Image Description from historic lecture booklet: “Of the three great classes referred to above, the most widely known is the alpine type, which derives its name from the mountains of central Europe, where it was first studied. Alpine glaciers occur about high peak and on the summits and flanks of mountain ranges in many parts of the world, but reach their most perfect development in temperate regions. The Himalayas, the Alps, the mountains of Scandinavia, the Southern Alps of New Zealand, the Cordilleras, etc., furnish well-known examples. Glaciers of this type originate as a rule in amphitheaters and cirques, partially surrounded by lofty peaks and overshadowing precipices, and flow through rugged valleys leading from them as winding ice rivers which carry the excess of snow falling on the mountains into the lower regions, where a higher mean annual temperature causes it to melt. They are essentially streams of ice, formed usually by the union of many branches, and end abruptly when the drainage changes from a solid to a liquid form.”

1915

Artist: Unknown artist
Creation Date: c. 1875

This photograph of children playing and sledding in the snow was on the cover of the January 1919 Norwester magazine. On page 18 of the issue is an article titled “Snow” by George S. Burba, the editor of the Columbus Dispatch. In the article he discusses how snow is formed and implores readers to enjoy it. He presents an impassioned description of the snow as a “wavy, warpy garment of purity to shut out the North Wind, the biting tongue that would lap up the tender, growing plants of the earth.”