Dick Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987

Signal Oil station, West 15th Street and South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1933

Signal Oil station, West 15th Street and South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1933 [image]

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Photograph of automobile and worker at service station, Los Angeles, CA, 1933. "Mo[ilg], Da[ilg]; Holl's, [ilg], battery; stop your motor, no smoking; Lee De[ilg], Guar[anteed] [ilg], again[s]t [ilg] road haza[r]ds" -- signage on buildings. "Go, Signal Gasoline, Stops 98% of knocks" -- on gas pumps. "[ilg]ee quality, [ilg]ail order prices, [ilg]ar guaranty" -- on sign. "[ilg] 04, [19 Califo]rnia 33" -- on license plate. "['Dick' Whittingt]on, [ilg] Photographer" -- on spare tire.

Asset Metadata

Title Signal Oil station, West 15th Street and South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1933 [image]

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Men (lcsh), Service stations (lcsh)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

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-c170-45058

Identifier DW-1933-07-21-145~01.TIF (filename), whit-c170-45058 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 45058

Unique identifier UC12117827

Legacy Identifier DW-1933-07-21-145/DW-1933-07-21-145~01.TIF

Type Image

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

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Title Signal Oil station, West 15th Street and South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1933

Inherited Title Signal Oil station, West 15th Street and South Broadway, Los Angeles, CA, 1933 (title)

Description Photograph of automobile and worker at service station, Los Angeles, CA, 1933. "Subject: Signal Oil Station, 15th and B[roa]dway, See 8x10 neg[ative] also; Agency: Logan and Stebbins; Client: Signal Oil Co[mpany], Sears; Original Print Order: 3 ea[ch]; Size: 8x10; Finish: gl[ossy]; Job: 7-21-145; Year: 1933" -- on envelope front. "Operator's Report Name: Dean; 2 Original Photographs-Size: 8x10; Amount: 4.50; Extra Charges: Sears" -- on envelope back.

Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Dean (personal name), Logan and Stebbins (corporate name), Men (lcsh), Sears (personal name), Service stations (lcsh), Signal Oil Company (corporate name)

Coverage Spatial California (states), California, Southern (region), Los Angeles (city or populated place), Los Angeles (counties), South Broadway (roadway), USA (countries), West 15th Street (roadway)

Coverage Geocoordinate 34.034897,-118.263007 (point)

Coverage Temporal 1933

Inherited Subject Automobiles (lcsh), Dean (personal name), Logan and Stebbins (corporate name), Men (lcsh), Sears (personal name), Service stations (lcsh), Signal Oil Company (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 1933

Creator 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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