Generations ago, it was not so easy to function during the winter. Survival was anything but guaranteed. People had to take extreme measures just to get through the cold and snow for months out of the year.
A set of vintage photos from simpleinsomnia that shows what life looked like during winter in the past.
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| Women hanging laundry in the snow, Feb. 1957 |
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| Boy riding a sled down a hill |
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| Car buried in snow |
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| Child playing in the snow on a tricycle |
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| Child playing in the snow |
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| Children in the snow playing with snow balls, Mt. Love Trail, March 16, 1919 |
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| Children sledding on a snowy road, Kalispell, Montana |
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| Crowd ice skating |
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| Dog sled being pulled by Siberian huskies |
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| Dog sled mail train in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, circa 1920s |
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| Family sledding down a snowy hill |
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| Father and daughter pose on a street |
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| Kids sledding down a snowy street |
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| Little boy and his pet dog in the snow |
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| Little boy looking at a well-dressed snowman |
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| Little boy stands next to a snowman and shovel |
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| Man and his dog shoveling snow |
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| Man performing a jump on skiis |
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| Man sits in a snow-filled car |
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| Man skiing in a snowy Swiss town, Grindelwald, 1910 |
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| Men skiing in front of a building covered in icicles |
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| Men with a tall snowman |
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| Native Mongolians stand in front of a yurt |
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| On the back read “Just a couple o' no. P.A. workers. Merry Christmas, Carol and Ruth. Dec. 18, 1937” |
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| People relaxing in a snow drift |
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| Two boys playing in the snow |
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| Two children in a box in the snow, Nov. 20, 1921 |
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| Two women with their dog sled in Nome, Alaska, circa 1917 |
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| Winter street scene in Rochester, Minnesota - the Mayo Clinic |
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| Young woman poses with a snowman, February 1950 |