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. Dirt slides down the hill around this street light on Hyperion Avenue at Scotland Street during the 1938 floods. The house at 2214 Lyric Avenue (center) and neighboring structures in the Franklin Hills neighborhood of Los Feliz seem stable.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Dwellings--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles) Floods--California--Los Angeles Flood damage--California--Los Angeles Natural disasters--California--Los Angeles County Landslides--California--Los Angeles Architecture, Domestic--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles)--Spanish influences Streets--California--Silver Lake (Los Angeles) Hyperion Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.) Franklin Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.) Silver Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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