Horses, Mules & Oxen
- 14th Cavalry on the March at Wallowa Lake c 1907As low as $5.00Reproduced from a rare postcard postmarked 1907, which includes the notation "I am in the 14th Cavalry". Learn More
- A Coach Stops Across from the Old Weinhard Brewery - c. 1905As low as $5.00A four-wheeled enclosed carriage rests on a muddy Burnside Street. It appears to be a "coupe", with only forward facing seats and glass windows on the front corners. Learn More
- A Glimpse of Depoe Bay - circa 1910As low as $5.00This inviting image is from an unusually large print (for him) by Albert L. Thomas of Newport. Learn More
- A Homesteader and his Oxen - circa 1885As low as $5.00Oxen were a popular choice as draft animals for both emigrants crossing the Oregon Trail and for early settlers in Oregon. Learn More
- Alvilda and her Hunting Dogs - 1921As low as $5.00This idylic scene shows a young woman and her dogs, "out on a coyote chase", near her home in Olalla in Douglas County. Learn More
- Alvilda on Pats in the Coast Range - 1921As low as $5.00A young woman removes her hat for a portrait of herself and her horse Pats, standing in a shallow stream somewhere near Olalla in the Oregon Coast Range. Learn More
- An Early School Bus, Sunset School, West Linn - 1904As low as $5.00Horse-drawn carriages provided the first public school transportation. This photo has been described as the first public transportation of pupils in Oregon. Learn More
- An Oregon Barnyard - c. 1900As low as $5.00Probably taken in Oregon while Meiser was working in the Portland area, this photo give a great overview of the life of a general farming family at the the turn of the last century. Learn More
- At the Hitching Post in Fossil - 1913As low as $15.00Looking north on 2nd Street between Washington and Main, we can see that horse-drawn vehicles still dominated the streets in Fossil in 1913. Learn More
- Barlow Road Tollgate No. 5 - circa 1885As low as $5.00Five tollgates were established, sequentially, along Barlow Road from 1846 to 1918. This is the last one, operating from 1883 to 1918. Learn More
- Bringing Home the Threshing Machine - circa 1915As low as $5.00It's very likely that a steam-powered tractor was used to power this threshing machine, but when it came time to return it to the barn an eight-horse team did the job. Learn More
- Bringing in a Load of Shake Bolts - circa 1910As low as $5.00This view by an unknown photographer shows an intermediate step in the making of shake shingles, as a load of shake bolts is either arriving or leaving the premises, pulled by a fine team with the supervision of the dog in the lower right. Learn More
- Bringing in the Hay, Paulina Prairie - 1911As low as $5.00Hay wagons are prominent in this photo of haying at the Laurie Caldwell Ranch in Paulina Prairie, near La Pine. The woman in white near the center is most likely Mrs. Caldwell. Learn More
- Bringing the Engine out of the Station - c. 1918As low as $5.00This great early action photo shows driver George Welch bringing Engine No. 2 out of the station in Portland. Learn More
- Bringing the Logs Back to Camp - c. 1900As low as $5.00Smaller logs are brought back to a logging camp by a team of six mules, pulling them along a skid-road of logs placed across the path. It appears that this logging camp also was home to a small sawmill, as stacked lumber can be seen behind the team. Learn More
- Bringing the Team and Wagon to Arlington - c. 1900As low as $5.00The boys have brought the six-horse team and wagon to town, in this case, Arlington. Learn More
- Buggy in Front of the Courthouse, Oregon City - c. 1915As low as $5.00One of Ralph Eddy's early glass plate photos, this crisp view taken with his large wooden camera shows a street scene at Eighth and Main Streets in downtown Oregon City. Learn More
- Building Haystacks with Horse-drawn Wagons - c. 1900As low as $5.00The six-man crew pauses to have their photo taken in the midst of constructing another in a row of haystacks, somewhere in eastern Washington. Learn More
- Canyon City Brass Band in its Bandwagon - c. 1895As low as $5.00While we still refer to "jumping on the bandwagon", we rarely get to see a real bandwagon these days. The phrase originated when politicians learned that riding on the bandwagon was a great place to be seen at public events. Learn More
- Chief Charlot, Salish - 1907As low as $5.00Charlot was head chief of the Bitterroot Salish, sometimes known as the Flatheads, from the time of his father's death in 1870 until his own death in 1910. Learn More
- Clackamas County Sheriff's Posse at Portland Expo - c. 1955As low as $5.00The modern-day Clackamas County Sheriff's Posse, formed in 1939, is still active today - helping with parking at events and assisting in search and rescue efforts. Learn More
- Closset & Devers Coffee & Spices Delivery Wagon - c. 1905As low as $5.00Closset and Devers Coffees was an old Portland firm, named when Arthur Devers joined the existing company of Closset Brothers in the early 1880s. Learn More
- Delivery Cart on Burnside Street in Portland - c. 1905As low as $5.00One of a series of photos taken by Olaf Indahl on West Burnside near the sign store where he worked. The large building across the street is Weinhard's brewery. Learn More
- Disc Harrow Crew on a Wheat Farm East of Moro - c. 1900As low as $5.00Four teams pose together on the farm of Louie Peetz, who owned 800 acres and rented 1200 acres of government land, all of which he had in cultivation. Learn More
