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 company founded as Thomas Crowley and Brothers in San Francisco in the 1890s, came to Los Angeles Harbor in 1923. Crowley brought down some of his Red Stack tugs (named for their red smokestacks) to provide tugboat services, forming the San Pedro Tugboat Company. In 1937 Crowley entered into a new partnership, Smith Rice Derrick Barges, Inc., which provided dredging, marine construction and other services at the Los Angeles Harbor, as well as Long Beach and San Diego. Today Crowley Marine Corporation has grown into to a worldwide marine, transportation and logistics services provider. Two Crowley Red Stack tugs, no. 24 and no. 19 are docked at the Port of Los Angeles.
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Image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
Crowley Maritime Corporation Tugboats--California--Los Angeles Harbors--California--Los Angeles Los Angeles Harbor (Calif.) San Pedro (Los Angeles, Calif.) Pacific Ocean Schultheis Collection photographs
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