A day in life 1905...help?

[Dace]

How would I find out what a day in the life of a Californian would be in 1905? I am doing some research for a project and can't really find much. I know it was called the arts and crafts period but a really need basic day to day living info.

Can anyone advise what or how to search this? I keep trying different combinations of phrases without a lot of luck.

 

[The Vail Benton's]

Try Googling "California Life at the Turn of The Century"???

 

[Dace]

Ok, getting closer.....now what about if you were a wealthy family? I want to know what life looked like for them.

There is a house here In San Diego called the Marston house.
https://www.sandiegohistory.org/marston_house.html

I am trying to research what the property would have looked like....would they have had large gardens for growing their own food? Would they have had chickens and other meat/ working animals? I know that they had servants s i wonder if they would have purchased everything that they needed or was it normal for even the wealthy to grow their own?

 

[The Vail Benton's]

Wow what a GRAND house!
Have you tried this site: www.sandiegohistory.org/photocollect/palist.htm or contacting the San Diego Historical Society?

 

[The Vail Benton's]

LOL sorry... I see you've been there already!

 

[miss_thenorth]

Wasn't arts and crafts style in the 1930's before the depression?

 

[The Vail Benton's]

An excerpt from the webpage Dace found about the house; "Designed by renowned architects, William Sterling Hebbard and Irving John Gill, the homes exterior demonstrates the transitional phase from the structure and rigidity of the Victorian age and the English Tudor intent of its original design to the simplicity, ease of maintenance, and form follows function philosophy of the Craftsman period. The interior features spacious hallways juxtaposed with close, intimate living areas that evoke the hearth and home aesthetic of the Arts and Crafts Movement. "

 

[Dace]

I found an article about the family that helped!
Thanks you all

 

[The Vail Benton's]

Well now what am I going to do with the rest of my morning?

 

[Dace]

Here you go Vail....how about some reading with your morning coffee?

https://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/90summer/marston.htm