18th Century Material Culture

Snowshoes & Ice Creepers

Snowshoes
 “Codex Canadensis”
by Charles Becard de Granville c. 1700
(Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma)
 Native American Snowshoes in New France
From “New voyages to North-America containing an account of several nations”
by Louis Armand de Lom d’Arce, Baron de Lahontan 1703
(Library & Archives, Canada)
 Native American Snowshoes in New France
From “New voyages to North-America containing an account of several nations”
by Louis Armand de Lom d’Arce, Baron de Lahontan 1703
(Library & Archives, Canada)
 Native American Snowshoes in New France
From “Nouveaux voyages de Monsieur le baron de Lahontan dans” by Louis Armand de Lom d’Arce, Baron de Lahontan 1707
(Library & Archives, Canada)
 Native American Snowshoes in New France
From “Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps” by Joseph François1 Laftitau 1724
(Library & Archives, Canada)
 Title Page
From “reis door Noord Amerika” by Pehr Kalm 1772
(Library & Archives, Canada)
 Frontspiece
From “The American travellar, or Observations on the present state...” by Alexander Cluny, London, 1769
(Library & Archives, Canada)
“Iroquois allant à la Découverte”
by J.G. de St. Sauveur c. 1795
(Library and Archives Canada)
 Canadian with Snowshoes Going to War on the Snow
From “Histoire de l'Amerique Septentrionale' by Bacqueville de La Potherie (1663-1736) Published in 1753
(Public Domain)
 American Snowshoes of John Sheldon (1658 - 1733)
c. 1700
(Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, Massachusetts)
American Snowshoes of General Artemas Ward
c. 1768
(General Artemas Ward House Museum)
American Snowshoes of General Artemas Ward
c. 1768
(General Artemas Ward House Museum)
American Snow Shoes
Dated 1780
(Private Collection)
Snowshoes Owned by Colonel Arent de Peyster of the King’s 8th Regiment of Foot, Native of New York City
c. 1770s
(Museum of Liverpool)
Snowshoes Owned by Colonel Arent de Peyster of the King’s 8th Regiment of Foot, Native of New York City
c. 1770s
(Museum of Liverpool)
Ice Creepers
 Ice Creeper
Recovered from the Sarah Boston Homestead Site, Boston, Massachusetts. c. 17702
(University of Massachusetts, Boston)
 Ice Creepers
18th - Early 19th Century
(Guillame Ouest)
 Ice Creepers
18th - Early 19th Century
(Guillame Ouest)
 Ice Creepers
18th - Early 19th Century
(Private Collection)
 Ice Creepers
18th - Early 19th Century
(National Park Service)
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