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Title
Inglewood oil field
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Morris, Ralph
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.
View of oil derricks in the Inglewood oil field in what is now known as Baldwin Hills. View is toward the north along Fairfax Avenue, which dead ends at Stocker Street.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00042243
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Industries-Oil-Inglewood.; S-005-161.1 4x5
CARL0000047433
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122010
Subject
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Inglewood
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Inglewood
Oil fields--California--Inglewood
Inglewood (Calif.)

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