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 Fall Festival/County Fair was held October 27-30, 1937, at the Farmers Market. Earl Bell Gilmore started the Farmers Market in 1934 in an empty field on the corner of Third and Fairfax (6333 West Third Street). An expansion and reconstruction project in 1941 included the addition of the Clock Tower. A little girl dressed in a long dress and conical hat walks past a small boy in short pants who leans against a woman buying meat at a stand at the Farmers Market Fall Festival. Ducks and both frying and roasting chickens are visble in the window. A second women holding a wicker basket on wheels with a sign that says "convenience of customers" inspects the stack of paper wrapped packages that a butcher is tallying on the counter. A scale in the corner has a sign boasting that there are "no springs".
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Farmers Market (Los Angeles, Calif.) Farmers' markets--California--Los Angeles Harvest festivals--California--Los Angeles Vending stands--California--Los Angeles Butchers--California--Los Angeles Meat--California--Los Angeles Shopping--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Fairfax (Los Angeles, Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
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