Title supplied by cataloger.; Herman J. Schultheis was born in Aachen, Germany in 1900, and immigrated to the United States in the min-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. This Mission Revival style structure was designed by John Parkinson; It served the city from 1902 to 1938 and has since been demolished. Looking across the street towards the Santa Monica City Hall and Police Dept., located at Santa Monica Boulevard and 4th Street.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Santa Monica City Hall (Santa Monica, Calif.) City halls--California--Santa Monica Municipal buildings--California--Santa Monica Streets--California--Santa Monica Street-railroad tracks--California--Santa Monica Architecture--California--Santa Monica--Spanish influences Lost architecture--California--Santa Monica Santa Monica Boulevard (Santa Monica, Calif.) Santa Monica (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Parkinson, John,1861-1935
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