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. Three life-sized replicas of giant Imperial Mammoths, sculpted by artist Howard Ball, are shown on the shore at the tar pits adjacent to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, present in the background.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 25 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Animal sculpture--California--Los Angeles Museums--California--Los Angeles County La Brea Pits (Calif.) Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park) Ball, Howard
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