Box 7

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Black- and-white image shows hundreds of sheep grazing in open land. The shepherd and his dog are in the foreground. The low annual rainfall and sparse pasture in Montana is ideal for sheep. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1900-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Color image shows hundreds of sheep being herded through a prairie by a man on horseback. A horse-drawn cart and a horse-drawn covered wagon accompany the herd. Huge rocky bluffs are in the background view. The handwritten note on the reverse reads: "Billings - Montana - Heir [sic] you see a thousand or more sheep - sometimes out this way - one man stays with as many as a thousand sheep - for months out on the prairie - He lives in a wagon - such as you see in left of picture ." Postmarked...

Scope and Contents Color image shows a herd of sheep and lambs in a pasture with a stream running through it. On the foreground side of the stream is a man on horseback and one on foot. The background view shows pens, barns, and a horse-drawn cart riding past the sheep. Printed on reverse: "Lambing time of the sheep range is the harvest of the sheep rancher, next to shearing time this is his most trying time. This happens in the spring when the grass is sprouting, and the danger of spring storms is still to be...

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Black-and-white image shows thousands of sheep grazing on a Montana prairie. Mountains are in the background. Text on reverse locates this image in Montana. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. B. L. Singley. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image shows sheep in foreground pen being driven through a narrow passageway where, at the end, there are two pens and a man leading the lambs and ewes into their respective pens. Statistics about the sheep industry in the U.S. on the reverse. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company. B. L. Singley. 17.5 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white image shows a small flock of sheep sharing a pen with calves. A man in a suit and hat stands next to the calves; behind him is a woman on horseback. A wood clapboard barn is to the left; another is in the background. The mixing of sheep and cows in the same farm yard suggests a scene in the eastern part of the U.S., and not a sheep ranch in the West. Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, New Hampshire, ca. 1880. 17.5 x 8.5 cm. Format:...

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Black-and-white image shows hundreds of sheep grazing on flatland with a rocky hillside rising behind it in the background. Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, New Hampshire, ca. 1880. 17.75 x 8.5 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Color image shows a flock of sheep grazing in an open field. A shepherd looks on. In the background is the Puy de Dome, a dormant volcano in the Auvergne volcano district in France. Photography by Albert Monier. Postmarked April 27, 1964 in Paris. 10.5 x 15 cm.

Format: Postcard.

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Black-and-white image shows sheep scattered over a large range to graze. The shepherd and his dog are enjoying a playful moment in the foreground. Meadville, Pa.: Keystone View Company, ca. 1916-1920. 18 x 9 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.

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Black-and-white image shows sheep lined up to drink at the water trough. This large ranch has 150,000 sheep scattered over 450 square miles. New York: Underwood & Underwood, ca. 1910. 17.75 x 8.75 cm.

Format: Stereoptic print.