--- title: Snow Storm Winter 2015: Celebrate the Snowman with 16 Vintage Photos description: Quick, look at these pictures before they melt canonical: https://time.com/3683387/vintage-snowman-photos/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-27T16:00:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:06:01.614Z article:section: History og:title: Snow Storm Winter 2015: Celebrate the Snowman with 16 Vintage Photos og:description: Quick, look at these pictures before they melt og:url: https://time.com/3683387/vintage-snowman-photos/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f333970aa19c36c/69877c078e06017d41459f3e/snowman1248.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Freude ¸ber den ersten Schnee og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Snow Storm Winter 2015: Celebrate the Snowman with 16 Vintage Photos twitter:description: Quick, look at these pictures before they melt twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f333970aa19c36c/69877c078e06017d41459f3e/snowman1248.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Celebrate Winter With 16 Vintage Snowman Photos by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jan 27, 2015 4:00 PM UTC  Children dance around a snowman on Dec. 10, 1937, in Austria Children dance around a snowman on Dec. 10, 1937, in AustriaAnonym—IMAGNO/Austrian Archives (S) by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jan 27, 2015 4:00 PM UTC Snow on the ground —[ even if it’s not as much as predicted](http://time.com/3683789/blizzard-winter-storm-new-york-new-england/) — means it’s prime time for building a snowman. Let these vintage snowmen provide you with some inspiration.  Children making snowmen, late 1920s or early 1930s. Mark Goebel Photo Gallery—Getty Images  A giant, snowman measuring 17 ft., made by two girls in Aberdeen, Scotland, Jan. 3, 1963. Popperfoto—Popperfoto/Getty Images  A snowman in New York City's Central Park, as John Kennedy Jr. & Caroline Kennedy go sledding Ron Galella—WireImage  A group of young children wrapped up warmly, holding shovels and a broom building snowmen in a snow covered field; Europe circa 1900. The Montifraulo Collection—MONTIFRAULO COLLECTION  Two women help a little girl complete her snowman, circa 1955. Archive Photos—Getty Images ![Harold E. Stassen \[& Family\]](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt842d0a3b818e2af1/69877c060b72e3d9d66dd5a3/snowman1245.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp) Harold E. Stassen (R) building a snowman with his daughter in 1945 Myron Davis—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images  Mary Andrea Arnold in a snowsuit next to a snowman in Chicago on Jan. 17, 1943. Chicago History Museum—Getty Images  A snowman sitting on a park bench in London, circa 1960 John Gay/English Heritage/Arcaid—Corbis  An unusually large snowman on Box Hill in Surrey, England, on Mar. 7, 1937 Fred Morley—Getty Images  A little boy crouching and making a snowman in a park after a snowfall in Milan in the 1950s. Mondadori—Mondadori via Getty Images  A boy sitting between a giant snowman and snowwoman in a street in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, on Jan. 24, 1966 Keystone—Getty Images  Two children making a snowman complete with 'hair' in Finsbury Park, London, circa 1935 Hulton Archive—Getty Images  Children dance around a snowman on Dec. 10, 1937, in Austria Anonym—IMAGNO/Austrian Archives (S)  Two boys making a snowman, circa 1924 Hulton Archive—Getty Images  Children take a photo with their snowman, circa 1930s Keystone-France—Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images  Undated photo of a snowman Marc PAYGNARD—Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3683387/vintage-snowman-photos/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3683387/vintage-snowman-photos/"},"headline":"Celebrate Winter With 16 Vintage Snowman Photos","datePublished":"2015-01-27T16:00:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:06:01.614Z","description":"Quick, look at these pictures before they melt","url":"https://time.com/3683387/vintage-snowman-photos/","keywords":["weather","photography"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f333970aa19c36c/69877c078e06017d41459f3e/snowman1248.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Photo","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-photo/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0f333970aa19c36c/69877c078e06017d41459f3e/snowman1248.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Freude ¸ber den ersten Schnee","caption":"Freude ¸ber den ersten Schnee","creditText":"Anonym—IMAGNO/Austrian Archives (S)","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3683387/vintage-snowman-photos/","name":"Celebrate Winter With 16 Vintage Snowman Photos"}}]}] ```