Western Development Museum (WDM) 1976 - Playing in the Straw
- 1.0434.06
- Item
- [May, 1976]
WDM and Thresherman's club harvest demonstration -children play in the straw and chaff left over from threshing.
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Western Development Museum (WDM) 1976 - Playing in the Straw
WDM and Thresherman's club harvest demonstration -children play in the straw and chaff left over from threshing.
Western Development Museum (WDM) 1976 - Pitching Sheaves
The Saskatchewan Bulletin, June 11, 1976, p. 11; "Above right, once the sheaves have dried sufficiently, they are pitched into a horse drawn rack in order to move them to the threshing machine."
Western Development Museum (WDM) 1976 - Groundhog Thresher
The Saskatchewan Bulletin, June 11, 1976, p. 10; "Above, one man "feeds" while two men turn the cranks on a groundhog thresher, an implement which performed both the flailing and manual separating tasks seen above and to the right."
Western Development Museum (WDM) 1976 - Gas Tractor
The Saskatchewan Bulletin, June 11, 1976, p. 10; "A Reeves 4065 gas tractor from about 1914 powered a Case separator with a 36 inch cylinder."
Western Development Museum (WDM) 1976 - Flail
The Saskatchewan Bulletin, June 11, 1976, p. 10; "Once the grain has been cut, a flail is used to beat it to separate the kernels from the straw."
Western Development Museum (WDM) 1976 - Feeding the Horses
WDM and Thresherman's club harvest demonstration -children feed horses harnessed to a wagon.
Western Development Museum (WDM) 1976 - Cradle Scythe
The Saskatchewan Bulletin, June 11, 1976, p. 10; "One of the volunteers shows the motion used to cut grain with a cradle scythe. The cradle scythe cut the grain and gathered small amounts of it together in the "cradle" which made gathering the grain into sheaves an easier task."
Western Development Museum (WDM) 1975 - Easterlea School
The Saskatchewan Bulletin, Sept. 3, 1975, cover picture; "Easterlea School, established 1905, now located in the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon." Life-sized mannequins of a teacher and students are part of a vignette in the interior of a one-room schoolhouse.
Western Development Museum Warehouse
Part of Saskatoon StarPhoenix fonds
Photographs show items covered in tarps at the Western Development Museum warehouse.
Western Development Museum Warehouse
Part of Saskatoon StarPhoenix fonds
Photographs show the Western Development Museum warehouse.
Western Development Museum under construction
Part of Saskatoon StarPhoenix fonds
Photograph shows Western Development Museum under construction, June 24, 1952.
Western Development Museum Storage
Part of Saskatoon StarPhoenix fonds
Photographs show the storage shed and the machinery and artifacts kept there in Saskatoon, SK, November 30, 1984. [Published December 1, 1984]
Western Development Museum on 11th Street
Part of Saskatoon StarPhoenix fonds
Photographs show antique farm equipment at the Western Development Museum on 11th Street in Saskatoon, December 10, 1981. [Published December 12, 1981]
Western Development Museum New Year's Bash
Part of Saskatoon StarPhoenix fonds
Photographs show the Western Development Museum New Year's Bash. The images show attendees, the buffet line and the museum in the background.
Western Development Museum Displays
Part of Saskatoon StarPhoenix fonds
Photographs show advertising displays for the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon, SK, April 19, 1982. [Published April 22, 1982]