Lilian Bland

Gallery

comad October 15th, 2014

The Bland homestead also known as Johnson River homestead, is located near the Johnson River on the South side of Quatsino Sound in the Northwest of Vancouver Island. The nearest village, Quatsino, is 12 km (7.5 miles) by boat across Quatsino Sound. There was no road to the homestead.

Lilian Bland took more than 400 photos during the period 1912-1929. A selection of them has been preserved in her Quiet Cove, Quatsino, British Columbia photo album and are reproduced here in album order.

: Photo Album Cover

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: qc02 Tree Felling

: qc03 ‘Poo-Poo’ the cat

: qc04 Wild Meadow – Later became Lower Garden

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: qc07 Shack Facing Sea

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: qc10 West Side 1912 – Two small windows and kitchen window. Own room and cupboard above

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: qc12 Clearing the ground. Timberland around the house.

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: qc14 View from the sea. White speck is the shack.

: qc15 South verandah – Lilian and cat – 1914.

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: qc17 House from top of shack bank 1914. Line of forest came up to stump in foreground.

: qc18 Charles unloading seaweed on Dyke 1913

: qc19 Shack and Meadow Garden 1915

: QC20 View from North veranda

: qc21 Burning Logs 1914

: qc23 House – North front 1915

: qc24 House looking North. Also “Duck House”, tank and ref. to water supply – 1914

: qc25 House looking South 1914

: qc26 House and Shack from Sea

: qc27 North veranda, Flowerbed and Cat

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: qc29 Log Fire 1913

: qc30 House in Snow 1916

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: qc32 House and Dog

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: qc33 Icicles on verandah 1916

: qc34 Looking South. Poles are 130 to 170 feet high. (40-50m)

: qc35 View from roof of house, looking South

: qc36 Suzie Varney – Mowing – Aug 1916 –
The Varney family had a homestead about 6 km from the Blands. Henry was from London and his wife Ethel was from Middlesex. The 1901 census records 5 children at home – Ruth, Frederick, Kate, Susan and David. Suzie was born in 1898.

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: qc37 Suzie Varney

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Plank track to beach in 1916. Pat Bland is on the track. Other names for Pat were Patricia, Patsy, Peggy and Peg

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Charley and climbing roses – Aug 1916

: qc40 Splitting blocks for firewood

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: qc41 Sawing a Spruce 1915

: qc42 Rolling a block

: qc43 Siwash Indians 1913

: qc44 Charles in a boat – 1913

: qc45 Siwash woman and canoe

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Canoe, Launch and Evinrude boat in the Creek – high water

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Suzie Varney and Charley on roof – October 1916

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First haystack on big meadow – September 1915

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Landing wharf at Quiet Cove – March 1915

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The half-acre garden ground – July 1916

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Rabbit Run – Boat House – Chicken House – Cow House – 1917

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House and Cow Fence – Pat on plank track

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Visit to Varney’s – 1917

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Varney launch – Charley on right

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Suzie Varney and Pat Bland

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Varney’s lake
Charley – Katie – Suzie

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Lilian and Pat Bland

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Lilian Bland cleaning up engine on the launch

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Lilian – photographer

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Lilian and Pat (Patricia) and Musa with calf. 1917

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Visit to Brockton Island. Shelford’s top on Adam’s launch

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Mary Evelyn Madden – Lilian’s cousin – 1919
Mary (born 1902) came to the homestead from Victoria in 1917 and stayed until 1926)

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Giant Fir tree – biggest of 30 trees near site of house

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Mary Madden and Charles Bland

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Foxgloves

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Evinrude boat after trip to Seattle

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Pat (Patricia) Bland

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Mary Madden in 2 cylinder, 5 HP, inboard engine boat

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Evinrude on launching way. Boatshed, Windlass, Pat and Charles – 1917

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Pat (Patricia) Bland

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Boat Shed

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Musa in Evinrude

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Lilian Bland and Bessie

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Jose

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‘Morning’
Limestone Island
(became Drake Island in 1926 in honour of Justice Montague William Tyrwhitt Drake)

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Beach looking towards Limestone Island (Drake Island)

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Pat, Bessie, Mary and Peter

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Salmon used as fertilizer

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Working in the vegetable garden

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Charles and Pat
1919

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Fir tree stump that cost 400 dollars in doctor’s bills

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Charles sawing

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Charles sawing

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The “Wee MacGregor” Dragsaw used a reciprocating six foot (1.83 m) steel crosscut blade
The biggest Fir tree of the lot.

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Pat Bland and Louise Barnett. In March 1929 Louise married William (Blondie) Paulsen from Christiania, Norway and settled on Limestone (Drake) Island. Her mother was Ann Linda Jane Field and her father was John Barnett. (from son Harry Paulsen, Campbell River, BC Oct. 2015)

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Bringing home the wood

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Cukes and Tomatoes

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Mary, Patsy and Lilian – Land clearing – Beeman garden tractor on left.

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Mary, Pat, Lilian and wood spider

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Pat, Mary, Lilian and Beeman Garden Tractor which was designed to replace a horse and could attach a plough, harrow, knife-weeder, spring tooth, bull tongue and others. It cost 285 dollars.

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Land Clearing

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‘Big’ room – south east corner. The room measured 30ft x 15ft (9m x 4.5m)

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View towards corner of Limestone Island (now Drake Island) between Johnston and Quatsino

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Keeping Warm

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Bill Wilson – visitor

Bill’s homestead was on Limestone Island.

