Cold Collection (page 33)

Russian village - Northern Siberia - tents and Reindeer
Russian (Ostyak?) village - Northern Siberia - tents and Reindeer Date: 1902

The River Rhine frozen at Oberwesel, Germany
The River Rhine frozen at Oberwesel, a town on the Middle Rhine in the Rhein-Hunsreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Date: 1929

East Beach at Lytham - Donkey Rides / Windmill
East Beach at Lytham St. Annes - Donkey Rides / Windmill Date: 1904

The Chinese army in winter attire - Russo-Japanese War. Date: 1904

Sparrows in snow on a dish-shaped Christmas card
Three sparrows pecking at snow on a dish-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Battered old boot-shaped Christmas card with blue tits and snow. Date: circa 1890s

Winter, 18th century French School (possibly by Francois Octavien, 1695-1736). Showing people keeping warm inside with a blazing fire (left), a pigs carcase being cut up outside, wood being chopped

de Havilland Vampire F1 TG372
de Havilland Vampire F1, TG372, was used for cold weather trials at WEE, Edmonton, Canada

Hawker Hart K3012 was fitted with a Bristol Perseus radial
Hawker Hart, K3012, was fitted with a Bristol Perseus radial and an enclosed cockpit and used for cold weather trials in Canada. It is seen here fitted with a ski undercarriage

Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adair
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Group of Adeliee Penguins feeding their young
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adare
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Group of Adeliee Penguins, Cape Adare
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Adeliee Penguin group
Adeliee penguin photographs taken during Scotts British Antarctic Expedition 1910-1913, also known as the Terra Nova expedition, by expedition surgeon Murray Levick

Lepus timidus, Mustela erminea and Mustela nivalis
Arctic hare, ermine and least weasel. Mountain hare, stoat and weasel. Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c

Lepus europaeus, European brown hare
Plate 33 from British Mammals Vol. 1 & 2 by Archibald Thorburn, 1920-21

Lepus timidus, Arctic hare
Plate from a collection of pencil sketches and watercolour drawings of British mammals c. 1890-1910 by Edward Adrian Wilson (1872-1912)

Anglian ice sheet
A reconstruction of the front of the Anglian ice sheet in Precambrian (4, 500 to 543 million years ago) north London

Cold Bokkeveld meteorite photomicrograph
Thin section of the carbonaceous chondrite in the petrological microscope, showing a near circular chondrule about 1mm in diameter. The fall was in Cape Province in 1838

The Wildlife Garden in winter
View of the Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden with the Waterhouse Building in the background in January 2003

The west lawn ornament in winter
View of the Natural History Museum west lawn ornament in January 2003

Exterior of the Darwin Centre
Exterior view of the Darwin Centre from Queens Gate in January 2003

Raper drawing No. 19
Ice islands as seen on our passage round Cape Horn in 1788. By George Raper c. 1789

The Wildlife Garden
View of the Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden with the Waterhouse Building in the background in January 2003 after snow fall

Excavations, Antarctica
Palaeontologists from the Natural History Museum engage in excavating dinosaur fossils on Vega Island, Antarctica

Tibetan horse minder
A young Tibetan horse minder, Urulung, Tibet

Icebergs
The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) was funded by the British Government for the purpose of scientific discovery. Copied from a print in the zoology Department of Oxford University

Pleistocene glacial landscape
During the Pleistocene (1.8 million years ago to 10, 000 years), ice covered much of Britain north of the Thames. Cold climate animals included the woolly mammoth (left) Mammuthus primigenius

Little girl holding snowballs
Girl wrapped up for the cold weather, out in the snow preparing for a snowball fight. Date: c. 1920

Snowy scene with children
A group of children carry umbrellas as they battle through a blizzard. c.1920

A Madame Yevonde portrait of Mr W. Somerset Maugham
Mr Somerset Maugham regards the world with a cold and cynical eye and writes about it with a brilliant pen. Madame Yevonde was a prolific and ground-breaking society portrait

Chicken with flu

Shovelling snow

Picnic Lemonade
What could be nicer on a hot day than home made lemonade in a basket outside in the garden or for a picnic? Serve it in lovely glasses from a decorative jug, with straws. Date: 1940s

Dressed for Winter
Long line sweater (jumper) in green & white checker board with red belt & cuffs worn with a white skirt, long red & black striped scarf with fringed ends & a green hat. Date: 1912

NFS towing unit and trailer pump, WW2
The National Fire Service was formed in 1941 and Greater London was designated a fire region with Lambeth as the Regional HQ

LFB firefighters and winter snows
The early winters of WW2 were snowy with numerous falls of 1-2 feet and occasional falls (such as 1940-41) in which snow depths of up to 16 feet (drifts) were recorded

LFB firefighters and winter snows, WW2
The early winters of WW2 were snowy with numerous falls of 1-2 feet and occasional falls (such as 1940-41) in which snow depths of up to 16 feet (drifts) were recorded

What may happen at the seashore if summer is as cold a proposition as spring. Illustration shows a vignette cartoon suggesting how it might look if the summer is as cold as spring; in the central

The cold gray dawn

Cold mornings in September. Illustration shows a large man with a $ in his hair, wearing a bathing suit labeled High Tariff Graft Interests

Out in the cold. Illustration shows a woman knocking on the door at the polls, a Chinese man stands next to her; an Irish man, thumbing his nose, and an African American man

Watch meeting. Snowy night scene with church. Date c1878

Winter scene in Holland - horse-drawn sleigh
Horse-drawn sleigh on the Arresleede, The Netherlands. The horses shoes are spiked to give more grip. Date: 1910s

A burial party on the battle-field of Cold Harbor. Photograph showing an African American soldier seated next to a stretcher containing the remains of his comrades who perished in the battles of

Battle of Cold Harbor. Date c1888 Dec. 24

New Years Eve

Cold Harbor, Va. African Americans collecting bones of soldiers killed in the battle. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grants Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864. Date 1865 April

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