Here are an assortment of images depicting snowball fights from the 1400s to the 1900s

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Here are an assortment of images depicting snowball fights from the 1400s to the 1900s - Boing Boing

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[gilgongo]

Japanese women: “We can’t wait to get out there in our bare feet for some snowball action!”

[Kilkrazy]

Yep. I’ve gone out as an adult for snowball fights at different companies over the years. It’s because we don’t often have snow in southern Britain, so it’s special when it happens.

[Shuck]

Or, if you want the full collection of images (with text) and not just the de-contextualized, cropped images on Instagram:

Snowball Fights in Art (1400–1946)

[euansmith]

Thank you for that link.

Blimey, Princeton Boys really snowballed hard.

Australian Soldiers and Arabs Snowballing

[Shuck]

@euansmith

Blimey, Princeton Boys really snowballed hard.

Yeah, that one took me aback. I’m going to guess that either those “snowballs” had a significant percentage of rocks and ice in them, or the snowballs were a prelude to full-on fisticuffs.

[FGD135]

@euansmith

Blimey, Princeton Boys really snowballed hard.

It builds character. Not necessarily a good one, but it builds character.

[Surprise_Puma]

I think the chap sitting on the right is a young Daniel Craig…

[hecep]

@gilgongo

Japanese women: “We can’t wait to get out there in our bare feet for some snowball action!”

In their bare feet. I don’t understand how Tarantino missed that one in Kill Bill.

[hecep]

Interesting – ahem – details in Saltzmann’s Friedensversicherungen.