Showing posts with label skates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skates. Show all posts

Friday, January 26, 2018

Jan Went Through the Ice into the Black Water (1918)

Howard R. Garis,  The Curlytops Snowed In or Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds, Illustration by Julia Greene (New York: Cupples and Leon Company, 1918), 108.

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Sailing on Skates (1883)

“Sailing on Skates,” Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 34 (February –July 1883): 128.

Friday, December 29, 2017

Slide, Slide the Ice Is Strong (1860)

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, Our Year: A Child’s Book, in Verse and Prose, Illustrated by Clarence Dobell (Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860), 200.

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Christmas on the Ice “A Lesson of Love” (1875)

“Christmas on the Ice, ‘A Lesson of Love,’” Drawn by Dower Wilson, The Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News 4 (December 18, 1875): 284.

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Now You Keep the Injured Member Off the Ice, and I Will Skate You to Shore (1893)

C.G. Rogers, “Which Miss Charteris? A Skating Idyl,”  Outing: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Sport, Travel, and Recreation 21 (February 1893): 349.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

On the Way to Poloffsky’s Cottage (1877)

Kate Brownlee Horton, “Katinka (A Russian Story),” St. Nicholas 4 (January 1877): 161.

Sunday, January 10, 2016

A Moonlight Frolic (1895)

“A Moonlight Frolic,” Illustration by David Ericson, St. Nicholas 22 (March 1895): 431.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

The Snow Is Slippery, and You Often Make a Faux Pas (1852)

Uncle Thomas, Cherry Blossoms and a New Years Wreath for 1852 (Philadelphia: E.H. Butler and Company, 1852), frontispiece.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

The Moon Is Up and Gives Us Light (1884)

“Lesson XLIII,” Christian Brother’s New Series Primer (New York: De La Salle Institute, 1884), 37.

Thursday, January 31, 2013

The Art of Skating (1910)

Irving Brokaw. The Art of Skating: its history and development with practical directions. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910).

Friday, January 25, 2013

Fair Navigators All (1908)

Skate sailing
A fair navigator
Edgar Syers and Madge Syers, eds. The Book of Winter Sports. (London: Edward Arnold, 1908).

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The BI Change (1908)

Edgar Syers and Madge Syers, eds. The Book of Winter Sports. (London: Edward Arnold, 1908).

Saturday, January 19, 2013

fall ice skates cry (1909)

fall ice stakes cry with had stone did
McGuffey's Eclectic Primer. (New York: American Book Company, 1909).

Friday, January 18, 2013

Dress of the Skater (1868)

Dress of the skater
Frank Swift and Marvin R. Clark. The Skater's Text Book. (New York: John A. Gray and Green, 1868).

Friday, January 11, 2013

Where Can Gretel Be? (1917)

Mary Mapes Dodge. Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates. Illustrated by Alice Carsey. (Racine: Whitman Publishing Company, 1917).

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Tempting Supply of Healthy Amusement (1865)

"Routledge's Every Boy's Annual." The Christmas Bookseller 1865. (December 12, 1865).

Friday, January 4, 2013

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Skaters on Stilts (1925)

Skaters on stilts can cover great distances with fewer strokes and maintain high speeds with less effort than required by ordinary blades.
"Skaters on Stilts Glide Over Ice in Novel Stunts of Speed." Popular Mechanics 43. (April 1925).