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. In 1899, Dr. Joseph P. Widney founded a church called Nazarene Methodist Church, which was located on the corner of Ninth and Santee streets in Los Angeles. After the Church of the Nazarene was founded in 1903, Dr. Widney renamed his church Beth-El Methodist. In late 1906, after determining that the church was not successful at the Ninth and Santee location, Dr. Widney built this structure in Highland Park. Nestled against the hills at 3900 Marmion Way in Highland Park, is the former home of Beth-El Methodist Church. This single story building with horizontal wood siding above a river rock foundation, features a bell tower and an overhanging porch. Part of the "Beth-El" sign is visible above the door.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Church buildings--California--Highland Park (Los Angeles) Methodist church buildings--California--Highland Park (Los Angeles) Bell towers--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Highland Park (Los Angeles) Highland Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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