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. Located at 800 N. Alameda Street, Union Station was designed by the father and son team of John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson, and opened in May 1939. The structure combines Spanish Colonial, Mission Revival, and Streamline Modern style, with Moorish architectural details. It was named the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT), until the current owner, Catellus Development, officially changed the name to Los Angeles Union Station (LAUS). In 1980 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, Building #80000811. It is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #101. Photographer Herman Schultheis' wife, Ethel, is seen wearing a black hat, tan blouse, and black skirt, as she stands outside Union Station (not visible in this photo). She holds a magazine which promotes "Billy Rose's Aquacade" - a music, dance and swimming show produced by Billy Rose at the Great Lakes Exposition in 1937, and which later moved to the 1939 New York World's Fair, becoming the most successful production of the fair.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Schultheis, Ethel Union Passenger Terminal (Los Angeles, Calif.) Women--California--Los Angeles Periodicals Reading--California--Los Angeles Railroad stations--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Schultheis Collection photographs Parkinson & Parkinson
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