Sonwflakes carry germs (top photo).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.

From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.

From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.

From St. Nicholas, 1890.

From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.

From Chatterbox, 1872.

From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.

From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.

From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.

From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).

From WBAI Folio, 1966.

Even snowmen can slip on the ice.  From Dartmouth College's 1953 yearbook.

Old snow recrystallized, and a freak flake that developed only the sides which fell downward.  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.

"The idea of calling this 'Spring'!"  From St. Nicholas, 1890.

From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.

From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1956 yearbook.

From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.

A snowflake society emblem (bottom left), conjoined twin snowflakes (bottom right), a reunited broken flake (top right), and a freak snowstorm's freak crystal (top left).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.

"Winter: cheer with caution."  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1956 yearbook.

From St. Nicholas, 1892.