"Going to an empty square on a strange map of a wild and distant land."  From Tom Penny by Tony German, 1977.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

A map by George W. Hood, from The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells, 1912.

From Druidism: The Ancient Faith of Britain by Dudley Wright, 1924.

From Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1921.

From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.

From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.

From Our Little Egyptian Cousin, written and illustrated by Blanche McManus, 1908.

From Goucher College's 1928 yearbook.

From Adventure, 1927.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

From Medieval Days and Ways by Gertrude Hartman, 1937.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

From Improvement Era, 1951.

(Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan Caws-Elwitt)  A map of the Arctic Ocean or the White Sea.  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.  An entire atlas of seemingly blanks maps: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

Two hidden items, the names of which are placed together to form a word, will give this man's name.  From The Duluth Herald, 1903.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.

From Adventure, 1927.

From Western State Normal School's 1926 yearbook.