Featured Post your vintage people with horses photos please

Looked high and low for a horse/s but no luck for the moment. I did however find a dog on a postcard It's a bit faded and I had to fiddle with it but I love it.

 

1889 book with 40 "moment-photographs" (I just took a picture of the first one).

 

First photo, 1928, my Grandfather breaking sod in Tony, WI. Second photo, 1928, my Grandfather plowing the garden spot and my father riding the horse. Sadly he lost the farm during the Great Depression.

 

This was taken in 1909, on the estate in CT where my grandfather grew up - and, no, his family didn't own it. His father (my great-grandfather, a Swedish immigrant) was the head caretaker. He's the one 2nd from the right:


Now, how about an OLD HORSE? My daughter's horse is now 32 - and yes, that is old for a horse. She's retired, living happily on a farm in Western Mass, giving the occasional pony ride to DD's friends' kids.

Here she was as a baby:


This was about 20 or 21 years ago:


and this was this past autumn:

 

Thats a great photo!
I like the dynamics of it.

 

Wow, thanks for posting these pictures. She still looks good!

 

I wish I had such beautiful family photos.

 

The plow on the first photo, can you enlarge it ? it is strange that something with such wheels could go through muddy earth.

 

They look like double wheels with something in between, maybe for traction?

 

This photo from my collection shows a horse wearing bells, attached to a sleigh or wagon. Neither the people nor the horse look very happy about the deep snow!

 

maybe on way to a funeral or they had an avalanche some days before ?

 

Equestrian here, with some tidbits of info :

The wheels on the plow/tiller are wide so they don't sink into the earth, but not so wide as to add turning resistance when the plow/tiller is pulled.

The horse in the snow has an overcheck that's a bit tight - it's the piece of leather that attaches to the bit, splits over the nose, runs over the top of the head and attaches at the base of the neck (you can see the hook in the photo). The overcheck prevents the horse from putting its head too low - or down at all, in this case. :/ Probably explains the horse's unhappy expression.

 

Low quality photo for sure. To me it looks like a double rim affair with cleats/spacers in-between .

 

Thanks for this. I knew the horse in the snow looked uncomfortable... now I know one big reason.

 

Thats a great photo. Where was it taken? somewhere in lowlands is my guess.
The big snow reminds me of my childhood in the Panonia plane.

 

Here is a military photo, taken somwhere north of Thessaloniki, september 1916.

 

The photo mount and the photo have absolutely no marks and I don't know where it was taken. I bought it at an antique show here in the Midwestern United States. The people who run the booth are photo dealers who get their photos from lots of places in the Midwest US, but they also regularly go to Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada. That being said, many of their photos seem to be from the U.S. but they do sell photos from anywhere. Not much help to figure out where it's from!

By the way, I know the photo was not taken in semi-tropical Florida!

 

I vote that the picture, in the snow, is taken somewhere in North America due to the mortise, split rail fencing being used.

 

I also think it has been taken in the US, what I meant to ask was where?
Still its beautiful photo.

 

All I can tell us, somewhere in the northern part of the US. The south doesn't tend to get snow that deep, ever, except in the mountainous areas.