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Order Number	00098275
Title	Employee in an arched entry at Casa de Adobe
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-007-715 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	The Casa de Adobe, located below the Southwest Museum at 4605 N. Figueroa Street, was completed in 1918 by the Hispanic Society of California and donated to the museum in 1925. Modeled after the San Diego County landmark, Rancho Guajome, a pre-1850s Spanish California rancho, the Casa was designed by the office of architect Theodore Eisen.Constructed in the traditional manner by local adobe craftsmen, the rooms were decorated with antique furniture and the courtyard was planted with jasmine, oleander, fig trees, and grapevines. Casa de Adobe is now California Historical Monument #493 and is operated by the Autry National Center.
Description	A woman in a four-tiered dress and long black lace shawl is standing in an arched entryway in front of the courtyard of the Casa De Adobe.
Subject	Casa de Adobe (Los Angeles, Calif.). Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Adobe houses--California--Los Angeles. Museums--California--Los Angeles. Architecture--California--Los Angeles--Spanish influences. Museums--California--Los Angeles--Employees. Courtyards--California--Los Angeles. Gardens--California--Los Angeles. Arches--California--Los Angeles. California Historical Landmarks. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Highland Park (Los Angeles, Calif.). Portrait photographs Schultheis Collection photographs. Eisen, Theodore.
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