STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The “Great Blizzard of 1947″ was a record-breaking snowfall that began on Christmas without prediction and brought the northeastern United States to a standstill.

That 1947 snowfall held the record until the Blizzard of 2006 left behind an accumulation of 26.9 inches. Trains out of New York City were running 12 hours behind schedule.

Here, we remember the Great Blizzard of 1947 with some photos that ran in LIFE, and many others that were never published in the magazine. As LIFE put it to its readers in its Jan. 5, 1948, issue: ...

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 Daily… ...

The Blizzard of 1947 – which blanketed New Jersey 70 years ago this December – was the post-Christmas gift that kept on giving in the form of snow, snow and more snow.

On this date in 1947, 60 years ago, a blizzard dropped some 26 inches of snow on Staten Island.It was the most significant snowfall the city had seen since 1888, when 21 inches fell, and the '47 ...

The reel claims the 1947 blizzard was the "greatest storm in recorded inches" and surpassed the Blizzard of 1888 by "five frosty inches"; I'm not totally sure that was actually the case, though.

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 blizzard of 1947 killed 77 people in New York City. 2. JANUARY 2016. Forecasts predicting a crippling blizzard warned New Yorkers nearly a week in advance before the storm finally dumped a ...

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 ...