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. Four separate publicity pictures taken at a theater owner's conference. Charles Skouras of Fox appears in all except the upper left picture. Others are unidentified. In the two top pictures, people are standing, in the two lower pictures, 2 people are sitting at a dinner table.
Type
image
Format
4 photographs :b&w Photographic prints
Identifier
00015810 Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection Theaters-Owners-Theater Owners of America.; S-005-707.23 4x5; S-005-707.24 4x5; S-005-707.25 4x5; S-005-707.26 4x5 CARL0000004386 http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122620
Subject
Skouras, Charles P.,--1889-1954 Theatre Owners of America Motion picture theater managers--California--Los Angeles Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles
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