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. Men dressed in what looks like military uniforms play brass instruments and a piano in a bandshell next to a line of ticket offices inside the Santa Catalina Island terminal at the Port of Los Angeles. This building, located at the end of Avalon Boulevard, is now the site of a 1995 community center called Banning's Landing (101 East Water Street) designed by architect Ted Tanaka.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Marine terminals--California--Los Angeles Bands (Music)--California--Los Angeles Bandstands--California--Los Angeles Ticket offices--California--Los Angeles Passengers--California--Los Angeles Harbors--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.) Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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