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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Horses -- Breeding

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Collection related to stallion Wicked William

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1
Identifier: ViU-2023-0107

Collection related to stallion Wicked William

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 16825
Content Description This collection contains nineteen documents and letters that provide detailed documentation of the ownership of a breeding stallion named Wicked William. The documents include three pedigrees, four stud service tickets, five sales records, and seven stampless letters, which provide a first-hand account of thoroughbred breeding and horse racing in Virginia during the early 19th century. The collection traces the breeding of Wicked William and his pedigree.The collection also...
Dates: 1832 - 1845

Randolph Huntington papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS15564
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence and ephemera from the estate of Randolph Huntington. Much of the correspondence pertains in some way to the history, breeding, raising, racing, or showing of the Arabian horse in the United States. The papers contain letters from breeders and owners of Arabian horses, editors and writers for sporting periodicals of the period, and correspondents with others interested in horses; printed ephemera; financial and legal papers; pedigrees...
Dates: 1860, 1873-1908

Original Dams of the English Thorough-bred manuscript translation

 Item — Ledger 1: [Barcode: X031660921]
Identifier: MSS 16399
Scope and Contents

Hand copied translation by unknown translator of Die Stamm-Muetter des Englischen Vollblutpferdes, second edition (Hamburg, 1891) by Hermann Goos. English translation is bound with printed German copy, as well as three newspaper issues on the topic of horseracing. Two of these newspapers are issues of the Berlin publication Sport-Welt, dating from 22 December 1893 and 6 February 1896.

Dates: 1891 - 1896