Cold Collection (page 10)

Happy New Year Greetings postcard
circa 1905

Crossing the Ice Bridge - Montreal, Canada
Crossing the Ice Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec province, Canada. circa 1910

Family on a wet excursion to the beach at Weston-Super-Mare
A family on a (rather wet!) day out to the beach in August at Weston-Super-Mare in Somerset, England. The two boys are hoping the rain will cease long enough to put the cricket bat (and stump)

Christmas card in the shape of a green leaf with birds
Christmas card in the shape of a green leaf with three chaffinches in the snow. Date: circa 1890s

The Merchants Refrigerating Co. building, 35 North Moore Street, New York, pictured circa 1905. The building today has been converted into apartments, and is known today as the Ice House. Date: c

Feeding Birds in the Snow
An elegantly dressed woman with her small child, both wrapped up warm against the cold, feeds a small flock of birds in the snow. Date: December 1926

Whats left?, woman and children waiting for leftovers
A woman and a group of children wait for leftovers at a fishmonger and poulterers shop. A well-to-do mother and daughter are seen leaving the shop

Homeless men sleeping on Southwark Bridge, London 1900
Homeless men sleeping rough in London. Date: 1900

Skating 1865
Wintery scene, with adults skating on a frozen lake. Date: 1865

London ice carts 1857
Long trains of ice-carts may be seen wending their way to the shops of purchasers to dispose of their freights. Ice-carts with good effect; labour

COMICAL ROAD SIGN
A motorcyclist pauses to read a comical road sign for Much Hadham Cold Christmas. Did they indeed. Date: 1950s

JACKET POTATOES
Stuffed baked potatoes, an excellent supper dish for a cold evening. The potatoes can cook without attention and the filling can be left waiting until a moment before serving. Date: 1940s

COLD CHICKEN SALAD
The rather unappetising combination of chicken in aspic and cold salad. Date: 1940s

HOME MADE LEMONADE
Home made lemonade is the nicest, made with plenty of sugar, and served in lovely glasses from a decorative glass jug, with straws. Date: 1940s

LAKE FISHING / 1970S
A lone fisherman on a cold day sits by Earlswood Lake Date: 1970s

Dear Robin, aint you cold?
Dear robin, aint you cold ? Date: circa 1870

A FRENCH VAGABOND
The French chemineau tramps the roads in his sabots, answerable to no man, scornful of societys artificial ways - a free man, indeed, but gets cold and hungry in winter... Date: 1850

CHILDREN / WINDY DAY 1880
A girl struggles home on a windy autumn day. Date: circa 1880

Pickpocket Caught
An observant policeman apprehends a pickpocket who has stolen a gentlemans pocket hankerchief. He claims he only borrowed it because he has a cold. Date: circa 1830

BOY WATCHES PLANE 1911
A boy watches a monoplane flying dangerously low over the Paris rooftops, near the Bon Marche department store. Date: 1911

BOYS AND VENDING MACHINE
A group of boys in their school uniform (shorts) gather round a vending machine to wait for their cold drink. Date: 1960s

ERLKONIG
Erlkonig (Goethe)

FILEY / YORKS / 1920S
Filey, Yorkshire: The Promenade on a cold, damp day Date: 1920s

Russian Finns, hand to hand
Finland : a fierce hand-to- hand combat between Finns and Russians in the snow : the Soviet troops locate their enemy by the fires they light against the extreme cold Date: December 1939

DISTRIBUTING SOUP, PARIS 1709
Distributing soup to the needy during the Paris food shortage caused by the freezing winter of 1709. Date: 1709

FOOD SHORTAGE PARIS 1709
Distribution of bread during the food shortage in Paris during the coldest winter in Europe for 500 years. Date: 1709

QUARLES / INFANCY
INFANCY. An illustration of the verse Cold like the moon, are these thy infant days.. An new candle symbolizes a new life span along with a cradle and moon

MAN HOLDS SHAWL
At midnight on December 31st, a gentleman holds a ladys shawl in case she should feel cold Date: 1887

DANTE & VIRGIL IN HELL DANTE & VIRGIL IN HELL
Sinners stand in a frozen lake, with only the tops of their heads above the ice; the rest of their bodies are subjected to a permanent cold bath: Dante & Virgil look

Homeless mother and child 1876
Mother and child, homeless on a cold winters night Date: 1876

SINGING IN CHURCH
A mother and her children sing in church on New Years Morning (decorations still up, long gloves against the cold..) Date: 1890s

SPORT / SWIMMING
A group of cold and wet swimmers Date: 1843

THALBERG / CAROL SINGERS
Two poor children in the street sing outside the window of two rich childrens house who give them some money Date: Circa 1815

WINTER WALK / GRAPHIC XMAS
Two sisters walk through the snow beneath a big umbrella Date: 1879

INDUSTRY / PERFUME / FRANCE
Enfleurage; extracting oil from flowers using a cold press Date: 1898

A customer with a complaint
A man complains in a restaurant about his plate being cold

Christmas - Firewood 19th
Returning home with a bundle of firewood Date: 1873

Franz Josef Fjord and Peterman Mountain, Greenland
View of the Franz Josef Fjord (named after the Emperor who helped to fund an expedition there) and the Peterman Mountain, with glacier, in north eastern Greenland. Date: circa 1870

Wolves attack villagers on the Russia-Latvia border
On the Russia-Latvia border, wolves are driven by the hard winter to attack villagers. Date: 1939

Neolithic mammoth hunt
Men hunting mammoth by ambushing them in a canyon and aiming heavy rocks at them during the Neolithic era (Stone Age). Date: circa 3000 BC

Imaginary inhabitants of the planet Pluto. In perpetual twilight, and fiercely cold compared to Earth, fur-covered bats would be the best equipped life form, dwelling underground. Date: 1940

Sister holding up baby to see their snowman
A sister holding up the baby to see their snowman. The baby holds out her hand towards the snowmans pipe. Date: circa 1890

Brother and sister have built a snowman
Our Snow Man - a brother and sister smile with a sense of achievement, having built a snowman. Date: 1911

MoS Ultralight XJ924
Ministry of Supply Fairey ultralight XJ924. The Ultralight was a cold tip-jet driven helicopter intended for agricultural and utility work. Date: circa 1953

A woman sitswith her two small dogs, Cannock Chase Forest
A woman sits in her winter clothes cuddling her two small dogs. She waits for her husband to buy a Christmas tree, Cannock Chase Forest, Staffordshire, England. Date: 1991

Kirkcudbright graveyard in winter light
The headstones of Kirkcudbright graveyard in winter light, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Date: 2009

Man in a heavy overcoat walks a small child through the snow
A man in a heavy overcoat and trilby hat walks with a small child through the snow in High Street, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Date: 2010

Man and woman walk along the sea front in high winds, Troon
A man and woman walk along the sea front in high winds at Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland. It is winter, cold and the waves roll up the beach. The couple carry plastic shopping bags Date: 2004

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