Snow Collection (page 2)

Schubert / Erlkonig-Goethe
Schuberts Erlkonig (Goethe)

Child Reads at Window
Picture Books in Winter: " Summer fading, winter comes; Frosty mornings, tingling thumbs, Window robins, winter rooks, & the picture story books."

Olympics / 1924 / Chamonix
Winter games at Chamonix: ski jumping, ice hockey and skating

Lake Placid, N. Y. USA - View across Mirror Lake - Winter
Lake Placid, N.Y. USA - View across Mirror Lake toward Lake Placid Club - Winter Date: 1940

Christmas card, Shakespearean jesters
Christmas Card - May you be merry and lack nothing (based on a quotation from Shakespeares Henry IV Part 2) - two medieval jesters dancing. circa 1935

Hexham, Northumberland, in the snow. Date: late 19th century

Butterflies and flowers on a palette-shaped Christmas card
Butterflies and flowers with a snow scene on a palette-shaped Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Sheriff Hutton Castle
The snow covered ruins of Sheriff Hutton Castle, Rydale, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1379 by Bertram de Bulmer, Sheriff of York, as a fortified manor house. Date: 14th century

Scott Polar Expedition 1910 - 1912 - ponies
Michael the pony enjoying a roll in the snow near his stables on Antarctica, during the ill-fated Scott polar expedition 1910 - 1912. Captain Scott wrote of the ponies in his diary, Poor brutes

British tank on Western Front, WW1
A British tank, with the name " Barbarian II" painted on its side, in the snow on the Western Front during the First World War. Two German soldiers stand alongside it. Date: 28 December 1917

Winter Plumage by Vernon Ward
A group of waterfowl on a lake in a London park including a tufted duck, Mallard, Pintail and Sheldrake

Family Tree by Vernon Ward
A group of tufted ducks huddle together on the lake in St. Jamess Park in London during the winter

Poster advertising Chamonix and Mont Blanc
Poster for French railways advertising Chamonix and Mont Blanc in eastern France, for winter sports including skiing

Tatler front cover, Winter Sports Number 1956
Front cover design for The Tatler Winter Sports Number, featuring a number of cheery, jolly skiiers

Moods of Mount Fuji - 4
A stylised painting by Malcolm Greensmith in the style of the Master Japanese woodcut artists of the late 18th and 19th centuries

Christmas Eve - about 1460 by Pauline Baynes
Christmas Eve, as celebrated in 1460 with children bringing in holly and the Yule Log to be lit on Christmas Day, and other joining in a last minute carol practice

Police in the Snow
A group of Metropolitan Police Officers stand in a line in the snow

Children Sledging
Four children position their sledges, ready for a downhill race!

India / Simla 1930S
The city of Simla, India literally hangs on the mountain side, 6, 000 feet above sea level. For several months of the year it is buried in snow

Nile village, Great Pyramid, Egypt
19th century vintage photograph - village and camels along the banks for the River Nile, close to the Great Pyramid of Giza. Photograph by the Zangaki studio, c.1890 s

Coach and horses in the snow on a Christmas card. circa 1890s

Snowy Yorkshire
Winter snow scene, taken from the churchyard of Crayke village, Yorkshire, England. Date: 1950s

Samoyed People with their reindeer sled
Two Samoyedic hunters on a sleigh pulled by reindeer at, northern Russia. Date: circa 1903

What Now?
Bonzo, the little dog created by George Studdy in The Sketch magazine during the 1920s finds himself in a frosty predicament

Saffron Walden by Madge Howard
Saffron Walden in Essex, East Anglia, UK, featuring a street of half-timbered houses with pageting (the decorative plaster work typical of the region) covered with snow on a peaceful starry evening

Military / Sentry Relieved
A sentry being relieved (Coldstream Guards)

Italian victory in Berlin Winter Olympics
An Italian victory in the ski team event in the Winter Olympics at Garmisch, Germany

Four members of the Corvidae family -- a raven (corvus corax) and three crows (corvus corone, corvus cornix and corvus frugilegus)

Stagecoach and horses on an oval Christmas card
Stagecoach and horses travelling through the snow at night on an oval Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Snow is brought by the Fairy of the North Wind Date: early 20th century

Arctic Fox searches for food, sniffing lemmings and other food under deep snow on Kara sea shore (Alopex lagopus). tundra of Taimyr peninsula, North of Siberia, Russian Arctic, winter

Cub Scout on skis, Snowy Mountains, Australia
A group of Cub Scouts of the 1st Kosciusco Troop, on skis in the Snowy Mountains of Australia. Scoutmaster Bernie Jarratt is demonstrating a kick turn. Date: 1960s

Mount Fuji, Japan - Shoji Hotel with Lake Shoji Date: circa 1920s

Princes Street Gardens
Winter in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Looking across West Princes Street Gardens towards Edinburgh Castle. Date: 1960s

View down the High Street, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales
A view down the High Street from the Bear Hotel, in the town centre, Crickhowell, Powys, Mid Wales, with snow on the ground. Recently installed telegraph wires can be seen above

Racial / Japan / Women / Snow
Japanese women in the snow, children snowballing in the background

Olympics / 1932 / Bobsleigh
German two-man bobsleigh team at Lake Placid

Chanel Skater 1929
A chic skater is dressed for it by Chanel

Sleeping B / Lefler / Urban
The Prince wakes Sleeping Beauty from her sleep with a kiss

Law / Police / Britain
Duty and Pleasure A policeman on duty on a snowy night in a fashionable London square, while some of the residents set off for an evening of leisure

Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio
Saint Francis of Assisi befriends the Wolf of Gubbio, who has been terrorising and killing the townspeople, and obtains a promise that it will do no more harm. Date: circa 1205

Quail seeking breakfast. Date c1883 Jun. 16

Olympics / 1932 / Bobsleigh
Champion American bobsleigh team, nicknamed the Red Devils

Social / Norway Postman
Neither snow, ice, hail nor trolls can discourage the Norwegian postman as he skis o er fjell and fjord

Blackheath Park in Snow
A view of Blackheath Park after heavy snowfall

Queen Elizabeth I Riding a Horse in Winter
This picture shows Queen Elizabeth I riding a horse in a snowy winter scene with a male companion. She is being waved to by a young boy and there is a dog following her

Christmas Is Coming
Christmas is coming the geese are getting fat Please to put a penny in the old mans hat If you havent got a penny a hapenny will do If you havent got a hapenny God bless you Father Christmas sits in

Music cover, Les Patineurs Valse, by Emile Waldteufel
Music cover, Les Patineurs Valse (Skaters Waltz), by Emile Waldteufel, with two elegant women skating on ice. circa 1880s

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