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 "Youth Triumphant" fountain, sculpted by Frederick William Schweigardt, was presented to USC in 1935 by Mr. And Mrs. Robert Carmen-Ryles in memory of their son, alumnus Edward L. Prentiss, and installed in Alumni Memorial Park in front of Doheny Memorial Library. Originally known as the Fountain of the Four Cornerstones of American Democracy, it was displayed at the California Pacific International Exposition in San Diego. John Parkinson designed the 1921 George Finley Bovard Administration Building (AKA Bovard Auditorium) as part of the 1919 Parkinson & Parkinson master plan. The clock tower rises over 100 feet with sculptures by Johan Caspar Lachne Gruenfeld. Plants grow in the Youth Triumphant fountain at USC in front of the Bovard Auditorium.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
University of Southern California.--Bovard Auditorium Universities and colleges--California--Los Angeles Fountains--California--Los Angeles Statues--California--Los Angeles Aquatic plants--California--Los Angeles Memorials--California--Los Angeles College buildings--California--Los Angeles Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Los Angeles University Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Schweigardt, Frederick William Parkinson & Parkinson
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