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Order Number	00082311
Title	L.A. River flooding, Atwater and Glendale
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-008-689 8x10
Date	1938
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 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	The 56-ft. wide, 1,370-ft. concrete arch Glendale-Hyperion Bridge was designed by Merrill Butler and completed in 1929; it was originally named the Victory Memorial Bridge, in honor of the men who had served in World War I. It crosses over the Los Angeles River, Riverside Drive, between Ettrick Street and Glenfeliz Boulevard, and since the 1950s, the Golden State Freeway. It is Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #164.; Originally an alluvial river that ran freely across a flood plain, the Los Angeles River's 51-mile path was unstable and unpredictable with the mouth of the river moving frequently from one place to the other. In March of 1938 there was a great storm that flooded one third of the city of Los Angeles killing 115 people. Later that year, due to public outcry, the Army Corps of Engineers began the 20 year project to create the permanent concrete channel which still contains most of the of riverbed today.
Description	This panoramic view of Los Angeles and Glendale captures the very full Los Angeles River, the collapsed fence of Victor McLaglen's Sports Center (left), the Glendale/Hyperion bridge (right), the city and mountains. A broken levee let floodwaters rise on the east side of the river forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents between Glendale and Los Feliz boulevards on March 2, 1938. One house was completely submerged.; See image #00082313 for closeup of the fence.
Subject	Victor McLaglen's Sports Center (Los Angeles, Calif.). Floods--California, Southern. Flood damage--California--Los Angeles. Natural disasters--California--Los Angeles County. Rivers--California, Southern. Bridges--California--Los Angeles. Industrial facilities--California--Los Angeles. Lost architecture--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles). Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Mountains--California, Southern. Los Angeles River (Calif.). Glendale-Hyperion Bridge (Los Angeles, Calif.). Silver Lake (Los Angeles, Calif.). Atwater Village (Los Angeles, Calif.). San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.). Verdugo Mountains (Calif.). Glendale (Calif.). Panoramic views Schultheis Collection photographs. Butler, Merrill.
Coverage	1931; 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935; 1936; 1937; 1938; 1939; 1940
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