- Draft Horses at Star Sand Company Docks, Portland - c. 1900As low as $5.00It took strong horses, wagons, and men to distribute the crushed aggregate and sand sold by Star Sand Company, which was the largest company of its type in the Pacific Northwest. Learn More
- Engine 26 Decorated for the Rose Festival Parade - 1910As low as $5.00A horse-drawn fire engine covered with roses and other flowers stands ready for Portland's fourth Rose Festival Parade - a tradition that began in 1907. Learn More
- Expedition at South Sister - Circa 1918As low as $5.00Photographer Fred Kiser clearly put a lot of planning into this photo of a pack train crossing in front of Green Lake, below the west face of South Sister. Learn More
- Gathering at the Wapanitia Store - Circa 1896As low as $5.00Wapinitia's post office was established in 1878, at its location in Wasco County about 40 miles south of The Dalles, at the southern end of The Dalles - Wapinitia stage line. Learn More
- Grading the Railroad to Harney Valley - c. 1914As low as $5.00In 1914 the Oregon Eastern Railroad was extending its line from Riverside over the hills to the town of Crane, east of Burns in the Harney Valley. Learn More
- Gunderson Groceries Delivery Wagon, Portland - c. 1900As low as $5.00From the family of Olaf Indahl, this may be another of his series of views of horse-drawn delivery wagons in Portland, though it is not identified as to photographer. Learn More
- Harness Racing in Coos County - Circa 1900As low as $5.00A crowd gathers for a harness race somewhere in Coos County, in about 1900. Like most American harness races, the horses are pacers, not trotters. Learn More
- Harness Racing in Hillsboro - c. 1918As low as $5.00This early action photo shows a trainer driving his sulky somewhere near Hillsboro, Oregon. The photographer has moved his slow-exposure camera to capture a sharp image of the sulky, resulting in abstract blurring of the background. Learn More
- Harvesting Wheat Near Canby - c. 1905As low as $5.00Carl W. Damm, the photographer, was born in 1882 and grew up on a Clackamas County farm. He worked as a farmer and was also a mill worker. Learn More
- Harvesting Wheat with a McCormick Header and Barges - c. 1905As low as $5.00In this system of harvesting wheat, the header was pushed, not pulled, by a team of six to eight horses. It cut off the heads of the stalks, hence its name, and using a conveyor, loaded them into distinctive wagons called barges. Learn More
- Hauling Logs on a Horse-drawn Wooden Railway - c. 1900As low as $5.00Horses had been used to pull railroad cars for at least a century when this photo was taken - in mines, for portage railroads, in cities for trolleys, and in the woods to haul logs. Learn More
- Hauling Logs out with Mules - c. 1900As low as $5.00Oxen and steam donkeys were the primary ways to bring logs out of the woods during this era, but mule teams and horses were sometimes used, especially for smaller logs. Learn More
- Hauling Wool in Harney County - circa 1910As low as $5.00In the early twentieth century, Harney County was one of several eastern Oregon counties helping to make the state a major producer of wool and sheep. Learn More
- Holt Combine Harvester Pulled by Mules - c. 1903As low as $5.00Benjamin Holt was known as a mechanical genius, responsible for the "Link-Belt Combined Harvester" shown here, which used flexible chain belts rather than gears to transfer power from the wheels to the working mechanism, lessening breakage and down time. Learn More
- Holt Side-hill Combined Harvester near Pendleton - c. 1900As low as $5.00Purchased with a photo identified as by photographer O. G. Allen, this image may be his work also. Learn More
- Horse Camping in Eastern Washington or Idaho - c. 1910As low as $5.00This idylic photo is taken along an unnamed river in eastern Washington or Idaho. If you can identify the location, please let us know. (A person from the area believes this may be the Clearwater in Idaho.) Learn More
- Horse Drawn Mining Wagon near La Grande c 1890As low as $5.00We are identifying the location and date of this scene at a small hard-rock mine by its photographer, J. C. Clark, who worked in La Grande from 1889 to 1891. Learn More
- Horse Logging near Bridal Veil - 1890sAs low as $5.00The photographer's title "Logging Near Bridal Veil" probably refers to the Columbia Gorge logging town of Bridal Veil, rather than the waterfall. Learn More
- Horse Powered Threshing near Cottage Grove - c. 1903As low as $5.00While some large farms had steam power, in the early 1900s many farmers were still using horses to power their threshing machines. Learn More
- Horse-drawn Ambulance and Crew - 1910As low as $5.00A beautiful matched team pulls this early Red Cross ambulance, paused for a photo somewhere in Portland in 1910. Learn More
- Horse-drawn Two-row Corn Planter - c. 1910As low as $5.00A farmer shows off his team and planter, likely near Eureka, California, where photographer Jesse Meiser had moved in about 1905. Learn More
- Horse-drawn Water Tanker - c. 1912As low as $5.00It takes a strong team to pull a water tanker. This pair looks like they're up to the task. Learn More
- Island Ranch, Twelve Mule Team - circa 1910As low as $5.00This highly detailed image of a twelve mule team is restored from an original glass negative by A. D. Browning, today known mostly for his postcards. Learn More
- Linus the Circus Horse, Bred in Oregon - 1891As low as $5.00Linus was famous for his long mane and tail. Bred in Marion, Oregon in 1884, he was purchased by the Eaton brothers in Maine, who successfully promoted him in circuses and other shows. Learn More