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 Church of the Good Shepherd parish was founded in 1923. J.J. Donnellan designed the Mission Revival style church and rectory, located at 501 North Bedford Drive, Beverly Hills, which opened in 1925. A path winds through the cactus gardens at Beverly Gardens Park, and the Church of the Good Shepard can be seen in the background.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Church of the Good Shepherd (Beverly Hills, Calif.) Church buildings--California--Beverly Hills Catholic churches--California--Beverly Hills Architecture--California--Beverly Hills--Spanish influences Gardens--California--Beverly Hills Cactus--California--Beverly Hills Garden walks--California--Beverly Hills Parks--California--Beverly Hills Beverly Gardens Park (Beverly Hills, Calif.) Beverly Hills (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Donnellan, J. J
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