Spring Wheat.

Small shack, covered with tarpaper, wooden walkway, stones along side, stovepipe, banked with dirt, pot on dirt, broom against door, towels on clothesline.

Con Warner portrait taken in Stratford, Ont. He homesteaded just south of Rosetown.

Gertrude Buchanan's mother is carrying pails of milk as the just milked cow stands docilely by.

Names on back are Bill Bowers(?) and Wes Spence who are standing posing. Buildings in background are store fronts. A.O. Routley had a Massey Harris business in Rosetown 1930-46. Oxen were not used after 1910.

Two men wearing suits are riding in the buggy. One man is holding reins and a whip. They are in a grass meadow - no road. The ox has shoulder and side scars, probably from harness used for plowing.

13 men in suits and ties, two boys, seven women. Two men holding fiddles. Showing fashions and hairstyles of 1908.

Held at Mrs. Heartwell's house 2.5 m NW of Rosetown. Back row, L-R: Dick Stobbart, Rumer Armstrong, unknown, John Murdoch, Wally McDougald, Joe Heartwell, Roy Mayher, George Reed, unknown. 3rd row: Unknown, Mrs. Trahair, Frank Morris, Bill Chessman, Clarence Buchanan, unknown. 2nd row: Dick Michison, Maggie Buchanan, Nettie Nicholson, Mrs. J. Clark, Mrs. Heartwell. 1st row: Unknown, E. Nicolson, Jack Nicolson, Fred Weaver, Dad Rose holding baby Pearl Nicolson, Bill Spence. Example of fashions and hairstyles of 1908.

Wesley Essex and Rose Ann Wallace were married in Regina on Jan. 7, 1908. They moved to Rosetown district to farm in 1911.

18 men, three women, one dog posed inside around a drum heater. Clothing is fashion of 1908.

Written on back: "The Big Reeves." Names of two men are E. Duff and Fred Westphal. Dated 1921 on reverse. A belt going out of the picture indicates this tractor is operating a threshing machine.

Charles Taylor as a very young man. He was well-known in Rosetown as a long-term mortician (undertaker). He was mayor of Rosetown from 1920-1922.

This is a reprint of a cracked and smudged original. Written in ink on back of print: "Rosetown ladies Sept. 1909." Josephine Sheffield is 2nd from right. The 2 girls in front may be Viva Sheffield (Evans) and Lorna Sheffield (Moyer).

Eagle Creek Bridge north of Rosetown just completed in 1909. This bridge was built by Peter L. Ritchie, the tall man wearing a hat in the photo. Other men seated on the bridge rails, wearing hats and smoking pipes.

L-R: Dick MacDougald, Fraser Heartwell, George Bigelow, unknown, Jim Geddes, two on right are unidentified. Wearing suits and ties or cravats, hats or caps. Example of men's fashions, particularly headgear, of early century.