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Free to Use and Reuse: Winter
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Winter scenes from cold-weather and warm-weather locations fill this set of images from the 1600s to the present. Unless otherwise noted, the images are from the Prints & Photographs Division.
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[Festive snowmen at the Cornerstone Sonoma shopping complex in Sonoma County, California. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2012.](/resource/highsm.23612/)
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["Caffetiere de diverses formes." Illustration in Le bon usage du thé, du caffé et du chocolat, by Nicolas de Blegny, 1687, p. 155. (Rare Book Division)](/resource/cph.3b36919/)
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[Kameyama, TĹŤkaidĹŤ Japan. Color woodcut by AndĹŤ Hiroshige, between 1833 and 1836.](/resource/jpd.02108/)
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[Girl with poinsettia. Print published by the Union Pacific Tea Co., 1908.](/resource/ppmsca.59581/)
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* [](/resource/cph.3g05351/)
["Poinsettia pulcherrima." Illustration by Samuel Holden in: Paxton's Magazine of Botany. London : W.S. Orr, 1838, v. 4, opp. p. 97. (General Collections)](/resource/cph.3g05351/)
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[North Shore beach, Oahu, Hawaii. Photo by Carol Highsmith, December, 2005.](/resource/highsm.04487/)
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* [](/resource/hec.41909/)
[Ice skating at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1922.](/resource/hec.41909/)
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* [](/resource/ppmsca.46126/)
["In Winter's Embrace." Pillow cover, 1907.](/resource/ppmsca.46126/)
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* [](/resource/ppmsca.43425/)
["Winter." Poster by Penrhyn Stanlaws, 1907](/resource/ppmsca.43425/)
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[Dog sled arriving in Knik Alaska and carrying gold from Iditarod. January 12, 1912.](/resource/ppmsc.01613/)
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[Christmas raffle in the streets of Cidra. The kid and chicken are the prizes. Puerto Rico. Photo by Edwin Rosskam, 1937.](/resource/fsa.8b30654/)
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* [](/resource/ppmsc.02954/)
[Theater Square, ice hill for 1999 New Year's celebration, Arkhangelsk, Russia. Photo by William C. Brumfield, 1998.](/resource/ppmsc.02954/)
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* [](/resource/cph.3a27839/)
[Snow Plow of the Central Pacific R.R. Company, near Cisco, California. Photo by Lawrence & Houseworth, 1866.](/resource/cph.3a27839/)
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["Niagara in Winter." Print by Edward Burrill and Murdock Bros., 1874.](/resource/pga.00420/)
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[A spectacular fireworks show caps off the "Warmth of Winter" exhibition at the annual Winter Carnival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Photoby Carol M. Highsmith, February 2016.](/resource/highsm.36391/)
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["Winter." Print by Joseph Morviller and L. Prang & Co., 1869.](/resource/pga.12141/)
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["The Snow Shoe Maker." Photo by Gordons, early 1900s.](/resource/ppmsc.02382/)
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["Midwinter in the Pyrenees–Skiing." Stereograph by Underwood & Underwood, 1915.](/resource/stereo.1s24143/)
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* [](/resource/cph.3g11942/)
["Season's Best Way to Travel. Pennsylvania Railroad." Poster, around 1955.](/resource/cph.3g11942/)
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["World peace with liberty and prosperity–1919. Happy New Year." World War I poster, 1918.](/resource/cph.3g10654/)
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["Century: Midwinter Fiction Number." Poster around 1900.](/resource/ppmsca.42018/)
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* [](/resource/pga.03005/)
["Winter Days." Published by Gaylord Watson and Tenney & Weaver, 1881](/resource/pga.03005/)
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[Soup-house for ice-cutters. Photo by Bain News Service, 1910s.](/resource/ggbain.11585/)
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* [](/resource/ppmsca.43507/)
["The Black Cat, December." Magazine poster, around 1900.](/resource/ppmsca.43507/)
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* [](/resource/cph.3f05186/)
["January--A year of good reading ahead." Poster for the W.P.A. Library Project in Illinois, 1936-1941.](/resource/cph.3f05186/)
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[Japanese winter bathers. Photo by Bain News Service, 1926 Feb. 19.](/resource/ggbain.38992/)
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* [](/resource/ppmsc.02406/)
[Reindeer, sleds and drivers. Photo, early 1900s.](/resource/ppmsc.02406/)
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* [](/resource/pga.10158/)
["Winter sports - Pickerel Fishing." Print by Currier & Ives, 1872.](/resource/pga.10158/)
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[Ice harvesting, sawing. Photo by Detroit Publishing Co., 1900 - 1910.](/resource/det.4a16343/)
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[Ice sailing. Photo by Bain News Service, 1910-1915.](/resource/ggbain.10039/)
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[U.S. Weather Bureau. Snow gauge. Photo by National Photo Co., 1909-1920.](/resource/npcc.20071/)
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["Modern Fashions. Fall & Winter." By Rude & Son, 1905.](/resource/ppmsca.45146/)
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["Gentlewomen's Fashions, Autumn and Winter." By Croonborg Sartorial Co., 1911.](/resource/ppmsca.45209/)
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[Sporting Look, Florida. Photo by Toni Frissell, December 1954.](/resource/tofr.02609/)
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[Sporting Look, Florida. Photo by Toni Frissell, December 1954.](/resource/tofr.02604/)
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[Vines in winter. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, around 2000.](/resource/highsm.16134/)
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[Lighting the thirteen-foot-tall menorah during the annual community Chanukah celebration in Oklahoma City. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, 2020.](/resource/highsm.66311/)
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* [](/resource/cph.3c13695/)
["Santa Claus." Photo copyrighted in 1895.](/resource/cph.3c13695/)
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* [](/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_13737/)
[Montreal Winter Carnival, February. By A. Major, 1884.](/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_13737/)
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[Advertisement for Star Toboggans. Print by Phoenix Litho, 1886.](/resource/cph.3g03038/)
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