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Title: Thriftimart grand opening
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Morris, Ralph
Date Created and/or Issued: 1959
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.
Ribbon-cutting ceremony for the opening of the new Thriftimart supermarket in March 1959. The blond woman is Iris McCall (Sheena Queen of the Jungle).
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065302
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
L.A.-Shops and stores; S-005-878 4x5
CARL0000069344
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122904
Subject: McCall, Iris
Thriftimart
Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Grocery stores--California--Los Angeles
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Dedications--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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