Toboggan Collection

The Tabby Toboggan Club / Louis Wain
A huge number of tabby cats go mad sledging in the winter snow

Bon Ton Skiwear
For Chamonix: sensible yet stylish clothing includes gaiters & leggings, fringed scarf, knitted jumper, flat cap with earflaps; belted jacket & plaid skirt

Christmas children sledging
Four small girls dressed in matching festive red capes and with fur muffs share a rather long sledge decorated with holly, forming a very pictureseque scene as they whizz down a snowy slope

Father Christmas in a sledge with children
Father Christmas hurtles down a snowy hillside accompanied by four happy children carrying a holly branch and wreath. c. 1920

Girl with Toboggan
Attractive girl on the snowy slopes with her toboggan. Artist: Arthur Butcher Date: circa 1918

Girl with Toboggan
Attractive girl on the sliding down snowy slopes on her toboggan. Artist: Arthur Butcher Date: circa 1918

Girl with Toboggan
Attractive girl on the snowy slopes with her toboggan. Artist: Arthur Butcher Date: circa 1918

The Cresta Run - a repair party at work
Workmen busy tuning up what is one of the most famous toboggan runs in the world - the Cresta Run in St. Moritz - at Battledore and Shuttlecock, two well known turns. Date: 1924

Casablanca, Morocco - Water Slide at the Swimming Pool
circa 1910s

A Running Carro, Madeira hand coloured photo

Madeira sledge ride bullock cart

Tobogganing, St. Moritz, Switzerland, Victorian period

Family tobogganing in St. Moritz, Victorian period

Toboggan slide, Montreal, early 1900s

The Toboggan Slide - Montreal, Canada
The Mount Royal Toboggan Slide - Montreal, Canada. Date: circa 1910s

Music cover, The Dancing Mistress Valse, on melodies by Lionel Monckton, arranged by H M Higgs Date: 1912

Photograph of woman climbing snowy hill, pulling toboggan behind her, at St Beatenberg, Lake Thun, Switzerland, by Ward Muir. Captioned, Jill - to Date! and The Worst of Tobogganing'. Date: 1910

The Cresta Run
Daredevil tobogganists take a thrilling turn at the second bank of the Church leap at the famous Cresta Run at St. Moritz with the grand stand visible in the background. Date: 1924

The original rollercoaster or Russian Mountain
A Russian Mountain, a giant artificial ice slide for skaters and sledders, 18th century

Xmas. Sleighing downhill
My loving wish I send you? Postcard illustration of boy and girl on toboggan. Series 5078. Artist: Alfred Edward Philp Date: circa 1910

Xmas. Tobogganing
Two small children in red hats riding on a toboggan. Date: circa 1910

Tobogganing
Happy children and dog with toboggan in snow. Illustration from the Ladies Home Journal December 1926. Artist anon. Date: 1926

Sporting with Winter Sports by H. M. Bateman - tobogganning
A tobogganist takes a rather steep hill, wins the cup but limps away bruised and bandaged. Date: 1912

Little girl being pulled along in a sledge by her friend c. 1910

For adults and children alike, enjoying their day outside in the snow, sledging downhill in Hampstead Heath, London. Date: 1907

A woman in a red checked outfit travels down a slope on a toboggan. Date: 1910

1950s - Young couple having fun on a snowmobile
Illustration showing a couple zooming through the snow on a snow mobile. Date: 1950s

Tobogganing at the Liverpool Exhibition 1886
International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry opened on 11 May 1886 by Queen Victoria

Col de Sanloup, Montreux, Switzerland - mixed luge racing
Col de Sanloup, Montreux, Switzerland - mixed pairs luge racing - The Start. Date: circa 1904

Monte to Funchal Wicker Toboggan - Madeira, Portugal
Wicker Toboggan transportation from the mountainous village of Monte, Island of Madeira, Portugal down to the Capital, Funchal

Now We re Off by Florence Hardy
Two small children, wearing clown and Pierrot costumes have fun in the snow on a sledge

