INSTRUCTIONS: Click on the image to turn night into day in Long Branch, N.J.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to adjust the banner for unknown reasons.

Q: "I wonder if the rabbit visits anyone in Cal?"

A: Not without a license: "It is illegal in California for anyone to possess eggs ... without a license" (California Farmer, Vol. 274), possibly because "The urge to find and possess eggs has driven men to distant and dangerous places" (Joseph Kastner, A World of Watchers).

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to lower the sun.

"Uneedn't" is a rare word, but it appeared on several vintage postcards.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to tint the Cavendish Hotel, Eastbourne, Sussex, 1866.

Here's an "actual reproduction" of the skyscraper sandwich.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to repaint the scene.

"Dancey's [to this very day] a fairy word for gay."  Date uncertain.  Scan courtesy of Aimée Wheaton.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to bring on the night.

Here's a mollycoddle from 1909.

Here's a precursor to Jonathan Lethem's As She Climbed Across the Table (1997), from 1911.

Here's a precursor to Pez candy dispensers, from 1907.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to change the perspective.

The phrase "jack-o'-lanterns in hell" delivers just one Google result.  (Scan courtesy of David Slack.)

"Something wrong with the painter," from 1910.

A tiny island floats above the Maple Lake Motel.

"It is no crime to kiss in Canada."  Indeed, "The spirit of Canada is progressive still" (Royal Bank of Canada Monthly Letter, Volume 58).

"Beware!  Friday the 13th --- Your Ace Jinx Chaser Will Protect You."  From 1937.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the tinted version.