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Description
Order Number
00097772
Title
Albert
Sheetz
Mission
Candy
Company
Photographer
Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID
Herman J Schultheis Collection
Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession
N-007-263
8x10
Date
Circa
1937
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
.
Description
Albert
Sheetz
Mission
Candy
Company
(450
North
Canon
Drive
,
Beverly
Hills)
was also a
bakery
and
fountain
serving
ice
cream
according
to the
signage
on the
front
and
sides
of this
Art
Deco
building
.
Cars
line
the
curb
in this
image
taken
from the
corner
,
which
includes
a
cocktail
lounge
on
Burton
Way
and
Pioneer
on
Canon
Drive
.
Subject
Albert Sheetz Mission Candy Company (Beverly Hils, Calif.).
Confectioneries--California--Beverly Hills.
Bakeries--California--Beverly Hills.
Soda fountains--California--Beverly Hills.
Art deco (Architecture)--California--Beverly Hills.
Automobiles--California--Beverly Hills.
Streets--California--Beverly Hills.
Burton Way (Beverly Hills, Calif.).
Beverly Hills (Calif.).
Schultheis Collection photographs.
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
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