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. Maytor H. McKinley, who had been born and raised in the funeral business, founded the Utter-McKinley mortuary chain. He was the third generation of a family that had been in the business for over one hundred years. Originally from Wisconsin, Maytor McKinley sold his business and moved to Los Angeles in 1933. A year later, he became an employee of the L.F. Utter Company, which he eventually purchased and changed the name to Utter-McKinley Mortuaries. Over the next 30 years, Utter-McKinley established over eighteen funeral homes throughout Los Angeles County. Only a few of these family-owned funeral homes still remain in existence today. Exterior of an Utter-McKinley Hollywood Mortuary, located at 8814 Sunset Boulevard in what is now West Hollywood. Centered over the doorway is a very large clock, with the word "Service" below it.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Utter-McKinley Hollywood Mortuary (Los Angeles, Calif.) Funeral homes--California--West Hollywood Streets--California--West Hollywood Tower clocks--California--West Hollywood Neoclassicism (Architecture)--California--West Hollywood Automobiles--California--West Hollywood Lost architecture--California--West Hollywood Sunset Strip (West Hollywood, Calif.) Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) West Hollywood (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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