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Shire Horse

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

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Shire Stallion, "Mars Victor" (9889), 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2134
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Shire stallion, "Mars Victor" (9889) standing on a lawn with a fence and flowerbed in the background in the early 20th century. The horse was owned and bred by Sir Algernon B Freeman-Mitford, 1st Lord Resedale.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Shire Stallion "Sl[?]ton Stars", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/348
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Shire stallion named, "Sl[?]ton Stars" standing next to a wooden building with a man holding his lead in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Shire Stallion, "Spark" (2497), 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2127
Scope and Contents

Illustration of the champion Shire stallion, "Spark" (2497) that won the London shows in 1881 and 1883. He was owned by Mr. Walter Gilley of Elsenham Hall, Essex, England.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Shire Stallion, "Staunton Herd" [Staunton Hero] (2918), 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/353
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Shire stallion, "Staunton Herd"[sic] "Staunton Hero" (2918) foaled in 1861 and sold to the Duke of Westminster for £500 guineas in 1889.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

The Great Horse, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/355
Scope and Contents

Image of a reproduction of a drawing by Albrecht Durer of "The Great Horse", which is supposedly the horse from the sixteenth century that the Shire 'is supposed to have derived its ancestry.' Depicts a large white horse standing in front of a soldier.

Dates: 1870s-1930s