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. A man looks through a viewing device set up on a tripod on Santa Monica Boulevard near Highland in Hollywood. The road at his feet has been dug up with pickaxes and shovels, and the sidewalk behind him is covered with asphalt and pipes. Men with heavy machinery are working in the background on the fresh, unfinished asphalt lining the Pacific Electric Railroad tracks. The building on the top left is the Modern Material Supply Co. located at 6812 Santa Monica Boulevard. Although this building is gone, the little Spanish Revival style building at 6820 Santa Monica is still there.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Modern Material Supply Co. (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pacific Electric Railway Company--Employees Surveyors--California--Los Angeles Railroad construction workers--California--Los Angeles Street-railroads--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles)--Design and construction Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Streets--Design and construction--Machinery--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Pavements--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Santa Monica Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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