Babbage, F.

Prize-winning show animals pose as models of their breeds in prints by F. Babbage, credited as photographer on material date...

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Prize-winning show animals pose as models of their breeds in prints by F. Babbage, credited as photographer on material dated 1910 to 1912, some of it used in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Shire, Suffolk, Clydesdale and Hackney stallions appear beside a thoroughbred, with named show animals among them; the cattle plates set English breeds against Scottish ones, and sheep and pigs complete the farmyard. Captions naming champions tie the photographs to the agricultural show ring, and seen side by side they form a comparative record of breeding.

Prize-winning show animals pose as models of their breeds in prints by F. Babbage, credited as photographer on material dated 1910 to 1912, some of it used in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Shire, Suffolk, Clydesdale and Hackney stallions appear beside a thoroughbred, with named show animals among them; the cattle plates set English breeds against Scottish ones, and sheep and pigs complete the farmyard. Captions naming champions tie the photographs to the agricultural show ring, and seen side by side they form a comparative record of breeding.

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