Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Independent board & pumps - Wilshire Boulevard & South Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1935

Independent board & pumps - Wilshire Boulevard & South Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1935 [image 1]

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Independent board & pumps - Wilshire Boulevard & South Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1935 [image 1]

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Photograph of pumps at service station, Wilshire Boulevard & South Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1935. "Signal Gasoline, Taxes, Total; Fern Cafeteria; Free Parking; See's Candies; Pony Rides; Peerless Gasoline; Signal Ethyl Gasoline" -- signage in background. "Go, Signal, Gallon, With Tetraethyl, For Use As A Motor Fuel Only, Contains Lead (Tetraethyl); Go, Peerless Gasoline" -- signage on tanks. "Signal Quality Motor Oil" -- signage on bottles.

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Title Independent board & pumps - Wilshire Boulevard & South Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1935 [image 1]

Subject 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-c170-78367

Identifier DW-1935-11-01-05~01.TIF (filename), whit-c170-78367 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 78367

Unique identifier UC12213364

Legacy Identifier DW-1935-11-01-05/DW-1935-11-01-05~01.TIF

Type Image

Resolution 30.8 in × 22.6 in at 300dpi
78.4 cm × 57.5 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Independent board & pumps - Wilshire Boulevard & South Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1935

Inherited Title Independent board & pumps - Wilshire Boulevard & South Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1935 (title)

Description 2 photographs of Independent signboard, Wilshire Boulevard & South Sycamore Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 1935. "Subject: Independent board & pumps - Wil[shire] & Sycamore; Agency: Logan & Stebbins; Client: Signal Oil, Barrager; Original Print Order: 2 ea[ch]; Size: 8x10; Finish: gl[ossy]; Re-order: 1 ea[ch]; 8x10; Job: 11-1-5; Year: 1935" -- on envelope front. "Operator's Report Name: Beegle; 2 Original Photographs--Size: 8x10, two locations; Amount: 6.00" -- on envelope back.

Subject Barrager (personal name), Beegle (personal name), Logan & Stebbins (corporate name), See's Candies (corporate name), Service stations (lcsh), Signal Oil Co. (corporate name), Signs and signboards (lcsh)

Coverage Spatial California (states), California, Southern (region), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), South Sycamore Avenue (roadway), USA (countries), Wilshire Boulevard (roadway)

Coverage Geocoordinate 34.062206,-118.342958 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1935

Inherited Subject Barrager (personal name), Beegle (personal name), Logan & Stebbins (corporate name), See's Candies (corporate name), Service stations (lcsh), Signal Oil Co. (corporate name), Signs and signboards (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 1935

Creator Dick Whittington Studio (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images, texts

Format 2 photographs: b&w, negative, 5x7 in. in envelope (aacr2), 5x7 in. (format), B/W Nitrate (format), negatives (aat), photographs (aat)

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