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. Charles F. Lummis founded the Southwest Museum in 1907. The collections were housed in two temporary spaces until 1914 when the architectural firm of Hunt and Burns completed the Spanish Colonial Revival style Southwest Museum building located at 234 Museum Drive in Highland Park. In 1920, the same firm designed a Mayan Revival style entry tunnel from Museum Drive. The museum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. In 2003 the Autry Museum of Western Heritage merged with the Southwest Museum creating the Autry National Center. The landmark closed in 2006 for rehabilitation and reopened in 2012. The Mayan entrance tunnel is visible on the hill below the Southwest museum. Two rectangular pilasters carry an entablature incised with six small square panels representing Mayan deities above double doors surrounded by bas-relief.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Southwest Museum of the American Indian Museums--California--Los Angeles Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Mayan influences Tunnels--California--Los Angeles Bas-relief--California--Los Angeles Stairs--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Highland Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Mt. Washington (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Hunt & Burns
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