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.; Used in the Exhibit: How We Worked, How We Played: Herman Schultheis and Los Angeles in the 1930s. The Chinese Refugees Relief Headquarters, located at 225 North Los Angeles Street, was established August 23, 1937 in response to the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45). Its mission was to provide aid by gathering donations, like blankets, clothing and medical supplies, and shipping them to China to be distributed by the Chinese Red Cross Headquarters in Hong Kong. In the first two months twenty-seven tons of supplies were sent to China from this station. A woman caries rolls under her arms as she walks past large rectangular packages wrapped in burlap and crates of donations ready for shipping, into the doorway of the Chinese Refugees Relief Headquarters. Signs in English and Chinese are posted above the entrance and in the windows.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Chinese Refugees Relief Headquarters (Los Angeles, Calif.) Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Civilian relief Charities--California--Los Angeles Women in charitable work--California--Los Angeles Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Chinese language--Writing Crates--California--Los Angeles Main Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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