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. View of the Avila Adobe house on Olvera Street, showing the rear of the home, which consisted of a generous courtyard with covered porches for each of the garaging areas, stables, workshops, etc., as well as a garden and vineyard, which Don Francisco Avila tended to regularly. In this photograph, two women walk toward the back porch, and a large fountain is prominent in the foreground.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Avila, Francisco--Homes and haunts Avila Adobe (Los Angeles, Calif.) Adobe houses--California--Los Angeles Courtyards--California--Los Angeles Fountains--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Los Angeles El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.) Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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