A driver with a team of two bay or brown Clydesdale draft horses hitched side by side to what appears to be a metal-wheeled hay mower in a large field. The horses are fitted in leather work harnesses with a yoke between them that attaches to the…
Dale Klingsmith with a Belgian draft horse mare, having won first prize in the horsefitter competition at the Herdsmen Show in 1930. The job of the horsefitter or exhibitor is to prepare a horse for competition and to present a horse at its very best…
A handler with the roan Belgian draft horse mare "Couretta." The horse is pictured with a braided tail and leather show bridle with a snaffle bit. An Iowa State College (University) horse barn appears in the background.
A handler posing the bay Clydesdale draft horse stallion "Refiner," foaled on April 16, 1902 in Scotland (registration number 12116 in the American Clydesdale stud book.) He was sired by "Barron's Pride" and was half-brother to "Baron of Buchlyvie,"…
A handler posing the roan yearling Belgian draft horse filly "Beulah" (American register of Belgian draft horses, number 14442; sired by Bamboula, out of Bonnie de Grange). Bred by Iowa State College (University), she was foaled on March 11, 1930.
A "get of sire" or "get of dam" quartet of mature Belgian draft horses of unknown names and ages. The two horses on the left in the photograph are roan in color, while the two horses on the right are chestnut in color. The horses are fitted with…