Letter to Bill Towill from his father (Bill Towill Sr.) who was the superintendent of the Experimental Farm with attached article about the Experimental Farm [ca. 1940]
Large green 3-ring binder containing information used to create the town history book - the names and addresses (by surname, first name in alphabetical order) of people contacted to ask for family histories.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).