Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Grease rack, station at South Gale Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, 1935

Grease rack, station at South Gale Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, 1935 [image]

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Grease rack, station at South Gale Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, 1935 [image]

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Photograph of grease rack at service station, South Gale Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, 1935. "[ilg]eral Repairing, Ralph Weaver; Signal Lubrication, Chek-Chart System; Tires and Batteries; Signal 'Double Checked' Lubrication, Water Pump, Wheel Bearing, Wet Clutch, Spicer Universal, Oil Type Shackles; Spark Plugs Tested Free; Men" -- signage on building. "Signal Quality Lubricants, All Purpose Lubricant, SAE; Signal Motor Oil, Signal Oil & Gas Co.; Mazda Auto Lamps; McAlleer's; Gates; Peerless" -- signage on products. "8381" -- address on building.

Asset Metadata

Title Grease rack, station at South Gale Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, 1935 [image]

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-c170-77915

Identifier DW-1935-05-20-136~01.TIF (filename), whit-c170-77915 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 77915

Unique identifier UC12213582

Legacy Identifier DW-1935-05-20-136/DW-1935-05-20-136~01.TIF

Type Image

Resolution 32.4 in × 23.1 in at 300dpi
82.5 cm × 58.6 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Grease rack, station at South Gale Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, 1935

Inherited Title Grease rack, station at South Gale Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, 1935 (title)

Description Photograph of grease rack at service station, South Gale Drive and Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA, 1935. "Subject: Grease rack, station at Gale & Wilshire, Beverly Hills; Agency: Logan & Stebbins; Client: Signal Oil Co., Barragar; Original Print Order: 1; Size: 8x10; Finish: gl[ossy]; Year: 1935; Job: 5-20-136" -- on envelope front. "Operator's Report Name: Dean; 1 -- 8x10 ext[erior]; Amount: 5.00" -- on envelope back.

Subject Barragar (personal name), Dean (personal name), Logan & Stebbins (corporate name), Mazda (corporate name), McAlleer's (corporate name), Peerless (corporate name), Service stations (lcsh), Signal Oil & Gas Co. (corporate name), Weaver, Ralph (personal name)

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

Coverage Geocoordinate 34.064829,-118.373965 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1935

Inherited Subject Barragar (personal name), Dean (personal name), Logan & Stebbins (corporate name), Mazda (corporate name), McAlleer's (corporate name), Peerless (corporate name), Service stations (lcsh), Signal Oil & Gas Co. (corporate name), Weaver, Ralph (personal 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 1935

Creator Dick Whittington Studio (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Type images, texts

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

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