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. Horace Heidt appears to be conducting a fundraiser for the war effort at the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium. Horace and members of his band, (Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights), are around a sign on the stage that reads "Horace Heidt's Minute Men and Maids for Defense". Horace is pointing to the crowd, many of whom are eagerly holding up slips of paper. The band's instruments and chairs are set up on the stage behind them.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;10 x 12 cm. Photographic prints
Heidt, Horace,--1901-1986 Municipal Auditorium (Long Beach, Calif.) Fund raising--California--Long Beach Big bands--United States Television personalities--United States Radio personalities--United States Pianists--United States Auditoriums--California--Long Beach Long Beach (Calif.)
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