1910 Vancouver: Joseph Charles Bishop

The City of Vancouver Archives has a magnificent Vasco, a large pastel caricature of Joseph Charles Bishop (1851-1913). As a photo from the same period shows, it is a stunning portrait. Bishop was founding President of the British Columbia Mountaineering Club. British Columbia's Mt Bishop is named after him. He died in 1913 when he fell down a crevasse. The photo was accompanied by the epitaph 'The mountains lured him and held him'. Thanks to folks in BC: Shirley Sutherland, Michael Feller, Kim McCarthy and Kate Russell.   

 

1905 Melbourne: Meet at Flinders St Station

See Culture Victoria's recent blog on Melbourne's Flinders Street statio:

http://blogs.cv.vic.gov.au/flinders-street-station/2012/10/29/love-stories-project-flinders-street-station/

It features one of Vasco's postcards from 1905. At this time there were up to three mail deliveries a day in central Melbourne. A postcard sent in the morning could set up up a meeting, under the clocks at Flinders Street, at the time the sender indicated on the blank clock. At a time when few people had telephones and postcards were very popular, such a message served the same function as modern texting.