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Order Number	00098973
Title	View of Lake Hollywood from behind the Hollywoodland Sign
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-008-344 8x10
Date	Circa 1938
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 15 cm.
Notes	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.; 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 1923 Harry Chandler's real estate development Hollywoodland was loosely bounded by Mullholand to the west, Hollyridge Drive to the east and Belden Drive to the south. The Hollywood Sign located on the top of Mount Lee was declared Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #111 in 1973.; William Mulholland designed and built the 1924 Mulholland Dam and Hollywood Reservoir, also known as Lake Hollywood. The reservoir holds more than 2.5 billion gallons of water and was once part of the Owens River Aqueduct system. The Hollywood Water Quality Improvement Project, completed in 2001, bypasses the upper and lower Hollywood Reservoirs, which no longer meet federal and state water quality requirements. The dam, located in Weid Canyon, east of the Cahuenga Pass, is 210 feet high and 933 feet long.
Description	This panoramic view taken from behind the Hollywoodland sign captures the structure of the letters as well as Lake Hollywood on the right.
Subject	Hollywoodland. Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Reservoirs--California--Los Angeles. Lakes--California--Los Angeles. Mountains--California, Southern. Hollywood Reservoir (Calif.). Mount Lee (Calif.). Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.). Hollywood Hills (Los Angeles, Calif.). Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.). Panoramic views Landscape photographs Schultheis Collection photographs.
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