Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
2008.1008.1.216Description
A series of 20 scanned black & white snapshots of the blizzard of 1949.
Four photos are of cars covered with snow & drifts against them.
Written on the back in pencil: "Blizzard of 1949.
Good condition. Size 3 1/2 x 5"
Two photos are of snowdrifts almost burying buildings.
Written on the back of one: "Bucking Horse Lodge"
Good condition. Size 3 1/2 x 5"
Eight photos of houses with snow drifted to the eaves of some & around the front of two houses a snow street in town that has been plowed.
Written on the back: "Blizzard of 1949:
Good condition. Size 3 1/2 x 5
One photo of a train engine covered with ice & snow.
Good condition. Size 8 1/2 x 5"
Two photos of people in front of huge drifts of plowed snow. One man stands with one leg in a jeep & one on the ground & a drift is behind him. The other is of two young men, one is Pat Noonan standing on the ground & the drift is way above his head. The other young man is on top of the drift above the man on the ground.
Written on the back: "Blizzard of 1949"
Two photos of a road being plowed with a snow blower & one of a cleared road.
Written on the back: "Blizzard of 1949"
Good condition. Size 3 1/2 x 5"
One photo of a plowed edge of snow with "1948" made with embedded fine branches.
Written on back in pencil: Blizzard of 1949"
Good condition. Size 3 1/2 x 5"
Note: Photos possibly donated by B. A. Fredrick but cannot confirm. An empty envelope was found with his name and blizzard of 1949.Collection
Photograph Collection