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Photograph of a herd of mules used by the military in Texas, [United States] in the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents Contains: 'Ponies', The Spectator, 27 October 1900; 'The Highland Pony: Revival of a Neglected Equine Breed', by J. Fairfax Blakeborough, The Scotsman, 6 September 1907; 'The Country House: Horses for the Territorial Army', The Field, 15 February 1908; 'The National Horse...

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Photograph of teams of yoked oxen used by French soldiers to draw heavy artillery guns down a road in the countryside in France during World War I.

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Illustration of a Royal Horse Artillery gun-team horse standing in harness.

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Photograph of three Texas Remount horses in a pen in the early 20th century. The United States Remount Service was mormed under the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army in 1908 in order to breed horses by providing government-owned stallions to privately-owned mares to supply the military at any given time.

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Front page of the Illustrated Sunday Herald newspaper from 11 March 1917 with a drawing by the Italian artist, Fortunio Mantania, entitled, 'Forging Ahead in a Blizzard' showing World War I troops on horses crossing a stream in a snow storm.

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Photograph from a newspaper showing a hog named, 'Dennis' kept as a pet by the crew aboard a military ship patrolling the Dardanelles in World War I with some men watching him.

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Photograph of a wild boar caught by French soldiers near the trenches in Alsace that became a 'regimental pet' on 20 April, 1915.

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Photograph of a British sailor sitting on the deck of a ship watching a German pig he saved eat from a trough during World War I.

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Photograph of a group of soldiers with one holding a pig that they had captured and 'arrested as a spy' when they found it wandering by the trenches in World War I.