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Rosetown General Photograph Collection
The Rosetown General Photograph Collection spans approximately ten decades of the history of Rosetown and district, consisting of photographs taken by and collected by the Rosetown Centennial Library Archives.
The Ritchie family sod house with, L-R, Mrs. Peter Ritchie, Sr., Miss Jean Ritchie, Peter Ritchie, Sr. in front of the house. A window box contains flowers. There is a frame barn behind the house.
"Annie and her girls" (3), another small boy, "Fairman and Uncle Tom."
Posed for the camera, Gramma Empey, Annie Ritchie and the children (6) and Gramma Ritchie(?).
Sod blacksmith shop on farm of A.D. Fletcher in 1906, Zealandia, Sask.
Sod house and sod blacksmith shop, barns and livestock.
White frame house and large barn on Peter Ritchie farm in 1920. Tractor has a Ritchie and McDonald engine, steel wheels, smokestack.
The Clifford Clark barn, NE of Zealandia taken in 1975. This barn had a hayloft, pigeon houses, and a large hip roof. It is partially caved in from the top.
R.A. Miller house located east of Zealandia
Three men in suits, two women on porch, child in doorway. Rain barrel at side of house. One man is holding a horse by a rope on a halter. Fence in front. Men are wearing suits and caps, women long skirts and hats. Fashion of the pioneer years.
"Wing Feeders" on threshing machine
An unusual system of wing feeders is shown that feeds sheaves into the threshing machine on the Sweatman farm near Zealandia, Saskatchewan. Visible are two mules in front area, two men forking sheaves, bundles wagons and a straw stack behind the wing feeders
Linklater, Al
CPR train loaded with threshing machines.
Seven Rumely Ideal threshing machines, one per flat car, bearing signs saying "Douglas Bros. Zealandia & Rosetown" and "Zealandia Wheat Growing District."
Small portrait of A.D. Fletcher taken in Havelock, Ont. He was born in Bensfort, Ont. April 1875 and died in 1955. He came to Zealandia in 1906. He was the grandfather of Robert Franklin. John (Johnny) Franklin was an uncle of Robert Franklin.
Four grain elevators, one belonging to the Goose Lake Grain and Lumber Co., are seen with a long row of box cars. A through track beside the station is also seen. "Zealandia wheat train, 1909" hand written on bottom of photograph in white marker.
Mr. A.N. Swetman, one of the first surveyors to the area, stands in front of Zealandia's first post office, a sod and wooden structure. It was located near the present site of Zealandia.
A row of shops on 1st Avenue in Zealandia. The livery stable is at the end of the row just behind the windmill. A man places bricks along the side of a building in the forefront of the photo.