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Item is an image showing Hoskin Amy breaking land with six oxen in the Watrous district of Saskatchewan.

Items are picture postcards of various scenes of Saskatchewan, including: the boathouse at Regina Beach; No. 1 wharf at Regina Beach; people boating at Regina Beach; Regina Beach as seen from the lake; Boy Scouts leading a school parade in Lumsden, Saskatchewan on June 3, 1913, with the Lumsden Hotel in the background; a social gathering at Lumsden Beach; Shafer Restaurant stand at Lumsden plowing match on June 15, 1911; exterior view of hospital in Swift Current; exterior view of C.H. Schafer Restaurant; and Frank Blaney [Belaney] of Prelate sitting in automobile. One of the postcards was written to Clarance Spicer by his mother.

(1): Charlie Rayner breaking land with four oxen at a neighbour's. Rayner's homestead was located on 23-19-8-W3, near Glen Kerr/Log Valley, Saskatchewan. Charlie Rayner was born in Prince Edward Island in 1889 and came to Saskatchewan around 1905.

(2): An unidentified man, possibly a hired hand, sitting on a horse-drawn water wagon owned by Charlie Rayner during harvesting operations in the Glen Kerr district. The horses, named "Mike" and "Craig", were used, in their early years, to chase coyotes.

A group in front of Preston C. West's tractor with "caterpillar" tracks, and seven gang breaking plow, used to break virgin sod in the area around Kindersley, Saskatchewan.