Sad: compare the artist's rendering of Pyramid Cube University to what got built.  Not only is the pyramid not on top, but even the five-spot dice design got downgraded to four-spots.  From The Sage's Key to Character At Sight by Frank Earl Ormsby, 1919.

A before-and-after from Johns Hopkins' 1895 yearbook.

From Millikin's 1932 yearbook.

From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.

From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see if the bald are happier. From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.

From Judge's Library, 1891.

A poor scan from Harper's Young People, 1888

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal if you guessed correctly what happens next. From Le Rire, 1899.

From the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1872.

Here's a 19th century ad scanned by the Boston Public Library.

From the Southern California Academy of Sciences Bulletin, 1979.