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All Photos and Text from Enid A. Larson's Sunland Scrapbook unless otherwise noted.
See USE NOTICE on Home Page.

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sunland
SUNLAND
by Enid Larson
sunland

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schober home
R. J. Schober home
peaches
Sunland Indian Queen Peaches

This peach ripened in autumn; it was freestone, unusually sweet, with juice that was "blood red."

My father, O.W. Larson, had four of these trees in our yard, one of which bore prolifically. The stock for this peach came from the McDole Ranch on Rawson Creek, at the southern edge of what is known as Wilkerson tract subdivision. I think Joe Rossi procured the young trees from McDole. I am reasonably sure those of O.W. Larson were from McDole Ranch.

harvest festival
Sunland "Harvest Festival" float
"Ship Strung With Apples on a Wire"
A. A. Shirley driving
Two boys - Walter Schober as one boy in sailor's cap and Victor Hogle (?)
Mrs. O.W. Larson prepared the sign. The SUNLAND letters wer made of autumn leaves

joe rossi
Joe Rossi (taken in San Francisco)
joe rossi and wife

Joe Rossi and wife Marguerite White Rossi (daughter of Ed and Olive White)

matlick family
Chas Matlick Family - 1946
L/R: Vera, Lloyd, Gladys, Ken, Mrs. Chas, Chas

victor hogle
Victor Hogel - born February 1902

swensons
L. Swenson and Harriet Hogle Swenson - 1980

benny hogle
Benny Hogle - 1918

hogle and victor
Marian Hogle with sons Merle (L) and Victor (R)

grandma dixon
Grandma Dixon - mother of Marian Hogle and Galen Dixon

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stacking hay
Building the rectangular stack at the O.W. Larson Ranch.
Cattle feeder in the left background - Corral in right background.
O.W. Larson is the stacker, Robert W. Larson is the fork-man on the wagon.
A land renovator is in the foreground.
stacking hay
Haying on the O.W. Larson Ranch - 1920 - with derrick Jackson fork in action
O.W. Larson is the stacker, Wilbur Larson is operating the fork.

harvest festival
"The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe" - Harvest Festival float
Jim Thomas driving with his son beside him.
Louise Penny as the Old Lady.
Enid Larson and Bessie Bryan with heads in lover holes by the key.
Clyde Bryan standing on the left.
On the upper deck - Joe Leidy, Doris Tichenor, and Mabel McCain with hat

home
Home of Mrs. Wood Larson on Grove Street in Bishop - October 1918
The message on the back of the photo reads: She is well; that every other house in Bishop was quaranteeded in the "flu epidemic". She said "the other Clarke boy passed away this morning."

We were forbidden to go into Bishop unless for emergency; then masks over our faces were required.

larson on the ranch
O.W. Larson with horses on the Larson Ranch

carrying milk
Wilbur and O. W. Larson carrying fresh milk to be separated -
cream for creamery

larson ranch
A.E. Larson home, barn and grain silo

larson grain silo
A.E. Larson Ranch grain silo

larson grain silo
A.E. Larson home, barn and grain silo

larson ranch home
A.E. Larson home

freighting team
The freight team and wagons for hauling from Mojave to Bishop in early 1900's
R.J. Schober standing

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home
Hose built by Shelly at the foot of Shelly Hill - 1900
Purchased by Wood Larson
indian church
Indian Church, Bishop, CA

mrs isaac levison
Mrs. A. P. Levison - circa 1908 - 1928
Lived on a ranch then to a small house on Willow Street (?) in Bishop where she grew strawberries for the market.
She died in Petaluma in 1938 and was buried in the Pioneer Cemetery beside her husband, Isaac, who died in 1919 from dental infection after Dr. Stofflet extracted a tooth.

