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Title
St. George Street and John Marshall High School
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 1938
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.
In 1951, St Casimir Lithuanian Catholic Church opened on the vacant lot site in the foreground. At some unknown time, the apartment building shown here was purchased by the church to be used as an auxiliary building.; Architect George M. Lindsey designed the Gothic style John Marshall High School, located at 3939 Tracy Street in Los Feliz. The school, which opened on January 26, 1931, was threatened with demolition after the 1971 earthquake. After a community battle, the shell was stabilized and the building saved.
Looking southwest across Griffith Park Boulevard on a rainy day, showing a newly built apartment building at 2718 St. George Street, some homes in Franklin Hills, and a glimpse John Marshall High School, located at the corner of St. George (far right) and Tracy streets.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00101270
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-010-585 8x10
CARL0005124498
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/40099
Subject
John Marshall High School (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Apartments--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)
Rain and rainfall--California--Los Angeles
High schools--California--Los Angeles
Schools--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)
Streets--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)
Automobiles--California--Los Angeles
Griffith Park Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Franklin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.)
St. George Street (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs

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