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. This view looking north on Highland includes a parked car, a street lamp, a real estate office, and a billboard for Mobil as well as Dr. H. R. Foresbinder's Hollywood Cat and Dog Hospital, located at 1151 North Highland Avenue in Hollywood. This building is still standing.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Hollywood Cat & Dog Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) Veterinary hospitals--California--Los Angeles Pet medicine--California--Los Angeles--Buildings Real estate business--California--Los Angeles--Buildings Neon signs--California--Los Angeles Billboards--California--Los Angeles Lampposts--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Highland Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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