Before the laptop computer, there was the laptop typewriter.  From Emerson's 1977 yearbook.

From St. Procopius' 1965 yearbook.

West Chester's 1975 yearbook.   See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.

"And there you are!"  From Life, 1923.

From Kent State's 1982 yearbook.

From Taylor's Gem yearbook, 1958.

A caution to writers: a celestial globe is like spell-checking software, in that once you grow accustomed to having it, dependency grows.  A celestial globe is one of the many tools we use for writing our lesser-known works of esoterica. 

From Desoto's 1981 yearbook.

Feel better soon.

From Harper's (1902).

"The most doleful figure of them all."  From The Secret of the Marionettes by Ernest De Lancey, 1892.

"'Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.' —Lewis Mumford." 

From Colorado College's yearbook of 1986.

A strange trend in old yearbooks: men with unexpected lower halves.  Top photo: Maryland's 1989 yearbook.  Bottom photo: Virginia Commonwealth University's 1990 yearbook.

"Punchinello" by George Bellows, 1922.

At first glance, we thought his top hat was an hourglass.  From Shut, 1907.

Chocolate pie!  From The Nation's Health, 1921.

From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.

Looks like he has a black eye and scabs on his knuckles, but proper grooming apparently comes before bandages.  From an ad in Lustige Blätter, 1905.

If you have already looked at this photo, you were likely put into a hypnotic trance by Jerry Posner from across the mysteries of time.  From Emerson's 1974 yearbook.

He's still waiting for you to give his book back.  To date, he's been waiting:

From Centenary's 1924 yearbook.

A mysterious disguise from Washington & Lee's 1966 yearbook.