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Archive: December 2011 (2 Posts)

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Winter’s Arrival

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

We mark winter’s imminent arrival with a cover illustration by Will Hammell for a January 1914 issue of Puck. In the illustration, a cluster of snow-buntings appears to gambol in the wind-blown snow, perhaps inviting the warmly bundled woman to join them in embracing the season. Also known as snowbirds or snowflakes, snow-buntings brave even …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Amundsen Arrives at South Pole

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

One hundred years ago, on December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen and four members of his Norwegian expedition team arrived at the South Pole. Originally, Amundsen intended to be the first to reach the North Pole, but upon learning that Robert Peary and Frederick Cook had already achieved the feat, he made a historic change of …