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Order Number	00100830
Title	View of the Atlantic Richfield Building
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-010-269 8x10
Date	Circa 1938
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	The Atlantic Richfield building by architects Morgan, Walls & Clements was built for the Richfield Oil Corporation from 1928 to 1930. Located at 555 South Flower Street in Los Angeles, it was demolished in 1969.; Architect Robert D. Farquhar designed the 1930 Italian Renaissance Revival style California Club located at 538 South Flower Street. This building was designated Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument #43 in 1963 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
Description	This view looking northeast from the top of the Barker Brothers Building, located at 818 West 7th Street, captures the Richfield Building with the radio tower on the roof (left) as well as the California Club on the right.
Subject	Atlantic Richfield Building (Los Angeles, Calif.). California Club (Los Angeles, Calif.). Commercial buildings--California--Los Angeles. Office buildings--California--Los Angeles. Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments. Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles. Parking lots--California--Los Angeles. Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.). Schultheis Collection photographs. Farquhar, Robert D. Morgan, Walls & Clements.
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