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Title
Echo Park Lake from Belmont
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.
The lake was originally built in the 1860s as a drinking water reservoir. The 1896 Victorian style Echo Park boathouse was replaced in 1933 with a Spanish style structure that included a lighthouse. Today Echo Park Lake is a detention basin in the city's storm drain system. In 2003 the boathouse was determined eligible for listing on the California Register and in 2006 Echo Park was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #896.
This view of Echo Park Lake from Belmont Avenue, probably where it meets Clinton, captures the Spanish style boat house, as well the hill covered in houses behind the lake.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00099074
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-008-448 8x10
CARL0005096118
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/38477
Subject
Parks--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles)
Urban lakes--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles)
Boathouses--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments
Streets--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles)
Belmont Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Panoramic views
Aerial views
Schultheis Collection photographs
Time Period
1931-1940

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