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 Figueroa Street Tunnels are four art deco tunnels with subway-tile walls originally built between 1931 and 1935 on Figueroa Street in Elysian Park. In 1940 they were incorporated into California State Route 110/Arroyo Seco Parkway (Pasadena Freeway). The roadblocks set up on Figueroa Street in front of the tunnels might be due to the Elysian Park landslide, because traffic had to be rerouted from North Figueroa Street past the crushed sections of Riverside Drive through an alley between Riverside and Blake.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Streets--California--Los Angeles Tunnels--California--Los Angeles Express highways--California, Southern Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Barricades--California--Los Angeles Mountains--California, Southern Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Figueroa Street Tunnels (Los Angeles, Calif.) Figueroa Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Arroyo Seco Parkway (Calif.) Elysian Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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