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 1927, architect William P. Bell designed the two separate 18-hole golf courses known as the Sunset Field Golf Club (AKA Sunset Fields Public Golf Club). The Sanchez Adobe, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #487, was converted into a clubhouse. This club, which covered over 300 acres, was located on Angeles Mesa Drive (now Crenshaw Boulevard) and operated through the mid 1940s. The land, along with 350 additional acres, was sold to Paul Trousdale in 1949 for a 50 million dollar development project that included enough homes and apartment buildings to accommodate 35,000 residents. This view taken from Aureola Boulevard is looking northwest and captures houses possibly on Homeland Drive as well as the Santa Monica Mountains. The large open space dotted with trees is the Sunset Field Golf Club.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Sunset Field Golf Club (Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, Calif.) Dwellings--California--Los Angeles County Architecture, Domestic--California--Los Angeles County--Spanish influences Golf courses--California--Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles) Streets--California--Los Angeles County Unincorporated areas--California--Los Angeles County Mountains--California, Southern Baldwin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) View Park-Windsor Hills (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Bell, William P
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