Black-and-white photograph with parts of two train carriages visible, Pullman sleeping cars. Snow-covered mountains in background, piles of snow in foreground. People from urban areas further south, presumably Boston, are gathering outside in their winter coats. Some suitcases and skies are present.

“Skiers arriving early in the morning with the weekend ‘ski-meister.’ North Conway, New Hampshire, center of the Eastern Slopes ski territory,” 1940, by Marion Post Walcott.

Source: Farm Security Administration Photographs, New York Public Library Digital Collections, image ID 58859979.