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Quartermaster Corps Front Royal Remount Station Photographs
The collection consists of 106 black and white photographs taken during winter of 1941 at the United States Army Remount Station in Front Royal, Virginia (operated by the Quartermaster Corps). The photographs are captioned and illustrate the process by which the Army cared for and trained animals toward the end of the era of the United States Army Remount Service.113 Items
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- Collection: Quartermaster Corps Front Royal Remount Station Photographs
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Description: Horses in maintenance pasture walking through heavy crusted snow from feed rack to feed rack.
Wrangling team moving recovered horses from quarantine area
Description: Wrangling gang takes conditioned horses-fully recovered from and immunized against Strangles, Influenza and a few, Pneumonia - back to duty.
Wrangling team leading horses
Description: The wrangling gang leading horses in groups of three Quarantine Area.
Winding the horse to inspect laryngeal membranes
Description: Winding the horse. This is done by violently exercising the horse to determine the condition of his laryngeal membranes.
Weighing foals
Description: Painstaking care produces results. All foals are weighed regularly: at birth, three months, six months and then every six months until four years of age, at which time they are shipped to the mounted service schools.
Veterinarian's inspection of horse's respiratory system
Description: A Veterinarian listens carefully to the horse's respiratory movements immediately following the violent exercise.
Use of manure
Description: All manure except that which is diseased (infected) is placed on spreaders similar to this and spread over designated pastures.
Typical cavalry horse
Description: One of a group of horses purchased by the United States Army for the Venezuelan Government. This horse closely typifies the so-called ideal Cavalry horse. This group of horses is being conditioned and trained at this Depot preparatory to shipment…
Transporting forage
Description: Forage is usually transported to the Depot on trucks. A bale of hay from each load is opened and carefully inspected by a Veterinary Officer.
Testing fecal specimen
Description: All experiments carried on at the Veterinary Laboratory are supervised by trained technicians. A fecal specimen obtained from each horse arriving at the Depot is tested for parasites.
Temporary shelter shed
Description: Temporary shelter shed - Quarantine Area. Note feed racks therein.