Recalling the historic blizzard of 1947 with photos that ran in LIFE, and many other pictures that were never published in the magazine ...

KENILWORTH — Following a snowfall on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 1947, Kenilworth residents were enjoying a rare white Christmas. No one, not even the weather man., anticipated just how very white it ...

On December 26, 1947, snowflakes began their descent unexpectedly and within the next 24 hours the city was covered by 26.4 inches of white mounds ...

Associated Press file photoNew Yorkers dig out from the blizzard of 1947. Today is Wednesday, Dec. 26. There are five days left in the year. On this date in 1947, 60 years ago, a blizzard dropped ...

Unlike in 1947, Milwaukee managed to dig itself out in a few days. Four people died in southern Wisconsin as a result of the 2011 Groundhog Day blizzard, three of them shoveling- or snowblower ...

On Dec. 26, 1947, New York City woke up to a record-breaking snowstorm that dumped over 22 inches of snow in less than 24 hours. Revisit what was called The Great Blizzard of 1947 in New York ...

December marks the 70th anniversary of the Blizzard of 1947, a 26-inch post-Christmas snowstorm that took New Jersey and the northeast by surprise.

For generations of Milwaukeeans, it was just "the blizzard." A couple of inches of light, fluffy snow fell on the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1947. The snow stopped after a couple of hours. Then ...

It's still going strong further north, though, with towns in Massachusetts measuring up to 26 inches — which, interestingly, sounds strikingly similar to the Blizzard of 1947.

A normally crowded Times Square was empty with only a few people who braved the snow during the blizzard of 1947 on Dec. 27. The blizzard dropped 26.4 inches of snow in Central Park, paralyzing ...

The 1947 storm dropped roughly 5 inches more on New York City than the 21 recorded in 1888. The total remained the highest the city had seen through the Blizzard of 1996.