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Description
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. In Huntington Beach, some beachgoers sunbathe while others prefer the shade of an umbrella. On the bluff behind them are rows of oil derricks.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
Identifier
00042252 Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection; N-005-448 8x10 CARL0005108555 http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/35929
Subject
Sunbathing--California--Huntington Beach Beachgoers--California--Huntington Beach Beaches--California--Huntington Beach Umbrellas--California--Huntington Beach Oil well drilling rigs--California--Huntington Beach Petroleum industry and trade--California--Huntington Beach Oil wells--California--Huntington Beach Oil fields--California--Huntington Beach Huntington Beach (Calif.) Schultheis Collection photographs