mr levison
Isaac L. Levison - died in 1919
Baker who peddled fresh bread, cookies etc. in Bishop.
Also garden produce - especially grapes
He taught us childrne many interesting things. He especially gave me a love for classical music. He played the flute at Sunland community gatherings. He was trained in England to be a Rabbi. He loved classical music and suggested many operatic solutions for our Edison phonograph (1916) - especially arias from Verdi and Wagner. Il Trovatore (Home to Our Mountains) was one of his favorites.

mary owens larson
Mary Jane Owens Larson
Mrs. Wood Larson
Bishop, CA

ida warlie
Ida McBride Warlie - 1942
Born - Mono Lake, CA - August 1889
Daughter of John McBride

lizzie schober
L/R: R. J. Schober, Lizzie Schober

high school days
High School Days
Back Row (L/R): Laura Doty (Warm Springs), Harriet Hightower (Sunland),
Enid Larson (Sunland)
Front Row (L/R): Leora Stilwell (Bishop), Leora Larson (Sunland)

sunland school
Sunland School - Gymnastics

sunland school
Sunland School - Playground

sunland school
Teachers: Mamie Clark (Left), Ora Boring (Right)

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ora boring
Ora Boring
jenkens
Mae Jenkins wedding picture - 1917

sunland 4th grade
Sunland Elementary School - 4th Grade - 1914

First Row
Lewis Stevens
Carrie Shelley
Hubert Edwards
Oral Chapman
____Bryan
Carmen Edwards ?
Mildred Schober
Second Row
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Alfred Shelley
_____Cahapman
Marie Alcorn
Jack Titus
Eric Banta
Third Row
Marguerite Blaney
Harold Schober
Flora Hall
Irma Chapman
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Robert Larson
Orin Bryan
Lloyd & Vera Marlick


sunland class
Sunland Elementary School Students - 1915
Left to Right

Top Row
Bill Banta
Victor Hogle
Jimmy Thomas
CLyde Bryan
Wilbur Edwards
2nd Row
Hazel Schober
Florence Dixon ?
Louise Penny
Valma Alcorn
Esther Banta
3rd Row
Mabel McCain
_________
Gladys Matlick
Enid Larson
Leora Larson
4th Row
Bessie Bryan
Vida Stevens
5th Row
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Gladys McCain
Robert Banta
Lloyd Alcorn
Walt Schober (hat)
Vera Matlick
6th Row
Marguerite Blaney
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Flora Hall
Harold Schober


Not identified in 1983 but this picture should have icluded: Kenneth Fortune, Ada Fortune (The Fortunes rode a donkey down from the Chipmunk Mine in Curtain Canyon); Curtis Cline (He stuttered and used to cry when we calle him "Turtus"). "My name is not Turtus, it is T - T - Turtus."

sunland students
Sunland Elementary School students
L/R (back row): ?, Vera Matlick, Mildred Schober, ?
L/R (middle row): ?, ?, ?
L/R (front row): Evelyn Rowan, ?


sunland students
Sunland Elementray School students
L/R: Carmen Edwards, ? Irene Mayew, Laura Schober

sunland students
Sunland Elementary School students - 1917
L/R (back row): Jack ?, Evard McCain, John Schober, Myrtle Roe
L/R (front row): Bessie Bryan, Gladys Matlick, Lueile Schooler, Enid Larson


sunland students
Sunland Elementary School students
L/R (back row): Robert Larson, ?, Art Schober

L/R (middle row): Melvin Rawon, Joe Leidy, Roland McCain, Hubert Edwards

sunland students
Sunland Elementary School 7th grade students

sunland students
Sunland Elementary School 7th grade students
L/R (back row): Bill Banta, Walt Schober, Clyde Bayan
L/R (front row): F. Dixon, Leora Larson, Mabel McCain, Esther Banta

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school bus
First School Bus - Sunland to Bishop Consolidated - 1921
George Rome - Driver
matlicks
Kenneth and Lloyd Matlick

overland car
Overland Car - 1921

larson family
The O.W. Larson family - 1916

schobers car
First automobile owned by the R.J. Schober family - 1917 Dodge
L/R: John and Arthur Schober


barnstorming plane
1919
A barnstorming aeroplane - first in Owens Valley after World War I.
$10 for a 10 minute ride.
No landing strip. Used the flat surface of alfalfa pasture for landing and takeoff on the Jim Thomas ranch. Sunland Avenue lined with Lombardy populars in the backgound. Photo taken by Enid A. Larson, Eastman Brownie camera.


the schobers
1910
Mr. & Mrs John Schober and sons.
L/R (back): Rudolph, Ed, Jacob

after 1910 snowstorm
John Schober home after an April snowstorm - 1910.

