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. Built in 1930 by the United Airports Company of California, Ltd., the Bob Hope Airport has had many names: United Airport (1930-1934); Union Air Terminal (1934-1940); Lockheed Air Terminal (1940-1967); Hollywood-Burbank Airport (1967-1978); Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport (1978-2003) and Bob Hope Airport (2003-). A worker walks toward this United Airlines Mainliner mail plane on the landing at the Union Air Terminal, located at 2627 North Hollywood Way in Burbank. The registration numbers NC 18111 identify it as an early model DC-3A manufactured August 31, 1937, and in use from 1937-1954. A hangar, the terminal lined with cars and the mountains can be seen in the background.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
United Airlines Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Airplanes--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Propeller-driven aircraft Transport planes Douglas DC-3 (Transport plane) Airports--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Architecture--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)--Spanish influences Hangars--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County) Verdugo Mountains (Calif.) Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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