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  Albums
1 - Chaco estancias
2 - Early Argentina
3 - Family Parties
4 - Algarrobos
5 - Algarrobos
6 - Córdoba Hills
7 = California & Arg.
8 - Camps & Hills
 — ALL Photos

Photo Album Nº 7
California, Camps, & Hills

Kolmer Farm, Estancias, and Summer Homes

Part 1 (pages  1-26) - click here
Part 2 (pages 27-52) - this page

See Part 1 for notes & conventions, terms used, abbreviations, etc.

We are enormously grateful to John C. Benitz for making this album available to us.
(Copied on 14 October, 2011.)

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Page 27

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“Cemetery California
Donald Macintosh (Margery’s brother)
died of appendix”

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“Bertha & Emma”
Schreiber, John’s nieces

 

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Page 28

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Marjorie?
ca. 1901-1902

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“Rio harbour”
Pão de Açucar - Sugar Loaf mountain
ca.1901-1902

 

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Rio de Janeiro harbour

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Likely the home of
an Agar or Macintosh.

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Page 29
Ships & Ports

 

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Page 30
Missed the car on a train - sorry!
Castle & ruins not enlarged.

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“J. Todd
Uncle Alfreds shooting friend
Africa Alaska”

(John Todd: Yukon 1908, Kenya 1910.
See Alfred’s diaries.)

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“J. Todds Car & house”
(Car: Wolseley 5hp - 1901 ?
Home: in Mereside,
Broomfield, Cumberland)

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Page 31
Schreiber family: see pages 49 & 50.

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“Miss McDonald my aunt”
(Sister of Espeth Dow MacDonald,
Marjorie’s mother)

 

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Page 32
Ships at sea.

 

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Page 33

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“My Mother & Grandmother”
(Likely written by John Bz jr.)
“Marjory Morris
Marjory Morris Macintosh Benitz”

(Likely written by Aphra Peard/Bz)

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“Mrs Morris &
Mrs Macintosh.
J.B’s mother side.”

(However, the lady on the right is
Marjorie M. Macintosh/Bz., J.B.’s mother.)
J.B. = John Bz jr.

 

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“Jo”
ca.1902

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“Marjory”
ca.1902

 

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“John” (J.B. jr)
ca.1902-1903, at Ea. ‘La California’

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“John”
ca.1902-1903, at Ea. ‘La California’

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Page 34

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Lunch outdoors
John E. Bz & family
ca. 1900s

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Wolseley 5hp 1901 ?
Britain somewhere, 1902?

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Page 35

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Fine stallion
At ‘La California’ ?
ca. 1900s

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Lunch outdoors
John E. Bz & family
ca. 1900s

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Page 36

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Valley - likely Britain per house style
ca. 1900s

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“California   William B”
Children not identified
ca.1902

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Page 37

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Schreiber sisters & friends
in chairs: Emma - ?? - Bertha
on ground: ?? - Clara
ca. 1900s

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“John” (jr.)
1902

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Page 38

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John, enjoying a rib for lunch
ca. 1900s

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Huerta Grande
(water fall matches photo 19d)

 

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Huerta Grande
(water fall matches photo 19d)

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Lunch & siesta
NN - John - Wlliam - Alfred

(Same lunch, Album 2, photo 18e)
ca. 1900s

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Page 39

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Family group, ca.1904
Likely in/near Cruz Grande
Several clips were made from this or smilar photos:
40d, 42c, 46d, 46e, 47c2

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“Note: JB’s horses white.  All ladies side saddle
Cordoba Pampa”

Likely the Pampa de Olaen, SW of La Cumbre.
John at back, right of center.
ca.1905

 

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Elsie with Alfred - Jo - John - Marjory-Daw
ca.1905

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Page 40

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NN - John - Alfred
ca. 1900s

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“Huerta Mala”
aka: ‘Huerta Grande’, see photo 19d

 

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Alfred or John - in for a swim
(Duplicate of Album 2, photo 22e)

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Josephine Kolmer/Bz -   
   - Josephine Bz/Schreiber

(See photo 39a)

 

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“Pic nic”
(See similar to photo 46c)

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Page 41
Any ideas who or where?
(Photos are not of John’s Cruz Grande)

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Page 42
(Omitted enlarging photo of unknown monks, very faded.)

