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. In 1918 Mathias Chapman brought the first ten chinchillas to Inglewood to start his farm, located on the corner of Palm and Oak (4957 W. 104th Street, Inglewood). They had never been bred in captivity outside their native Chile, and Chapman had to adapt to the lessons he learned including refrigerating the cages to 68 degrees. Fifteen years later Chapman Chinchilla Farm was still the only chinchilla farm in the world outside the Andes and his operation was closely watched by the fur industry. The farm closed in the 1950s and was redeveloped as an apartment building and union hall. An unidentified man in a cardigan and a tie stands in a one of the cages with a chinchilla on his shoulder at the Chapman Chinchilla Farm.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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