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. Citizens began as a state bank in 1890 at Third and Spring in Los Angeles. In 1928, Citizens merged with Citizens Trust and Savings, creating Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles. Architect William V. Kernan designed the original 1930 Spanish Colonial Revival University-Westwood branch location at 1088 Westwood Boulevard, with brick construction covered with stucco and featuring an art stone entrance and a coffered paneled ceiling. This branch was replaced in 1952 by a new building designed by Stiles Clements, located at 10925 Kinross. Women carrying packages walk past the University-Westwood branch Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles on Westwood Boulevard which has been decorated for Christmas 1937.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank of Los Angeles Bank buildings--California--Westwood (Los Angeles) Banks and banking--California--Westwood (Los Angeles) Christmas decorations--California--Los Angeles Christmas trees--California--Los Angeles Lampposts--California--Los Angeles Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences Streets--California--Westwood (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Westwood (Los Angeles) Westwood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Kernan, William Vincent,1890-1963
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