Jack and Jill by Florence Hardy
Two children dressed in clown and Pierrot costumes, play in the snow with a sledge. The little girl, wearing neck ruff and holding a muff to keep her hands warm waves a sprig of holly in the air

Burberry advert: Winter sports dress
Spectators admire a team of sportsmen in matching outfits speed past on a form of bobsleigh or luge

Nearly a Song Hit by Chloe Preston - winter sledging
My Swiss Miss Misses Me" - a narrow escape as a young boy bends to avoid being hit by a girl tobogganist on the snowy slopes of Switzerland. Date: 1926

Taking home the holly
Girl & boy returning home with holly on a toboggan. From Merry Winter series of postcards published by Raphael Tuck.Date: 1908

Tobogganing
Girl on a toboggan. From Merry Winter series of postcards published by Raphael Tuck.Date: 1908

Christabel Pankhurst sledging in Villar
Christabel Pankhurst LLB (1880 - 1958), suffragette, founder and leader of National Womens Social and Political Union, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst

Tobogganning couple by Florence Hardy
Young couple on a toboggan in snowy Christmas scene. Date: 1910

Bears on a toboggan
Winter scene of two happy bears enjoying the icy slopes on a toboggan. Date: circa 1908

Jeek the puppy with Jacky and Gerry in the snow
Jeek the mongrel puppy with Jacky and Gerry in the snow -- they have fallen off a toboggan on their way down a hill. Date: 1940

Girl pulled in sledge through the wintry countryside
A little girl, dressed in a red cape with white fur trim and carrying sprigs of holly, is pulled along by her sweetheart. Date: c.1920

Municipal Swimming pool and fun slides - Casablanca, Morocco
Municipal Swimming pool and fun slides (Toboggan et Plongeon) - Casablanca, Morocco. Date: circa 1930s

Girl pulling her little brother along on a sledge through the snow. Date: c. 1915

Boy carrying Christmas presents home on his sledge c. 1910

Carrying Christmas tree on a sledge through the snow
Little boy carrying a Christmas tree on a sledge through the snow. c. 1910

Sledge laden with holly Date: c. 1910

Little boy out sledging Date: c. 1910

Little girl on a sledge Date: c. 1920

Girl with sledge in front of fir tree
A beautiful girl dressed in a red coat and hat with white fur trim, wanders through the snowy countryside, c. 1910

Winter landscape with Skaters, 1629. Droochsloot, Joost Cornelisz (1586-1666). Baroque art. Oil on canvas. Date: 1629

Where Snow Comes From

Clear the track!. Children sledding down a hill. Date 1854, c1878

Four young girls tobogganing
" Happy New Year!" Four young girls tobogganing down a snow covered hill. France. 1912

A Frieze in Tempera-Ture by Jay Gee
A wonderfully vivid and jolly frieze like illustration (hence the pun-like title)

Man and three children on a toboggan in the snow
A man and three children sliding downhill on a toboggan in the snow

Winter Sport, Thomas Cook & Son
Cover illustration for Winter Sport, Thomas Cook & Son, showing five people on a toboggan speeding downhill. In the background is a snowy alpine scene with mountains

Winter Sports in Switzerland, with Thomas Cook
Cover illustration for Sunshine and Snow. Winter Sports in Switzerland, synopsis of arrangements made by Thomas Cook and Son, Ludgate Circus, London

Make up Moment in the Snow
All ready for a days winter sport, a woman applies the last completing touch of lipstick

Toboggan or bobsleigh ride
A group of winter fun-seekers enjoying a toboggan or bobsleigh ride

Wilhelm II Toboggan 1910
A brochure design for the Kaiser Wilhelm II toboggan contest at Davos, Switzerland

Toboggan Girl 1928
A girl races downhill fast on a toboggan, exposing her stocking tops along the way

Sledge made for Christina, later Queen of Sweden
A sledge which Count Axel Oxenstierna had made for his ward Christina, later Queen of Sweden

Girl on Toboggan
A girl in a muff sits on a toboggan holding some greenery and other things

Tobogganing with Tree
Brother and sister toboggan home with the tree they have acquired

Fetching Tree on Sledge
Two girls have found a suitable tree and are bringing it home on a toboggan

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