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. Architects Myron Hunt and H.C. Chambers laid out the original master plan for Occidental College in 1914, and 21 of the Mediterranean style buildings were realized which were determined eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 2001. The contributing buildings include: Johnson Hall; Fowler Hall; Mary Norton Clapp Library; Swan Hall; Thorne Hall; Booth Music-Speech Center; Freeman College Union; Samuelson Campus Pavilion; Weingart Center (Orr Hall); Admissions Building; Urban Environmental Studies; Bird Hillside Theater; President's House; Erdman Hall; Haines Hall; Emmons Health Center and Wylie Hall. Six other features include: Patterson Field; Campus Quadrangle; Perimeter landscaping; circulation network/landscaping; Alumni Avenue east of Campus Road; and Pardee and Thompson Gates. The 1925 Bertha Harton Orr Hall, built as the first women's residence hall, was converted into the Weingart Center for the Liberal Arts in 1986. A dirt path winds past grassy hills and planted gardens towards Orr Hall at Occidental on the right. The houses of Eagle Rock are visible on the left.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Occidental College Occidental College.--Weingart Center for the Liberal Arts Universities and colleges--California--Eagle Rock (Los Angeles) College buildings--California--Eagle Rock (Los Angeles) Architecture--California--Eagle Rock (Los Angeles)--Mediterranean influences Dormitories--California--Los Angeles Arcades (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Towers--California--Eagle Rock (Los Angeles) Garden walks--California--Los Angeles Gardens--California--Los Angeles Eagle Rock (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Chambers, H. C.(Harold Coulson),1885-1971 Hunt, Myron,1868-1952
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