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The path of duty

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“The strip of herbage strown, which just divides the desert from the sown” – Edward Denison Ross

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Johnston river – One mile (1.6 km) upstream

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Johnston river looking south

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The house – 1919

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Birds-eye view of the works

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Farmer’s Shack

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Charles and dog in boat

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Charles Loftus Bland – Royal Artillery (retired). First commission 2nd May 1900. Achieved rank of Lieutenant 3rd April 1901. Retired 13th December 1908

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Charles – Koprino bound, in old timer’s launch that used coal oil (American oil). The Koprino River flows into Quatsino Sound at Koprino Harbour.

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Henningsen – Shack and boat – All new

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West paddock and chicken house

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Reinforced Dyke
1920

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West paddock and stable

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Barn – 1920

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New Fences – Cow Fence on North front – 1921

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New cow shed

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Old fence – 1920

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West view – 1920

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Winter 1921

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West view 1921. Lilian and Pat lower right.

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Morning through the mist

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Patricia Lilian Bland born 13th April 1913

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Patricia Lilian Bland
1913

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Lilian Bland and daughter Patricia

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Patricia Bland

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Charles Bland and daughter Patricia

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland

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Lilian Bland – 1898

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Charles Bland

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Charles Bland and daughter Patricia

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Lilian Bland and daughter Patricia

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Charles Bland and daughter Patricia

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Lilian Bland cleaning out the byre. (cowshed)

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Charles Bland hunting ducks on the Johnson river

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“Farmer John”

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Lilian Bland and daughter Patricia

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Charles Bland and daughter Patricia

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Patricia Bland

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Charles Bland and daughter Patricia

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland and fish

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland

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Patricia Bland and dog

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Patricia Bland

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Charles, Mary and Patricia

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River scene

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Mary Madden – This was hand tinted using water based pigments. (The first full colour photographic process ‘Autochrome’ was available in 1907 but it required very long exposure times )

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Mary Madden, Patricia and Charles

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Jackie Bland

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Suzie Varney, Patricia and Lilian Bland

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Susie Varney

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Looking West

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Interesting hues

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Musa fishing for flatfish

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Nootka – on the west coast of Vancouver Island

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Clayoquot Sound – on the west coast of Vancouver Island

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Tofino – on the west coast of Vancouver Island, on the tip of the Esowista Peninsula

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School

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Dew and misty sunshine

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The J.P.

The ‘Justice of the Peace’ was an ordinary citizen given limited powers by Provincial and Federal Governments. Among their duties they had the power to marry couples and to detain trouble makers. J.P.’s were very common long years ago as police were few and far between, and very often many hours away from where they were needed. (Harry Paulsen)

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The Creek in a dry summer

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Cabbage Baby

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Winter scene

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Daffodils from Johnson River

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Easthope launch and cow tight fence. 1925

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Geese 1918

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Storm aftermath 1916

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Bees 1920

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Dragsaw – “Wee McGregor” 1920

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Dragsaw

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Result of using explosives to blast fir tree stump roots

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Jackie Bland
Born in Calistoga County
17th July 1922

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Jackie

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Pig looking over fence

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Patricia and Jackie

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Patricia

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Patricia and Jackie

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Patricia

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Patricia and Berries
1928

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Good Fishing
1928

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Picnic

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Chicken house built of shakes and beach combings 1927. Shakes are thin pieces of wood, used to protect roofs and walls from the weather.

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Charles Bland and cat.

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Patricia and ‘Sparky’
California 1924

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Patricia and Jackie Bland – California

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Patricia and plough horse

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Jackie

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Charles Bland. Oak wood by the Cord. A cord is 4ft by 4ft by 8ft, (128 cubic feet – 39 cu met) of tightly stacked wood, meaning a chipmunk can get through but not a cat.

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Charles Bland.
112°F (44°C) in the shade sometimes.
Rig for splitting oak is 3 blocks half buried.

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Woodpile

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Valley near Los Angeles, California, 1580 miles (2542 km) from Quiet Cove

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Napa Valley
California 1923

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Next door neighbours homestead
California

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Ferry Building, San Francisco 1923. Until the completion of the Golden Gate Bridge in the 1930s, the Ferry Building was the second busiest transit terminal in the world.

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1923 – “Eureka” side-wheel paddle steamboat built in 1890. It is now a floating museum in the San Francisco maritime national historic park

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On board the Monticello Steamship Co. flagship steamer ‘Napa Valley’ which in 1923 could carry sixty cars and 1,500 passengers. It had a single propeller 11 feet (3.35m) in diameter and a speed of 21 mph ( 33.8 kph)

‘Napa Valley’ steamship

‘Sausalito News’
26/2/1910

“The swiftest passenger steamer ever”
“Fireproof and unsinkable”
“Broad promenade deck where a whole regiment could manoeuvre”
photo courtesy www.evergreenfleet.com

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Market Street, San Francisco 1923.
Some outlets are:
801 Feltman and Curme – Quality Shoes
883 Simon Millinery Co.
982 Loews Warfield Theatre (opened 1922)
1017 Eastern Outfitting Co.

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Charlie Chaplin’s silent film ‘The Pilgrim’ was released in 1923 and may have been showing in San Francisco when the Bland family was there.
The Strand Theatre was at 965 Market Street.