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Adobe Days
Sarah Bixby Smith
CLM-SNOW-001 · VERIFIED
The smell of snow in a 1926 memoir
In her 1926 memoir Adobe Days, Sarah Bixby Smith names the smell of snow in the air among the odours she learned on childhood visits to Maine, together with pine trees in winter, a woodshed and barn and a long-lived-in old house.
A memoir published in 1926 recalling the author's childhood; it records her memory, not a measurement, and does not say what the smell is.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the text of the cited page or chapter of the digitised source, fetched from the named service, and an editor read that whole text against every part of the claim. The passage is cited by its locator; SmellBook does not reproduce the passage. Source text from Wikisource (proofread transcription).
- Adobe Days, p. 35 Printed page 35 is image 41 of the digitised book.
Time described: 1926. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes. Checked 2026-10-05.
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Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:the-smell-of-snow-in-a-1926-memoir · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.