From Kladderadatsch, 1936.

"The lunar alps illuminated by the earth."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927 and from Our Earth and Sky by Gerald Craig and Sara Baldwin, 1940.

We speak of "life on earth," yet: "One truth is indeed obvious, that the world is yet by no means inhabited" (The Anti-Jacobin Review, 1821).  This is a precursor to the Devo lyric, "Scientists prove we were never here."

The world is camera shy.  From Wiener Revue, 1946.

"Sectional view of the earth, showing the openings at the poles."  From Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery by John Cleves Symmes, 1820.

The caption mentions "our Earth," though 11 earths are pictured girdling Jupiter.  This predates Schrödinger's theory of the multiverse by a quarter of a century.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.

From Mocca, 1929.

"Mars and the Earth side by side."  From Popular Science Monthly, 1921.

Here's a stack of British coins reaching to the pole star, from English Illustrated, 1897.

"Is the earth still inhabited?  While scientists are wrangling over the question as to whether Mars or Venus is signaling us, it would be well to start an inquiry into whether the earth is inhabited."  From Life, 1920.  We say the same thing about scientists touting artificial intelligence: is there any intelligence on earth to begin with?

By H. T. Webster for the Chicago Daily News, reproduced in Cartoons Magazine, 1918.

From the Technique yearbook of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1895.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

"The world looks on and laughs just the same.  Why?"  From 1897.

"Earth is ahead of schedule in its rotation."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

Here's a precursor to sharing selfies.  From Popular Science Monthly, 1920.

From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1913