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 view of the construction of Hoover Dam (first named Boulder Dam) around 1933-1934. Workers and equipment can be seen in the camp and supply area below the dam wall, and also in the air above and on the walls to either side.
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