Midget race car, Los Angeles, 1940

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Description

Photograph of a miniature auto racing car track with model cars on it and a man holding a car, Los Angeles, California, 1940 June 26. The man is obscured by two pieces of tape apparently meant to mask off part of the image, but the sign in the background is legible, reading: "Miniature Auto Racing."

Asset Metadata

Title Midget race car, Los Angeles, 1940

Subject Model car racing (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), California, Southern (region), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), USA (countries)

Temporal Subject 1940-06-26

Type images

Format 1 photograph: b&w, negative, 4x5 in., in envelope (aacr2), image/tiff (aat), negative (aat), photograph (aat)

Source Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987 (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Date Created 1940-06-26

Creator Dick Whittington Studio (photographer)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

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

Access Conditions Digitized thanks to a grant (2019-2022) from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of S...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/whit-c170-100467

Identifier Box no. C-13a (box), dw-1940-06-26-045.tif (filename), C6-26-45 1940 (identifying number), whit-c170-100467 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 100467

Unique identifier UC12184400

Legacy Identifier dw-1940-06-26-045.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 17.0 in × 21.3 in at 300dpi
43.1 cm × 54.1 cm at 300dpi

Inherited Values

Title Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

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

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