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Ponies

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

Found in 171 Collections and/or Records:

Notes relating to the pony cross-breeding programme of the Congested Districts Board, 14 January 1908

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

The notes chiefly consist of quotations from newspaper reports relating to the introduction of 'new blood' into the crofters' ponies by the Congested Districts Board in a bid to improve the native stock.

Dates: 14 January 1908
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1908

Postcard to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel Edward Donald Malcolm, 16th Laird of Poltalloch, 02 April 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/8
Scope and Contents

Malcolm writes that the grey pony he sent to Ewart was bought for a Shetlander by an Irishman. He asks if Ewart has any Texan tick virus as he wants to innoculate his new bull.

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

Postcard to James Cossar Ewart from Colonel Edward Donald Malcom, 16th Laird of Poltalloch, 13 May 1907

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/13/19
Scope and Contents

Malcolm states that he will arrange to have his stallion 'Parakh' sent to Ewart once he has covered one of his mares and hopes that his pony 'Grizel' is proving useful to Ewart's research.

Dates: 13 May 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1907

Rum Pony of Lord A[rthur] Cecil, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3114
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Rum pony standing in a paddock in front of a large house in the early 20th century that belonged to Lord A[rthur] Cecil.

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

Telegram to James Cossar Ewart from James Burton, 09 September 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/98
Scope and Contents

Burton states that sailing has been postponed and asks to be informed when the ponies are to go.

Dates: 09 September 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Telegram to James Cossar Ewart from James Burton, 09 September 1903

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/99
Scope and Contents

Burton enquires whether he may arrange for the ponies to be loaded onto the London train from Edinburgh.

Dates: 09 September 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1903

Telegraph to James Cossar Ewart from Carl Hagenbeck, 23 October 1902

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/8/85
Scope and Contents

Hagenbeck confirms that the shipbroker would like £17.10s for each zebra and pony shipped to Bombay. Ewart replies on the reverse to confirm the costs.

Dates: 23 October 1902
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of James Cossar Ewart / Correspondence / Correspondence 1902

The Pony Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1871
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the Prince of Wales' [George V]Dartmoor and Welsh mountain ponies at the Islington Pony Show at the Royal Agricultural Hall on the 4th March 1917. In the first picture, a young naval officer holds the reins of the first prize Dartmoor pony, Sphagnum; and in the second is the Welsh mountain pony, Bleddfa Star. The text notes that the Prince of Wales was one of the largest exhibitors at the show.

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

Typical China Pony, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3111
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a typical pony from China standing in a field with a man holding its lead in the early 20th century.

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

Westmorland Fell Pony, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3080
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Westmorland Fell pony standing in a stable yard in the early 20th century.

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

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