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-m2715

Identifier DW-V6-4-1 (call number), DW-V6-4-1-ISLA (filename), isla id: 3990 (identifying number), isla id: S-4331 (identifying number), whit-m2804 (legacy collection record id), whit-c170-21637 (legacy record id), whit-m2715 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 21637

Unique identifier UC12073100

Legacy Identifier DW-V6-4-1-ISLA.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.4 in × 13.4 in at 300dpi
41.7 cm × 34.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Getty -- Faces of LA, 1936-1958

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

Getty -- Faces of LA, 1936-1958

Conceptually similar

A long shot of the entrance to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

A view of City Hall and other buildings in downtown Los Angeles

Two women with a wicker shopping cart buying meat from the butcher at the Farmers Market

Los Angeles City College's administration building

The windmill sign on top of Farmers Market, with the Hollywood Hills in the distance

Looking at Farmers Market and its parking lot full of cars from the corner of Third Street and Fairfax Avenue

The Sunset Market shopping center

The Los Angeles City Hall seen from the I-110 Freeway

Palm Market, a shopping center with several stores and a service station

A corner view of the Central Manufacturing District Terminal

A corner view of Desmond's, a mens clothing store, in Westwood

A man gets his change from the woman working at the egg counter at the outdoor Farmers Market, while two young women with wicker shopping carts stand nearby