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Shropshire sheep

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

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

High Grade Shropshire (Merino/Tyells Est 1r), Curuzu-Cuatia, Argentina, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2352
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a small flock of high grade Shropshire sheep in a field next to a farm house on the Merino/Tyells First Estate in Curuzu-Cuatia, Argentina in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P Lort, 11 October 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/19
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Lort writes that he can let Ewart have four or five pure-bred brown St Kilda ewes. He has tried crossing them with the Southdown Shropshire and the four-horned red Manx and he is now trying the Cheviot. He offers to sell Ewart some lambs from a St Kilda ewe and Manx ram cross.

Dates: 11 October 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P. Lort, 20 October 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/22
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Lort writes that he will send Mr Pocock one St Kilda ewe and a Welsh ewe. He offers to send Ewart a ewe out of a St Kilda by a Shropshire ram and a lamb by a Red Manx as well as the Welsh ewe lambs and St Kilda ewes.

Dates: 20 October 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P. Lort, 06 November 1910

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/16/28
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Lort writes that he has not yet been able to buy any Welsh ewes that have not been with a ram, but when he does he will send one with a 'Soa' ewe to Pocock and four to Ewart along with a Shropshire and St Kilda cross and Manx and St Kilda cross. He provides some information about the tails of various sheep breeds.

Dates: 06 November 1910

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from G.P Lort, 23 June 1911

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/17/38
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Lort writes that the largest of the ewes is a Shropshire cross, the smaller ewe with close short wool was running with a pure Southdown, and the St Kilda ewe was put to a pedigree Welsh ram of Professor Winter's.

Dates: 23 June 1911

Shropshire Shearling Ram, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2325
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Photograph of a Shropshire shearling ram exhibited by Sir Richard Cooper, Bart. that won a prize during the Royal Show of 1911.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Shropshire [Sheep], Nairobi, 1st Cross, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2343
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Photograph of a flock of Shropshire sheep and lambs in a field in Nairobi in the early 20th century. The handwritten text on the slide notes that they are the '1st cross, 2 crops lambs - 7 in 2 years.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Shropshire [Sheep], Nairobi, 1st Cross, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2346
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Photograph of a flock of Shropshire sheep and lambs in a field in Nairobi in the early 20th century. The handwritten text on the slide notes that they are the '1st cross, 2 crops lambs - 7 in 2 years.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Shropshires, Royal Show, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2355
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Photograph of a row of Shropshire sheep with their owners and the judges standing in front of covered sheep pens at the Royal Show in 1937.

Dates: 1870s-1930s