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Horses

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

Found in 454 Collections and/or Records:

Horse and Buggy, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2240
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man sitting in a buggy holding a fly whip with a white horse harnessed to it and being held by another man on the lawn in front of a house in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse at Full Trot, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1873
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a jockey riding a horse at full trot. The jockey is holding a camera/recording device in one hand and the reins and recording cables in the other. The cables are attached to each of the horses legs. Beneath the image is a digaram showing the rhythm of the stride.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse Breasts, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1882
Scope and Contents

Two photographs of a hunter and a mare's chests. The photograph on the left depicts the front view of a 'well-shaped weight carrying hunter'; and the photograph on the right depicts a 'broad breasted thoroughbred mare.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse, Clothed Skeleton, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1906
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a horse skeleton 'showing the location of the bones, the degree to which the skeleton and the muscle influences the form, and also the location of the various points and common diseases.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse, Cloven Hoof, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3130
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a horse's cloven hoof.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

[Horse-Drawn Carriage in the Mountains], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3176
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man holding the reins of a pair of horses harnessed to a two-wheeled carriage in a mountainous region in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse In a Straight Jacket, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2289
Scope and Contents

Illustration of 'the author's method of confining a horse in a straight jacket' by complex tying system around its legs and girth as its tied to a post in a field.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse Jumping, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2576
Scope and Contents

Photographs of horses jumping over fences to demonstrate the technique in the early 20th century. The upper image, 'Fig. 9 - Rising to the Jump' depicts the 'famous jumper "Heatherbloom", owned by Mr. Willets', jumping over a high fence; while the lower image, 'Fig. 8 - Landing from the Jump' shows the 'enormous strain put on the modified central fingers of the fore limb' of the horse as it lands from a jump.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse Leaping - "High O'er the Fence", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1914
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Helen McLanahan of Washington, DC, 'taking the fence in perfect style at the National Capitol Horse Show' in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Horse Pulling Back, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2021
Scope and Contents

Illustration of a cowboy riding a horse that is pulling back.

Dates: 1870s-1930s