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.
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.
Four horses hitched to a binder. Sheaves in the foreground. Woman on binder seat, man in a suit next to her, women on his right wearing a full-length skirt and blouse. Farm hand is holding the horses.
Man is wearing a suit, tie, celluloid collar, cap. Women in long skirts, jackets, dark hats with wide brims. Could be the same woman in FA1.013. A sod wall can be seen in the background. One woman is holding a long barrelled rifle.