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 pictures of a lab technician at the L.A.P.D. Scientific Investigations Unit at Parker Center as he tests a gun and bullets. On the left he is using a small desk unit oven. On the top right he uses a desk top scale to weigh the bullet, and on the bottom picture he is working with the gun.
Type
Image
Format
3 photographs :b&w Photographic prints
Identifier
00011789 Ralph Morris Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection L.A.-Police Department-Parker Center.; S-006-005.16 4x5; S-006-005.17 4x5; S-006-005.18 4x5 CARL0000013481 http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122307
Subject
Los Angeles (Calif.).--Police Department Police--California--Los Angeles
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