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Sheep

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

Found in 665 Collections and/or Records:

Cotswold Shearling Ram, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2744
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Costwold shearling that won first prize at the Gloucester Show in 1904 standing in a paddock. It was owned by William T Garne.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Cross-Bred Native Sheep, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2347
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a flock of cross-bred native sheep grazing on a hill with two shepherds minding them in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Cross-Bred Tegs from Dorset Ewes by a Shropshire Ram, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2375
Scope and Contents

Photograph of several cross-bred tegs from Dorset ewes by a Shropshire ram in a sheep pen at an agricultural show in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Crossbred lamb production from cast-for-age Blackface ewes, 1958

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/70
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1958 - 1961. Volume 2 of 19.

Dates: 1958

Crossbred Romney Marsh from the African Deserts, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2397
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a crossbred Romney Marsh sheep from the African deserts standing in a field in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Custom regarding the use of sheep bones, 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/262
Scope and Contents

Custom regarding the use of sheep bones stating that they must not be burnt on the fire and that 'Old men in Uist [Uibhist] highly disapprove of this'. Seileann (sheep lice) must not be put in the fire either or 'sealbh chaorach [flock of sheep] w[ou]ld not attend you'.

Dates: 1884