Rosetown (Sask.)

Horses hitched to a buggy

AG1.002
Pièce
[ca. 1910]

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Unknown man in a buggy with a five horse hitch stopped in front of a barn.

Breaking the sod

AG1.006
Pièce
ca. 1915

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

One six-horse and one three-horse team pulling breaking plows. A man riding each plow. Young boy with a dog behind the first team. A two-horse team pulling another implement, perhaps a packer? A man standing at the side waiting.

Sans titre

Oxen pulling "Routley's Hardware" dray

AG1.008
Pièce
1908-9

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

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.

Oxen hitched to a buggy

AG1.009
Pièce
1908-9

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

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.

Jno N. Ford on wagon pulled by two oxen.

AG1.010
Pièce
ca. 1910

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

One ox is smaller than the other. They are travelling on a well-worn track. The man on the wagon is wearing a dress hat. Jno. N. Ford homesteaded NE 14-31-19 W3 (SW Stranraer) in 1910. He drove these oxen until 1919.

Three Horses in Slough

AG1.012
Pièce
ca. 1922

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Horses are pawing at the water. One horse appears wet as if it rolled. There is a two-storey frame house in the background.

Bareback riding

AG1.014
Pièce
ca. 1915

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Four people riding horses bareback and astride beside a man in a buggy. Two are men, two are women. Horses are work animals, one is a Clydesdale, one a Belgian. The other two are hybrids.

Sans titre

Whiskey Johnson's sod house

AG2.003
Pièce
[ca 1916]

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Two men and a woman and an early car in front of a low sod house. A small frame building behind the house. A good view of the desolate prairie landscape.

Family on ground in front of house with prairie background

AG2.010
Pièce
Unknown

Fait partie de Rosetown General Photograph Collection

Small 1 1/2 storey wooden house, painted or whitewashed, wooden outbuildings. Family of one older man, man and woman, four children of which three are teens; all seated on the grass.