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Title
Beauty contest at Victory House
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator
Morris, Ralph
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1945
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.
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.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00051020
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Wars-World War II-Home front.; S-005-121.14 4x5; S-005-121.15 4x5
CARL0000056991
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122199
Subject
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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