Title supplied by cataloger.; Image is obscured by thumb.; 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. Ville de Paris was located on 420 W. Seventh Street . Founded by Frenchman A. Fusenot in 1893, the Ville de Paris brick and terra cotta-clad six-story store on Seventh street was constructed by architects Dodd and Richards in 1917. The business and building were sold two years later to B. H. Dyas, a sporting goods retailer. Remodeled in 1940 as the Merchandise Mart, today the building is known as the L.A. Jewelry Mart. A street car passes behind two boys, one carrying newspapers and wearing a fedora, who are stopped to talk to a police man on the corner of Seventh and Olive. The B. H. Dyas Department store is in the background.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
B. H. Dyas Co. (Department store) Children--California--Los Angeles Police--California--Los Angeles Electric railroads--Cars--California--Los Angeles Street-railroads--California--Los Angeles Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Department stores--California--Los Angeles Pedestrians--California--Los Angeles Central business districts--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Olive Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Seventh Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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