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Order Number	00081856
Title	Keystone Photo Service
Photographer	Morris, Ralph.
Collection ID	Ralph Morris Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	Photography.; S-001-025 8x10
Date	1948
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Notes	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.
Historical Data	Eugene Swarzwald founded Keystone Photo Service in Los Angeles in 1919. Swarzwald was the president of the Pacific Press Syndicate and Keystone Photo Service, which supplied many of the magazine's images. The magazines promoted the virtues of California and the western United States, and were distributed by chambers of commerce, railroad and steamship companies, and hotel management.
Description	Interior view of a Keystone Photo Service office. Photograph shows an unidentified woman sitting at a desk which faces the wall, a long work table with a smaller one next to it is visible to the right, and numerous invoices hang from a wire hook on the left of wooden cubbies. Photograph dated: February 1948.
Subject	Keystone Photo Service. Offices--California--Los Angeles. Commercial photography--California--Los Angeles.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection