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. Opened in 1928, the seven-story Art Deco Ravenswood apartment building was a popular address for celebrities during the golden age of Hollywood and is a Los Angeles Historical-Cultural Monument.; The nineteen-unit French art deco Chateau Rossmore was designed in 1934 by Milton J. Black Looking northeast towards N. Rossmore Avenue (middle right), showing the apartment buildings of Chateau Rossmore (left, at 555) and the Ravenswood (right, at 570).
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Chateau Rossmore (Los Angeles, Calif.) Ravenswood (Apartment house : Los Angeles, Calif.) Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles Apartments--California--Los Angeles Architecture, Domestic--California--Los Angeles--French influences Art deco (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Rossmore Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Black, Milton
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