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Order Number	00068732
Title	Opening day at Griffith Observatory
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-005-535 8x10
Date	Circa 1937
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 cm.
Notes	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.
Historical Data	Designed by Archibald Garner, George Stanley, Gordon Newell, Roger Noble Burnham and Arnold Foerester, the Astronomers Monument immortalizes Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Herschel.; In 1896 Griffith J. Griffith donated over 3000 acres of Rancho Los Felis to the City of Los Angeles to create a public park in his name. In 1912 he offered the city $100,000 for an observatory to be built on the top of Mount Hollywood. Designed by architects John C. Austin and Frederick M. Ashley, Griffith Observatory (2800 East Observatory Road) was completed in 1935. In 1976 the observatory was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #168. In 1997 the Department of Recreation and Parks hired project architect Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (now Pfeiffer Partners, Inc.) and associate architect Levin & Associates Architects to design a major renovation and expansion project for the observatory, which was completed in 2006. Griffith Park was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #942 in 2009.
Description	Only a few people are seen outside the observatory on its opening day, May 14, 1935. The Astronomers Monument is present just left of center.
Subject	Griffith Observatory. Observatories--California--Los Angeles. Sculpture--California--Los Angeles. Astronomers--Statues--California--Los Angeles. Parks--California--Los Angeles. Mountains--California, Southern. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.). Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.). Schultheis Collection photographs. Austin, John C. W.(John Corneby Wilson),1870-1963. Ashley, Frederick M. Garner, Archibald. Newell, Gordon(Blair Gordon). Stanley, George. Burnham, Roger Noble,1876-1962. Foerester, Arnold.
Format	Photographic prints
Credits	Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation.
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection