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Title
Busch Gardens estate
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 1937
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.
Adolphus Busch (1839-1913), who made his fortune as the co-founder of Anheuser-Busch, opened the first Busch Gardens in Pasadena in 1905. It was one of the most popular tourist attractions in the Los Angeles area and offered many unique gardens, landscapes, and structures on its 36 acres. After Busch's widow, Lilly, died in 1928, the gardens were closed to the public. Nine years later, parts of the upper garden were sold and subdivided. In 1943, the Busch estate sold the house, which was later razed in 1952.
Exterior of the Tudor-style "Ivy Wall" estate, located at 1021 S. Orange Grove Avenue in Pasadena.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00035106
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-006-003 8x10
CARL0005110557
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/35935
Subject
Dwellings--California--Pasadena
Architecture, Domestic--California--Pasadena--English influences
Gardens--California--Pasadena
Lost architecture--California--Pasadena
Estates--California--Pasadena
Busch Gardens (Pasadena, Calif.)
Pasadena (Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs
Roehrig, Frederick Louis

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