You know, when you don’t have to shovel it, deal with delays, or navigate treacherous roads and icy sidewalks, snow is beautiful. I’m going to leave you with this montage of snowy scenes, and wish you the best of winter breaks….see you next year!
Campus Scenes
University Center in snow, January 1977. UA 078-00101, Historic University PhotographsUnidentified students playing in the snow, no date. UA 078-17736, Historic University PhotographsSnow covered tree, somewhere on campus, no date. UA 078-17845, Historic University Photographs
Historic New Harmony
David Dale Owen geological laboratory in New Harmony, Indiana, December 1976. UA 058-04736, Historic New Harmony Slide CollectionGates to Maple Hill Cemetery, covered in snow, January 1977. UA 058-10355, Historic New Harmony Slide Collection
In the Past
Boy and man shoveling snow in front of a house in Mt. Vernon, IN, January 1956. MSS 022-0266, the John Donne Collection“Courier girls” Mary Guenther, Clara Smith and Marie Horton Woods of the editorial staff, Mrs. Rex Johnson and Valeria Theel of the business staff of the Evansville Courier (newspsper), standing in snow on 200 block of Main St., near intersection with SE 2nd St. This was during the 1937 flood, which was in late January and early February of that year, so there was also a lot of snow as well as flooding (flooding not seen here). MSS 272-0738, the Great Flood of 1937 CollectionHorses pulling heavily laden wagons on a snow-covered residential street in Evansville, IN, in 1895. MSS 264-2761, the Thomas Mueller CollectionYoung boy sliding down a snow-covered hill, on his feet in Evansville, IN, probably in the downtown riverfront area, 1895. MSS 264-2762, the Thomas Mueller Collection
Shaker Communities
Center barn in snow in Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village in Columbia County, NY. The village was founded in 1787, although this photograph was taken November 23, 2000. CS 662-012sc-0185, the Dan Janzen Collection/Mt. LebanonWinter sunrise over the East Family Sisters’ Shop, Pleasant Hill Shaker Village in Harrodsburg, KY. The Pleasant Hill community was founded in 1805, with this building built in 1855. This photograph was taken March 15, 1993. CS 662-016sc-0182, the Dan Janzen Collection/Pleasant HillTanyard shop in Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg, KY. The Pleasant Hill community was founded in 1805, with this building built in 1824. This photograph was taken January 13, 1996 . CS 662-016sc-0329, the Dan Janzen Collection/Pleasant Hill
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