Wheat crop stacked on wagons for threshing
- IHM.2021.0395
- Item
- [189-?]
Part of Agriculture Collection
Wagons stacked with tall piles of wheat ready for threshing.
Wheat crop stacked on wagons for threshing
Part of Agriculture Collection
Wagons stacked with tall piles of wheat ready for threshing.
View of the Bell farmyard in 1884
Part of Agriculture Collection
Laminated reproduction of a photo from the Notman Photographic Archives, McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal. The labels at the bottom of the photograph identify: "Bell Farmhouse"; "round stone barn"; "proposed new barn site" (with an arrow); "wooden barns".
Part of Agriculture Collection
Posed harvest crew photo of 14 men with threshing equipment. Also a white horse and a carriage with two women and three children in it.
People with tractor in front of a large pile of hay
Part of Agriculture Collection
24 people standing in a line in front of a tractor and a large pile of a hay
Newsclippings about the Bell Farm
Part of Agriculture Collection
Three newsclippings about the Bell Farm. "The farm that failed" (Leader-Post? - date?); "The Bell Farm: Largest 'bonanza' in the British Empire" (Free Press Weekly, March 4, 1972); "Major Billy's lovely legacy" (Western People, May 3, 1990)
Letter from Dr. Edmond M. Eberts
Part of Agriculture Collection
Laminated newspaper article entitled "Interesting letter recalls early days of Indian Head and district" (date and newspaper not given). The article reproduces a letter written by Dr. Edmond M. Eberts - Professor of Surgery at McGill University, son of the Bell Farm's secretary-treasurer H.J. Eberts.
Horses and wagons outside of barn
Part of Agriculture Collection
3 pairs of horses, each with at least one rider and two have wagons attached. All in front of a large white building
Part of Agriculture Collection
Horses standing at various points on the dugout on Leslie Brown's farm.
Part of Agriculture Collection
A man on a plow pulled by oxen breaking the virgin lands.
Ben Holden farm - 12 binders, Indian Head
Part of Agriculture Collection
Twelve horse-drawn binders in a field with several farm workers posing in the centre of the photograph and horse and wagon and a woman on a horse on the left of the photo.
Part of Agriculture Collection
Bell Farm house and barn photographed from across the road (#56). There are horses and a wagon in front of the door of the house. The photograph was taken on the same day as IHM.2022.0075.
Bell Farm house / headquarters
Part of Agriculture Collection
Bell Farm house/headquarters building photographed from the road (#56) with two people standing in the doorway and half of the Bell barn on the right of the picture.
Bell barn and portable granaries
Part of Agriculture Collection
Bell barn photographed from the road (#56). There are farm implements in the foreground and portable wooden granaries on their sides beside the barn. The photograph was likely taken on the same day as IHM.2022.0075 and IHM.2022.0076.