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. Located at the end of a 9,250 breakwater, Angel's Gate Lighthouse has marked the entrance to the port since 1913. The lighthouse features a structural steel framework covered with black pilasters, an octagonal base and a 73-foot Romanesque tower. Whenever a deep-sea vessel arrives on her maiden voyage in Los Angeles Harbor, the master is presented with a plaque etched with the likeness of the light, an official greeting from the City of Los Angeles. This view of the Angel's Gate Lighthouse and the San Pedro coastline is taken from the S. S. Catalina as it leaves the Port of Los Angeles.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Angel's Gate Lighthouse (Los Angeles, Calif.) Lighthouses--California--Los Angeles Breakwaters--California--Los Angeles Harbors--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.) San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pacific Ocean Schultheis Collection photographs
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