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Title
Ethel Schultheis and the Hollywoodland sign
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Schultheis, Herman
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1937
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
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.
Built in 1923 by Harry Chandler as billboard for his Hollywoodland real estate development, the Hollywood Sign located on the top of Mount Lee was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #111 in 1973.; In 1896 Griffith J. Griffith donated over 3000 acres of Rancho Los Felis to the City of Los Angeles to create a public park in his name. Mount Hollywood, the highest peak of the park, rises to an elevation of 1640 feet. Griffith Park was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #942 in 2009.
Ethel Schultheis is standing on Mount Hollywood looking at the winding street below. The Hollywoodland sign can be seen on a distant peak.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00098467
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-007-907 8x10
CARL0005083975
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/38116
Subject
Schultheis, Ethel
Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Roads--California--Los Angeles
Parks--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Mount Lee (Calif.)
Mount Hollywood (Calif.)
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Panoramic photographs
Schultheis Collection photographs
Time Period
1931-1940

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