Here are revealed the roots of introversion and extroversion, from the Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the 21st Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Vol. 3, 1875.

"Up he went, spinning like a top."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

"The fire dogs," from Un-natural History Not Taught in Bored Schools by James Freyberg, 1883.

This sort of objectification is going on to this very day.  The caption reads, "My horse started from an object upon the ground."  From Pelham by Baron Lytton, 1883.

From The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

From Mystères du Palais de l'Élysée by Jules Beaujoint, 1888.

"What recked she at the storm, or that the dull November day was passing into darkness?" from Birkheda Vicarage by Johanna Christina Augusta von Hofsten, 1874.

Here is revealed a long-held secret of typographers: exactly where the head and feet of an H are.  From Mistura Curiosa by James Archibald Sidey, 1886.

Here's a precursor to Cat People.  From "Turning Into Cats" by Frances Lee, St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.  The caption reads, "The minister and his son."

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 Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1904.

We can't make out many of the words on this diagram from Forecasting Business Conditions (1922), pictured left, but note that it seems descended from the Sami shaman drums of Lapland (right), and may more business diagrams be so inspired.

From Sunlight and Shade by Frederick Barnard, 1883.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, 1873.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1909.

From the Hawkeye yearbook of the State University of Iowa, 1902.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.