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. Two pictures taken of lions laying about their enclosure, probably in the Griffith Park Zoo in Los Angeles (in the 1920's, 30's?). In these early years the lack of money meant there was not enough to build proper cages. So they built stockades with welded wire encircling groups of trees to hold the animals.
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