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Title
First Annual Banquet at Hollywood Knickerbocker, Los Angeles, CA, 1940
Creator
Dick Whittington Studio
Date Created and/or Issued
1940
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
"Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
Rights Information
Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@usc.edu
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
For uses other than private, contact USC Libraries Special Collections at the e-mail given
USC Libraries Special Collections
specol@usc.edu
Description
2 photographs of men with cake at banquet, Los Angeles, CA, 1940. "Date: Friday
Time: Shoot at 7:30 PM
Meet: Mr. Reid or Mr. Shepherd
For: Frankfort distillery
At: Hollywood Knickerbocker, Lido Room
Job: Banquet of 160 men, 8x10, 1 while eating, 1 of cake being brought in, 1 of cake being cut, 1 of entire group with Comic Hats on
Deliver to: Frankfort Distillers, 727 W[est] 7th St[reet]" -- on card front. "Night: 3
Expenses: 2 men" -- on card back. "Subject: 1st Annual Banquet at Hollywood Knickerbocker
Client: Frankfort Distillers, Mr. Reid, 727 W[est] 7th St[reet]
Job: 03-22-203
Year: 1940
Classifications: Also 8x10
Original print order: Mon[day] P.M., 1 e[ach], 4 ea[ch]
Size: 8x10, 11x14
Finish: gl[ossy], dull
Mount: Center cake in #1, cut out man on left" -- on envelope front. "Photographer: Joe
Original photographs- Size: 4, 8x10
Amount: 21.50" -- on envelope back.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs: b&w, negative, 5x7 in. in envelope
B/W Safety
5x7 in.
photographs
negatives
Identifier
whit-neh-86192
DW-1940-03-22-203~01...~06
http://doi.org/10.25549/whit-m8898
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/DW-1940-03-22-203~01.jpg
Subject
Cake
Men
Frankfort Distillers
Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel
Reid
Shepherd
Joe
Time Period
1940
Place
1714 Ivar Avenue
34.102384,-118.328079
California
California, Southern
Los Angeles
USA
Source
Job 1940-003-022-203 [Identifying Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
Archive bag no. 3
Box no. 53
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