- IHM.2022.0035
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- [201-]
Parte de Agriculture Collection
Photograph of the reconstructed Bell barn with a field of flowering canola in the foreground.
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Parte de Agriculture Collection
Photograph of the reconstructed Bell barn with a field of flowering canola in the foreground.
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Help save an old friend: the Bell Barn of Indian Head
Parte de Agriculture Collection
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.
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Bell Farm house / headquarters
Parte de Agriculture Collection
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.
Parte de Agriculture Collection
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.
Bell barn and portable granaries
Parte de Agriculture Collection
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.
View of the Bell farmyard in 1884
Parte de Agriculture Collection
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".
Letter from Dr. Edmond M. Eberts
Parte de Agriculture Collection
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.
Newsclippings about the Bell Farm
Parte de Agriculture Collection
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)
Superintendant's residence, Experimental Farm, Indian Head, Sask
Parte de Agriculture Collection
Post card of the house lived in by the superintendent of the Government of Canada's Experimental Farm at Indian Head.
Seeding at the Experimental Farm
Parte de Agriculture Collection
Seeding being done at the Experimental Farm using a horse-powered Cockshutt seeder during a 1980s historical re-enactment.
Parte de Agriculture Collection
A photo taken of a plaque created by the Government of Canada's "Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada" giving a brief description of the federal Indian Head Experimental Farm in both English and French. The original plaque is on the grounds of the Indian Head Research Farm.
Anniversary booklet for the Indian Head Experimental Farm 1886-1986
Parte de Agriculture Collection
Contains photographs and articles about people, events and the work and grounds of the federal Indian Head Experimental Farm.
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Pretty scene at Experimental Farm, Indian Head, Sask
Parte de Agriculture Collection
2 postcards with flowers, shrubs and trees on the grounds of the Experimental Farm (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Research Farm), Indian Head
Bill Towill letter from his dad
Parte de Agriculture Collection
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]
75th Anniversary booklet for the Indian Head Experimental Farm 1887-1962
Parte de Agriculture Collection
Contains photographs and articles about people, events and the work and grounds of the federal Indian Head Experimental Farm.
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