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 1928 San Pedro Municipal Building is also referred to as San Pedro City Hall because it replaced the 1908 two story domed City Hall built one year before San Pedro was annexed to the City of Los Angeles. The building, located at 638 South Beacon Street, is faced in buff colored Gladding McBean terra cotta, and was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #732 in 2002. Downtown San Pedro, including the seven-story City Hall (center left), from the S.S. Catalina as it leaved the Port of Los Angeles.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Municipal Building (San Pedro, Los Angeles, Calif.) Central business districts--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles) Municipal buildings--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles) Office buildings--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles) City halls--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles) Eclecticism in architecture--California--San Pedro (Los Angeles) Harbors--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.) San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pacific Ocean Schultheis Collection photographs
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