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Mares

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

Found in 151 Collections and/or Records:

Hunter Brood Mare, "Speculation" and Foal, "Spendthrift", 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2174
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Hunter brood mare, "Speculation" and her foal, "Spendthrift" in a paddock. They won a first at Tumbridge Wells and the £50 Cup at the Royal Lancashire Show in 1905.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Juno: a Zebra-Mare Hybrid, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/331
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a zebra-mare hybrid named, Juno, 'who was foaled on June 2, 1912, out of the registered Morgan Mare, Baby Gates, Vol. III, AMR; sired by the Grevy zebra, Jerry.' The note beneath the image continues to describe Juno's characteristics.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Led Cart Horse / Cart Mare, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/366
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a led cart horse mare standing in front of a barn with a man holding her bridle and lead in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Letter (incomplete) to James Cossar Ewart from unknown author, 14 May 1899

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/22
Scope and Contents

The letter's author is a former pupil and assistant demonstrator of Ewart's (from around 1891), working in Africa as a government medical officer. He writes that he is sending Ewart the skins of two zebra mares which he has shot, and offers to try and get more skins, and to take photographs of various game.

The latter part of the letter, with author signature, is not present.

Dates: 14 May 1899
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford from James Cossar Ewart (incomplete), 02 May 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/14
Scope and Contents

Ewart describes the three ponies that he will send off to Woburn shortly. He states that the main questions relating to the origin of the domestic breeds of the horse will be settled if one of these mares has a foal to one of Russell's Przewalski's stallions. He states that unfortunately his Przewalski's mare is not in foal.

The latter part of the letter, including author's signature, is not present.

Dates: 02 May 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1907

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alexander McHardy, 29 February 1904

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/10/21
Scope and Contents

McHardy attempts to negotiate a time when his pony stallion 'Braemore' can be spared to serve some of Ewart's mares and states that he can acquire some ponies for Ewart if he wishes.

Dates: 29 February 1904
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1904

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1905

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1899

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 06 March 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/30
Scope and Contents Hagenbeck states that he would like to buy some more of Ewart's zebra hybrids to get them in harness. He offers to exchange his Korea stallion for Ewart's two Shetland stallions, and asks how many mares he thinks a good zebra stallion could cover in a year. He also asks Ewart to recommend him some people who wish to buy zebras for breeding purposes and asks if Ewart could let him have 'Romulus' and the sister of an Exmoor hybrid, born 1901, in exchange for some of his zebras. He comments...
Dates: 06 March 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

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