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. Donald and John Parkinson designed the California Bank branch, which opened in 1930. Cars park along the street in front of the Edith Jane School of Dancing, also known as the Falcon School, located at 5610 Hollywood Boulevard. The dance school has since been demolished but the Art Deco California Bank branch next door at 5618-5628 survives.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm. Photographic prints
California Bank Dance schools--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Branch banks--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Towers--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Bank buildings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Art deco (Architecture)--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Streets--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Signs and signboards--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Lost architecture--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Hollywood Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Parkinson, Donald B.--(Donald Berthold),--1895-1945 Parkinson, John,--1906-1973
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