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. An automobile travels past a large rock as seen from the road that travels to the top of Palm Canyon, near Palm Springs and on the reservation of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. The rock was originally used by local Cahuilla Indians to signal fires, which could be seen for miles, both through the canyon and out into the valley below.; For similar view, see image 00072734.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;14 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Rocks--California--Riverside County Canyons--California--Riverside County Automobiles--California--Riverside County Palms--California--Riverside County Unincorporated areas--California--Riverside County Palm Canyon (Riverside County, Calif.) Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of the Agua Caliente Indian Reservation, California Schultheis Collection photographs
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