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. Women in bathing suits are being measured by a Standard Oil Co. volunteer at Victory House in Pershing Square. They are contestants in a beauty contest held to help sell savings bonds to support World War II.
Standard Oil Company Beauty contests--California--Los Angeles Bathing suits--California--Los Angeles Savings bonds--California--Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pershing Square (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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