From The World's Almaniac [sic] for 1879 by Frederick S. Church, 1878.

From Christmas Stories by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, 1874.

One might think that Winter prepares the way for the Grim Reaper, but we see here that the Reaper leads.  From Thrilling Stories of the Great War on Land and Sea, in the Air, Under the Water, 1915.

Ah, the good days when science articles depicted Old Man Winter as Janus-faced and holding a scepter and key … when scientists didn't presume that everything can be stated in a canonical language utterly devoid of metaphor.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1910.

The Snow Queen gives January a bag of snow and box of icicles.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1904.

An illustration from Greater Love by Alexander Gordon (1894).  The caption reads: "There was a bitter east wind blowing."

"She's dressed in snow!"  From The Paradise of Birds by William John Courthope and illustrated by Lancelot Speed, 1889.