Bullock’s Department Store Collection of Photographs 1905-1971 (bulk 1912-1945)

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Bullock’s Department Store Collection of Photographs 1905-1971 (bulk 1912-1945)

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The Bullock's Department Store Collection consists of 680 photographs, 2 boxes of ephemera related to Bullock's publicity and events, and 29 glass plate negatives, 1905-1971 (bulk 1912-1945). It focuses primarily on the retail spaces, displays, departments, and employees at the downtown Los Angeles store once located at Broadway, 7th, and Hill Streets. The photographs document the various functions associated with the store including the full range of departments; window displays; store merchandising; employee activities and gatherings; children’s parties and parades; advertising billboards; the August sales event and crowds; and construction scenes from 1912 and 1928. Photographers include Warren Bowen Studios; Brown and Warrington; duBois Photo Co.; Frank C. Elliott; Jim England; Graham Photo; Keystone Photo; J.C. Milligan; Ernest Pratt; Otto Rothschild; Stagg Photography; Art Streib; "Dick" Whittington Studio; Whitland Locke Commercial Photography; and Witzel Photo.

15.38 linear feet,; 15 boxes

eng,

The Huntington Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6649904

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Bullock's Wilshire (Department store)

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Graham Photo Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Rothschild, Otto

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Biography Rothschild was a Los Angeles commercial photographer; he also served as the official performing arts photographer for the Los Angeles Music Center, Hollywood Bowl, and Philharmonic. From the guide to the Otto Rothschild Photographic Archive, 1930-1981, (University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Dept. of Special Collections.) ...

Pratt, Ernest Mitchell, 1876-1945.

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Pratt was born in Salt Lake City, UT, Apr. 24, 1876; was a commercial photographer and CA pictorialist; shared a studio with Viroque Baker in Olvera Street, Los Angeles, CA (ca. 1929-32); died in LA, Aug. 23, 1945. From the description of Collection of photographs, ca. 1920-1940. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41570352 Mark Daniels was a Southern California architect who designed stately homes and gardens in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles and v...

Dick Whittington Studio

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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, Uni...

Whitland Locke Commercial Photography

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Elliott, Frank C.

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Milligan, J. C.

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Keystone Photo Service

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England, Jim

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Bullock's (Department store)

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Founded by John G. Bullock in Los Angeles, Calif. From the description of Advertising scrapbook, 1921-1927. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 53905916 The original Bullock's Department Store was designed by the architectural firm of Parkinson & Bergstrom and opened March 1907 at 639-657 South Broadway in Los Angeles. Bullock's Inc. eventually opened a second store on Wilshire Boulevard (1929) as well as stores in Westwood Village (1932), Pasadena (1947) and ...

Brown and Warrington.

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Witzel Photo

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Warren Bowen Studios.

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Stagg Photographers (Los Angeles, Calif.).

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Dubois Photo Company.

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Streib, Art

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