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Title
Filling car with 'Volatile Vapor', streamers from pump to sky, Southern California, 1931
Creator
Dick Whittington Studio
Date Created and/or Issued
1931
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
Photograph of 2 men and automobile at gas station, Southern California, 1931. "Subject: Filling car with 'Volatile Vapor', Streamers from pump to sky
Agency: Lord and Thomas & Logan
Client: Union Oil Co.
Original print order: 1
Size: 16x20, 5x7
Finish: gl[ossy]
Re-order: 1-
Year: 1931
Job: 12-4-46" -- on envelope front. "Operator's report: Dick.
Original photographs: 1
Size: 16x20
Amount: $20.00
Extra charges: Miss Bruce [ilg] phone #13037 Bob Freeman" -- on envelope back.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph: b&w, negative, 5x7 in. in envelope
B/W Nitrate
5x7 in.
photographs
negatives
Identifier
whit-neh-17632
DW-1931-12-04-46~01...~03
http://doi.org/10.25549/whit-m14212
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/DW-1931-12-04-46~01.jpg
Subject
Automobiles
Gasoline
Pumping machinery
Service stations
Men
Dick
Bruce
Freeman, Bob
Union Oil Co
Time Period
1931
Place
California
California, Southern
USA
Source
Job 1931-012-004-046 [Identifying Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
Archive bag no. 6
Box no. 8
image/tiff

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