The longest tournament chess game took 20 hours and 15 minutes, but we know that one game of chess can actually last a lifetime, as we see in A Boyar of the Terrible by Frederick J. Whishaw, 1896.  The caption reads, "He suddenly died while playing at chess."  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.

Here's a precursor to Singin' in the Rain.  The caption reads, "The desolate, black day touched him no more than a summer shadow touches a sunlit sea, for his whole soul was afire with the golden blaze of his song."  From Munsey's Magazine (1920).

An illustration from A Ramble Round the Globe by Baron Dewar (1894).  The caption reads: "A gentleman in red."  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1912.