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Olga B. Horner
Visit to Ea. Pulmarí - 1913

Photos from
Douglas Family Album

 These photos were very kindly provided to us by Ian Cooper, copied from an album of photos taken/collected by John Campbell Douglas (JCD - Jack) and Vera Douglas Douglas (VDD - Vera).  Most of these photos were taken during a visit they made in 1913 to Estancia “Pulmarí” in Neuquen province.  Olga B. Horner accompanied them, visiting her brothers Chumps (John), Babs (Henry), and Humfrey.  They lived near or on the estancia.    In several photos, Olga is prematurely identified as “Mrs Alfred” – she married Alfred A. Benitz two years later, on September 29, 1915.

Estancia “Pulmarí” is beyond the foot-hills west of Zapala (town), a 2 day horse ride.  At the time owned by the Miles family (bought in 1905, sold/expropriated in 1950), it was bordered to the north by Aluminé lake, to the south by the Ruca Choroi river (8 km. north of Aluminé town), to the east by the Aluminé river, and to the west by Chile and the Andes proper, plus a 10,000 ha. block east of the river – a total of 67,900 hectares.  The estancia headquarters (casco) was on the flat-lands north-west of and close to the confluence of the Aluminé and Pulmarí rivers.  (See website dedicated to the more recent history of the estancia.)

  Original titles are highlighted in blue.  

Douglas Family Album

Page and photo numbers are entirely ours and do NOT match the album.

 

Douglas Album

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JCD - Jack Douglas
VDD - Vera Douglas
C Hay - Charlie Hay
Mrs. Alfred - Olga Horner

Douglas1.p01-A

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A dusty journey   J.C.D.

Douglas1.p01-B

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Off to Pulmarí. 1913    
    Packing the pack horses   Zapala

Douglas1.p01-A

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JCB         Hay  Mrs. Alfred
The first night before crossing   Pass.

Douglas1.p01-B

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First ice cold stream

 

Douglas Album

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Pulmarí Estancia
1913

JCD - Jack Douglas
C Hay - Charlie Hay

Douglas1.p02-A

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(PBz: Likely Lago Ñorquinco.
Per lake’s mountainous coasts.
West of Lago Pulmarí, close to
the border with Chile.)

Douglas1.p02-B

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JCD  C Hay
   After first night out on the
way to Pulmarí estancia.

Douglas1.p02-C

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(PBz: Lago Aluminé, per flat low coastline,
looking west from the east end of the lake.)

Douglas1.p02-D

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Angostura
(PBz: “Angostura” (narrows or neck) was on the
Rio Aluminé, at or near where it flows out of
the east end of Lago Aluminé.  The visitors
very likely forded the river here on their way
from Zapala to the estancia.)

 

Douglas Album

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Pulmarí
Varias types of Trees & woodlands in the mountains.

 

Douglas1.p03-A

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Douglas1.p03-B

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(PBz: Likely the Pulmarí river just short
of entering Pulmarí lake.
Polcahue mountains in distance.)

Douglas1.p03-C

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Count the bottles!!

Douglas1.p03-D

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More bottles!!

Douglas1.p03-E

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Douglas1.p11-A

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Horner family in woods

Douglas1.p11-B

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JCD     Babs Horner  CHay   Horner
      MrsAlfred

(PBz: On the veranda of the manager’s house.)

JCD - Jack Douglas
(Man holding camera is not identified.)
Babs Horner - Henry Edward Horner
CHay - Charlie Hay
Horner - Humfrey Horner
Mrs Alfred - Olga Horner

Douglas1.p11-C

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WmMaitland brother HHorner  MrsAlfred  JCD
Centaruth   Pulmari Store  

 

Douglas Album

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Pulmarí

 

Douglas1.p20-A

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Pulmarí house
(summer)

Douglas1.p20-B

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Pulmarí house
(winter)

Douglas1.p20-C

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VDD
Vera Douglas

Douglas1.p14-A

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Mrs Alfred Benitz - Charlie Hay - V.D.Douglas
Olga Horner - Charlie Hay - Vera Douglas

Douglas1.p14-B

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Picking apples planted by Jesuits.
Note size of trees.

Douglas1.p14-C

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V.D.D on horse back to show
size of the Araucaran Pine.

Monkey Puzzle tree
(Araucaria araucana)
An evergreen with broad spiked
leaves.  Its fruit is edible (nutty).

Douglas1.p14-D

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Camp fire

Douglas1.p12-A

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Lago Pulmarí
Looking NE across the lake at Polcahue mtns.

Douglas1.p12-B

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Still waters
(PBz: Could be the Pulmarí river flowing
from the lake to Laguna de los Giles,
or the laguna itself.)

Douglas1.p13-A

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The “Pampa” _ the flat plateau
which is always between the
mountains & the valleys.

Douglas1.p13-B

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(PBz: Likely the Aluminé river valley)

Douglas1.p13-C

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The “Pampa” in the distance_ The top part
of which is always very high & quite sheer
rock.  On the top is grazing land but almost
impossible to reach.

Douglas1.p13-D

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A fertile patch in the Cordilleras
(PBz: Likely the Pulmarí river valley.)

Douglas1.p13-E

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The “tropilla”

Douglas1.p21-A

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Mountain ponies

Douglas1.p21-B

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An old Indiun who claimed to be
over 100.
nacei cuando estaban seembrando
lo ferotos.

( PBz: “I was born when they
were sowing (what?).”
)

Douglas1.p21-C

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Catango (Ox-cart)
(PBz: The ox team is guided by the cane
resting on the yoke.)

Douglas1.p21-D

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Hot Spring where indians went
to be cured and left gifts bits of
cloth & odd & ends as thanks


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