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Title
Crowded waiting room at La Grande Station
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 1937
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.
Santa Fe opened the Moorish-inspired La Grande railroad station, located on the corner of 2nd and Santa Fe, on July 29, 1893. It was used as a passenger terminal for Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. The station was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, and was replaced by Union Station in 1939.
Crowds of people mill about under a series of three dramatic circular archways inside La Grande Station.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00098735
Herman J Schultheis Collection; Los Angeles Photographers Collection;
N-008-106 8x10
CARL0005090585
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/38077
Subject
La Grande Station (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Crowds--California--Los Angeles
Railroad stations--California--Los Angeles
Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Islamic influences
Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles
Waiting rooms--California--Los Angeles
Arches--California--Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Schultheis Collection photographs
Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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