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Box 7

 Container

Contains 194 Results:

Item 6: The Sheep Lair [Fair], Boston [England], from Old Print, 1965

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Black- and-white image shows hundreds of sheep lined up in pens on a city street. Men dressed in top hats and formal clothes appear to be examining the animals for either purchase or sale. City buildings line both sides of the street and horse-drawn carriages are traveling along a path between pens. Sheep "Lair" is clearly a misprint for Sheep "Fair." Published by Wing & Co., Ltd., Boston; printed in Great Britain. Postmarked Sept. 11, 1965 in Bethel, Conn. 13.5 x 8.5 Format:...
Dates: 1965

Item 7: Prize Winning Shropshires, Mich.

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Prize Winning Shropshires, Mich. Black-and-white image shows a flock of Shropshire sheep in a meadow in the foreground; open land with some trees and farm buildings in the background. Information on reverse side places this scene in Jackson County, Mich. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 8: Moutons [sheep] in France, 1981

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Color image shows a shepherd watching over his flock of sheep in a meadow. Colorphoto Edition Deriar Boulmes; Reproduction interdite. Printed in Switzerland. Postmarked Sept. 22, 1981 in England. 10.5 x 14.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1981

Item 9: Baby lamb

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image shows a baby lamb standing before the camera. No other information given. 1902-1907. 9 x 14 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 10: Merino sheep from Spain made Vermont a leader in the textile industry, 1900

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image shows a flock of sheep in a meadow with hilly terrain in background. Photographed by Willis T. White. From The Weichert-Isselhardt Collection, "Images from the Past," Bennington, Vt. [after 1963] 15 x 11 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1900

Item 11: Seeking the pleasant waters. "How fair the rural scene."

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image depicts a flock of sheep by a riverbank. No location given. Published by E. A. Schwerdfleger, London; printed in Berlin. ca. 1907-1915. 13.5 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 12: Sheep Industry in the West, part of an eighty thousand drove near Spokane, Washington, 1908

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Color image shows thousands of sheep with a shepherd in the background. A mountain range is on the horizon in the background. Frank Palmer, Spokane. Published by Edward H. Mitchell, San Francisco. Postmarked Feb. 15, 1916 in Los Angeles, Calif. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1908

Item 13: Sheep raising, an extensive industry in Northern Arizona, 1903

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Black-and-white image shows a large flock in open land with mountains in the background. The sheep are of various colors and sizesand being tended by a man on horseback and two more standing by. The man in the foreground could be a Native American. New York: Underwood & Underwood. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Dates: 1903

Item 14: Highland sheep

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Color image shows a group of eight rams on a grassy knoll overlooking a lake and mountains in the background. Moorland and Meadow published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, "Oilette." (Regd.) Printed in Bavaria. ca. 1902-1915. 14 x 9 cm.

Format: Postcard.

Dates: 1842-2003

Item 15: Dipping Sheep, 1907

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Color image depicts scene on a sheep ranch where hundreds of sheep are in pens. Men are preparing medicated preparations in a long narrow trough. The sheep will be driven single file through the trough to soak their wool in order to prevent diseases. Printed on reverse: "Dipping Sheep. A unique and picturesque feature of sheep raising on a large scale in the southwest of America is the 'dipping' of the sheep to prevent and eliminate disease. The sheep are driven into great pens; from those...
Dates: 1907