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. Glendora was founded on April 1, 1887 by George D. Whitcomb and was officially incorporated as a City in 1911. In the mid-1930s, nearly all of the city's 4,500 acres of land were cultivated for citrus fruit; by the late 1950s agriculture had given way to large-scale residential development. View of Michigan Avenue, later Glendora Avenue, in Glendora, looking north from East Foothill Boulevard towards the San Gabriel Mountains. Businesses can be seen on either side of the street and Formosa palm trees line the sidewalks (these would later be replaced with gumdrop Ficus trees). Various businesses and the First Christian Church of Glendora (right of center) are seen.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
First Christian Church of Glendora (Glendora, Calif.) Central business districts--California--Glendora Church buildings--California--Glendora Stores & shops--California--Glendora Storefronts--California--Glendora Streets--California--Glendora Trees--California--Glendora Mountains--California, Southern Glendora Avenue (Glendora, Calif.) San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.) Glendora (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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