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Thanks!

From The New York Times: "WOMEN TO START COACHING SEASON; Ladies' Four-in-Hand Club to Make Daily Trips to Rockingstone and Return. April 28, 1912 "With the advent of Spring weather and the roads in good condition, the Ladies' Four-in-Hand Driving Club, an organization of enthusiastic horsewomen of this city, will inaugurate the 1912 coaching season with daily trips between the Colony Club and Rockingstone, Bronx Park. The first trip will be made May 6 and continue daily until further notice, according to the plans arranged with the officers of the club and Morris E. Howlett, the coaching whip." ... [End of First Paragraph] "AGAIN OLD COACH LIBERTY; Miss Harriet Alexander to Tool First Day's Run to Country. May 11, 1915 "The famous old coach Liberty, which has a history dating back to 1893, when James Gordon Bennett used it in trips from Paris to Rouen, and which Alfred G. Vanderbilt often drove in this country, will on next Friday be placed in service between the Biltmore and the Gedney Farms Hotel in White Plains. John McE. Bowman, President of the Biltmore, is the sponsor for the undertaking. ..." [End of First Paragraph]

Found this at the National Sporting Library's website: "The Ladies' Four-in-Hand Driving Club was formed in New York City in 1901 by several prominent society women who took an interest in driving. The club was a counterpart to the city’s famed Coaching Club, many members of which were husbands, fathers, and brothers to the members of the Ladies’ Club. The Ladies’ Club took regular trips to the different boroughs as well as longer road trips to destinations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut; for a short time they even ran a small shuttle service through Manhattan. Under the tutelage of renowned driving instructor Morris Howlett, most of the members became quite accomplished drivers. Each year, the Club held a parade and review through Central Park onto Fifth Avenue. The Club’s founder and president was Helen Benedict Hastings, wife of the famous architect Thomas Hastings, designer of the New York Public Library, the front façade of the U. S. Capitol Building, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. Other notable members of the Ladies’ Club included Mrs. Arthur Iselin (vice president), Louisa Gulliver Sheldon (secretary and treasurer), Marion Hollins, and Harriet Alexander. The Club flourished until automobile traffic on the city streets made coaching impossible."

Great hats!

Women driving a coach? Ha! Next thing you know they'll be wanting to vote!

Beautiful photo of young girl riding bare back on a horse.

nice photo, but she is not bare back , you can clearly see stirrups saddle flap and girth.

Harvey S. Ladew (1887 - 1976) was a noted American topiary and fox hunting enthusiast, who created the Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland. You can see this horse has won a ribbon, on it's bridle.

nudecowboy: thanks for spotting the typo and providing the biographical information. We'll fix the typo and reload the description.

This photograph is featured in the Indicommons.org post The hills are alive, on one Flickr member's creative remix work.

Looks like an UNmounted horseman to me.

I noticed that as well :)

Perhaps DISmounted ?

Dismounted would be the right word, you are correct. My lack of equestrian experience shows.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Family Home, and we'd love to have this added to the group!