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. G. Albert Lansburgh, A.M. Edelman, and John C. Austin designed the 1926 Moorish style Shrine Auditorium (Al Malaikah Temple), located at 655 West Jefferson Boulevard in the University Park district of Los Angeles. In 1975 the Shrine was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #139.; The University Branch was first opened and operated in this attractive Northern Italian style building near Exposition Park, designed by Hibbard, Gerity & Kerton. The branch, at the time known as the Doheny Memorial Library, was located at 3552 University Park (later Trousdale). In 1965, the building was sold to the University of Southern California for development purposes and the branch collections were moved to a storefront at 1479 West Adams Boulevard. In 1973 the University Branch was renamed the Exposition Park-Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Branch Library in honor of the great educator and humanitarian. Two years later, the branch left the storefront location and was placed in a new building, located at 3665 So. Vermont Avenue. Designed by the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Public Buildings architectural unit, the branch was built with Capital Improvement Program funds to the cost of $486,400. In 2008, the 1975 building was sold to University of Southern California and the branch moved yet again into a new building at 3900 South Western Avenue. The most recent branch facility, designed by Tetra Design, Inc., meets the U. S. Green Building Council's Gold LEED standards for environmentally sustainable design with its low-flow plumbing and irrigation, and high-efficiency mechanical and lighting systems. In addition, approximately 10% of the building is comprised of recycled materials. A white tower on the corner of the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard, Hoover Street and University Avenue, indicated the entrance to USC. Buildings from left to right include the Shrine Auditorium, the original and now lost University Branch Library and Phelps-Terkel mens store (3450 University Avenue).
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Shrine Auditorium (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Public Library.--Exposition Park-Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Regional Branch Phelps-Terkel Inc Freemasons--California--Los Angeles--Buildings Auditoriums--California--Los Angeles Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Islamic influences Clothing stores--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Stores & shops--California--Los Angeles Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Italian influences Branch libraries--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Towers--California--Los Angeles Lampposts--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Jefferson Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) University Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Lansburgh, Gustave Albert,1876-1969 Edelman, Abram M Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963 Hibbard, Gerity & Kerton
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