Material Type

Photograph

Date Range

1900 -1928

Physical Description

Album - 26.7 x 29.8 x 4.8 cm red spiral ring binder. 60 black and white copy prints

Physical Condition

Excellent

Acquisition Source

Chervinski A A

Scope and Content

1. King George Hotel 1912 2. Hough and Fromt Streets. 3. Taber Hotel 4. Taber Hotel 5.Standard Furniture Store owned by George Loomis. Archie Loomis stands in tghe doorway.1912 6.Curlers Choir and Orchestra 7. Mrs. E.M. Foote's Birthday. L to r: Mrs. R.L.Rash, Mrs. H.G.Ridley, Mrs. A.E.Cradduck. Mrs, Willard Cook, Mrs. E.M. Foote, Mrs. H. Fenton, Miss Wilda Ridley, Mrs. T.L. Rash, Bernice Cradduck, Mrs. J. Shaw, Mrs. G. Rutherford, , Catherine Rutherford. 1941 8.Anglican Church Choir. Reverand F.R.B.Leacrost choirmaster far left and L.E.Wright organist at right 9. Hough Street 10.Dominion Day Celebration at Exhibition Grounds west of Beacon Tower.1929 11. View of Taber. Building at left is the Methodist Church. 12.View of Taber Agricultural Society Grounds. 13.A Reeves steam tractor with ten bottom breaking plow. 14.Harris & Son steam tractor and seeding implement on the Harris farm west of Taber. Wilford Harris is at the wheel. 1920. 15.Pioneer Livery Feed & Sal;e Stable owned by A.E.Tolton c1912 16.Herber Black Santa Service held in the community house at the coal mining camp northeast of the McLean Bridge. 1911 17.Six teachers on the Taber School Staff. Bottom row l-r: Etta Stanley, Maisie Emery, Midle row Lillian Amos Janet McLeod, Top row: Miss McCaffery, Myrtle Emery. 1911 18.Steam trenching machine which dug the ditch for Taber waterworks system 1910. 19. Team of four oxen pulling a lumber wagon 20. 22 silver cups offered as special prizes at the Taber Exhibition. Cups are in the window of Wright's Jewellery Store 1912. 21. 19 silver cups offered as special prizes at the Taber Exhibition. Cups are in the window of the Westlake Jewerlly Store 1913. 22.Taber War Mmemorial in Municipal Park. 23.Taber War Memorial unveiled by Simon Cook July 11, 1928. 24.Flooded Oldman River looking west from the CPR pumphouse. left to right: John Evanson, Lofter Johnson, William Valgardson, c1908 25.Flooded Oldman River looking west from the CPR pumphouse. c1908 26.Flooded Oldman River looking west from the CPR pumphouse. c1953 27.Board of Trade First Annual Banquet Program. The Banquet was held at the Union Hall, 1910. 28.Menu page from Banquet program listed above. 29.Board of Trade members planting an experimental five acre plot of cucumbers on the William Valgardson Farm two miles southwest of Taber 1925. 30.Board of Trade members rest during cucumber planting.Left to right: R.H.Anderson, Edward Hosey, Ernie Needs, Ed Venville, Bert Wood, Alex Stewart, William Valgardson, J.J. Hourigan, Gordon Marshall, B.L. Cooke, N.W. Good. In front are J.C.Hall, Fred Watkins, unidentified 1925 31. Annual Banquet of the Chamber of Commerce. Left to right: Mrs. Tom Strain, John Fisher [guest speaker] Walter Neilson, Mrs, Neilson, Hugh Nichol, Mrs,. Nichol, T. George Wood, Mrs Wood, Passing the ear of corn is Ted Sundal. 1952 32.Copy of the article from the Taber Times about the Chamber of Commerce Banquet. 1952 33.Fred Hallworth, winner of the Wheat Crown of North America at the International Livestock Expostion in Chicago. Hallworth's winning entry was the "Reward" variety of hard red spring wheat. 1953 34.First two Imperial Oil tank cars shipped from Taber, filled with oil from Plains Pete No 2 well Autumn 1937. 35.Plains Pete No 2 Storage tanks, The well hit oil October 14, 1937 at a depth of 3,219 feet, and eventually produced about 40,000 barrels of 23 gravity oil. 36.Cole-Hunter Well. The well was spudded in September 23, 1929. The well did hit oil, but an accident involving tools and the deposit of drilling mud for a period of several weeks sealted the well off permanently. 37. A group of people present at the Cole-Hunter spudding in operations, The well was located about three miles northwest of Taber. 1929. 