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. Morgan, Walls and Morgan designed the 1915 Haas Building (219 W. Seventh Street), which was built as an office building by businessman Abraham Haas. This twelve-story structure was designed in the classical Beaux Arts style, but in the 1970s a metal skin was added. In 2009 the building was converted into apartments. Crowds cross 7th street in this Christmas time view of Broadway looking south. Best Drug stores was located at 700 South Broadway. That building has since been demolished. The Haas Building is in the foreground.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Haas Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Christmas decorations--California--Los Angeles Lampposts--California--Los Angeles Crowds--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Broadway (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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