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Title: Horace Heidt and Bob Crosby at Long Beach
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Morris, Ralph
Date Created and/or Issued: 1942
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: This collection includes approximately 40,000 photographs by commercial photographer Ralph Morris, who worked in the Los Angeles area from 1939-1981. His advertising and industrial clients included department stores, restaurants, the automobile and petroleum industries as well as business executives. Also included is the Luckhaus Studio collection of architecture, fashion, the movie industry, sports and street scenes, images which Morris obtained in 1939.
Couples are dancing to the big band music at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium's "Battle of Bands" concert, Horace Heidt vs. Bob Crosby, held Saturday night, April 6, 1942.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074879
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
S-008-091.2 4x5
CARL0000078327
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122809
Subject: Heidt, Horace,--1901-1986
Crosby, Bob,--1913-1993
Bob Crosby Orchestra
Municipal Auditorium (Long Beach, Calif.)
Big bands--United States
Concerts--California--Long Beach
Auditoriums--California--Long Beach
Dance--California--Long Beach
Men--California--Long Beach
Women--California--Long Beach
Long Beach (Calif.)

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