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. Architect Claude Beelman designed the 1924 Gothic revival style Elk's Lodge No. 99, located at 607 South Park View Street. The structure later became the Park Plaza Hotel and is Los Angeles Historic Cultural Monument #267. People sit on wicker furniture on a double decker tour bus looking north on South Park View at Wilshire. The Park Plaza Hotel is visible on the left and MacArthur Park is on the right.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Elks (Fraternal order).--Lodge No. 99 (Los Angeles, Calif.) Buses--California--Los Angeles Outdoor furniture--California--Los Angeles Sightseers--California--Los Angeles Streets--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Park View Street (Los Angeles, Calif.) MacArthur Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Westlake (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Beelman, Claude,1883-1963
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