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Order Number	00101131
Title	Great Wall monument, China City
Photographer	Schultheis, Herman.
Collection ID	Herman J Schultheis Collection Los Angeles Photographers Collection
Location/Accession	N-010-722 8x10
Date	Circa 1939
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;15 x 11 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	Christine Sterling, the civic leader who created Olvera Street, created a similar project for the Chinese American community. China City covered the entire city block from Spring on the west to Main on the east and from Macy (now Ce´sar Cha´vez) on the south to Ord on the north, with gates on Main Street, Spring Street and Ord. By 1935, the development had an atmosphere of a Chinese village or small town, with booths and stalls along narrow winding streets. Unfortunately, due to two major fires over a ten-year period, China City came to an end by the early 1950s.
Description	The inscription on this monument in China City reads: "The Great Wall of China is the greatest engineering construction in the whole history of the human race. Work was begun about 240 BC by Chin Huang II.- It required a quarter of a million men one hundred years to complete it. The great wall is 2,500 miles in length, which is one tenth f the earth's circumference. Looking at us from the moon, an observer would be able to distinguish only one work of man upon the earth - the Great Wall of China. The small stone in the center is from The Great Wall of China. Presented by Mrs. Carl McStay." A bare light bulb hangs in front of the monument.
Subject	Monuments--California--Los Angeles. Signs and signboards--California--China City (Los Angeles). Chinese language. Stone walls--California--Los Angeles. Great Wall of China (China)--History. China City (Los Angeles, Calif.). Schultheis Collection photographs.
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