- 2003-026-005
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- [1923]
Threshing team working the harvest; people identified in photograph: Ross Adair on load; Otto Heavin on machine; Fred Smith on barrel.
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Threshing team working the harvest; people identified in photograph: Ross Adair on load; Otto Heavin on machine; Fred Smith on barrel.
Blowing straw into barn loft at left; wood pile and building on right.
A group of men standing next to a tractor and wood splitter; large pile of cut wood in foreground.
A man on a wagon pulled by horses picking up sheaves in a field.
The fonds contains one framed black and white photograph of the Melfort Public School and students of May of 1926.
Dows, Frank
Historical Record of Prince Albert Presbytery
Part of Prince Albert Presbytery fonds
Bound album "The Historical Record of the Presbytery of Prince Albert", 1929. Contents include a typed history, written by J. Sheridan Bole, Chairman of the Presbytery Historical Committee, with a brief outline of the Presbyterian Mission at Prince Albert and of the Presbytery, and detailed histories of the charges within the Presbytery. The back part of the volume ("Illustrations" section) contains photographs of churches and other buildings associated with church activities, such as mission hospitals and schools. Prints are partially attached to pages, while negatives, in protective envelopes, are also loosely tucked into the volume.
Buildings and locations featured in photos include: St. Paul's Presbyterian Church, Prince Albert; home of Miss Lucy Baker; Prince Albert memorial cairn; United Church, Big River; United Church and former Methodist church, Birch Hills; former Methodist Church, United Church and manse, Davis; Deer Park Presbyterian Church; Red Deer Hill church; Old Hill Farm House, near Flett's Springs, where services were held 1891; old manse and Flett's Springs Church, between Prince Albert and Dauphin; United Church and former Methodist church, Kinistino; United Church, Leask; town of Melfort, 1895-1900; former Methodist Church, United Church, and St. James Presbyterian Church, Melfort; Northside United Church; United Church, Beatty; Nisbet School Home, opened in 1918; United Church, Naicam; church and manse, Nipawin; Ravine Bank church, Nipawin; United Church, Codette; United Church and manse, Pathlow; United Church and manse, Pleasant Valley; United Church, Pleasantdale; old and new mission houses, Round Plain reserve; United Church and manse, Ridgedale; United Church, Campbellville; Methodist and United Churches and manse, Tisdale; United Church, Shellbrook; United Church and mission house, Wakaw ; first and [later] "present" Anna Turnbull Memorial Hospital, Wakaw.
Portraits include: Dr. James Robinson, 1839-1902; Dr. G.F. MacDougall; Capt. Moore; the Nesbitt children; Rev. John McKay; Miss Lucy Baker, 1836-1909; the "Melfort Pioneers", group photo of men (names noted below), on steps of Canadian Bank of Commerce; Nisbet School Home boys (group photo); children and congregation from Round Plain Reserve.
The fonds contains a set of nine black and white photographs dating from approximentally 1929. The set belonged to Dorothy Snelling's deceased grandmother and they were part of her personal collection. The photographs were taken from the top of the Melfort Water Tower. When placed beside one another they provide a 360 degree view of the Melfort town site. One photograph is missing from the set.
Snelling, Dorothy
Eating Lunch at Threshing Time
Men eating lunch at threshing time; steel-wheeled tractor in the background.
Wedding Photograph of Art and Prenella Williams
Part of Melfort General Photo collection
One of Art and Prenella Williams’ wedding photographs; here, both are dressed-up standing together as the groom is holding a 3-tiered wedding cake and they are both standing in front of car with trees in background.
Part of Melfort General Photo collection
Irene Meadows Hillstrom sitting in a field petting a dog.
Threshing equipment in front of large pile of straw. Stooks on wagon in foreground.
Thrashing [sic] with a steam outfit. Men standing on top of threshing equipment.
A truck with two cows in it payload sits in the farmyard of a two-storey farm home.
The collection contains one photocopy of a black and white photograph. Taken in 1930, the image is a formal group portrait of the Melfort United Church's young people's group, "The Alerts," of which Mabel Braaten was a member.
Braaten, Mabel
A 10-20 McCormick Deering tractor and a Massey combine are used to harvest sunflowers.