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 original 1925 Avenue 43 Bridge that spanned the Arroyo Seco on Avenue 43 between North Figueroa and Griffin Avenue, was severely damaged in the flood of 1938. It was rebuilt by the WPA in 1940 for the Arroyo Seco Parkway and extended across the channel. The railing duplicates the earlier bridge. In 2011 this bridge was included as a contributing structure to the Arroyo Seco Parkway Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places. View of the ruins of the Avenue 43 Arroyo Seco Bridge after it washed out. The Southwest Museum can be seen on Mt. Washington on the left.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Southwest Museum of the American Indian Floods--California--Los Angeles Flood damage--California--Los Angeles Natural disasters--California--Los Angeles County Bridges--California--Highland Park (Los Angeles) Bridge failures--California--Los Angeles Rivers--California, Southern Dwellings--California--Highland Park (Los Angeles) Museums--California--Los Angeles Mountains--California, Southern Avenue 43 Arroyo Seco Bridge (Los Angeles, Calif.) Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Highland Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Mt. Washington (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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