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. Three views of children licking U. S. savings stamps during World War II. The stamps led to the purchase of savings bonds to finance the war effort. On the upper right is child actor Carl Switzer, who played "Alfalfa" in the series "Our Gang."
Type
image
Format
3 photographic prints :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Switzer, Carl,--1927-1959 Savings bonds--United States Savings stamps--United States World War, 1939-1945 Child actors--United States Children--United States
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