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 young girl is approaching the Astronomers Monument, a sculpture by Archibald Garner, George Stanley, Gordon Newell, Roger Noble Burnham, and Arnold Foerester. Around the base of the monument are the likenesses of 6 astronomers: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton and Herschel. On the hills in the background you can see the 'Hollywood' sign.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w. ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Griffith Observatory Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, Calif.) Observatories--California--Los Angeles Girls--California--Los Angeles Astronomers--Statues--California--Los Angeles Sculpture--California--Los Angeles Mountains--California, Southern Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Garner, Archibald Stanley, George Burnham, Roger Noble,1876-1962 Foerester, Arnold Newell, Gordon(Blair Gordon)
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