Bill McCalla putting celery into storage, Bremner, east of Edmonton, Alberta, October 1918, by William Copeland McCalla, via Provincial Archives of Alberta Commons on flickr.
Tag: farm
Spruce Grove, Alberta
Alan or Robert (Jr.) Brebner on the homestead, Spruce Grove, Alberta, ca. 1905, via Provincial Archives of Alberta (both photos).
Robert McKay Brebner, a farmer and amateur photographer, immigrated from Scotland to Alberta in 1882 and secured a homestead in Spruce Grove. About 1894, he married Emily Wrench, and after the birth of their first child, Alan, in 1896, they built a two-story house. Robert died suddenly in 1909, and Emily ran the farm with hired help until Alan could take it over at the age of 17.
The Sunday porch: Louisburg, North Carolina
“A Peggy Wright Farm,” Louisburg, North Carolina, 1938, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
All three Johnston photos of this house are captioned “A Peggy Wright Farm,” so Peggy may have been a woman who owned several properties. (The other two pictures are here and here.)
The Library’s online catalogue notes say that the building dates from 1780 and that this is the place “where Peggy was killed by lightning.”
Hood River, Oregon
“Good enough Farm House in Hood River, [Oregon]: View from front yard,” undated, via Arthur Peck Photograph Collection, OSU Special Collections and Archives Commons on flickr.
Arthur Peck was a Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Oregon Agricultural College from 1908 to 1948. This picture was part of his teaching library of 24 boxes of glass lantern slides — now in OSU’s archives.
It is not clear whether “good enough” was his critical evaluation or the name of the farm.
North Dakota
“Fence on large farm in Red River Valley, Cass County, North Dakota,” October 1940, by John Vachon, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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