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. A group of young people enjoying one of several summer activities that took place at an unidentified beach in Southern California. View 4: Eight beach beauties clad in bathing suits and holding hands, are shown running and leaping side-by-side next to the sudsy tide at this unidentified beach in Southern California. A young man stands in the sidelines admiring these lovely ladies. Several buildings can be seen in the background.
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