Protection, Herman Schulheis 1938 by Michael Locke Via Flickr: Sculptor Herman Schulheis designed "Protection" in 1938. The sculpture depicts the heroic figure of a man drawing back the string of a bow while a woman cradles a baby. The monument was built for J. Hartley Taylor, the President of Citizens National Bank and his wife Nettie Barbara Taylor. 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. The Taylor Memorial is located at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California. Please do not use this image in any media without my permission. © All rights reserved. .