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).

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Reindeer Connect the Kingdom (1829)

W. Ogilby. Menageries. Quadrupeds, described and drawn  from living subjects. (London: Charles Knight, 1829).

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Nansen Takes a Walk, Blessing Goes Off in Search of Algae (1897)

Farthest North: being a record of voyage of exploration of the ship "Fram"1893-96, and of a fifteen month sleigh journey by Dr. Nansen and Lieut. Johannsen. Vol. II.  (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishing, 1897).

Monday, January 28, 2013

Skijoring (1908)

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

Sunday, January 27, 2013

King of the Coast (1871)

Oliver Optics Magazines: Our Boys and Girls  211. (February 1871).

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Reproduce Visual Sensations (1916)

"Bobsled Used in Taking Motion Pictures."Popular Mechanics 32. (Feburary 1916).

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).

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Great Snow in 1717 (1915)

Seymour Dunbar. A History of Travel in America. showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experience and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent. With maps, colored plates, and other illustrations reproduced from early engravings, original contemporaneous drawings and broadsides. Vol 1. (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915).

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

The BI Change (1908)

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

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Note Wide Stride & Edged Skis (1914)

Vivian Caulfield. How To Ski and How Not To. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914).