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Title
Petroleum test lab, views 12-13
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Morris, Ralph
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.
Dr. Clemenshaw's petroleum test lab. Two different views. View 12: a young man operates and monitor's lab equipment. View 13: two men stand next to a long truck. Sign on the door of the truck reads, "Ethyl Gasoline Corporation."
Type
Image
Format
2 photographs:b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00037694
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Industries-Oil.; S-007-935.12 4x5; S-007-935.13 4x5
CARL0000040962
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/121980
Subject
Ethyl Corporation
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum industry and trade--California--Los Angeles
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Testing laboratories

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