Breaking the prairie with a steam plow
- IHM.2021.0222
- Item
- 1910
Part of Town Collection
Men working with a steam-powered tractor in order to break the ground for farming.
Breaking the prairie with a steam plow
Part of Town Collection
Men working with a steam-powered tractor in order to break the ground for farming.
Part of Town Collection
Looking north up Boyle Street - the caption incorrectly says "Buxton Street" (see note below).
Part of Town Collection
Looking up Boyle St. facing north. The picture was taken from in front of 808 Boyle Street. The first house on the left is 812 Boyle Street. The Lady Minto Hospital (1905) and the Nurses' Residence (1907) behind it can be seen - the buildings furthest away on the left side of the road. The fourth furthest house was built by Indian Head's first druggist, Alfred G. Orchard, in 1905 (see Indian Head Heritage Tour booklet p12).
Boy Scouts on the front steps of St Andrew's United Church
Part of Organizations Collection
Group of 23 boys and men - the boys in scouting uniforms
Boy Scout Newspaper Clippings - 1944-1947
Part of Organizations Collection
A folder with 5 pages of laminated newspaper clippings and other textual records centered around the Indian Head Cubs and Boy Scouts. They relate mostly to the activities of Mrs. J.J. (Myrtle) Quinn (Akela).
Indian Head Scout Program
Book of stubs of stock certificates issued for the Wide Awake Rural Telephone Company
Part of Businesses Collection
A 22 cm X 37 cm black hardcover book of stubs from stock certificates - does not include any certificates, only the stubs, which name the persons and numbers of stocks issued. The stock is for the Wide Awake Rural Telephone Company and were sold from 1912 to 1958.
Wide Awake Rural Telephone Company
Part of Recreation Collection
Bobby Prescott in his Indian Head Rockets uniform.
Indian Head Rockets (Baseball)
Blueprints for a rural one room school with basement
Part of School Collection
4 pages of a blueprints for a standard rural one-room school house. Blueprint is issued by the Government of Saskatchewan, being drawn by R.C.H in 1931.
Government of Saskatchewan
Blueprint for a Two Bedroom Teachers Residence.
Part of School Collection
Blueprint for a two bedroom teachers residence in 1946. The building is labed as 22 ft x 24 ft, showing plans for inside, outside, and a small basement.
Government of Saskatchewan
Blueprint for a Teachers Residence.
Part of School Collection
Blueprint for a teachers residence. The building is labed as 20 ft x 24 ft, showing plans for inside and outside.
Government of Saskatchewan
Black Baseball Players in Canada - A Biographical Dictionary 1881-1960
Part of Book Collection
A 203-page softcover book with an alphabetically organized series of biographies of about 500 baseball players who played for various teams throughout Canada from 1881 to 1960. It includes many players of the barn-storming teams that played on the prairies during the 1950s, including the Indian Head Rockets. Writeups include: Nathaniel "Nat" Bates, who pitched for the Rockets in 1952 and visited Saskatchewan in 2022 for the induction of the Indian Head Rockets (1950-1954) into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame in Battleford and for the opening off the Indian Head Rockets display at the Indian Head Museum; Elijah "Pumpsie" Green who also played for the Rockets and was the first black player on the Boston Red Sox. Many other Indian Head Rockets players are also included.
Swanton, Barry
Bishops Court & Cathedral, Indian Head, Sask.
Part of Gordon Goddard fonds
Photograph of the Anglican bishop's residence and the cathedral. The view is from the south. There are young planted trees in the foreground.
Bird's Eye View of Indian Head, looking North
Part of Town Collection
Coloured postcard of Indian head taken from the top of a grain elevator. Flour mill building is to the right.
Birdie Lang's Indian Head The Beautiful Scrapbook 1882 - 1965
Part of Town Collection
A large (25 cm X 38 cm) scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, business cards and handwritten writeups about Indian Head's history and people from 1882 to 1965.
Lang, Birdie
Biography/obituary of Charles Francis "Chuck" Watson
Part of Military Collection
Printout of "Find-a-Grave" entry for Charles Francis "Chuck" Watson (Memorial ID 220429941) who is buried in the Indian Head Cemetery.
Lloyd, Marshall