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. A woman stands looking at portraits of movie stars including Norma Shearer, Babe Ruth, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Fredric March. Booth 11 1/2 in Olvera Street was run by Bernard Percine. Signs proclaim "Very best artists employed here" and "This is where all the famous movie stars have their portraits made." A third sign indicates it only costs a quarter to get one of your own.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Vending stands--California--Los Angeles Signs and signboards--California--Los Angeles Artists--California--Los Angeles Celebrities--United States--Portraits Portraits--1931-1940 Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (Los Angeles, Calif.) Olvera Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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