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Horses

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 453 Collections and/or Records:

Teeth [of a Horse] 15-21 Years of Age, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1884
Scope and Contents

Illustrations of the side views of the top jaw of a horse aged 15-16 years (top) and 21 years (bottom).

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Teeth [of Horses] 6-7 Years [of Age], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1885
Scope and Contents

Illustrations of the side and inside views of a horse's lower jaw showing the incisors at 6 years of age and at 7 years of age.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Texas Remount Horses, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1934
Scope and Contents

Photograph of three Texas Remount horses in a pen in the early 20th century. The United States Remount Service was mormed under the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army in 1908 in order to breed horses by providing government-owned stallions to privately-owned mares to supply the military at any given time.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Bones as Levers, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1920
Scope and Contents

Illustrations showing how the bones of a horse are used as levers with the fulcrum, muscle, points and weight highlighted.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Butchery Trade of Horses to the Continent, 1922

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/5/2/9
Scope and Contents

A pamphlet on the butchery trade of horses to the continent. The pamphlet contains information on the animal welfare treatment of the horses and what happens to them. This was published by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and distributed by their Scottish branch on Melville Street.

Dates: 1922

The Care of the Horse, 1920

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/1/4/39
Scope and Contents

An Our Animal Friends, "The Care of the Horse", a pamphlet issued by the Animal Defence Society, on how to best care for a horse.

Dates: 1920

The Castle of Chapultepecv [Mexico City, Mexico], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2947
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the castle of Chapultepec in Mexico City, Mexico with a field of horses in the foreground in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Evolution of the Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1917
Scope and Contents

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

The Fossil "Desert Horse", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/323
Scope and Contents

Image of the skeleton of the fossil "Desert Horse" which was discovered through the Whitney Fund in [1906] and is mounted in the American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Grey Mare's Leap, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1947
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Mrs Livingstone's grey mare in mid leap over a gate during the jumping competition at Rotherfield House Show in 1922.

Dates: 1870s-1930s