Snowshoes Collection

Uniform of German Snowshoe Battalion, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Uniform of German Snowshoe Battalion, between c1915 and c1920. German soldiers in snow shoes during World War I.

Recruits of 1st Snowshoe Battalion, Munich, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
Recruits of 1st Snowshoe Battalion, Munich, between c1915 and c1920. German soldiers on snowshoes during World War I.

Snowshoeing, c.1880. Creator: Sandham, Henry (1842-1910)
Snowshoeing, c.1880. Private Collection

Interior of Eskimo hut, 1916. Creator: Lomen Brothers
Interior of Eskimo hut, 1916.

Costumes de Différents Pays, Iroquois Allant a la Decouverte, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Iroquois Allant a la Decouverte, c1797

Moose-hunting in Canada - the Attack, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Moose-hunting in Canada - the Attack, 1858. View of...an attack on snow-shoes, the victims being a pair of female moose. The moose is the largest of the deer tribe

Moose-hunting in Canada - en route for the Hunting Ground, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Moose-hunting in Canada - en route for the Hunting Ground, 1858....a couple of habitans snugly ensconced in a rude sleigh drawn by a pony, on their way to the hunting-ground

Bear-hunting in Sweden, 1856. Creator: Unknown
Bear-hunting in Sweden, 1856. '...a small sortie is organised by the inhabitants, who collect together...all those who are willing to share the fatigues of the chase

On Snow Shoes to The Barren Grounds by Casper W. Whitney, 2600 Miles After Musk Oxen... c1896. Creator: Edward Penfield
On Snow Shoes to The Barren Grounds by Casper W. Whitney, 2600 Miles After Musk Oxen and Wood Bison Now Appearing in Harper's Magazine, c1896. [Publisher: Harper Publications; Place: New York]

Interior Alaska costume, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Interior Alaska costume, between c1900 and c1930

Urak, 1862. Creators: A Derzhanovskii, Winckelmann & Sons. Urak, 1862. Creators: A Derzhanovskii, Winckelmann & Sons
Urak, 1862. Sheet 31 from the album "Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie", volume 1. Description ethnographique des peuples de la Russie

Woman making snow shoes, between c1900 and c1930. Creator: Unknown
Woman making snow shoes, between c1900 and c1930

Overnight in the Forest (in the Northern Forests), 1856. Creator: Ivan Dem'ianovich Bulychev
Overnight in the Forest (in the Northern Forests), 1856. From Puteshestviye po Vostochnoy Sibiri I. Bulychova. Chast 1-ya

Murphy the Dick-tater, alias the weather cock of the walk, 1837. A figure with a potato surmounted by a weathervane for head, globe for body, holding bellows and telescope under right arm

Scene from the Genpei Wars (image 1 of 3), 19th century. Creator: Chikanobu Yoshu
Scene from the Genpei Wars (image 1 of 3), 19th century

Returning from Snow-Shoe Drill; The Regiment of Canadian Artillery passing through the... Quebec. Creator: Unknown
Returning from Snow-Shoe Drill; The Regiment of Canadian Artillery passing through the St.Louis Gate, Quebec

Dr. Nansens Snow-Shoe Expedition across Greenland, 1888. Creator: Unknown
Dr. Nansens Snow-Shoe Expedition across Greenland, 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 38. July to December, 1888

Indian Snow Shoe, c. 1937. Creator: Natalie Simon
Indian Snow Shoe, c. 1937

Deer-Stalking in the Adirondacks in Winter, published 1871. Creator: Winslow Homer
Deer-Stalking in the Adirondacks in Winter, published 1871

Snow Shoe Dance - Ojibbeway, 1861 / 1869. Creator: George Catlin
Snow Shoe Dance - Ojibbeway, 1861/1869. Hunters, with songs of thanks to the Great Spirit, when the first snow of winter falls, to improve their hunting

Buffalo Chase in the Snow Drifts - Ojibbeway, 1861 / 1869. Creator: George Catlin
Buffalo Chase in the Snow Drifts - Ojibbeway, 1861/1869

Deer-Stalking in the Adirondacks in Winter (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series), January 21, 1871

Lumbering in Winter (Every Saturday, Vol. II, New Series), January 28, 1871

Canada, 10 Cent Piece, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1889

Captain Bartlett and his Party, 1910. Born in Newfoundland, Robert Bartlett was a noted ice navigator and Arctic explorer of the late 19th and early 20th century

Lars Pettersen on Snow Shoes, c1893-1896, (1897). Lars Pettersen (born in 1860) was a Norwegian explorer who took part to the three year expedition (1893-1896) aboard the Fram led by Fridtjof Nansen

Alone Across The Trackless Snow, c1908, (c1920). Artist: Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton
Alone Across The Trackless Snow, c1908, (c1920). Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de La Salle (1643-1687), French explorer

Gunners of A battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery equipped for winter service, 1896. Artist: Gregory & Co
Gunners of A battery of the Royal Canadian Artillery equipped for winter service, 1896. The men have snowshoes strapped to their backs. A print from The Navy and Army Illustrated, 1896

Sioux canoes and Chippewa snowshoes, 1841. Artist: Myers and Co
Sioux canoes and Chippewa snowshoes, 1841. A print from Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, by Wiley and Putnam, 161 Broadway, New York, 1841

Samoyede Travelling on Snow-Shoes, Russia, 1877. The term Samoyed applies to the whole group of different peoples. Its the general term which includes the Nenets, Enets, Selkup and Nganasan people

Copper Indian girl mending snow shoe, 1823. Artist: John Franklin
Copper Indian girl mending snow shoe. Coloured lithograph from John Franklin Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, London, 1823

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