Le cheval de travail dans les fonds d’entreprises des Archives nationales du monde du travail

The work horse is a well now, the nineteenth century to the 1960s in many fund companies from the Archives nationales du monde du travail à Roubaix. These varied documents (correspondence, memos, reports, lists, booklets, catalogs, maps, photographs) reveal information about the identity of the horses, their activities and their daily lives. The horse appears both as a living actor in the business as an integral part of tangible thereof. Having an important activity, it is replaced as and measurement machines, trains and automobiles in the twentieth century. These records complement those stored in the network of public archives (National Archives, Departmental or municipal Archives) or in the firms themselves