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 hustle and bustle of downtown San Diego, as seen along 7th Avenue. The landmark El Cortez Hotel, visible in the background, sits atop a hill at the north end of downtown and was the tallest building in San Diego when it opened in 1927. The Fox Theatre, later the site of the Copley Symphony Hall, is on the right.
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Image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;12 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
El Cortez Hotel (San Diego, Calif.) Fox Theatre (San Diego, Calif.) Pedestrians--California--San Diego Hotels--California--San Diego Motion picture theaters--California--San Diego Central business districts--California--San Diego Stores & shops--California--San Diego Streets--California--San Diego Automobiles--California--San Diego Lost architecture--California--San Diego San Diego (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Cityscape photographs
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