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San Marino, CA 91108
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Image of an eye-level landscape view of the A. Whitney & Sons Car Wheel Works factory building and smokestacks in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with an empty street in the foreground except for a few pedestrians, in the upper half of the sheet; the lower half of the sheet contains an image of an elevation view of the side of a steam locomotive, with a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement and tender, showing a cross section of a railway turntable underneath the tracks with promotional text for William Sellers & Co.; the verso contains a page of printed text titled "The State of Rhode Island."
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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. 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.
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