Photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 351 Collections and/or Records:
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Aldred F. Barker, 21 September 1921
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/27/6
Scope and Contents
Barker writes that he finds it impossible to get up to Scotland. He hopes that the Research Association is getting good photographs of the parent sheep to contrast with the crossbred sheep, as well as samples of wool illustrating the rate of growth.
Dates:
21 September 1921
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alexander Theodore Gordon, 12 January 1905
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/11/2
Scope and Contents
Gordon encloses three copies of a photograph of a mule mare and foal taken in the Zoo at Pretoria. He confirms that the mare was a mule and that the foal was not a horse foal.
Dates:
12 January 1905
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alice Blanche Balfour, 09 February 1900
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/2
Scope and Contents
Balfour refers to photographs of a zebra skin she sent to Sir George Grey, who is presently staying in a British Central area of Africa, South of the Congo. She believes the skin to be from a Burchell's zebra. She also refers to a Tibetan pony belonging to Major L.A Waddell.
Dates:
09 February 1900
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alice Blanche Balfour, 30 May 1898
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/4/12
Scope and Contents
Balfour thanks Ewart for sending her some photographs of zebra skins to look at. She also offers to help to pay for some of Ewart's experiments.
Dates:
30 May 1898
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Arnold Lang, 21 April 1914
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/20/6
Scope and Contents
Lang asks for permission to publish some figures from Ewart's work in his own forthcoming volume on heredity and to borrow some of Ewart's papers, including The Penycuik Experiments. He also asks for advice on where to purchase good photographs of equidae-hybrids.
Dates:
21 April 1914
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Arthur Cecil, 21 November 1903
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/126
Scope and Contents
Cecil states that is trying to reduce his numbers (most likely of his pony stock) and wonders whether Carl Hagenbeck could be induced to start a new industry in ponies in Germany. He also writes that his wife is sending Ewart a photograph of the black puppy.
Dates:
21 November 1903
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Baron de Parana (in French), with three photographs, 01 February 1899
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/10
Scope and Contents
Baron de Parana tells Ewart that he has just read a translation of his article on Burchell's zebra hybrids and mares. He states he is enclosing other papers documenting his own cross-breeding experiments, including three photographs (only two photographs present). He lists the physical characteristics of the offspring resulting from his experiments and makes comparisons with those belonging to Ewart. The photographs depict a Burchell zebra and two of his hybridised offspring, all...
Dates:
01 February 1899
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 31 May 1901
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/16
Scope and Contents
Hagenbeck states that he will send Ewart a pair of black rats as soon as he is able to obtain them from the Zoological Gardens in Frankfurt. He is also sending him some photographs of the results of his male lion and tigress hybridisation experiments (not present).
Dates:
31 May 1901
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 19 December 1901
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/7/28
Scope and Contents
Hagenbeck states how pleased he is in the interest that Ewart has shown in the young Przewalski's horses, which he had obtained for the Duke of Bedford from Central Asia. He says he will be shortly sending details of the horses. He is selling them for £250 each, but is prepared to let Ewart have one for £150. He has sold all his dun Mongolian mares but has one brown and one black which he is prepared to sell for £7 each. He also encloses 2 photographs of zebras which differ markedly from the...
Dates:
19 December 1901
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 08 April 1902
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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/30
Scope and Contents
Hagenbeck thanks Ewart for sending the photographs of 'Remus' and a black hybrid mare, along with an estimated cost for the pair. He asks if Ewart could send him the stallion which is for Henry Fairfield Osborn in New York, as he wishes to combine the shipping with some animals of his own. He adds that he now has a pair of Chapman's zebras, which he is sending from Hamburg to India. He would like to negotiate the sale of two Java ponies to Ewart in exchange for a stallion and two Shetland...
Dates:
08 April 1902