Newsclipping with photo and caption - a harvest scene on the farm of "Mac McDermott" at Indian Head. The original photo belonged to Wellington Banks a labourer on the harvesting / threshing crew
Newsclippings about Roy McIver upon his retirement after 31 years of service at the Experimental Farm. Mr. McIver was officer-in-charge from 1973 to 1978.
Three newsclippings entitled: a) Indian Head station is marking 75th year (Leader-Post July 21, 1962); b) Experimental farm long established (Leader-Post, date unknown); c) Angus Mackay and the establishment of the Indian Head Experimental Farm (October 17, 1979)
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]
Photograph of the reconstructed Bell barn with utility building in background - built according to the pattern for the many cottage homes that were spread across the huge Bell farm..
Open letter on behalf of the Bell Barn Society asking for donations to rebuild the Bell Barn. The rebuilt Bell Barn currently (2022) is a museum 1 km north of Indian Head, west of Highway 56.
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.
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".
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)
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 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.
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.
Three people and a car in front of a large house - caption: 1923 Mrs. Ben Holden,. Elizabeth Holden and Mr. Ben F. Holden - inscription on photo: Holdens - Bell Farm Res. Indian Head, Sask.
