Pierre-Louis Pierson, Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial, France, ca. 1859.
Source: Getty Museum

Pierre-Louis Pierson, Napoleon III and the Prince Imperial, France, ca. 1859.

Source: Getty Museum

 Geller, Russia, soldier, horse in winter. Soldier with machine-pistol and white winter coat with a cart horse in snow-covered landscape, 1941.
Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

Geller, Russia, soldier, horse in winter. Soldier with machine-pistol and white winter coat with a cart horse in snow-covered landscape, 1941.

Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

Lisa Larsen, A veterinarian examining a foal who bumped its head at Marcel Boussac’s Stud Farm and Stables, Chantilly, France, 1952.

Lisa Larsen, A veterinarian examining a foal who bumped its head at Marcel Boussac’s Stud Farm and Stables, Chantilly, France, 1952.

Edward S. Curtis, The old time warrior: Nez Perce, USA, ca. 1910.

Edward S. Curtis, The old time warrior: Nez Perce, USA, ca. 1910.

Movie cowboy Roy Rogers posing on his Palomino horse Trigger. Photograph by Walter Sanders. San Fernando Valley, California, USA, 1943.

Movie cowboy Roy Rogers posing on his Palomino horse Trigger. Photograph by Walter Sanders. San Fernando Valley, California, USA, 1943.

The silhouette of a cowboy on his horse. Photograph by Allan Grant. California, USA, 1949.

The silhouette of a cowboy on his horse. Photograph by Allan Grant. California, USA, 1949.

Hand-tinted photograph of a samurai in armor and on horseback as he shoots an arrow from a thin, graceful bow. Japan, ca. 1900.

Hand-tinted photograph of a samurai in armor and on horseback as he shoots an arrow from a thin, graceful bow. Japan, ca. 1900.

A showgirl standing on a horse’s back in “The Ziegfeld Follies” (1944).

A showgirl standing on a horse’s back in “The Ziegfeld Follies” (1944).

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A 14 month old cowgirl kissing her horse. Photograph by Allan Grant. Texas, USA, July 1955.

A 14 month old cowgirl kissing her horse. Photograph by Allan Grant. Texas, USA, July 1955.

Photograph by Dmitri Kessel. Paris, March 1949.

Photograph by Dmitri Kessel. Paris, March 1949.