Skip to main content

Cattle Breeds

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

Found in 287 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Alfred C. Burrill, 18 March 1933

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/38/3
Scope and Contents

Burrill writes that the State of Missouri Resources Museum Commission have been trying to gather Museum exhibits showing the ancestry of various breeds of livestock. He asks Ewart whether Bos taurus primigenius and longifrons are types of the same species, and also where they might find pictures of animals from the pre-Christian era.

Dates: 18 March 1933

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from James Wilson, 28 November 1910

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/43
Scope and Contents

Wilson writes that he can give no opinion on the descent of the hornless cattle from the Etruscan, but he suspects they can be traced backwards along the North of Europe. He wonders whether they were the same as cattle from Egypt, and if so, how the geographical divide happened.

Dates: 28 November 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Richard Francis Scharff, 02 December 1910

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/44
Scope and Contents

Scharff writes that a great deal has been written about the domestication and place of origin of Bos taurus primigenius, but that Professor Keller has shown conclusively that its domestication took place in Greece around 1500BC and that it never existed in Northern Asia or North America. Scharff remarks that the Bison bonasus is undoubtedly a near relation to the American bison.

Dates: 02 December 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from W.L Griffiths, 23 March 1911

 Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/14
Scope and Contents

Griffiths writes that he has sent a copy of Ewart's letter regarding proposed experiments in raising certain breeds of cattle to the Minister of Agriculture at Ottawa.

Dates: 23 March 1911

Lincoln Red Bechuanaland, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/462
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a herd of Lincoln Red Bechuanaland cattle with a man standing nearby in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Lincoln Red (failure), 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/111
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Lincoln Red cow and calf. A note on the slide states that the cow is a failure.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Lincoln Red (Failure) Bechuanaland, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/463
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Lincoln Red (Failure) Bechuanaland cow with extra legs.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Lincoln Red (Failure) Bechuanaland, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/856
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Lincoln Red (failure) Bechuanaland bull standing in a paddock next to a brick building with a cowby next to it in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Mahadeswara Betta Bull (Belsal Breed), 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/805
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Mahadeswara Betta bull of the Belsal breed standing in a field with an Indian man in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Mahadeswara Betta Bullocks, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/806
Scope and Contents

Photograph of two Mahadeswara Betta bullocks standing together in a field held on leads by an Indian man in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s