El Rancho Building

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/88ab1fecae70660fb731838364a86020

Title

El Rancho Building

Creator

Morris & Munroe

Date

Circa 1953

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.
Exterior view of El Rancho Building, housing retail shops including El Rancho Hardware store and various small stores. They include E.R. Paulsen, a knit shop, Rancho Shoe Repair, Streamliner Salon, and Davidson Sporting Goods.

Subject

Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Hardware stores--California--Los Angeles

Source

California Digital Library

Relation

https://thumbnails.calisphere.org/clip/150x150/b4334d0d9c43e10b12b3c6561c4be18d

Type

image

References

https://tessa.lapl.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/122912

Date

[ca. 1953]

Source

California Digital Library

Subject

Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles
Hardware stores--California--Los Angeles

Citation

Morris & Munroe, “El Rancho Building,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed June 9, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/15018.

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