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Zebras

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

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Burchell's Zebra, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3102
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Burchell's zebra standing in a paddock next to a barn in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Lord Arthur Cecil, 05 September 1896

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

Cecil thanks Ewart for 'the photo of Mulatto and Romulus' (Ewart's first zebra/horse hybrid and dam) and mentions that the Scottish Farmer should be sending 'Reid of Wishaw' (Charles Reid, the photographer). Cecil suggests that Reid should photograph Ewart's various animals (zebra, mule, donkey as well as Mulatto and Romulus) to highlight the differences in stripes between father and son, and the absence of stripes in the non-hybrid animals.

Dates: 05 September 1896

Photographic print, mounted on card, of Ewart with zebra/horse hybrid, Romulus, c.1899

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/4/5
Scope and Contents

This photograph likely dates from around the time of The Penycuik Experiments, although the image does not appear in that work. The card mount is marked 'Charles Reid, Gloucester' and bears signs of having been glued to another surface.

Dates: c.1899

Romulus [and James Cossar Ewart], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/326
Scope and Contents

Photograph of James Cossar Ewart standing with Romulus, the zebra/horse hybrid, on the lawn behind a house in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Zebra, "Matopo", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3125
Scope and Contents

Photograph of "Matopo", the Burchell's zebra stallion that James Cossar Ewart used in his Penycuick experiments to breed zebra-horse hybrids in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s