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 1930 Wilshire Boulevard widening project required a 30 foot cutback in the facade of the Rex Arms apartments, located at 945 Wilshire Boulevard, and architect A. C. Martin designed a new facade. This building has been demolished for the 110 Freeway.; The Dinsmore Apartments, located at 960 Wilshire Boulevard, were demolished for the 110 Freeway.; Architects Reginald Johnson, Gordon B. Kaufmann, and Roland Coate designed the 1927 Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, located at 1225 Wilshire Boulevard at Lucas. This view looking west on Wilshire from the top of the Barker Brothers Building, located at 818 West 7th Street, captures the Paul G. Hoffman Company Studebaker distributors in the foreground (Seventh and Figueroa), as well as the Rex Arms on the right and the Dinsmore Apartments on the left. On the far left at the skyline is the Good Samaritan Hospital.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Dinsmore Apartments (Los Angeles, Calif.) Rex Arms (Los Angeles, Calif.) Paul G. Hoffman Company (Los Angeles, Calif.) Good Samaritan Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.) Dwellings--California--Los Angeles Apartment houses--California--Los Angeles Automobile dealers--California--Los Angeles Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles Parking lots--California--Los Angeles Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Wilshire Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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