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. Reginald Johnson and landscape architect Ralph Stevens designed the Biltmore Hotel in Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in 1926-1927 at a cost of $1,500,000. Ethel Schultheis (right) poses beneath a tree outside the Biltmore Hotel located at 1260 Channel Drive in Santa Barbara; this appears to be the front entrance of the hotel.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Schultheis, Ethel Four Seasons Biltmore (Santa Barbara, Calif.) Hotels--California--Santa Barbara Architecture--California--Santa Barbara--Spanish influences Women--California--Santa Barbara Automobiles--California--Santa Barbara Trees--California--Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (Calif.) Portrait photographs Schultheis Collection photographs Johnson, Reginald Stevens, Ralph
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