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Title
National Orange Show Exhibition Hall, San Bernardino
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Schultheis, Herman
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
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 1925 Spanish Colonial Revival style National Orange Show Exhibition Hall, located at Mill and E Street in San Bernardino, was destroyed by fire in 1949. Hamilton Harwell Harris designed the 1950 Modern style steel and concrete replacement building, and other buildings were added over time. The current National Orange Show Events Center spans over 120 acres, offers 150,000 square feet of indoor exhibit space, a quarter mile speedway and off track betting.
People walk by the entrance and fountains of the National Orange Show which was held March 17-27 in 1938.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00099782
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-008-979 8x10
CARL0005106805
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/39140
Subject
National Orange Show (San Bernardino, Calif.)
Exhibition buildings--California--San Bernardino
Architecture--California--San Bernardino--Spanish influences
Fountains--California--San Bernardino
Agricultural exhibitions--California--San Bernardino
Signs and signboards--California--San Bernardino
Gates--California--San Bernardino
Flags--California--San Bernardino
Lost architecture--California--San Bernardino
San Bernardino (Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs

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