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Title: Mammoth sculptures
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
Creator: Morris, Ralph
Date Created and/or Issued: 1968
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.
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.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 25 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00074939
Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.
CARL0000078131
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122994
Subject: 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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