Recreational activity and sport using skis

A Swedish Lappish (Sámi) woman holding her child and smoking a pipe, and a man on skis carrying game. Etching, ca. 1890.

People on a skiing holiday with safe equipment; promoting use of iron-reinforced safety boots in the industrial workplace. Coloured lithograph by Atelier Börmel, 196- (?).

'Zymine' peptonising tubes... / Fairchild Brothers & Foster (Inc) New York.

Skidlauf und Skidwetterlauf : eine medizinische Sportsstudie / von S.E. Henschen.

Tam v dáli na horách / [Karel Viktor Červinka].

1 painting watercolour and gouache on paper

Skaters on a frozen pond with people skiing and tobogganing in the background

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 59.3 x 42 cm

Ski clothing and accessories : official suppliers of winter sports clothing to the 1992 British Olympic Team.

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Skidlauf und Skidwetterlauf : eine medizinische Sportsstudie / von S.E. Henschen.

Tam v dáli na horách / [Karel Viktor Červinka].

Skaters on a frozen pond with people skiing and tobogganing in the background

People on a skiing holiday with safe equipment; promoting use of iron-reinforced safety boots in the industrial workplace. Coloured lithograph by Atelier Börmel, 196- (?).

Ski clothing and accessories : official suppliers of winter sports clothing to the 1992 British Olympic Team.