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Title: Thriftimart ground breaking
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Morris, Ralph
Date Created and/or Issued: 1958
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.
Ground breaking ceremony for the construction of Thriftimart supermarket on October 1, 1958, with an earthmoving machine behind five men who are holding a blueprint.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00065300
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
L.A.-Shops and stores; S-005-876.2 4x5
CARL0000069341
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122901
Subject: Thriftimart
Ground breaking ceremonies--California--Los Angeles
Earthmoving machinery--California--Los Angeles
Blueprints--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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