Days Gone By

Richard Throssel, Old wickiup frame in snow - old Crow sweat lodge, ca. 1908.

Source: History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library

Alfred Eisenstaedt, Two Ainu hunters armed with bow and ancient musket, hunting in melting spring snow, Shiraoi, Japan, 1946.

Two members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.) hitching sled dogs into their harness before going on patrol, 1957.

Source: Library and Archives Canada

A bobsled team from Davos, Switzerland, ca. 1910.

John Boyd, Couple snowshoeing, Toronto, Canada, 1907.

Source: Archives of Ontario

Dmitri Kessel, People leaving the church and walking through the slushy snow, France, March 1952.

The lion statues at the New York Public Library during a snowstorm, Manhattan, December 1948.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration

Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., Sweet Home, Yonkers, New York, 1895.

Geller, Russia, soldier, horse in winter. Soldier with machine-pistol and white winter coat with a cart horse in snow-covered landscape, 1941.

Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

A Finnish lotta, a member of the Lotta Svard women’s organisation, watching the skies for Soviet aircraft in Northern Finland, January 1940.

Source: Finnish Army Pictures