Western Development Museum collection [moving images, graphic material]

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Western Development Museum collection [moving images, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Collection

Date:

1885-1960.

Reference:

R9168-0-7-E

Type of material:

Moving images, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

190592

Context of this record:

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Western Development Museum collection
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Collection includes:

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Date(s):

1885-1960.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

ca. 14 film reels (3 h, 48 min).
532 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Collection consists of several documentaries made in the 1920s and 1930s focusing on harvests and the cultivation of agricultural crops, fruits in the Niagara belt, sisal in the Yucatan Peninsula and oranges in California. The use of modern agricultural machinery is stressed in Romance of the reaper and the dramatized documentary Dominion builders.

Photographic material consists of: scenes showing farming, homes, and the growth of towns on the Prairies, 1900-1910; early agricultural equipment including steam and gas tractors, threshing machines, haying equipment, seed drills, harvesters, and mowing machines; pioneer farming activities including clearing of land, sodding bees, ploughing of fields, sowing crops, and threshing; views of sod houses and homesteads; cities and towns throughout Saskatchewan; facilities of Advance-Rumely Threshing Co., LaPorte, Indiana ca. 1911; steamers on the South Saskatchewan River; railroad construction and locomotives; early cars; Red River cart, buggies, carriages, and covered wagons displayed at Pion-Era Exhibition, Saskatoon, Saskachewan, 1957; Western Development Museum and its collections; Regina cyclone, 1912; a homestead on the prairies; captains of Saskatoon Industrial League's fundraising drive; delegates to Co-operative Commonwealth Federation convention, 1960, including the Hon. Tommy Douglas.

Provenance:

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Western Development Museum

Biography/Administrative history:

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Western Development Museum : The Saskchewan Western Development Museum is a social and economic history museum for the Province of Saskachewan. The museum has four branches in the cities of North Battleford, Moose Jaw, Yorkton asd Saskatoon. It's headquarters and Curatorial Centre is located in Saskatoon.

Finding aid:

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Moving images (Electronic) See MISACS for item-level descriptions.

Moving images: (Paper) See AV collection files for item-level descriptions.

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General Note:

Received in 1969 and 1972 from the Western Development Museum.

The photographs in this collection were de-accessioned to the Western Development Museum in 2004. Described by the RECON project.

Availability of other formats note:

Photographic accession no. 1972-312: Copy negative available C-037813.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1969-08-15)
1969-0034 MISA
1969-175 NPC
1970-057 NPC
1972-312 NPC
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Conditions of access:

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Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Audio-visual item no. assigned by LAC [R9168] 17867AV--17868AV

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation10 Closed]
Restrictions on use: This collection is no longer in the custody of Library and Archives Canada.

Box [WESTERN DEVELOPMENT MUSEUM 1972-312] 1787

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Copy negative [R9168] C-037813

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Terms of use:

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Moving images Reproduction and use in any form require the written permission of the copyright holder and of the Western Development Museum.
Photographs: No restrictions on use. Various copyrights for items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items greater than 50 years old. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.

Restrictions on use: This collection is no longer in the custody of Library and Archives Canada.

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Date modified:: 2023-11-30

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Western Development Museum collection [moving images, graphic material]

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