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. Architects for the Taft Building and the Hollywood Plaza Hotel were Walker and Eisen. The Huntington Hartford Theatre (later the Ricardo Montalban Theatre) was designed by Myron Hunt. View at dusk, neon signs lit, looking northward on Vine Street from Selma Ave. On the left, the Huntington Hartford Theatre, the Broadway Hollywood, Plaza Hotel, Mobilgas ; on the right, Equitable Bldg., Taft Bldg., and the Brown Derby. Atop the Taft building a large neon sign for Miller high life beer.
Hollywood Plaza Hotel (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Taft Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Huntington Hartford Theatre (Organization : Hollywood, Calif.) Equitable Building (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Broadway Hollywood Brown Derby Restaurant (Hollywood, Los Angeles, Calif.) Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Hotels--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Department stores--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Restaurants--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Motion picture theaters--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Advertising--Beer--California--Los Angeles Mountains--California, Southern Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Neon signs--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Vine Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Selma Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Night photographs Cityscape photographs Hunt, Myron,1868-1952 Walker & Eisen
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