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. Residence 'A' was designed in 1920 by Frank Lloyd Wright to be a guest home for the neighboring Hollyhock House, commissioned by Aline Barnsdall. In 1965, Residence 'A' became the Barnsdall Playground Arts and Crafts Center. Ethel Schultheis sits in her car outside of Residence 'A' at Barnsdall Park in East Hollywood.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Schultheis, Ethel Women--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles) Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Parks--California--East Hollywood (Los Angeles) Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Barnsdall Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Schultheis Collection photographs Wright, Frank Lloyd,1867-1959
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