This picture is of the Children's Blizzard of 1888. This picture was taken on March 3ed, and is looking toward the New York City Hall Building. In the picture shown to the left, very few people are walking the streets, and snow and a bridge of ice covered the landscape.
This picture is the map of the higher regions of snow, and the lower, the more inward you get, the less snow there is, but outward, snow comes to be 29.5 Etc. I have also noted that the snow took position like a hill, from the base up was the map of the snow on the ice, it looks like a sighting from the top. Finally, there is the time at the bottom, the storm seeing as it lasted until January 13th, was not yet as terrifying as it would soon become.
The Blizzard itself devoured all material objects in it's wrath as temperatures dropped. Some unlucky houses where enveloped in snow, even three-story houses where suspended in it's wake. Everything outside was coated in many layers of snow within minutes of the huge storms arrival. Within the day that the calamity occured, the snow drifts where approximately 40/50 foot high in height.