Godt Nytaar, 1916.

From 1903.

From 1916.  Scanned by the Nasjonalbiblioteket.

What "the Snow-man wishes me to say" (c. 1902).  This style of anti-ventriloquism -- a sort of mediumistic channeling with a dummy figure -- recalls the ape's interpreter in Xavier: Renegade Angel episode 9, "Signs from Godrilla" (2007): "Now she's being very eloquent, saying some very touching things.  She's being moving."

Gathering snowman buttons, date uncertain.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

Artist unknown, ca. 1908.  A scan by Nasjonalbiblioteket.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"Vintereventyr" by Theodor Kittelsen, ca. 1920.

From Picture Fables by Wilhelm Hey and illustrated by Otto Speckter, 1858.

From A Treatise on Wood Engravings by William Andrew Chatto, 1881.

Here's the best combination scarecrow, snowman, and telephone we've seen all year.  From Bell Telephone Magazine, 1944.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1894.

Here's how to take down a snowman using a bass fiddle as a battering ram.  From a 1902 issue of The Strand magazine.