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. Four different views of digging and mining for oil shale. View 4: a jeep emerges from the oil shale mine. View 5: a jeep drives away from the oil shale mine. View 6: a man stops by the roadside to look at the mountains in front of him. View 7: another view of a man by the roadside looking at the mountains in front of him. (Photo similar to view 6.)
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