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From The Cat by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 1895.


From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).


"The Brachycephalic Bohunkus."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.


From the Fort Wayne Sentinel, 1914.


From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 1895.


From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.


"The principal trouble with the easy-going fellow is that it's so hard to get him started."  From Kodak Magazine, 1920.


It's true that 90s fashion is anyone's guess.  By Erica Scholly for Fisher Junior College's 1989 yearbook.


"Voices of the silences."  From Fate Magazine, 1953.


From Ohio Northern University's 1918 yearbook.


From Collier's, 1907.


"Near the mystic hour of five."  From Ontario Agricultural College's 1921 yearbook.


This is sports coverage we can relate to.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.


From A Castle in the Air by Hugh Ewing, 1888.


From Ohio State University's 1968 yearbook.


From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.


It all began in 1856 and ended in 1914.  From Queens College's 1914 yearbook.


From Astounding, 1936.


From Investigating School Mathematics by O'Daffer & Eicholz, 1973.


From Washington University (Saint Louis)'s 1927 yearbook.

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