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. The 1927 Arcady Apartment Hotel, located at 2619 Wilshire Boulevard, later known as the Wilshire Royale Hotel, has been determined eligible for National Register status. It was designed by Walker & Eisen.; The 1914 Beaux Arts style Bryson Apartment Hotel, located at 2701 Wilshire Boulevard, was designed by architects F. Noonan and C. H. Kysor. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #653 in 1998. The Arcady and the Bryson can be seen past the rolling lawns and trees of Lafayette Park.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Arcady (Apartment house : Los Angeles, Calif.) Bryson (Apartment house : Los Angeles, Calif.) Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Hotels--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Parks--California--Los Angeles Lafayette Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Westlake (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Noonan, Frederick Kysor, Charles H Walker & Eisen
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