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 young women standing next to a chalkboard model creations from a possible sewing class. Notes on the chalkboard read: "Follow example" with an arrow pointing down to a Simplicity Patterns sewing book; "Place. Cut. Sew" with arrows pointing to a bodice pattern template; and "Fall fabrics" next to a makeshift palette with fabric swatches. Several sewing books rest on the lower shelf of a table seen on the left.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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