Schultheis' neighbors in knit hats with a doll

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Schultheis' neighbors in knit hats with a doll

Schultheis, Herman

[ca. 1939]

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Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.

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.

Three women stand on the lawn of their courtyard apartment located at 2820 St. George Street, a unit or two from the Schultheis residence at 2806. Both daughters are wearing knit hats and the younger daughter holds up a doll in a knit dress.

LAPL 00101399

Women--California--Los Angeles

Young women--California--Los Angeles

Hats--California--Los Angeles

Dolls--California--Los Angeles

Dwellings--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)

Apartments--California--Los Feliz (Los Angeles)

Lawns--California--Los Angeles

Los Feliz (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Group portraits--1931-1940

Portrait photographs--1931-1940

Schultheis Collection photographs

California Digital Library

English

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