Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

[pepys]

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/snowball-fights/

[duxup]

Here is a snowball fight in film from 1896:

https://youtu.be/AjToVdbPxbw

[roter → duxup]

And the Napoleon snowball fight is in the 1927 film [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napol%C3%A9on_(1927_film)

[rtkaratekid]

The photo of the Princeton students is honestly a little terrifying. It looks like they just had a boxing match.

[globalise83 → rtkaratekid]

The line between snowball fight and iceball fight is a thin one.

[2dvisio → rtkaratekid]

Also difficult to say if they were freshmen or sophomores :)

[celeritascelery]

Did nobody own gloves until the modern age?

[Bayart → celeritascelery]

Before the invention of sewing machines (19th c.), I assume gloves were either quite expensive or very simply made (simple woolen mittens).

[z3t4 → celeritascelery]

The temperature needed to make snow balls is relative high (around 0 degrees Celsius) if you are used to -15C, and snow-ball-war is a physical activity which will make you warm. And you are more efficient without gloves.

[mc32 → z3t4]

Evenso fingers get pretty cold quite quickly. I would have thought they'd have at least knitted mittens.

[duxup → mc32]

Look man that guy over there has a snow ball and is ready to use it… we don’t have time to worry about cold fingers!

[duxup → celeritascelery]

Not sure about the availability of gloves with five fingers. If you’re going to make a snowball you want to have your fingers free.

[divbzero]

> ”A Republican--Democratic snow battle at the Capitol. Page Boys”, 1923

Maybe that’s how congressional leaders should resolve their differences.