- ZE2.004
- Item
- [1993]
Heavy spring run-off goes over the road at the Trapp family water conservation dam.
Heavy spring run-off goes over the road at the Trapp family water conservation dam.
Posed for the camera, Gramma Empey, Annie Ritchie and the children (6) and Gramma Ritchie(?).
Sod house and sod blacksmith shop, barns and livestock.
The Ritchie family (3 men, 2 women, 6 children) and two dogs pose in front of their sod house homestead. Only identification provided lists the photo subjects as "Annie and her girls" and "Fairman and Uncle Tom."
Two young men sit in an office at desks. The man on the right is using a typewriter.
A man leans against the counter inside a general store. The chairs and tables along the left-hand side of the photo suggest the store may have also doubled as a diner or other meeting place.
A man in a hat leans against a counter inside a Zealandia shoe store.
Four men and one woman stand inside P.K. Shatilla's General Store behind a display of hats.
One man and two women stand inside an unidentified general store. There are dry goods and textiles for sale.
Four men stand inside what is either a furniture or hardware store.
Four men bundled up for winter in hats and long jackets stand in front of a train. One boxcar says "Canadian Pacific" and the other says "Canadian Northern." The train would be on the CNR track that ran by Zealandia on the north side of town. There is snow on the ground and two of the men are smoking cigars.
A man sits on a wagon piled high with chopped wood and pulled by two horses. Behind the cart is a Canadian Northern railway car with two men inside it. The Goose Lake Grain & Lumber Co. elevator can be partially seen on the left-hand side of the photo.
James Farquharson, a Scottish immigrant to the Zealandia/St. Andrew's district, poses with three onions and a large potato he grew on his farm.
Wide shot of the town of Zealandia in 1909. All four elevators can be seen in the background. A plume of smoke is rising in the left-middle of the photo. Unclear if this is related to a fire or not.
Three young men stand in the back of a bank.