Animal-powered land vehicle used for sliding across snow or ice

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Archangel: (above) two reindeer harnessed to a sledge which a boy is driving; (below) ship building docks and ferry. Etching.

Astronomy: the Aurora Borealis, with a reindeer-drawn sledge in the foreground. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.

Stickney & Poor's mustards, spices and extracts are the best : if your grocer does not keep the send to us direct ... / Stickney & Poor.

Lapland / Thomas Holloway.

A fine horse wearing a gold and blue harness is pulling a golden sleigh carrying a woman with a footman behind. Colour halftone after O. Cortazzo.

A man travelling on a sledge drawn by five dogs in Kamchatka. Engraving by S. Middiman, 1784, after J. Webber.

Russia: people carrying goods on sledges over the snow. Engraving by Smith, 1785.

Esquimau / Thomas Holloway.

People skating and sledging with their dogs on the ice of a frozen river in the Netherlands; representing the pleasures of winter. Engraving by P.C Canot, 1759, after J. Pillement.

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Sleds

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Stickney & Poor's mustards, spices and extracts are the best : if your grocer does not keep the send to us direct ... / Stickney & Poor.

People skating and sledging with their dogs on the ice of a frozen river in the Netherlands; representing the pleasures of winter. Engraving by P.C Canot, 1759, after J. Pillement.

Esquimau / Thomas Holloway.

A fine horse wearing a gold and blue harness is pulling a golden sleigh carrying a woman with a footman behind. Colour halftone after O. Cortazzo.

A man travelling on a sledge drawn by five dogs in Kamchatka. Engraving by S. Middiman, 1784, after J. Webber.

Sleds

Images from the collections

Images referencing Sleds

Works from the collections

Stickney & Poor's mustards, spices and extracts are the best : if your grocer does not keep the send to us direct ... / Stickney & Poor.

People skating and sledging with their dogs on the ice of a frozen river in the Netherlands; representing the pleasures of winter. Engraving by P.C Canot, 1759, after J. Pillement.

Esquimau / Thomas Holloway.

A fine horse wearing a gold and blue harness is pulling a golden sleigh carrying a woman with a footman behind. Colour halftone after O. Cortazzo.

A man travelling on a sledge drawn by five dogs in Kamchatka. Engraving by S. Middiman, 1784, after J. Webber.

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