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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:

Skelfhill Clipping, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1617
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a group of men, women and children in front of a stone barn on a hill watching some men clip the wool off a flock of sheep. The shorn sheep stand in the foreground in the early 20th century at Skelfhill Farm in Hawick, Scotland.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Slow-Maturity Dentition [Sheep], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2749
Scope and Contents

Illustrations of slow-maturity dentition in sheep 'when forced, get their permanent teeth a few months earlier', from 3 months up to 9 years of age.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Somaliland and Longwoolled Persian Sheep, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1733
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a flock of Somaliland and Longwoolled Persian sheep on the plains herded by two men on horseback in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Some miscellaneous ancient fleece remains, 1977

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/599
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1977. Volume 11 of 19.

Dates: 1977

Some results of multiple-mating and superovulation in sheep, 1964

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/185
Scope and Contents

Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1962 - 1964. Volume 3 of 19.

Dates: 1964

Song beginning 'A liud fear agus [eadside]', 1 October 1890

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/26
Scope and Contents

Song collected from Gilleaspa MacInnes [Archibald MacInnes], Ionnar Ruai[dh], An t-shraid an ard [High Street, Inbhir Ruaidh/Inverroy, Inverness-shire] beginning 'A liud fear agus [eadside], Agus eadra chai a thachadh'. The song is composed of nine lines and is noted as being composed 'By a Glen Coe man' [Gleann Comhann, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1 October 1890

Sons of Nimrod, Skelfhill, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2398
Scope and Contents

Photograph of several sheep that are the 'sons of "Nimrod"'in a sheep pen on Skelfhill Farm in the Scottish Borders in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Spanish Piebald Sheep, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2382
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Spanish Piebald sheep standing in a field being held in place by a man in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Spraying Sheep, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1615
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a sheep jumping out of a chute as it is being sprayed for pests in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s