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 Atlantic Richfield building by architects Morgan, Walls & Clements was built for the Richfield Oil Corporation from1928 to 1930. Located at 555 South Flower Street in Los Angeles, it was demolished in 1969. The Atlantic Richfield building is framed by trees in this image from its glory years. Interestingly the side of the tower obscured in shadow says "Richfield," while the sunlit side says "Hi-octane."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Atlantic Richfield Building (Los Angeles, Calif.) Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Flower Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Morgan, Walls & Clements
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