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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:

Comparative Drawings of Skulls, Feet and Teeth of Prehistoric Horse, Showing Evolutionary Development, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/618
Scope and Contents

Illustration of comparative drawings of skulls, feet and teeth of the Prehistoric horse, which shows its evolutionary development. Reproduced from Guide No. 9, American Museum of Natural History.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Comparison of Ancestral and Existing Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3104
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a skull of a modern horse above a figure of a model of the Eohippus, an ancient horse, to show the difference in size of the skulls.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Compensation for Extra Length, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3461
Scope and Contents

Illustration of the compensation for excessive length in horses size after Goubaux and Barrier (by permission of Messrs. Lippencott).

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Confining a Horse's Fore and Hind Legs, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2306
Scope and Contents

Illustration of the method of confining a horse's fore and hind legs with rope.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Copy of a letter to Charles Mackinnon Douglas from James Cossar Ewart, 20 March 1916

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/22/18
Scope and Contents

Ewart writes that he is sending Douglas another paper on the development of the horse, but that he will require financial help to continue with the work. He supposes that the Development Commissioners are not worth approaching, but asks Douglas to consider the matter favourably.

Dates: 20 March 1916

Creole Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/398
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Creole horse standing in a paddock with a man standing behind it holding its reins in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Cross-Bred Harness Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1940
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a cross-bred harness horse harnessed to a barrouche drivien by a man with a fly-whip stopped in front of a stone house in the early 20th century. The text beneath the image notes that the horse was a cross between a Yorkshire Coach horse on a Clydesdale mare and was bred by S W Wallace, Ford, Thornhill, Scotland.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Cross Saddle in Mexico, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2943
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man riding a horse using a cross saddle in Mexico in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Curing a Halter Breaker [Horse], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2005
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a method of curing a halter breaker; or training a horse to the vicinity of motor-car or steam. Showing a horse in a field pulling backwards against a rope while a motor-car drives by in the background.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Curing a Kicker [Horse], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2006
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a 'quick and effective method by which to cure a "kicker" or "buckle" horse. The image shows a horse tied to a post in a field with a rope around its hind-quarters as it's kicking and a man's hands pulling on the rope.

Dates: 1870s-1930s