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Saddle-up!

by National Library of Australia Commons

Saddle-up!
Horses and ponies have affected our lives in many ways – from transportation, agriculture, in service to country and competition, to simple companionship and fun. Take a ride through the National Library of Australia’s historical photographs of these amazing creatures.

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A man with two horses outside Dummer House, Terrigal, New South Wales, 1945 / Michael Terry

Stockyards at Wave Hill Station, Northern Territory, approximately 1925, 3 / Michael Terry

The popular unofficial "offsider" to the photographer [Bogong High Plains, 1929] Victorian Government Tourist Bureau

Woman on horseback riding side saddle in front of a verandah, Victoria / J. Chester Jervis

Children on horseback off to school, New South Wales / Charles H. Kerry

[Phar Lap, ridden by William Elliot (Billy Elliot), with trainer Tommy Woodcock, after winning the Agua Caliente Handicap in Mexico, on 20 March 1932]

The first Melbourne Cup trophy, 1865 / Batchelder & Co

Australian Jockey Club - views of Randwick Racecourse, Sydney, New South Wales, autumn meeting 1914, with the compliments of the committee and members

Early transportation / W.J. Mildenhall

Attaching the tram lines to the poles using a horse drawn wooden scaffold, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 19 April 1902, 2

Man riding bucking horse at rodeo, 1936/37 Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) tour of Australia

Ellis Rowan sketching Mary Moule sitting on the ground / Peince

Portrait of Adelie, left, and Toni Hurley playing on a rocking horse, 1921? Frank Hurley

Loading up, the wheat teams, Molong, New South Wales

Horse trams, King William Street, Adelaide, ca. 1890

Disembarkation of horses at Suez from the Australian troopship Marere, Egypt, 1915

[Horse-drawn ambulance wagon, Boer War, 1899-1902]

Horse drawn fire brigade, Wylde Street, Potts Point, Sydney, ca. 1900, 1

Buying rabbits from the 'Rabbito', Sheridan Street, Gundagai, New South Wales / Charles Gabriel

Four women and one man on horseback, Mulgoa, New South Wales, 1924

Alice Bruce and friend with horses, with Mount Parnassus and the town of Gundagai in the background, New South Wales / Charles Gabriel

Horse rider in a country lane, Victoria / Jno Eaton