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Order Number	00096626
Title	Golf course from the clubhouse at the Wilshire Country Club
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-004-974.1 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 1915 G. Allan Hancock planned the residential subdivision of Rancho La Brea and in 1919 leased the oil fields to the Wilshire Country Club (301 North Rossmore Avenue). Architects Hunt and Burns designed the clubhouse, and Norman Macbeth designed the 18-hole golf course. A barranca (dry ditch or gully that is played as a hazard) washed out during the1938 flood and had to be reconstructed. Architects Qvale, Ragnar and Associates replaced the original 1920 clubhouse in 1970. In 2001 the Wilshire Country Club was included in the Hancock Park Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ).
Description	This view of golfers, greens and the meandering barranca is viewed from behind an umbrella and table set in front of the clubhouse at the Wilshire Country Club.
Subject	Wilshire Country Club (Los Angeles, Calif.). Golfers--California--Los Angeles. Golf--California--Los Angeles. Bridges--California--Los Angeles. Golf courses--California--Los Angeles. Umbrellas--California--Los Angeles. Mountains--California, Southern. Country clubs--California--Hancock Park (Los Angeles). Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.). Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif.). Panoramic views Schultheis Collection photographs. Macbeth, Norman.
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