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Title
On the corner of South Hill Street at West Fifth Street in Downtown Los Angeles, facing the Hotel Clark
Creator
Dick Whittington Studio
Date Created and/or Issued
1939
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
On the corner of South Hill Street at West Fifth Street in Downtown Los Angeles, facing the Hotel Clark (with 555 rooms), United Cigars, Standard Watch Company, Yorktown Shirt Shops, Woolworth's, and the Subway Terminal Building. The Town Theatre is showing Gunga Din with Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks.
Streetscape. Horizontal photography.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
whit-m756
DW-B5-46-13-ISLA
http://doi.org/10.25549/whit-m756
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/DW-B5-46-13-ISLA.jpg
Subject
Gunga Din
Grant, Cary
Mclaglen, Victor
Fairbanks, Douglas
Time Period
1939
Place
34.048801,-118.251795
California
California, Southern
Downtown Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Hotel Clark
Woolworth
RKO Theater
Subway Terminal
Yorktown Shirt Shop
United Cigars
South Hill Street
West 5th Street
USA
Source
DW-B5-46-13 [Call Number]
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
isla id: S-1182; isla id: 1046 [Identifying Number]
Relation
Dick" Whittington Photography Collection, 1924-1987
whit-m1

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