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Agricultural exhibitions

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

Found in 154 Collections and/or Records:

A View of One of the Field Produce Sheds [Show Grounds, Shillong Ridge, India], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1528
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a view of one of the field produce sheds at the [Show Grounds, Shillong Ridge, India] in the early 20th century. The image shows a crowd of Indian people and a Western man standing around open sheds with field produce.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Angora Ewe, 19 Month, Staple 13" at 12 Months, M Guard Hobson, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3447
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an Angora goat ewe at 19 months old and which was a staple 13" at 12 months old and owned by M Guard Hobson standing in a show yard in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Angora Goat, 2 1/2 Years, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3445
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a two and a half year old Angora goat standing in a pen in the early 20th century. Beneath the image are handwritten notes about how it was bred by the Cawood Bros. of Mount Stewart, [South Africa] and that it won first prize champion of the yard at Graaff Reneit, Middleburg and Cradock in 1912.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Argentine Cow, "Niata", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2855
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the Argentine cow, "Niata" standing in front of a building with a man holding its lead in the late 19th century. From the Sociedad Rural Argentina, Abril 1890, Sedunda Exposicion International de Ganaderia y Agricultura.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

"Babraham Hermon" (8799), 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1746
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the ram, "Babraham Hermon" (8799) that was the reserve for male champion at the Royal Show, 1910 and also first prize two-shear ram and reserve for male championship at the Royal Show in 1911. The ram was bred and exhibited by Mr. Adeane.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Border Leicester Gimmer, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1625
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Border Leicester gimmer [young sheep] standing in a field at an agricultural exhibition in 1922. The text beneath the image notes that the sheep won 'breed champion at the H & A S Show and was bred and owned by Messers Niven from Ayton, Fife, Scotland.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Border Leicester Shearling Ram, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1747
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Border Leicester shearling ram that won the President's Medal and breed champion at the Highland Show in 1905, Glasgow.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Border Leicester Shearling Ram, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2759
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Border Leicester shearling ram that won first prize at the Highland and Agriculture Society Show in 1923 and which was bred and owned by Messrs Niven, Ayton, Fife, Scotland.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Border Leicester [Sheep], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1633
Scope and Contents

Photograph of Border Leicester, Yorkshire, Wensleydale-Leicester type sheep in pens at an agricultural show in the early/mid 20th century. The image shows the sheep in the pens with men conducting business and lorries to transport the animals in the background.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Buff Orpington Cock, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3369
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a Buff Orpington cock with several of its prize-winning points labelled. It was shown by Mr. W J Golding of Penhurst, Kent at the Bath and West show in the early/mid 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s