Series contains photographs and some letters of the Langer family, beginning with the marriage of Fritz and Olga. Materials were created on Fritz and Olga's travels before having children, in daily life in Vienna, throughout the family's journey to Canada through France and Palestine, in daily life in Vancouver, and when visiting family in St. Louis. Series also includes photographs of friends of the Langer family.
Photograph depicts H.A. Roberts. H.A. Roberts was a prominent real estate broker whose offices were located at 530 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Head shot of H.A. Roberts in business attire. He is wearing a suit, striped shirt, tie with graphics and bifocal glasses with dark frames.
Photograph depicts H.A. Roberts sitting behind an office desk. H.A. Roberts was a prominent real estate broker whose offices were located at 530 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Image shows a room interior with a man wearing a suit jacket, vest, shirt and tie holding a letter in his left hand and bifocal glasses in his right ; on the desk is a blotter with a letter opener and desk calendar, two ashtrays, a pen in a marble stand, and a jug on a tray; two telephones sit on a small table to his left.
Photograph depicts H.A. Roberts sitting behind an office desk. H.A. Roberts was a prominent real estate broker whose offices were located at 530 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Image shows a room interior with a man wearing bifocal glasses and a suit jacket, vest, shirt and tie holding a letter in his left hand and pen in his right ; on the desk is a blotter with a letter opener, small note pad and desk calendar, two ashtrays, a pen in a marble stand, and a jug on a tray; two telephones sit on a small table to his left.
Photograph depicts the first Canadian Pacific Train in Vancouver.
Crowd gathered on wood platform on stilts over water; train decorated with wreaths of flowers to right of train; rail causeway over water in centre of image; mill and forested area in background.
Large caption written across top of image.
Note: Date of 1887 originally noted must be a mistake as Leonard Frank did not arrive on the west coast of North America, and more specifically in Vancouver or Victoria, until 1894. See "An Enterprising Life: Leonard Frank Photographs 1895 - 1944" by Cyril E. Leonoff.
Photograph depicts the arrival of the first Canadian Pacific Train in Vancouver.
Crowd gathered on wood platform on stilts over water; train decorated with wreaths of flowers to right of train; rail causeway over water in centre of image; mill and forested area in background.
Black and white photographic print of men working on railway (or possibly street car) tracks on Powell Street in the east side of Vancouver. Houses line either side of street with wood plank sidewalk on left side.
Verso of photograph reads "Please Credit Provincial Archives, Victoria, B.C.", "Powell Street - Vancouver, B.C. - 1889", "#15155"
Photograph depicts Chinese vendors on East Pender Street in Chinatown.
Five men on dirt road in front of wooden storefronts; sign painted on storefront in middle of image reads "Gim Lee Yuen"; horse-drawn buggies parked on left side of street; black dog in street in background.