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. Tent City, established in 1900 as a tourist/vacation area by John D. Soreckels, was located at Camp Coronado on Coronado Beach. Thousands of families on a budget rented these tents, which were located south of the famed Hotel del Coronado, for a week or two of relaxation and fun. Some of the tents had wood roofs, karosene stoves and hand-me-down furniture from the nearby hotel, and over the years the tents gave way to cottages. Unfortunately, the depression and the war put an end to coronado's Tent City, and the last of the cotteges were torn down in late 1940. View of numerous neatly-lined Tent City cottages located at Camp Coronado on Coronado Beach. These cottages were rented by families who wanted to spend their summer at the beach, but who were on a budget.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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