Mr. A.N. Swetman, one of the first surveyors to the area, stands in front of Zealandia's first post office, a sod and wooden structure. It was located near the present site of Zealandia.
A lady stands outside a sod house which was the very first Winona School. The Winona district hosted "sodding bees" where they would pile sod walls three feet thick against the wooden frame of the school, producing a building which was warm in the winter and cool in the summer.
Sodding bees were a community event at the Winona School. Walls of sod three feet thick would be piled against the wooden frame of the school to make a building that was warm in the winter and cool in the summer. In this photo, a large group of people stand/sit outside and on top of Winona School. Contact Rosetown archives for names.
Two men and a woman and an early car in front of a low sod house. A small frame building behind the house. A good view of the desolate prairie landscape.
The Ritchie family (3 men, 2 women, 6 children) and two dogs pose in front of their sod house homestead. Only identification provided lists the photo subjects as "Annie and her girls" and "Fairman and Uncle Tom."
Coulter family stands in front of a large teepee made of branches and a sod house. L-R: Ambrose Bee, Mrs. Coulter, Bessie Coulter (Mrs. J. Graham), Fred Hill, A. Fletcher, Hector Coulter, Jim Coulter, unknown, Jake Coulter.
