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Bullock's Department Store Collection of Photographs
Glass Plate Negatives
Volume 12 (Glass plate negatives, 16-29)
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Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: undated
Call number: photCL 401
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Provenance

Gift of Ted Stiner, 1996.

Associated people

Elliott, Frank C.

England, Jim

Milligan, J. C.

Pratt, Ernest Mitchell,

Rothschild, Otto.

Streib, Art.

Associated organizations

Brown & Warrington,

Dick Whittington Studio,

Du Bois Photo Company,

Graham Photo Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.),

Keystone Photo Service,

Stagg Photo Service,

Warren Bowen Studios,

Whitland Locke Commercial Photography,

Witzel Photo,

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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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