Heatwave Relief - 60 Vintage Images of Snow & People!

Jul 18, 2025 8:05 PM

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Snowman # 1 - Girl and the snowman her dad made, Pelly Bay, Nunavut, Canada, 1951

Roof utilization, Illinois, 1979

Andrea Mead Lawrence, the first American alpine skier to win Olympic gold, 1947

Snowfall in Rome, Italy, 1980s

Kodachrome, Chamonix, France, 1966

Cars stuck under the Staten Island Rapid Transit overpass on Amboy Road, Bay Terrace, NYC, 1978

Snowman # 2 - The Father of the Glaciers, 1902 (photo by CL Andrews)

A painter at work in the Dolomite Mountains, Monzon, Italy, 1959 (photo by Jean-Philippe Charbonnier)

Bavaria, Germany, 1978

Snowy sleighing on Beacon Street, Boston, MA, 1901

Snow Fort, 1910

Linda and Julie take a leap, Syracuse, NY 1975

The dogs are named Bob and Fido! Hermonson Farm in Poplar Grove, IL, 1909

Creative beverage, 1967

Neighborhood fun, 1935

Inappropriate Clothing # 1

Speed skaters at Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, 1956

Snowman # 3 - Queen Victoria, 1909

Cutie patootie, 1950s

Skiing Waiters, Stowe, VT, 1962 (photo by Slim Aarons)

New York, early 1960s

Valentine's Day Sculpture, Poultney, VT, 1948

Postman in the snow, England, 1952

Snowman # 4 - Moscow, Russia, 1906

Between the iceberg and field ice, Greenland, 1869 (photo by Dunmore and Critcherson)

Inappropriate clothing # 2

Roof jump, 1975

Valdez, Alaska, 1910

Kids on roof in Japan, 1960s

Snowman # 5 - Istanbul, 1929

Seems perfectly safe! 1942

Inappropriate clothing # 3, 1970s

Curling, Van Cortlandt Lake, Bronx, NYC, 1902

Lévis, Quebec, 1876 (photo by Alexander Henderson)

Sledding in Duncannon, PA, 1952

NYC, 1888

Snowman # 6 - Cabdrivers building a snow family, Berlin, Germany, 1931

Great Kodachrome of girls showing off their boots, 1955

Roy suns himself on the hood of his stuck car on Route 128 in Dedham, MA, 1978

Lake Placid, NY, Olympics ski team, 1932

Snowball fight in front of the Capitol, Wash DC, 1939

Woman being pulled by biplane in snow, also inappropriate clothing! Washington Monument in background, 1922

Snowman # 7 - Lehtimäki, Finland, 1914

Erie, PA, 1963

Snowman # 8 - snow Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana, and dog, Berlin, Germany, 1913

Niagara Falls, 1885

School bound kids and their fort, Baltimore, MD, 1961

British bobsleigh team, Olympics in Chamonix, France, 1924

Chaos on Interstate 5, Newall Pass, CA, 1974

Ice cone, Montmorency Falls, Quebec, 1870 (photo by Alexander Henderson)

Snowball fight in the school yard, Sweden, 1901

Snow bunnies, location unknown, 1960s

Mississippi River, 1905

Snowman # 9 - 1924

Kind of like the tear in the photo - watch out, it's a crevasse! 1943

Dumping snow carts in the river after a blizzard, NYC, 1899

The Christmas Tree Lodge near Reno, NV, 1950

Inappropriate clothing # 4 - volleyball and they are barefoot, too! Wash DC, 1922

Ice storehouse of the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad near Chicago, IL, 1943 (photo by Jack Delano)

Minnesota cats, 1952

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I have photos hanging in my house, they are of icebergs near Newfoundland. My relatives from NF gave them to me.

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So cool! The old timers still talk about the storm of 78. Whole area shutdown for weeks (I am told).

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I was 17 yo. Made decent $$ shoveling at first, but we stopped charging and dug out the seniors as the day wore on.

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Wild times!

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