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 Newhall Tunnel, constructed by E. E. Schaffer, opened in 1910, replacing Beal's cut. This tunnel in the Newhall Pass was 435 feet long, 17 feet high and a little over 17 feet wide. In 1917 the road became State Highway Route 23, later Route 6 and then the Sierra Highway. Ten years after completion traffic jams were becoming a problem since the tunnel was only wide enough for two cars. In 1938 engineering studies concluded that eliminating the tunnel and constructing an open cut in its place would be the best way to widen the road. The contract was awarded in May 1938 and the new road was open to the public by the end of 1939. Two cars drive away from the Newhall Tunnel.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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