Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snow. Show all posts

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Maternal Counsel (1885)

“Maternal Counsel,” drawn by W. Hamilton Gibson. Harper’s Young People 6 (January 27, 1885): 201.

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

A Bouquet of Snow Blossoms (1866)

“Snow Flowers,”  Once a Week, an Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science I (Jan-June 1866): 12. 

Friday, January 18, 2019

There Is No Occupation in the Kinder Garten Which Affords so Wide a Field for the Gratification of the Imagination and the Exercise of the Artistic Faculties (1879)

Johann and Bertha Ronge, A Practical Guide to the English Kinder-Garten (Children's Garden): For the Use of Mothers, Governesses, and Infant Teachers : Being an Exposition of Froebel's System of Infant Training : Accompanied by a Variety of Instructive and Amusing Games, and Industrial and Gymnastic Exercises, Also Numerous Songs Set to Music, and Arranged for the Exercises (London: A.N. Myers & Co., 1879), 41.

Monday, January 14, 2019

Little Snow Stars (1899)

Ellen M. Cyr, The Children’s Primer (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899), 99.


Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Here Are Two Marbles for Eyes (1906)


Clarence Franklin Carroll and Sarah Catherine Brooks, The Brooks Primer (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906), 63.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The Pioneer (1888)

“Wonders and Beauties,” Chicago: an Instructive and Entertaining History of a Wonderful City with a Useful Stranger's Guide  (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, 1888),  183.

Sunday, January 28, 2018

The First Snowfall (1931)

“The First Snowfall,” From an etching by Charles W. Dahlgreen, The Rotarian 39 (December 1931): 4.

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.

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 25, 2018

The Snow Has Drifted over Their House till Only a Tiny Mound Appears (1903)

Dallas Lore Sharp, “Mus’Rattin’,” A Watcher in the Woods, Illustration by Bruce Horsfall (New York: The Century Co., 1901), 43.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Then, Wearily and Drearily / Across the Moorland Wild, / Half Numb’d With Frost (Her Pathway Lost) / Paced on the Wilder’d Child (1855)

Jane Krewdsen, “Katie Lee: A Scotch Story,” Aunt Jane’s Verses for Children (Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1855), 12.

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.

Sunday, January 21, 2018

An Abenaki Indian of St. Francis Spearing the Muskrat (1875)

“An Abenaki Indian of St. Francis Spearing the Muskrat,” Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours 17  (1875),  416.

Friday, January 19, 2018

Italian Mountain Troops Roped Together for a Steep and Dangerous Ascent in the Snowy Alps of the Trentino (1916)

“Mountain Warfare: A Strange Phase of the Great War—How Armies Battle Amid Alpine Snows,” Muncie’s Magazine 57 ( May 1916): 664.

Thursday, January 18, 2018

Lad Galloped Back to the Ravine Lip and Stood There, Sniffing the Icy Air and Growling Deep in His Throat (1921)

Albert Payson Terhhune, “The Tracker: Lad Helps a Foe,” Illustration by Frank Stick, The Ladies’ Home Journal 38 (December 1921): 30.

Wednesday, January 17, 2018

They Were as Full of Life and Spirits as if There No Such Thing as Suffering in the World (1894)

M.E. Braddon, The Christmas Hirelings, Illustrated by F.H. Townsend (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, & Kent, 1894), 215.

Tuesday, January 16, 2018

He Pulled the Horses Round so That the Second Sleigh Was Compelled to Pull Up (1899)

Reginald Wray, “On Secret Service,” Illustration by J. Finnemore, The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine 2 (February to July 1899): 305.

Monday, January 15, 2018

We Must Have Some Little Shining Bits of Ice to Make the Brightness of Her Eyes (1864)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle, Illustration by Marcus Waterman (New York: James Gregory, 1864), frontispiece.