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. Born in northern Italy in 1850, Mother Francis Xavier Cabrini established the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and came to the United States to aid immigrating Italians. In 1906 she founded The Regina Coeli ("Queen of Heaven" in Latin) Orphanage, located at 610 North Main Street, Los Angeles. Around the time of her death in 1917, the orphanage was moved to Burbank, but the site continued to be used as a convent. The 1971 Sylmar earthquake destroyed the building but a shrine remained until 1997 when the site was cleared for an apartment complex. This Queen Anne structure on Fort Moore Hill was the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart Convent. Women perform daily tasks in the yard. The city view to the south is striking because the convent is built next a the steep hillside.; Front view of building visible center left in image 00009357.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart Convent (Los Angeles, Calif.) Convents--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Queen Anne revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Fort Moore Hill (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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