Free to Use and Reuse: Horses

Horses fill many important roles, past and present. This selection of rights-free pictures features scenes from the open range, farms, and cities as well as sports, the military, and recreation. The images are from the Prints & Photographs Division unless otherwise indicated.

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  Scene from the Cannon Quarter Horse ranch near the town of Venus in north-central Texas. Digital photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2014

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  Shepherd with his horse and dog on Gravelly Range, Madison County, Montana. Color transparency photo by Russell Lee, 1942

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  Isaac Murphy, jockey. Chromolithograph by Geo. S. Harris, 1888

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  The Runners. Color woodcut, 1900

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  Before the storm (Apache people). Photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1906

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  Inez Milholland Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913, Washington, D.C. Photo by Bain News Service, 1913

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  A mixed herd of wild and domesticated horses test the snow on the Ladder Livestock ranch that straddles the Wyoming-Colorado border. Digital photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016

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  Horses under a willow tree. Woodcut by Shunsen Katsukawa, 1804-1818

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  Amerika. Color woodcut by Hiroshige Utagawa, 1860

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  Horses. Leaping a 3 ft. 6 hurdle. Photo by Eadweard Muybridge, 1881

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  Andy Bahain, FSA (Farm Security Administration) borrower, feeds horses on his farm near Kersey, Colorado. Film negative photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1939

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  Thomas W. Beede, resettlement client, Western Slope Farms, Colorado gives his youngest daughter a ride. Film negative photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1939

• Checking a horseshoe at Three Circle roundup, Custer National Forest, Montana. Film negative photo by Arthur Rothstein, 1939

• Mountain woman riding to town up Frozen Creek, near Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky. Film negative photo by Marion Post Wolcott, 1940

• Catching, roping and tying horses in the corral to remove their shoes at the end of the summer season before turning the horses out on the range for the winter. Quarter Circle U, Brewster-Arnold Ranch Company. Birney, Montana. Film negative photo by Marion Post Wolcott, 1941

• Horse and tractor. Jasper County, Iowa. Film negative photo by John Vachon, 1940

• The horse wrangler. Photo by Erwin E. Smith, 1910

• Saddled horse, Ninety-Six Ranch, Nevada. Color slide photo by Carl Fleischhauer, 1980. (American Folklife Center)

• A cowgirl, one of several wranglers who herd horses in the daily "jingle," or horse roundup, at the A Bar A Ranch, a guest ranch near the town of Riverside in Carbon County, Wyoming. Digital photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016

• A Blue Ribbon Winner. Color woodcut, 1903

• Pony cart, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich. Glass negative photo by Detroit Publishing Co., about 1905

• Tony, a small Shetland pony, better known as the battler, is the light weight champion before the exclusive remount stable in Washington. Glass negative photo by Harris & Ewing, 1924

• Elaborate preparations are made for entries in Shelby County Horse Show and Fair, Shelbyville, Kentucky. Film negative photo by Marion Post Wolcott, 1940

• Clydesdale horse, Fairway Golf, 1700 Como Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota. Color slide photo by John Margolies, 1984

• Hacienda Horse and Rider, historic neon sign, Las Vegas, Nevada. Color transparency photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 1980-2006

• Pegasus statue, Fantasy mini golf, Route 441, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Color slide photo by John Margolies, 1992

• Scene from the "Battle of Flowers" parade, San Antonio, Texas. Digital photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2014

• Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc, by Anna V. Hyatt Huntington. Photograph, 1915

• A cavalry vidette (sentry). Taking it easy. Drawing by Edwin Forbes, 1863

• Unidentified soldier in Union cavalry uniform, on horse, during the Civil War. Tintype photo, 1861-1865

• Colonel, the old vet, survivor of 18 battles in the Civil War. Photo by J.A. Rose, around 1880.

• Montauk Point, Rough Riders, Col. Roosevelt. Cyanotype photo by Frances B. Johnston, 1898

• Austrian army auto hauled by 6 horses during World War I. Glass negative photo published by Bain News Service, 1915

• Are you fond of horses - U.S. Army - The Veterinary Corps instructs you in their care and treatment, riding and driving. World War I poster by Horst Schreck, 1919

• Royal Scots Greys, cavalry groups in Nablus. Five mounted cavalry men. Film negative photo by Matson Photo Service, 1941

• Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Express Office, C Street, Virginia City. Photo by Lawrence & Houseworth, 1866

• The overland pony express / photographed by Savage, Salt Lake City ; from a painting by George M. Ottinger. Wood engraving, Harper's Weekly, 1867 Nov. 2

• Work at the Bakalskii mine, Ural Mountains region. Digital color composite from color-filtered glass negative photo by Sergeii M. Prokudin-Gorskii, 1910

• Union engine no. 3 - York, Pa., fire department. Photograph, 1911

• President Calvin Coolidge with work horses in a field. Glass negative photo by Bain News Service, 1915

• Woodstock, Vermont. Horse of a garbage and rubbish collector. Film negative photo by Marion Post Wolcott, 1940

• New York, New York. A horse and wagon and a railway express truck. Film negative photo by John Vachon, 1943

• Horse-drawn potato digger on the farm of a FSA (Farm Security Administration) client near Caribou, Maine. Film negative photo by Jack Delano, 1940

• House, Houston, Texas. Color transparency photo by John Vachon, 1943

• Milk River Wagon Train, fourth day ride: crossing open prairie at mid-morning, Malta, Montana. Color slide photo by Michael Crummett, 1979. (American Folklife Center)

• Amish life in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Color transparency photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 1980-1990

• Horse drawn trolley in Solvang, Santa Barbara County, California. Digital photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2012

• The celebrated trotting horse Gloster by Volunteer, dam by Stockbridge Chief: Winner of the first prize in the $6,000 purse, for 2:20 horses, at Rochester, N.Y. Aug. 14th 1874. Colored lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1874.

• The water jump (Grand National 1903) (Steeplechase). Print by G.D. Rowlandson, 1903

• Big circus. Color woodcut, about 1871

• Male act, no. 105–Bareback riding. Lithograph by Gibson & Co., 1872

• Ringling Bros. galaxy of champion riders. Chromolithograph by Courier Litho. Co., 1899

• A carousel ride, often fondly called a "merry-go-round," at the annual Iowa State Fair in the capital city of Des Moines. Digital photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016

• In Mansfield, Ohio, artisan chisels a detail on a wooden horse at the Carousel Works. Digital photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016.

• In Mansfield, Ohio, a beautiful "show pony" of the carnival kind awaits shipment at the Carousel Works. Digital photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2016