Dogs
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1864 to
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW114
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Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, noted as being 'Bought at St Columb, Cornwall, 30 Nov[ember] 1864 pr[ice] 2/3'. The back inside cover contains a note probably collected as part of excise duties which reads 'Rod[erick] MacPhie Mast of boat 21.8 [-] 1.2½ [-]'. The notebook contains one insertion. The majority of the notebook contains lore relating to Miùlaigh/Mingulay mostly collected from Roderick MacNeil, crofter, aged 88, known as Ruairidh an Rùma. Roderick MacNeil also...
Dates:
1864 to
Fragment of a song and accompanying story about a man being attacked, 19 August 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/57
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Fragment of a song [Uamh an Òir] which reads 'He darin a hua, Si ghaluain a charach mi' and accompanying story about a man being attacked in a cave by a gal uain [gal uaine or green she-dog].
Dates:
19 August 1886
Goats and Their Dog Guardian, Eagle Pass, Texas, [United States], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2927
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Photograph of a herd of goats in a pen with their black, dog guardian standing in the foreground with three women and a baby in the background in front of a thatched building in Eagle Pass, Texas, [United States], in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
His Life at Stake, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3257
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Photographs of a policeman and a little girl with the same black and white terrier dog that, according to the text, was going to be destroyed in 1920. The text notes that Mr. C J Birch of Surbiton submitted an appeal with 6000 signatures to save his dog, Onkie.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Inherited defects of dogs, 1 January 1955
Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/67
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Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1947-1957. Volume 1 of 19.
Dates:
1 January 1955
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from E. Bryans, 20 November 1899
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/5/37
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Bryans writes regarding Ewart's article 'Zebras, Horses and Hybrids' which has prompted him to mention a supposed case of telegony between two dogs.
Dates:
20 November 1899
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from J. Sidney Turner, 20 March 1900
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/6/8
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Turner writes that he is enclosing some photographs obtained from Count Le Couteulx de Canteleu and mentioning, amongst other things, an illustration that he has done of a supposed stuffed specimen of a fox-bay hybrid now in the possession of the former Chairman of the Kennel Club, Mr Shirley.
Dates:
20 March 1900
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Kathleen Haddon, 16 September 1912
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/18/62
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Haddon writes that she has arrived back in Cambridge to find Ewart's case of Roman dog skulls at the Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge. She asks their probable age and where they came from.
Dates:
16 September 1912
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sr George Archdall Reid, 09 June 1907
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/22
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Reid writes that one in ten Retriever pups are born brown, a trait that continues to make its appearance despite the brown dogs never exhibiting any black colour and the black dogs never showing any brown.
Dates:
09 June 1907
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from the Inland Revenue, Dumfries, 05 January 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/1
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The letter informs Ewart that the Board of the Inland Revenue have no objection to Ewart's keeping dogs for experimental purposes without payment of license duty, upon the fulfilment of certain conditions.
Dates:
05 January 1903