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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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    ["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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    [Ice skating at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Photo by Harris & Ewing, 1922.](/resource/hec.41909/)

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    ["In Winter's Embrace." Pillow cover, 1907.](/resource/ppmsca.46126/)

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    ["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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    [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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    [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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    ["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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    ["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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    ["The Black Cat, December." Magazine poster, around 1900.](/resource/ppmsca.43507/)

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    ["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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    [Reindeer, sleds and drivers. Photo, early 1900s.](/resource/ppmsc.02406/)

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    ["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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    ["Santa Claus." Photo copyrighted in 1895.](/resource/cph.3c13695/)

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    [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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