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Title
Arroyo Seco River flooding, ruins of the Avenue 43 Bridge
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator
Schultheis, Herman
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1938
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
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 original 1925 Avenue 43 Bridge that spanned the Arroyo Seco on Avenue 43 between North Figueroa and Griffin Avenue, was severely damaged in the flood of 1938. It was rebuilt by the WPA in 1940 for the Arroyo Seco Parkway and extended across the channel. The railing duplicates the earlier bridge. In 2011 this bridge was included as a contributing structure to the Arroyo Seco Parkway Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.
View of the ruins of the Avenue 43 Arroyo Seco Bridge after it washed out and the channel lined with houses.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00099605
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-008-799 8x10
CARL0005105083
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/39040
Subject
Floods--California--Los Angeles
Flood damage--California--Los Angeles
Natural disasters--California--Los Angeles County
Bridges--California--Los Angeles
Bridge failures--California--Los Angeles
Rivers--California, Southern
Dwellings--California--Highland Park (Los Angeles)
Avenue 43 Arroyo Seco Bridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Arroyo Seco (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Highland Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs

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