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. Two men and a woman are walking together past the apartment complex at 2806-2820 St. George Street Los Feliz, home of Herman and Ethel Schultheis. Houses, apartment buildings, the Griffith Observatory, and Griffith Park are in the background, the John Marshall High School campus is on the far left, and cars are traveling on Griffith Park Boulevard (upper left). Monon Street runs from Griffith Park Boulevard to the far right.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Griffith Observatory Women--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Rain and rainfall--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles) Dwellings--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles) Apartments--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles) Observatories--California--Los Angeles Mountains--California, Southern St. George Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Griffith Park Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Monon Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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