For decades, locally brewed Eastside was one of Los Angeles’ favorite beers. Learn more about the city’s forgotten brewing history via L.A. as Subject’s latest CityDig post for Los Angeles magazine.

(1935 photo part of the Dick Whittington Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library)

Would you send your loved one a “Valentine’s Day Brick”? In 1930, the Dick Whittington Studio photographed this ice cream novelty for the Green Lantern Soda Fountain.

This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. More information on that project: http://bit.ly/nehwhittington

Composite photo produced by the Dick Whittington Studio for the White Truck Co. in 1929. The truck and men in the foreground were superimposed on the background image of a burning oil well. 

This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. 

Commercial photograph created for the Graf Zeppelin’s historic 1929 round-the-world flight, which was partly funded by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in exchange for media coverage rights.

This is one of more than 30,000 photos from our “Dick” Whittington Collection that we’ve recently digitized with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.