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. Designed in 1903 by architect A. L. Haley, the Touraine Apartment's columned facade stood three stories high, while the rear of the structure was eight stories, sloping with the natural terrain of Bunker Hill. This neoclassical building located at 457 S. Hope was demolished in the mid 1960's as part of the area's redevelopment. Cars line Hope Street on Bunker Hill in front of the Neoclassical Touraine Apartments. Fire escapes run down the face of a Beaux Arts building next door.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Touraine Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.) Apartments--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Dwellings--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Colonial revival (Architecture)--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Eclecticism in architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Streets--California--Bunker Hill (Los Angeles) Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Hope Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bunker Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Haley, A. L
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