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 separate pictures of meetings among theater managers--all but one unidentified. In upper left: 4 men seat, 1 standing, large picture on wall in background. In upper right: 2 to 3 rows of men seated around a long table containing microphones. In lower left: 4 men standing together for a picture--on the left is Charles Skouras of Fox Teaters. In lower right: 2 men at a table with their back to the camera ; around the rest of the table are 2 to 3 rows of men facing sideways or fully into the camera.
Type
image
Format
4 photographs :b&w Photographic prints
Identifier
00015809 Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection Theaters-Owners-Theater Owners of America.; S-005-707.5 4x5; S-005-707.6 4x5; S-005-707.7 4x5; S-005-707.8 4x5 CARL0000004375 http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122613
Subject
Skouras, Charles P.,--1889-1954 Theatre Owners of America Motion picture theater managers--California--Los Angeles Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles
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