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. In 1924 Heffron, St John and McCray subdivided 151 acres of the Foreman Rancho creating the area called Toluca Lake Park. McCray was also one of the founders of the Lakeside Golf Club, which purchased 125 of the acres including 50 acres fronting the lake. The original architecture was primarily period revival including Spanish and French Normandy. Lake Toluca remained natural until the 1938 floods when a concrete flood control channel was built. Waterlilies fill the right half of this view of Toluca Lake's meandering path. A Spanish style house can be seen on the left.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Lakes--California--Toluca Lake (Los Angeles) Stream channelization--California--Los Angeles Water lilies--California--Los Angeles Dwellings--California--Toluca Lake (Los Angeles) Architecture, Domestic--California--Toluca Lake (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences Mountains--California, Southern Toluca Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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