Editing Dick Whittington (photographer) (section)

==Career==
Whittington founded the ''Dick Whittington Studio.'' <ref name="Archival Outlook 2022-07">{{cite web |last1=Cunningham |first1=William |title=Preserving Endangered Visual History in the Dick Whittington Collection |url=https://mydigitalpublication.com/article/Preserving+Endangered+Visual+History+in+the+Dick+Whittington+Collection/4308036/753409/article.html |website=[[Archival Outlook]] |publisher=[[Society of American Archivists]] |date=2022-07-12}}</ref>

<blockquote>"The "Dick" Whittington Studio was the largest and finest photography studio in the Los Angeles area from 1924 to 1987."<ref name="sfvnewsportal/223637">{{cite news |title=Photographic History of Los Angeles Online |url=https://sfvnewsportal.town.news/g/los-angeles-ca/n/223637/photographic-history-los-angeles-online |access-date=18 November 2023 |work=San Fernando Valley News Portal |date=5 November 2023 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>

Among Whittington's innovations were the setting up of a mobile laboratory, that made it possible to transmit photographs from a Rose Bowl football game directly to newspapers and wire services. He captured many images of the 1932 summer Olympics, and of the early air races at Mines Field, which is now [[Los Angeles International Airport]]. Over his sixty-year career, Whittington and his staff created many millions of negatives; these are now archived at [[California State University, Long Beach]], and the [[Huntington Library]] in San Marino.