It's that time of year again!  "The Snowman moves slowly to the door, fades through it, and disappears."  Stage directions from As Good As Gold, A Play in One Act by Laurence Housman, 1916

Here's a snow owl from The Boy's Own Paper, 1880.

From Kladderadatsch, 1937.

From Die Muskete, 1930.

A postcard by Arthur Thiele, World War I-era.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1879.

In the "Prologue to the Cook's Tale," Chaucer notes that "offering shelter is a ticklish thing."   From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1961.

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.