Category: LOAN
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Agency: Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Title: HARVESTING IN WESTERN CANADA: A REAPER-THRESHER AT WORK on this year's bumper crop. The boy unloading the grain into the wagon is E. Philpott, one of the army of harvesters sent from England with government assistance, many of whom will remain and become Canadian farmers.
Date: ca. 1925
Medium: gelatin silver print with editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0068:0002

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 14-485-L-4-A [circled]; stamped: 701; printed: [newsprint adhered with paste] HARVESTING IN WESTERN CANADA: A REAPER-THRESHER AT WORK / on This Year's Bumper Crop. The Boy Unloading the Grain Into the Wagon Is E. / Philpott, One of the Army of Harvesters Sent From England With Government / Assistance, Many of Whom Will Remain and Become Canadian Farmers. / (Courtesy Canadian Pacific Railway); stamped: [obscured] [illeg.] Canadian Pacific; handwritten: English Boy at work in Saskatchewan; typed: [adhered with paste] The mechanization of farm operations in Western / Canada is here instanced. A reaper-thresher at work / in Western Canada. The youth unloading the grain / into the wagon is E. Philpott, England, one of the / army of harvesters which came to Canada to help / gather the Dominion's record crop. Officials of the / Department of Colonization and Development, Canadian / Pacific Railway state they are exerting every effort / to secure winter employment on farms for such lads.; stamped and handwritten: [obscured] [MID-WE]EK / [PICTORI]AL / [PAGE] 27 / DATE Oct 6/28 / SIZE 4 15/16 x 3 / SCALE 112; handwritten: 1132-L [boxed and struck through]; stamped: SEP 12 2000; handwritten: 2997-L [boxed and struck through]; stamped: EARLE HOOKER EATON / U.S. PRESS REPRESENTATIVE / CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY / NEW YORK CITY

Credit Line: The Rudolph P. Bratty Family Collection