"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man." ~ Winston Churchill

 

Helen Twelvetrees during filming of "Thoroughbred", Sydney, 1936

I'm a horse lover and, in trolling old photos on the Internet when I should be doing something productive, I was thinking how many fantastic images there are of horses and their people.  I love how each of these pictures tell such vivid stories about the relationships between the two.  It's also pretty easy to see why the equestrian influence on fashion is undeniable.

Miss Louise Ireland & Miss Helen Marye, April 18, 1925

Ringling Circus Equestriennes Chicago, July 20, 1951

Ringling Circus, August 2, 1949

L'Oiseau Jaune, Ringling Barnum + Bailey Circus, August 10, 1947

"Katharine Meyer." (future Mrs. Katherine Graham), February 19, 1927 

Children riding a horse to school, Glass House Mountains, Queensland, Australia, 1928 

Janie Irvine gives water to "Patches" from surf, Pass-a-Grille Beach, Florida, May 5, 1948

Three boys dressed as a cowboys with their horses, Saint Petersburg, Florida, November 5, 1947

Unidentified Blackfoot Chief on Horseback Speaking to an Elderly Man, 1910

Seminole Indian cowboy Charley Micco and grandson Fred Smith on horseback in a cattle ranch, Brighton Reservation, Florida, August, 1950 

Rodeo Riders, L.A., between 1910 and 1915

"Skijoring," Location unknown, 1930

Josh Taylor, Negro Foreman who has been on place for fifty three years, Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939?

Lt. Walter Brooke, Lt. C.T. Walwynt, Col. P.A. Kenna & Lt. Geoffrey Brooke, 1910?

Basketball on the tanbark at Durland's Riding Academy, New York, 1908

Wild West Polo, Coney Island

Images found on Shorpy, Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection, and the flickr Commons.

PS  Another one of my favorite horse quotations: "A woman needs two animals - the horse of her dreams and a jackass to pay for it."  ~Author Unknown