1916 snowstorm
January 1916 snowstorm - Bishop, CA

ice
Water tank at the home of Jim Thomas.

bishop
January 1916 snowstorm - Bishop, CA

bishop
January 1916 snowstorm - Bishop, CA

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the larsons
Arthur E. Larson and Laetitia Gregory wedding photo - 1904
water wheel
Water wheel power at Schober Lodge on Bishop Creek

sunland
L/R: Leora Larson, Robert Larson, Enid Larson, Wilbur Larson - 1913
john schober
John Schober - 1980

John Schober, self taught, developed his mechanical skills and continues in 1983 to be a genius in building out of discarded scrap. He still drives a 1941 truck and fashions it's needed parts.

As a 6th grader in Sunland he served as a worker on a construction job at Deep Springs College that built two cement silos. These still stand on the ranch there.

He planned and with his brothers constructed the pictured water wheel that generated power for lights at Schober Lodge o the south fork of Bishop Creek, below South Lake.

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Sunland Sunday School Class at J.G. Bryan Summer Camp at Lake Sabrina on Bishop Creek - 1918
L/R: Hazel Edwards, Bessie Bryan, Doris Tichenor holding baby "Louis", Leora Larson (with pan), M. Rossi, Galdys Matlick, Enid Larson
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Mrs. O.W. Larson - 1951

traction engine
Traction Engine
traction engine
Traction Engine
At the controls - F.O. Penny
Standing - R.J. Schober
Seated - Walt Schober


Bee hives in Bishop
(Photo from a phamplet on Inyo County)
sunland
L/R: Enid Larson, Leora Larson, Margie Peel - at Lake George - 1925

w a shelly
Life's Work - at 71, W.A. Shelly still tends his bees in Owens Valley. His father brought the first bees to the valley.

59 Years as a Beekeeper

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liberty bond
WWI Liberty Loan of O.W. Larson
schober sheep
Sheep on Jake Schober's Ranch
Immediately east of Owens River Canal north of Carpenter Lane

ap levinson
Mrs. A. P. Levison on small lot in east Bishop (Willow Street) where she grew strawberries for several years in late 1920's - 1931. She sold these to grocery stores in Bishop. She did all the gardening herself as well as picking the berries (age 70 - 80 years). Later she went to Petaluma (O.W. Larson's) where she die in 1938.
liberty loan
WWI 4th Liberty Loan of O.W. Larson

rossi hill
Rossi Hill - A landmark at the south end of Sunland Avenue

diploma
Enid A. Larson Bishop High School Diploma - 1923

school record
Leora Larson Report Card - 1920 - 21

school record
Wilbur Larson Report Card - 1920 - 21
flag raising
Flag pole Raising at Center Main and Line Streets in Bishop - April 6, 1918

Chorus of "Over There"

Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there,
The Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming,
The drums rum-tum-tumming ev'rywhere.
So prepare, say a pray'r.
Send the word, send the word to beware,
We'll be over, we're comig over,
And we won't come back till it's over, over there!
Over there!


Compliments of Harry Holland


club
Sunland Improvement Club

sunland
Wilbur Larson Primary Department Certificate - 1917

sheep
Sheep on the Jake Schober Ranch - immediately east of the Owens River Canal north of Carpenter Lane

saline salt
Saline Valley - Source of salt for Sunland housewives

new 11/23
indian school
Sunland Indian School
(Photo courtesy of the Online Archive of California)

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