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Description
Order Number
00098571
Title
U.C.L.A
.
campus
buildings
Photographer
Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID
Herman J Schultheis Collection
Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession
N-008-011
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
In
1925
the
UC
Regents
chose
384-acres
of the
2,000
acre
Wolfskill
Ranch
(originally
Rancho
San
Jose
de
Buenos
Aires)
in
Westwood
as
new
site
for the
Southern
Branch
campus
. In
1927
the
name
University
of
California
at
Los
Angeles
was
adopted
and
construction
of the
campus
began
.
Several
buildings
including
Royce
,
Haines
and
Kinsey
halls
and
Powell
Library
are
completed
in
1929
, in
time
for the
opening
in
1930
.
After
World
War
II
, the
arroyo
between
the
Administration
Building
and the
rest
of the
campus
was
filled
in
creating
land
used
for
expansion
.
Description
Early
view
of
several
Westwood
campus
buildings
at
UCLA
looking
west
across
the
arroyo
and
undeveloped
ranch
land
.
Buildings
from
left
to
right
are:
Moore
Hall
(George
W
.
Kelham
1930)
, the
Powell
Library
with the
domed
spire
(Kelham
1927-29)
and the
Physics
Building
,
now
Kinsey
Hall
(1928-29
Allison
and
Allison)
.
Subject
University of California, Los Angeles.
Universities and colleges--California--Westwood (Los Angeles).
College buildings--California--Westwood (Los Angeles).
Romanesque revival (Architecture)--California--Westwood (Los Angeles).
Mountains--California, Southern.
Westwood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.).
Panoramic views
Schultheis Collection photographs.
Kelham, George W.(George William),1871-1936.
Allison & Allison.
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.
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Los Angeles Photographers Photo Collection
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