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. The Hall of Justice was built in 1922 by Allied Architects.; The first Los Angeles County Courthouse, also as known as the "Red Sandstone Courthouse," was built in 1891. Located at Spring and Temple streets, the building served as the courthouse until 1933, when it sustained damage in the Long Beach earthquake; it was later demolished in 1936. The Los Angeles County Hall of Justice, as seen from across Spring Street. In the center is a retaining wall, grounds, and a tunnel entrance, the only remnants of the first County Courthouse.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Los Angeles County Hall of Justice Public buildings--California--Los Angeles Office buildings--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Palms--California--Los Angeles Spring Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles
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