"A huntsman is enveloped by a sudden fall of snow from an overhanging tree branch, causing him to drop his rifle which discharges accidentally." Coloured lithograph by A. Strassgschwandtner, ca. 1860.

"Troldkjærringer" by Theodor Kittelsen, 1902.

Remember?  (From a postcard advertising anti-freeze.)

From c. 1890.

"Vintereventyr" by Theodor Kittelsen, ca. 1920.

Did you ever wonder what gave snow its sparkle?  Here's a spoiler from Catalogue of Sunday School Supplies for Christmas, 1897.

By Theodor Kittelsen, date unknown.

Folks were driving hybrids back in 1918, as we see in Popular Mechanics.

 "Sover med senket hode" by Theodor Kittelsen.

The Sneeuwstormbeschermer (face protection from snowstorms), Montreal, Canada, 1939.

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

Here's the obsolescence of the timber line at Mt. Hood.

"The great snow mountain," from Prince Peerless: A Fairy Folk Story Book by Margaret Collier and illustrated by John Collier, 1886.

From Virginia Illustrated by David Hunter Strother, 1857.