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. Exposition Park, originally named Agricultural Park, was developed in 1876 as a showground for agricultural and horticultural fairs. In the 1890s USC law professor William M. Bowen and USC President George Finley Bovard garnered the commitments of city, state, and county to develop the land as a public educational, cultural and recreational center to be designed by architects Hudson and Munsell. The Los Angeles Swimming Stadium (AKA John C. Argue Swim Stadium) is located at 3980 South Menlo Avenue and was opened for the Los Angeles 1932 Olympics. The building closed in 1994 after the Northridge Earthquake, but was rebuilt as part of the Exposition Park Intergenerational Community Center project and reopened in 2003. Signage on the facade of the Swimming Stadium indicates that it was run by the "Department of Playground and Recreation." The stadium lighting is the same as on the Coliseum.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles Swimming Stadium (Los Angeles, Calif.) Stadiums--California--Los Angeles Swimming pools--California--Los Angeles Aquatic sports facilities--California--Los Angeles Exposition Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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