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Today — October 6, 2025 (permalink)



From Wee Wisdom, 1930.


A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.


Here's today's frog riding a lizard.  From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.


From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.


From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.


From Brownie and His Friends by Gates & Karabin, 1940.


From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.


Ice crystals avoid one another while growing (middle photo).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.


From Oberlin College's 1928 yearbook


From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.


From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1968 yearbook.


From India, A Country Study, edited by Heitzman and Worden, 1996.


"He called her 'Pretty Monkey.'"  From Snappy Stories, 1922.


From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.




From Chowan College's 1914 yearbook.


From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.


From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.


From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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