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. This church, designed by John C. Austin and Frederic M. Ashley, was constructed in 1936. Looking southeast across Washington Boulevard towards the Italian Romanesque revival style Saint Paul's Catholic Church, located at 1920 S. Bronson Avenue (right of center) in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Streetcar tracks are present on the boulevard.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Saint Paul's Catholic Church (Los Angeles, Calif.) Church buildings--California--Jefferson Park (Los Angeles) Catholic churches--California--Jefferson Park (Los Angeles) Towers--California--Jefferson Park (Los Angeles) Streets--California--Jefferson Park (Los Angeles) Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Jefferson Park (Los Angeles)--Italian influences Street-railroad tracks--California--Jefferson Park (Los Angeles) Lawns--California--Los Angeles Automobiles--California--Los Angeles Washington Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Bronson Avenue (Los Angeles, Calif.) Jefferson Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963 Ashley, F. M
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