From The Oxford Thackeray.

From Chicago By Day and Night by Harold Richard Vynne, 1892.

From Punch magazine, 1866.

From the University of Maryland's Bones, Molars and Briefs, 1904.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's a precursor to the "dancing pigs" of computer security: "Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time" (Gary McGraw and Edward Felten, Securing Java, 1999).  From North Adams Normal School's Normalogue yearbook, 1914.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's U and I yearbook, 1921.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Here's a funnier way to spell "jokes," from the Normal Offering yearbook of the State Norman School of Bridewater, Mass., 1912.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.