Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Service station, Los Angeles, CA, 1931 [image]

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Service station, Los Angeles, CA, 1931 [image]

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Photograph of Maplewood & Western Super Service station at 480 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1931. "Body & Fender Work, Richfield & Richlube; automobile painting, body & fe[nder], Mel Meyers Service; Maplewood & Western Super Servic[e]; big discounts; simonizing; battery electrical, tire [ser]vice; chocolate clown; we serve breakfast; Landroth's, home made pies; eat; virginia baked ham; home made chili" -- building signage. "Mel Meyer's Service, Carbon Removed in 5 minutes, 75��, feel amazing new car performance; Coffee, 2 cups 5��" -- on signs. "Foster [and Klei]ser, Order Ticket [ilg], Olympic [Ga]mes, Coca-Cola" -- on billboard.

Asset Metadata

Title Service station, Los Angeles, CA, 1931 [image]

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Automobiles --Maintenance and repair (lcsh), Men (lcsh), Service stations (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

Source University of Southern California (contributing entity)

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-c170-8804

Identifier DW-1931-10-06-18~01.TIF (filename), whit-c170-8804 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 8804

Unique identifier UC12033714

Legacy Identifier DW-1931-10-06-18/DW-1931-10-06-18~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 32.3 in × 22.9 in at 300dpi
82.0 cm × 58.2 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Service station, Los Angeles, CA, 1931

Inherited Title Service station, Los Angeles, CA, 1931 (title)

Description Photograph of Maplewood & Western Super Service station at 480 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1931. "Subject: Service station; Agency: Scholtz Adv.; Client: Fuller; Original print order: 1; Size: 8x10; Finish: gloss[y]; Re-order: 1; Size: 11x14; Finish: gl[ossy]; add 18%; Year: 1931; Job: 10-6-18" -- on envelope front. "Original photographs-Size: 3, 8x10, In City, 3.00; Operator's report (Name): Joe" -- on envelope back.

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Automobiles --Maintenance and repair (lcsh), Fuller (personal name), Men (lcsh), Service stations (lcsh)

Coverage Spatial 480 North Western Avenue (roadway), California (states), California, Southern (region), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Coverage Geocoordinate 34.07974,-118.308958 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1931

Inherited Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Automobiles --Maintenance and repair (lcsh), Fuller (personal name), Men (lcsh), Service stations (lcsh)

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

Date Created 1931

Creator Carter, Joseph E. (photographer), Dick Whittington Studio (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images, texts

Format 1 photograph: b&w, negative, 5x7 in. in envelope (aacr2), 5x7 in. (format), B/W Nitrate (format), negatives (aat), photographs (aat)

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