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Order Number	00098129
Title	Lawn bowling and Bowling Club House in Exposition Park
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-007-561 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	Originally named Agricultural Park in 1876, the 160-acre site was developed and served as an agricultural and horticultural fairground until approximately 1910, at which point it was re-named Exposition Park. On November 6, 1913, Exposition Park was formally dedicated, and became the home to a state Exposition Building and the county Museum of History, Science and Art. The Exposition Club House located at 3990 Menlo (now Bill Robertson Lane) was declared City of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #127 in 1974 and currently is the Ahmanson Senior Center.
Description	Men bowl in this fairly formal lawn bowling area in front of the Spanish Colonial Revival style Bowling Club House in Exposition Park, which includes a trench at the end of the lanes for balls, covered benches, and temporary runners that have been laid out on the grass.
Subject	Exposition Club House (Los Angeles, Calif.). Clubhouses--California--Los Angeles. Lawn bowls--California--Los Angeles. Recreation--California--Los Angeles. Bowling--California--Los Angeles. Parks--California--Los Angeles. Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Exposition Park (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