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Title: Burbank Ralphs
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Creator: Schultheis, Herman
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1938
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: 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 Streamline Moderne style Ralphs in Burbank was located at 240 South San Fernando Boulevard (formerly called East San Fernando) in Burbank. This building is no longer there.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00099061
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-008-435 8x10
CARL0005092998
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/38435
Subject: Ralphs Grocery Company
Supermarkets--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Lampposts--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Streets--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Lost architecture--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
San Fernando Boulevard (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs

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