Goat Week ended last Friday, and we’re finally ready to celebrate other animals again. All thanks to the Library of Congress, for giving us a bumper crop of vintage farm horses doing their thing. Enjoy! [mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horse on farm during wheat harvest, central Ohio, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5] [mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Plowing with ten-horse team. Ryken […]
Goat Week ended last Friday, and we’re finally ready to celebrate other animals again. All thanks to the Library of Congress, for giving us a bumper crop of vintage farm horses doing their thing. Enjoy!
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horse on farm during wheat harvest, central Ohio, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Plowing with ten-horse team. Ryken farm, Hardin County, Iowa, ca. 1939.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horses raised more for show than work. Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, New Jersey, ca. 1942.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Johnny Gaynor driving a team of horses. Gaynor farm, near Fairfield, Vermont, ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Finish line of farm boys’ horse race. This was supposed to be a boys race but the girls wanted to be in it too so they were included. Vale, Oregon, ca. 1941.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Farm scene. Buffalo County, Nebraska, ca. 1903.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Work Horse Parade: horse and delivery wagon. New York City, ca. 1908.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horse-drawn potato digger on the farm of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client. Near Caribou, Maine, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Taking the horses into new barn after hauling water on Clinton Gilbert’s farm. Woodstock, Vermont, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Stacking alfalfa on a farm. Buffalo County, Nebraska, ca. 1903.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Sheepherder on his horse. Ouray County, Colorado, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]One man/one horse methods are rare in California. Between Laton and Fowler, central San Joaquin Valley, California, ca. 1935.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Cowboy on horse. Bean Day Rodeo, Wagon Mound, Mew Mexico, ca. 1939[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horse farm in Bluegrass country. Fayette County, Kentucky, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Mr. Arthur Wolf’s team of horses on his farm. North Branford, Connecticut, ca. 1940.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horses on a breeding farm. Detroit (vicinity), Michigan, ca. 1943.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Farm boy and horse. East of Lowell, Vermont, ca. 1936.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Horses on farm during wheat harvest. Central Ohio, ca. 1938.[/mf_h5]
[mf_h5 align=”left” transform=”uppercase”]Soldiers of a cavalry machine gun platoon going over an obstacle during a field problem. Fort Riley, Kansas, ca. 1942.[/mf_h5]