay and the tip of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach, California

Creator Dick Whittington Studio (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Date Created 1968

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place Balboa Peninsula (city or populated place), California (states), California, Southern (region), Corona del Mar (city or populated place), Newport Bay (city or populated place), Newport Beach (city or populated place), Newport Harbor (city or populated place), Orange (counties), Pacific Coast Highway (CA-1) (roadway), Seadrift Drive (roadway), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1968

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)

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-m1540

Identifier DW-87-54-RI-25 (call number), DW-87-54-RI-25-ISLA (filename), isla id: 1858 (identifying number), isla id: S-2072 (identifying number), whit-m1 (legacy collection record id), whit-c170-20391 (legacy record id), whit-m1540 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 20391

Unique identifier UC12078435

Legacy Identifier DW-87-54-RI-25-ISLA.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 10.9 in × 8.7 in at 300dpi
27.8 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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