38.Plains Pete No 2 oil well. In the foreground is a field of sugar beets. 39.Cal-Standard Taber Province No. 1 oil well. The well went into commercial production June 8, 1942 hitting 23 gravity oil at a depth of 3, 181 feet. 40.View of Canada West No. 1 Mine, fron the southwest. c 1906 41 32 Head of horses and eight wagons hauled to the Vulcan grain elevator. 42.32 Head of horses and eight wagons lined up at the Vulcan grain elevator. The shipment totalled 1,144 bushels of wheat. 43.Taber Miners Football [soccer] Team. Front row left to right: Greg Huntley, Lewis Oliver [Captain] Jimmy McHahon, Jack Carr. 44.Coal City Football [soccer] Club. Left to right: A.Wauthers, F.Burge, Dave Howells, George Williams, John Howells, Glen Howells, Reed Peterson, Billy Williams, Lewis Olicer, John Willaims, Joe Coorvets, John Yuill, Donald Yuill,. The boys in front are unidentified. 1931. 45.Baseball game between Lethbridge and Taber in Galt Gardens. The Taber players are: Art Lee [catcher] Jim Walker [pitcher] Roy Lee [1st base], Bill Russell [2nd base], Charles Edwards [3rd Base] Roan Barton [left field], Bill Walker [centre field] John Haynes [ right field] January 1906. 46. Baseball?Team Front row left to right: Sebe Wing, Hugh Johnson. Back row left to right: Roy Lee, Jim Walker, William Valgardson, Art Lee, Harm Pierson, Bill Walker, Phil Collett. 47.Taber Junior Baseball Team. Front row left to right: Tom Walker, Johnnie Shirts, Rulon Stringham, Evan Stringham. Back row left to right: Alex Walker, Carl Loomis, George Edwards, Rex Walton, George Russell. 1908. 48.Left to right: James Hansen, Roy Lee and Arthur Lee. 49.Lethbridge Herald article reporting the Southern Alberta Baseball Championship of the Taber Crescents. 1912 50. Photo accompanying the above article. let to right: Roy McComas, Carl Judson, Dugan Farrar, Roy Lee, Ernie Leper, ?Campbell, Art Lee, ?Tibbets. 1912 51. Taber Merchant Juniors Baseball Team, Souterhn Alberta Champions. Front row left to right: Bob Laurie, Chuck Wentz, Gordie Laurie, Billy Burge, Bill Taniguchi, Lyle Howg, Johnny, Konno. Back row left to right: Harry McKibben [coach-manager], Harry Sekiya, Ray Whitehead, George Savage, Casey Anderson, Larry Anderson, Lynn Layon, Ross McKibben, Dickie Wiest, Van Duncombe [trainer]. 1954 52.Charles O. Lauer Photo Studio 1912 53.Taber Hockey Team, Champions of southern Alberta 1910-1911, 54.Taber Hockey Team, Champions of southern Alberta 1911-1912. Left to right: A.G.Cook, A.B.Cook, L.T.Cook, J.E.Cook, A. Barbour, G. Baird, H.W.Cook, A. Glendenning 1912-55 55.Taber Chiefs Hockey Team. Front row lwft to right: A.B.Cook, A.G.Cook, L.T.Cook. Back row left to right:Charles Ramsey [Trainer], H.W.Cook, A. Barbour, W. Forbes,[referee], Leo Cook, Photo taken at the Sherman Rink in Calgary. 56.Taber Colts Hocky Team left to right: J.Stubber [manager], R.T. Carr [coach], B.Bennett, C.Brown, V.Johnson, B.Molnar, G. Ward, B.Back, J. Malo, G. Wood, G. Stubbert, M. Marshall, B. Layton, J. Picken, B. Powell, M. Pine [mascot]. 1937-1938. 57. Girl's Basketball Team. Front row left to right:Lenora Collet, Estella Probert. Middle row l-r: Ada Wilcox, Tillie Walton,Margaret VanOrman, Geneva Wing. Top row l-r: Vera Southworth, Harriet Collet, Mercy Lindsey, and Rose Francis. 1907. 58.Girls' Basketball Team left to right: Stella Anderson, Estella Prober, Harriet Collet, Loneora Collett, Margaret VanOrman, Honnie Love, Mercey Lindsey, Geneva Wing, Matilda Walton, Ada Wilcox. 1907 59.Girl's Basketball Team. Front row left to right: Geneva Wing, Vera Wilcox, Honnie Love. Back row l-r: Harriet Collett, Estella Probert, Estella Anderson. 1905 60.Men's Basketball Team. Front row left to right: Charles Edwards, William Valgardson, Hyrum Evans. Back row l-r: Walter Mathews, J.E.Evanson, Bert Anderson. 61, Two unidentified gentlemen one standing and one sitting possibly at a banquet.

Notes

See P19881042001 for gift certificate.

Access Restrictions

Public Access

Accession No.

19881042038

Collection

Archive

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