Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the mid-1920s after obtaining a Ph.D. in mechanical and electrical engineering. He married Ethel Wisloh in 1936, and the pair moved to Los Angeles the following year. He worked in the film industry from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, most notably on the animated features Fantasia and Pinocchio. His detailed notebook, documenting the special effects for Fantasia, is the subject of a 14-minute short-subject included on the film's DVD. In 1949, he started employment with Librascope as a patent engineer. Schultheis was an avid amateur photographer who traveled the world with his cameras. It was on one of these photographic exhibitions in 1955 that he disappeared in the jungles of Guatemala. His remains were discovered 18 months later. The digitized portion of this collection represents the images Schultheis took of Los Angeles and its surrounding communities after he relocated to the area in 1937. Sinai Temple was the first conservative congregation in Southern California, established in 1906. For nearly 20 years, the temple was located at 12th and Valencia Streets. Architect S. Tilden Norton designed a new synagogue located at 401 South New Hampshire Avenue. Services were held in the 1,400-seat structure from 1925 to 1960. This building was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 91 in 1971. The building became the Korean Philadelphia Presbyterian Church after the synagogue moved to 10400 Wilshire Boulevard in Westwood. View of the arched facade of the Sinai Temple from a park across the street. This park is now a parking lot.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Sinai Temple (Los Angeles, Calif.) Synagogues--California--Los Angeles Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Mediterranean influences Parks--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments New Hampshire Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Norton, S. Tilden
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