Here Are Two Marbles for Eyes (1906)

Clarence Franklin Carroll and Sarah Catherine Brooks, The Brooks Primer (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1906), 63.

The Pioneer (1888)

“Wonders and Beauties,” Chicago: an Instructive and Entertaining History of a Wonderful City with a Useful Stranger's Guide  (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure, 1888),  183.

To Any Practical Man Who Has Had Any Experience in Handling Snow by the Old Method with Its Perfect Uselessness on Many Occasions, the Utility and Practicability of the Machine Here Shown Must Be Obvious (1882)

“A Pneumatic Snow Plow,” American Engineer 3 (January 7, 1881): 11.

The First Snowfall (1931)

“The First Snowfall,” From an etching by Charles W. Dahlgreen, The Rotarian 39 (December 1931): 4.

The Indian Dog Train Was Used When the Snow Was Too Deep or Too Soft to Uphold Horses (1915)

Seymour Dunbar, A History of Travel in America, Showing the Development of Travel and Transportation from the Crude Methods of the Canoe and the Dog-Sled to the Highly Organized Railway Systems of the Present, Together with a Narrative of the Human Experiences and Changing Social Conditions That Accompanied This Economic Conquest of the Continent  (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915), 54.

Jan Went Through the Ice into the Black Water (1918)

Howard R. Garis,  The Curlytops Snowed In or Grand Fun with Skates and Sleds, Illustration by Julia Greene (New York: Cupples and Leon Company, 1918), 108.

The Snow Has Drifted over Their House till Only a Tiny Mound Appears (1903)

Dallas Lore Sharp, “Mus’Rattin’,” A Watcher in the Woods, Illustration by Bruce Horsfall (New York: The Century Co., 1901), 43.

Then, Wearily and Drearily / Across the Moorland Wild, / Half Numb’d With Frost (Her Pathway Lost) / Paced on the Wilder’d Child (1855)

Jane Krewdsen, “Katie Lee: A Scotch Story,” Aunt Jane’s Verses for Children (Philadelphia: Association of Friends for the Diffusion of Religious and Useful Knowledge, 1855), 12.

In the Sketch Below, the Different Degrees of Distance Have Been Well Expressed (1905)

Hugo B. Froelich and Bonnie E. Snow, “The World in White,” Text Books of Art Education, Book VI (New York: The Prang Educational Company, 1905), 8.

There Is Time Enough for the Children to Learn of the Dreadful Privations and Hardships of the Pitiless North (1913)

Lillian Porter, “Eskimos Again,” Primary Education 21 (January 1913): 27.

An Abenaki Indian of St. Francis Spearing the Muskrat (1875)

“An Abenaki Indian of St. Francis Spearing the Muskrat,” Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours 17  (1875),  416.

At the Rate You Are Going On, You May Get There in a Year and a Half from Now (1868)

Helen C. Week, “Snow Drift,” The Ainslee Stories, Illustration by W.L. Champney and S.L. Smith (New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1868), 190.

Italian Mountain Troops Roped Together for a Steep and Dangerous Ascent in the Snowy Alps of the Trentino (1916)

“Mountain Warfare: A Strange Phase of the Great War—How Armies Battle Amid Alpine Snows,” Muncie’s Magazine 57 ( May 1916): 664.

Lad Galloped Back to the Ravine Lip and Stood There, Sniffing the Icy Air and Growling Deep in His Throat (1921)

Albert Payson Terhhune, “The Tracker: Lad Helps a Foe,” Illustration by Frank Stick, The Ladies’ Home Journal 38 (December 1921): 30.

They Were as Full of Life and Spirits as if There No Such Thing as Suffering in the World (1894)

M.E. Braddon, The Christmas Hirelings, Illustrated by F.H. Townsend (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, & Kent, 1894), 215.

He Pulled the Horses Round so That the Second Sleigh Was Compelled to Pull Up (1899)

Reginald Wray, “On Secret Service,” Illustration by J. Finnemore, The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine 2 (February to July 1899): 305.

We Must Have Some Little Shining Bits of Ice to Make the Brightness of Her Eyes (1864)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Snow Image: A Childish Miracle, Illustration by Marcus Waterman (New York: James Gregory, 1864), frontispiece.

At the Curling Rink (1877)

Irwin Russell, “On the Ice,” St. Nicholas: A Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls 4 (March 1877): 317.

All Along the Route the Snow-Plows May Be Seen Turned up Against the Rocks, Ready to Be Used During the Winter to Clear and Level the Roads (1862)

“A Flying Trip Through Norway,”  Harper’s Magazine 25 (August 1862): 292.

The Blocks Are Molded in a Wooden Form and Then Laid in a Mortar of Wet Snow, Which, When Frozen, Unites the Building into One Solid Mass (1922)

“Making Snow Building Blocks,” Popular Mechanics Magazine 37 (February 1922): 307.

Sailing on Skates (1883)

“Sailing on Skates,” Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 34 (February –July 1883): 128.

To Drill the Youthful Malefactors Is One of the Privileges of the Cadet “Corporal on Duty” (1910)

William Elliott Cairnes, “The Training of Our Officers,” The Pall Mall Magazine 24 ( May to August 1901): 232.

He Was Quite Content to Lie in the Shelter of the Policeman’s Burly Arm (1904)

Hammer S. Roundtree and S.H. Hamer. Cheepy the Chicken: Being an Account of Some of His Most Wonderful Doings, (London: Cassell and Company, 1904).

This Is Not Montana or Canada but Much Maligned New Jersey. One Soon Becomes Accustomed to the Cold and in the Dead of Winter Learns Not to Shrink from His Morning Bath Provided There Is Plenty of Hot Water and There Is Nothing More Healthful Than Sleeping in the Open on Crisp Clear Winter Nights (1908)

Mrs. Knox Taylor. “A Winter Camp in New Jersey,” Photograph by C. Le Boutillier and J. Mack, Country Life 13 (January 1908): 316.

Our Lives Were in the Hand of God. On the 8th We Tasted the Dogs’ Flesh for the First Time (1901)

“The Voyage of the Polar Star: ‘Nearest the Pole.’ Commander Cagni’s Own Account of His Hazardous Journey,” The Pall Mall Magazine 24 ( May to August 1901): 413.

There He Stands, Forlorn and Desolate! A Poor, Half-Starved, Wretched Outcast Weathering the Pitiless Storm, and Feeding upon Scattered Straws and Sticks, That His Barbarian Owner May the More Undisturbed Lounge at His Ease and Doze over the Warm Crackling Fire on His Hearth (1862)

“Abuses of Horses—No. 3,” The Wisconsin Farmer 14 (January 1, 1862): 8.

Sinners May Hope (1856)

“The Dead,” Home Magazine 7 (January 1856): 49.

A Man Frozen to the Cross-Tree of a Chicago Vessel (1872)

The Illustrated Police News 11 (January 4, 1872): 4.

Often They Tried to Tell Him the Importance of the Smoke-Wreath in the Rear, but He Could Not Comprehend and Grew Suspicious of Them (1904)

Jack London, “The One Thousand Dozen,” The Windsor Magazine 20 (June –November 1904): 181.

The Grand Duke Alexis Snow-Balled at St. Louis by Mischevious Juveniles (1872)

The Illustrated Police News 11 (January 18, 1872): 5.

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1893)

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. “The Days of Auld Lang Syne” (1893) New York Public Library Digital Collections.