WWI Army Horse Farm Goshen New York Italian Remount Photo Archive (42)

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Introduction outlays the function of the Royal Italian Remount Commission headed up by Baron Robbiate. Gives founding date as April 1st, 1916 and this text last references 1917.  Special attention is given to the care of the horses during their stay (health screenings, hospitals, ample freedom, etc) with the claim that mortalities during European transit had dropped 80% under Leprestre, Miller & Co. care.

 

Documenting that firm in Goshen New York, comprehensively. Includes documentation of the executives, trained staff & veterinarians; living & office quarters ; horse paddocks ; hospitals ; grain & water storage ; light cavalry, heavy cavalry & artillery horses as well as pack mules ; a series of photos on the “cowboys” in charge of the horses. Campus shots for context including two panoramas and a platt map inside back cover. This is not see in archives anywhere and may have been an internal publication. Exceedingly rare.

 

Titles (summarized) :

 

Baron Paolo Ajroldi Di Robbiate

 

Main Entrance from Road to Stock Farms

 

Office & Living Quarters of Executive Staff

 

General Work Staff // Sleeping Quarters // Bunk House

 

Business Offices

 

Dining Room for Executive Staff

 

Sleeping Quarters for Executive Staff

 

Colonel di Robbiate at the Stock Farms on Inspection Tour

 

H.S. Scheffey, Vice President and General Manager of Stock Farms

 

Executive Staff (H.S. Scheffey, Dr. John F. Kane, D.H. Hartely & J.M. Patterson)

 

Receiving and Shipping Platform, Recuperation Sheds & Corrals

 

Receiving Sheds w/ Capacity of 4000 Head. 350 Feet Long and 60 Feet Wide.

 

Shed Side View

 

Shed Interior Showing Water Trough in Foreground, Hay Manger & Grain Boxes “Playground” Paddock for Horses & Mules. 380 Feet Long and 85 Feet Wide.

 

Distant View of Paddocks.

 

Buildings Forming Background of Paddock and Hay Barn.

 

Interior of the Blacksmith Shop.

 

Hay Barn Interior. Capacity of 120 cars of Hay (1500 Ton) and 25 Cars of Grain.

 

Spring House & Barn.

 

Interior of Spring House Showing Motor & Pump.

 

Reservoir w/ Capacity of 100,000 Gallons.

 

Working Carts and Wagons.

 

Loading Platform Disposing of Manure.

 

Chance Shot of Three Wise Ones (Stabled Horses) — edge tear stabilized at right.

 

Harry HartelySuperintendent of Live Stock & Chief of the Cowboys.

 

Cowboys w/ Hartely at Center (Dog, Ropes & American Flags).

 

Cowboys Ready for Action (Mounted).

 

Cowboys Off Duty w/ Mascots Tobe, Frank, Tip & Tige. (Pack Mule & Three Dogs).

 

Veterinary Surgeons, Assistants & Nurses.

 

Hospital Exterior. Capacity of 500 Head.

 

Interior View of Hospital (Stabled Horses in custom coverings).

 

Hospital Interior Showing Horses Being Treated

 

Recuperation Paddocks — Placed After Discharge.

 

Specimen of Heavy Artillery Horse (African American Groomsman)

 

Heavy Cavalry Horse

 

Light Cavalry Horse

 

Pack Mule

 

Robbiate Inspecting a Paddock

 

Inspecting a New Load of Horses from the West

 

Baron Giving Final Instructions Before Returning to New York (Automobile)

 

Panoramic View Southern & Northern Ends of Leprestre, Miller & Inc Stock Farms.

 

9.5 x 11.25” soft binding w/ war illustration front paper cover. (40) 9.5 x 11.25” photographs as titled below are linen backed. Half a dozen exhibit edge chipping & one has a stabilized tear at right edge. Noted in the list.

 

Edited & Compiled by Samuel Tauber // 229 West 109 St. // New York with English & Italian text on each page. (2) Double page panoramas at rear (Southern & Northern views) with platt map just inside back cover. That map & cover have isolated insect damage.

 

Front paper cover is entirely detached as are perhaps a dozen pages, others are hanging by a literal thread to simple sewn binding. Water spots to the paper covers. Appears complete, sequential and with no obvious loss — though again there is no way to confirm as I can find a comparable.

 

Exceptional WWI remounting reference. Possibly otherwise unpublished.