Bullock's Department Store Collection of Photographs [graphic], 1905-1971 (bulk 1912-1945)

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Bullock's Department Store Collection of Photographs [graphic], 1905-1971 (bulk 1912-1945)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123408386

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. 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 boxes (15.38 linear feet)

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6812949

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England, Jim

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Milligan, J. C.

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Keystone Photo Service

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Streib, Art

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Witzel Photo

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Dubois Photo Company.

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Pratt, Ernest Mitchell.

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Rothschild, Otto

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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 description of Photographic archive, 1930-1981. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 41578265 ...

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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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 & Warrington.

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Warren Bowen Studios.

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Graham Photo Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Elliott, Frank E.

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Stagg Photographers (Los Angeles, Calif.).

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Bullock's Wilshire (Department store)

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