Showing posts with label sled. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sled. Show all posts

Saturday, January 27, 2018

The Indian Dog Train Was Used When the Snow Was Too Deep or Too Soft to Uphold Horses (1915)

Seymour Dunbar, A History of Travel in America, Showing the Development of Travel and Transportation from the Crude Methods of the Canoe and the Dog-Sled to the Highly Organized Railway Systems of the Present, Together with a Narrative of the Human Experiences and Changing Social Conditions That Accompanied This Economic Conquest of the Continent  (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), 54.

Tuesday, January 23, 2018

In the Sketch Below, the Different Degrees of Distance Have Been Well Expressed (1905)

Hugo B. Froelich and Bonnie E. Snow, “The World in White,” Text Books of Art Education, Book VI (New York: The Prang Educational Company, 1905), 8.

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Starting for the Christmas Collection (1893)

H. Beaugrand, “La Quête de L'enfant Jésus” The Canadian Magazine 2 (November 1893): 123.

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 24, 2016

How the Slide Was Spoiled (1896)

“How the Slide Was Spoiled,” Illustrated by David Ericson, St. Nicholas 23 (February 1896): 344.

Thursday, January 14, 2016

“That Wasn’t Bad for the First Trip,” Said He, “See if You Can Do Better” (1915)

Ethel C. Brown, The Three Gays, Illustrated by Grace. G. Kelley (Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, 1915), 92.

Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Last Stage of the Journey in Breaking-Up Season (1892)

Kate Marsden, On Sledge and Horseback to the Outcast Siberian Lepers (New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1892), 184.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

After Rough Ice, an Easy Place (1898)

William Martin Conway, With Ski and Sledge Over Arctic Glaciers (London: J.M. Dent & Company, 1898), 80.

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Thursday, January 15, 2015

Tom is Too Fat to Run Fast (1909)

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1909), 24.


Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Sunday, January 11, 2015

I Made a Fire, and by Boiling Snow Made My Kettle (1896)

John MacDougall,  Saddle, Sled and Snowshoe: Pioneering on the Saskatchewan in the Sixties, Illustrations by J.E. Laughlin (Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham, 1896), frontispiece.

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.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Livingstone Had to Dodge for His Life (1899)

Thomas Nelson Page, Santa Claus’s Partner (New York: Charles Scribner Sons, 1899), 42.