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Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Draught Horses in Action, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1874
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a team of draught horses pulling a plough driven by one man while another works to remove rock and soil from one of the American Museum [of Natural History?] quarries in central Wyoming in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Increase in Size of the Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3123
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Photographs of horse skeletons showing the increase in size of the horse over time. The image shows a small articulated skeleton of the Eohippus, placed beneath the limbs of the original American horse or Equus scotti as mounted in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, USA with a scale next to them showing the progressive increase in size.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry F. Osborn, 07 May 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/48
Scope and Contents Osborn writes concerning his forthcoming trip to England and asks if he might meet with Ewart at Woburn Abbey when he will be visiting the Duke of Bedford. He mentions that he will see Ewart's zebra hybrids in St Louis in the autumn and that he will send Ewart a photograph of Neohipparion, 'the most deerlike horse yet discovered'. He states that he will be requiring some images from Ewart to illustrate his lecture series on the evolution of the horse at Columbia...
Dates: 07 May 1904

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 24 October 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/31
Scope and Contents Osborn reports the safe arrival of the Equus caballus and Equus caballus celticus. He feels strongly that the Museum should have Ewart's original type specimen of Equus caballus celticus because it agrees more closely with his original characterisation of the species in the small size of the head. He asks whether it would be practical to have the skin removed and the skeleton sent to them, as the specimen Ewart...
Dates: 24 October 1916

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 15 October 1919

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/25/1
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Osborn writes that he is still working on developing the horse collection at the Museum and preparing his memoir on the Evolution of the Horse. He hears from Director Hornaday that the Scandinavian and Celtic ponies will have to be disposed of as they are eating too much. He once again requests the skeleton and skin of the original Celtic pony to be sent to him.

Dates: 15 October 1919

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 02 February 1921

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/27/1
Scope and Contents Osborn writes that he has not heard from Ewart for years, despite his own letters to him. He reminds him about his promise of securing the original Celtic horse as the type specimen of Equus caballus celticus for the Museum. He reports that the little stallion Ewart sent to the Museum shows around 95% Celtic characters, and enquires whether Ewart knows of a pure little Celtic mare they could import for breeding purposes. He has been corresponding with Breuil about...
Dates: 02 February 1921

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Henry Fairfield Osborn, 13 February 1896

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/2/8
Scope and Contents

Osborn, writing from the American Museum of Natural History, expresses interest in Ewart's work on telegony and the embryology of the horse. He mentions that he is also sending Ewart papers about the ancestral history of the horse.

Dates: 13 February 1896

Restoration of the Four-Toed Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3116
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Photograph of a watercolour painting by C R Knight of a restoration of the four-toed horse based on a skeleton sixteen inches high in the American Museum of Natural History in [New York] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Skeleton of Prehistoric Horse from Lower Pleistocene of Texas, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3118
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an articulated skeleton of a prehistoric horse from the Lower Pleistocene in Texas from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Evolution of the Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1917
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Diagram showing the evolution of the horse showing the geological section in which the horses occur, the increase in the size of the skull, the number of toes and the differences in teeth prepared by Dr. William D Matthew from the collection at the American Museum of Natural History in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

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