Cold Collection (page 34)

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

Christmas in the 1930s - Dicky Bird by Val Soey
Two jolly looking friends, wrapped up warm against the cold, sit on the dicky seat of a convertible car as it zooms through the snow

Skating in Regents Park, London, on the frozen boating lake. Icemen from the Royal Humane Society stood by on such occasions to try to rescue anyone falling through the ice should such an accident

Butchers shop display, Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex
A Prestcold refrigerated display cabinet at C R Harris Butchers in Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, with advertising material for Birds Eye and Frood foods. 1965

Advertisement for refrigeration units for ships
An advertisement for The Bell-Coleman Mechanical Refrigeration Company of Glasgow and London, Makers of Cold Air and Ice Making Machinery, as used on board various ships

A boy walks through the snow carrying ice skates, Budge was taking his skates. Date: early 20th century

Titanic - Danger Field of the Atlantic with routes through i
A diagram or map showing the dangerous area of the Atlantic Ocean indicating steamer routes that cut through fog and ice. It was here that the Titanic hit an iceberg on 15 April 1912

Teddy drinking Ovaltine
Advertising postcard for Ovaltine. Poor Teddy has caught a cold. Artist: Phyllis Cooper Date: circa 1922

Two little girls on Christmas Greetings postcard

RSS Discovery in the Antarctic. Launched in 1901 and designed for Antarctic research, she was the last traditional wooden three-masted ship to be built in Britain

Ice Cold Soda Water

The Straw-Yard, Winter. Horses in the snow in a farmyard Date: ca. 1865

Road sign at Ullitz, Hof-Plauen, Thuringia, Germany
A road sign at Ullitz, Hof-Plauen, Thuringia, Germany, showing the border between East and West Germany, which was changed when the Berlin Wall came down on 12 November 1989. 2010

Silhouette of two deer in the snow
Silhouette of two deer in a snowy landscape

Christmas Eve in Canada with a a wooden cabin just visible in the dark and the snow, its warm light inviting. Outside, horses are ready to pull a sleigh through the deep snow. Date: 1926

Advertisement for Home & Colonial Stores Ltd, 268-270 Edgware Road, London W2, offering Xmas Fare. An apprehensive-looking turkey stands in a snowy village landscape

Silhouette of a sledding scene on a snowy hillside. One couple slide down the slope, watched by another couple wondering whether to copy them. Both men are in army uniform

Silhouette of people in a snowy landscape, on a menu recommending Lea & Perrins Sauce. The group on the left are playing a game of curling on the ice

The Trans-Siberian Railway - a network of railways connecting Moscow with the Russian Far East and the Sea of Japan. It is the longest railway in the world

Iceman
The Iceman has a lot to do during the heat wave in Stockholm, Sweden, 24/7 1943 Date: 24th July 1943

Northants Panorama
A panoramic scene looking from Honey Hill, near Cold Ashby, looking eastwards, Northamptonshire, England Date: early 1960s

Snow in June on Scafell Pike, Cumberland, the highest mountain in England. Date: 1950s

Snow Covered Inn
The Loggerheads Inn, Mold, Flintshire, north Wales, covered in snow during the famous long cold winter which laster from October 1962 to March 1963. Date: February 1963

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