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Order Number	00097887
Title	Treasure chest mailbox in Outpost Estates
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-007-378 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.
Historical Data	Harrison Gray Otis bought a large, undeveloped plot of hillside land in the late 1800s and called it his outpost. Otis sold the land to Charles E. Toberman, who developed the Spanish Revival style Outpost Estates in the 1920s. He built a 30-foot high red neon sign reading "Outpost" on the hillside above Grumman's Chinese theater to advertise his venture. Today, Outpost Estates covers roughly one and a half square miles and is bordered by Mulholland Drive to the north, Franklin Canyon to the south, Runyon Canyon Park to the west and Cahuenga Boulevard to the east.
Description	This mailbox, located at 2530 Outpost Drive in Outpost Estates, which looks like a treasure chest mounted to a concrete rock-like pedestal, can still be seen today.
Subject	Mailboxes--California--Los Angeles. Outpost Estates (Los Angeles, Calif.). Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.). Hollywood (Los Angeles, 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