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. This is the seat of one of the most highly respected Reform congregations, founded in 1862 as Congregation B'nai B'rith. Designed in the Byzantine Revival style by architects A.M. Edelman, S. Tilden Norton, and David C. Allison, this Temple was dedicated in 1929. Its richly ornamental interior features black marble, gold inlay, fine mosaics, rare woods, and Biblically-themed murals created by art director Hugo Ballin. The Temple was entered in the United States Register of Historic Places in 1984. Exterior view of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple, located at 3663 Wilshire Boulevard.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :color ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Wilshire Boulevard Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.) Synagogues--California--Los Angeles Domes--California--Los Angeles Byzantine revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Streets--California--Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Edelman, A.M Norton, S. Tilden Allison, David C Ballin, Hugo,1879-1956
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