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. Brand Park, also called Memory Garden, was given to the city November 4, 1920. It is a part of the original land grant of Mission San Fernando de Rey de Espana and is located at 15174 San Fernando Mission Boulevard, across the street from the Mission. The entrance gate is located at 15121 South Brand Boulevard. It features a soap works, the original mission fountain, a reservoir and a life-sized statue sculpted by Sally James Farnham of Father Junipero Serra with his arm around an Indian boy. The park was designated California Historic-Cultural Monument #150 in 1935. This view looking north through the entrance arcade towards Brand Park shows the fountain and a little bit of the San Fernando Mission in the distance.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm. Photographic prints
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