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Title: Live better electrically
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Morris & Associates
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.
A window display with a simple message spelled out in big letters on the wall "LIVE BETTER ELECTRICALLY". A few flowers are displayed on each end and below the sign, along with other smaller logos of the electric company.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00009607
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Industries-Water and Power.
CARL0000011355
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122286
Subject: Los Angeles (Calif.).--Department of Water and Power
Electric utilities--California--Los Angeles
Advertising--Electric household appliances
Morris, Ralph

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