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Title
Bill Henry Track, Occidental College
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Schultheis, Herman
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1938
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
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.
Architects Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers laid out the original master plan for Occidental College in 1914, and 21 of the Mediterranean style buildings were realized which were determined eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 2001. The contributing buildings include: Johnson Hall; Fowler Hall; Mary Norton Clapp Library; Swan Hall; Thorne Hall; Booth Music-Speech Center; Freeman College Union; Samuelson Campus Pavilion; Weingard Center (Orr Hall); Admissions Building; Urban Environmental Studies; Bird Hillside Theater; President's House; Erdman Hall; Haines Hall; Emmons Health Center and Wylie Hall. Six other features include: Patterson Field; Campus Quadrangle; Perimeter landscaping; circulation network/landscaping; Alumni Avenue east of Campus Road; and Pardee and Thompson Gates. The 1916 Patterson Field, named after W.C. Patterson, a highly respected civic leader and trustee of the college from 1899-1913, was renovated in 2005 with an artificial surface. The Bill Henry Track, named for Bill Henry, the Sports Technical Director of the organizing committee for the 1932 Olympic Games, was refurbished in 2001.
This view of the bleachers and track at Occidental College captures surrounding hillsides dotted with houses.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00100782
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-010-216 8x10
CARL0005111573
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/39598
Subject
Occidental College
Universities and colleges--California--Eagle Rock (Los Angeles)
Sports facilities--California--Eagle Rock (Los Angeles)
Track and field--California--Los Angeles
Bleachers--California--Los Angeles
Mountains--California, Southern
Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs
Chambers, H. C.(Harold Coulson),1885-1971
Hunt, Myron,1868-1952

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