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. Fray Juni´pero Serra (1713-1784) was a Spanish Franciscan friar who founded the mission chain in Alta California. Serra joined the Franciscan Order at the age of seventeen; received his Franciscan habit in 1730 and took the name Juni´pero; was ordained in 1737; became a missionary in 1749; and was commissioned by King Charles III of Spain to lead the Franciscans into Alta California (present day California). Fr. Serra traveled across the border to Alta California on July 1, 1769 and established his first mission, San Diego de Alcala. He then journeyed by sea to the capital of Alta California: Monterey, where he founded his second mission, San Carlos Borromeo del Rio Carmelo (also known as St. Charles Borromeo by the Carmel River). Fr. Serra established an additional seven missions during his lifetime: San Antonio (1771), San Gabriel (1771), San Luis Obispo (1772), San Francisco (1776), San Juan Capistrano (1776), Santa Clara (1777), and San Buenaventura (1784). In total, Serra founded nine missions over a span of 800 miles. He died of tuberculosis on August 28, 1785 at the age of 70 at Mission San Carlos Borromeo, where his grave lies today under the sanctuary floor in the front altar of the San Carlos. Fray Juni´pero Serra was beatified in Rome on September 25, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.; Padre Juni´pero Serra founded Mission San Juan Capistrano, the "Jewel of the Missions", as it is sometimes referred to, on November 1, 1776; it is the seventh of 21 Spanish Missions established in California by Franciscan Padres. The Great Stone Church began construction in 1796, was completed in 1806, and was destroyed by an earthquake in 1812. The Mission was secularized in 1833, sold in 1845, and was returned to the Church in 1865. View shows a statue of Fray Juni´pero Serra blessing an Indian child. The statue is located in the garden at Mission San Juan Capistrano.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Serra, Juni´pero,--Saint,--1713-1784--Statues Mission San Juan Capistrano Missions, Spanish--California--San Juan Capistrano Indian children--Statues--California--San Juan Capistrano Gardens--California--San Juan Capistrano San Juan Capistrano (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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