Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Shell station at Wilshire Boulevard & Wetherly Drive, northwest corner, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931

Shell station at Wilshire Boulevard & Wetherly Drive, northwest corner, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931 [image 3]

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Shell station at Wilshire Boulevard & Wetherly Drive, northwest corner, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931 [image 3]

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Photograph of exterior of Shell service station with men and automobiles, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931. "[ilg]genie, [ilg]afe, [ilg]ench, [ilg]ners [ilg]ch style, [ilg]0, [ilg]ches, [ilg]0, [ilg] ays only; Real Estate E[ilg], Jack Koerner [Company] Realtors, We match your trades; Shell 400, Shell Motor Oil" -- building sign. "Shell Service Inc.; Lubrication, Washing, Tires, Batteries" -- on service station. ""Van Duck, Travel Information" -- on sign. "8V1185" -- on license plate. "The V& D System of Lubrication" -- on sign. "Heavy Traffic Prohibited, [ilg]" -- on street sign. "Wetherly Dr[ive] 100 Bl[oc]k N[orth]" -- address on street curb.

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Title Shell station at Wilshire Boulevard & Wetherly Drive, northwest corner, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931 [image 3]

Subject Automobiles (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-c170-15695

Identifier DW-1931-09-16-102~03.TIF (filename), whit-c170-15695 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 15695

Unique identifier UC12065803

Legacy Identifier DW-1931-09-16-102/DW-1931-09-16-102~03.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 32.3 in × 22.9 in at 300dpi
82.0 cm × 58.3 cm at 300dpi

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Title Shell station at Wilshire Boulevard & Wetherly Drive, northwest corner, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931

Inherited Title Shell station at Wilshire Boulevard & Wetherly Drive, northwest corner, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931 (title)

Description 3 photographs of exterior of Shell service station, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931. "Subject: Shell station at Wilshire & Wetherly Dr[ive], n[orth]w[est] corner; Agency: J Walter Thompson Co.; Client: Shell Oil Co.; Year: 1931; Job: 9-16-102" -- on envelope front. "Operator's Report: Frank; Original Photographs: 3 8x10; Amount: 5.00; Extra Charges: Ecternach" -- on envelope back.

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Ecternach (personal name), Frank (personal name), J. Walter Thompson Co. (corporate name), Jack Koerner Company Realtors (corporate name), Men (lcsh), Service stations (lcsh), Shell Oil Co. (corporate name), Van Duck (corporate name)

Coverage Spatial Beverly Hills (city or populated place), California (states), California, Southern (region), Los Angeles (counties), North Wetherly Drive (roadway), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Coverage Geocoordinate 34.067232,-118.388879 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1931

Inherited Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Ecternach (personal name), Frank (personal name), J. Walter Thompson Co. (corporate name), Jack Koerner Company Realtors (corporate name), Men (lcsh), Service stations (lcsh), Shell Oil Co. (corporate name), Van Duck (corporate name)

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 Dick Whittington Studio (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images, texts

Format 3 photographs: b&w, negative, 5x7 in. in envelope (aacr2), 5x7 in. (format), B/W Nitrate (format), negatives (aat), photographs (aat)

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