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Order Number	00098788
Title	Crossroads of the World neon sign
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-008-159 8x10
Date	[ca. 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	Robert V. Derrah designed the 1936 Crossroads of the World (6671 Sunset Boulevard) as a Streamline Moderne programmatic office complex, which looked like a ship whose prow was topped with a tall, open tower and lighted globe. In 1974 the complex was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 134.
Description	Cross Roads of the World neon sign.
Subject	Crossroads of the World (Los Angeles, Calif.). Neon signs--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles). Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.). Night photographs Schultheis Collection photographs. Derrah, Robert V.
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