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.

"There goes my dinner," from Sketches of Hudson Bay Life by H. Bullock Webster, c. 1875.

"45° below zero--and he's lost the matches," from Sketches of Hudson Bay Life by H. Bullock Webster, c. 1875.

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

From The Drama of the Forests by Arthur Henry Howard Heming, 1921.

"The Royal Oak," from The Illuminated Magazine, 1843.

Ghosts in the ice, from Once a Week, 1859.

"Dr. Snore" is a precursor to the "Dr. Dream" of the Thompson Twins song "Don't Mess with Doctor Dream."  From a vintage holiday card scanned by the Wellcome Library, London.  This will also be of interest: The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

You've heard of putting the cart before the horse, but here's what it looks like.  From Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper deres Tungemaal, 1767.

From the Illinois Agricultural Association Record, 1923.

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

Early July at Rainier National Park.  C. 1928.