Lake Michigan Sprouted Incredible Ice Formation In 1910

In the above image, George Malone stands in front of an incredible ice formation on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee in 1910.

Winter brings all kinds of interesting phenomenon to the lakes, from ice caves to ice volcanoes and ice boulders. The latter was noted at least as far back as the early 20th century when E.C. Case wrote of a mile of shoreline covered “almost entirely (with) large snowballs such as are formed by children rolling the damp snow until it grows into a ball by accretion.”

Amateur photographer Herman Taylor captured the image above. Taylor lived in Bay View, near where this photograph was taken in the early 20th century.

Taylor experimented with many different subjects and formats over his lifetime, including difficult snow and ice scenes — rare for the time — like this one of Malone.