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. View 9: Grand opening of a new Signal Oil Service Station. View 10: A different Signal Oil Service Station, location unknown. View 11: Group photo of workers of the new Signal Oil Service Station. Sign on left partially reads, "Grand Opening, 5 lbs. sugar-Free....other prizes and gifts, Today."
Type
image
Format
3 photographs :b&w Photographic prints
Identifier
00057673 Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection Transportation-Automobiles-Service stations.; S-005-741.9 4x5; S-005-741.10 4x5; S-005-741.11 4x5 CARL0000060609 http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122215
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