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. Designed by architects Allison & Allison in 1929, The Janss Investment Company Building, located at 1099 Westwood Boulevard was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #364 in 1988.; Holmby Hall, located at located at 921 Westwood Boulevard, was built in 1929 by Parkinson and Parkinson and Gordon Kaufman. The structure is a Spanish Colonial Revival streetscape containing six stores anchored by a Gothic inspired clock tower on the corner of Westwood and Weyburn. Women walk up and down the east side of Westwood Boulevard decorated for Christmas 1937, in this view looking north from Kinross toward Weyburn in Westwood village. Buildings visible on the west side of the street include Holmby Hall, the Desmond's sign and part of the Janss building peaking out through the trees.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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