Month: December 2023

Winters Past…In Color

It seems like a good time to remember once again the winters of Yore…*

Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1956.
Sleighing on Beacon Street, February 1901. Courtesy Boston Public Library.
A snowball fight in front of New York Public Library, New York City, 1939.
Winter Street in Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1860.
A German car advertising image (but very real snow), late 1950s.
The white streets of Portland, Maine, mid-1960s.
Maybe not such a good time to go caravaning, 1960s.
The Common, Boston, Massachusettes, circa 1875. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
A snowy New Year, 1911.
Two Tots in Moscow, Russia, 1983.
The frozen Thames River at London Bridge, London, England, December 1895.
Skating on a frozen pond, 1891. Courtesy British Library.
Snowed in somewhere in America, 1961.
Chester, California, 1960s.
A snowstorm in Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1930. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library/Leslie Jones Collection.
Daguerreotype of a village in winter, France, Circa 1850.
Skating on a frozen canal, Amsterdam, Holland, 1997.
Snowy NYC, 1952.
Snowman construction, early 1950s.
A lady and her horse in 1899.

*All black and white images were colorized.

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The Most Wonderful Time of Every Year: Christmas Photos From Across the 20th Century

Colorized from the Library of Congress, National Photo Company, 1922. Title unverified as “Dorsey Christmas Tree.” Courtesy Shorpy.com.
Claudia Cardinale, born 1938, Italian Tunisian film actress and sex symbol, at Christmas in the early 1960s.
The Barr family Chrismas Tree, December 25, 1953, DesMoines, Iowa.
Christmas with Grandpa, circa 1945.
A mid-1960s Christmas.
Christmas Day, 1920.
Woman dressed as a Christmas tree, circa 1905.
A very happy Christmas 1922.
Standing by the Nativity scene, Circa 1950.
Christmas parade in Toronto, Canada in 1927.
German officers at Christmas 1917 during World War I.
Well, well, well…Christmas, Late 1950s.
Grandma and her favorite candy cane, 1950s.
Suggested Christmas feast, magazine spread, early 1960s.
Christmas Day, Chicago, Illinois, December 1970
Some seriously punk vibes in the early 1980s.
Space-age Christmas tree, magazine spread, 1960s.
A very beautiful lady at Christmas, 1960s.
Decorating the tree, 1981.
Christmas overdrive in 1999.

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