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. Doheny Courtyard Apartments (originally known as Doheny View Terrace) is located at 9231 North Doheny Road at the corner of Sunset Hills Road in West Hollywood. Markowitz & Sons Inc. designed the 1936 Streamline Moderne apartment complex as individual units, which feature smooth stucco walls with rounded corners and horizontal, striated details; flat roofs; horizontally oriented windows; flat, metal canopies; and asymmetrical massing. Celebrities who resided in the building include Eva Gardener and Mickey Rooney. This complex is a City of West Hollywood Historic-Cultural Monument. A sign in front of a poinsettia field near Sunset Hills Road and Doheny Road in West Hollywood advertises poinsettias for 50 cents a bunch. The top floor of the Doheny Courtyard Apartments can be seen in the upper left hand corner.
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image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Doheny Courtyard (West Hollywood, Calif.) Poinsettias--California--West Hollywood Flowers--California--West Hollywood Farms--California--West Hollywood Agriculture--California--West Hollywood Art deco (Architecture)--California--West Hollywood Apartments--California--West Hollywood Dwellings--California--West Hollywood Signs and signboards--California--West Hollywood West Hollywood (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Markowitz & Sons
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