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. Businessman D. Herbert Hostetter envisioned a modern mixed-use community on the 370 acres of undeveloped land that he owned in what is now Boyle Heights. The Hostetter Industrial District was developed by Austin Securities Company after Hostetter's death in 1924. The district was advertised as "just two and a half miles from Seventh and Broadway" and anchored by the landmark Sears-Roebuck Company Building. This billboard advertises development in the Hostetter Industrial District.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Austin Securities Company (Firm) Billboards--California--Los Angeles Real estate development--California--Los Angeles Industrial districts--California--Los Angeles Boyle Heights (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hostetter Industrial District (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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