Alb.7-42a

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Alb.7-42b

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“Puma with John B”
La California – 1893-1899
(Duplicate of Album 2, photo 32c)

 

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Marjorie - Miss Campbell (governess)
Elsie - Jo - Marjory-Daw

(See photo 39a)

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“Elsie - John B - California - Margery B”
(One of a set of photos taken at
La California, ca. 1894)

 

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(excerp from photo: 45a )

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Page 43

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“Partridge caught with loop snare”
ca. 1900s

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“Looking down on Cruz Grande”

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Page 44
We omitted the photo of Alfred.
It is a clip from a photo taken by John
at ‘Los Palmares’, 23 April, 1902.
See Alfred’s Album Nº1, page 5, photo 2.

Alb.7-44a

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Likely at ‘Los Palmares’, April 1902
(Per laguna in background.)

Alb.7-44b

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Quebrada & arroyo ‘Cruz Grande’,
above ‘El Rincon’ ?

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“Chaco    Jaguar skin”
l-r:  Gama (deer) - pecarí (pig) - ñandú eggs - 
  - gama - anteater skin - puma skin - jaguar skin
(Hunter might be Alfred Bz)

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Page 45

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Farm cattle in the Córdoba hills.
The fieldstone walls are known as ‘pirca’ in Córdoba.
(Source of photo 42f.)

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“Domador Post”
(‘Domador’ = horse tamer)

 

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“Chaco”

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Marjory & friend

 

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Page 46

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John setting up
ca. 1900s

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70 foot falls
Eastern end of Uncle Alfred’s
‘El Rincon’

ca. 1900s

 

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‘Pic nic’ - Nº2
(Very similar to photo 40f)

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“William B & girls”
Paul Sc (sitting) - William - Marjorie - Miss Campbell
Elsie - Jo - Marjory-Daw
(Clip from photo 39a.)

 

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“Miss Campbell
Governess at Algarrobos”

(See photo 39a)

 

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Page 47

Alb.7-47a

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Elsie & John jr.
Clip from photo 39e.

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Conglomeration of generations
See photos 39a, 42c, 46d.

 

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“Palermo Schreibers?”
ca. 1900s

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Page 48

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Could be a port on the Paraná river
ca. 1900s

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Benitz - generation 3?
Córdoba hills - ca. 1900s
(See Album 2, photo 7b, for a better version.)

 

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Córdoba hills - ca. 1900s

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Schreiber Family
Page 49

(Schreiber, not Schrieber)

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“Schrieber family”
Paul - John - Clara - Alfredo
Bertha - Josephine - Emma

ca. 1900s

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Paul Schreiber

 

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“Bertha”
(Child: Beatrice or Frank Higham
b: Aug.1903   Oct.1905)

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“John - Josephine”

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Page 50
(Schreiber, not Schrieber)

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“Bertha Higham Higham  
    Josephine Schrieber (nee Benitz)”

Alfredo - Clara - Emma - Paul
John - Bertha - Frank H. - Josephine
( Bertha & Frank married on 20 Sept., 1902.
Tilly & George Grimmé are absent. )

Alb.7-50b

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Likely
Emma & Clara
Schreiber

 

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Generation #3 ?

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Page 51
Note: The first 4th generation in the
Bz-Schreiber family line was Tilly’s son
George Grimé, born 1900.

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“4 Generations
Mrs W.B. - Mrs Schreiber (daughter)
Bertha Higham (grand daughter)
& Beatrice”

1903

Alb.7-51b

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“Paul Schreiber Jo Graham Paul
Algarrobos”

 

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Alb.7-51c2

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Likely Clara Schreiber
(Clip from photo Alb.6-18; see 6-21)

 

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Likely Emma Schreiber
(Clip from photo Alb.6-23, see 6-18 & 6-21)

Alb.7-51e

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“Mr & Mrs Schreiber”
1903

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Page 52

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“J.B.”(John jr.)
(Duplicate of 37b.)

 

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Jo
Damage from flash-flood
Cruz Grande, Cba.

(See photo Album 6-25)

 

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“J.B.”(John jr.)

 

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Elsie         Jo
Córdoba hills - ca. 1902
(See ‘Miscellaneous Photos 4-C’)

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“Alfred  Mrs JB  John”

 

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“Algarrobos
Push ball”


© Peter Benitz (Benitz Family)