From Buddha's Crystal and Other Fairy Stories, 1908.

Here's a precursor to TED Talks.  The caption reads, "The living hand on the screen, shown during the course of a lecture delivered by Henry Morton at the Academy of Music, New York, February 3, 1871."  From Morton Memorial by Franklin De Ronde Furman, 1905.

"Discovery of the gigantic head," from Treasury of Travel and Adventure in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, 1865.

From Aldine Second Language Book for Grades Five and Six, 1917.

Here's a precursor to shadow puppetry, from The Art of Projecting by Amos Emerson Dolbear, 1877.

An illustration from an 1881 issue of Little Wide Awake magazine.

An illustration from an 1885 issue of Little Wide Awake magazine.

From our former outpost at Twitter:

An illustration from Other Stories by E. H. Knatchbull Hugessen (1880).

A surrealist illustration from a 1906 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "I saw the shadow of an enormous foot and felt a rush of air."

An illustration from a 1920 issue of Life magazine.

Four months before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, we find this illustration in Punch:

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "We all know how corrupt and wicked city folks are."

"Despair": an illustration from a 1901 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

An illustration from an 1895 issue of English Illustrated magazine.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Lady Wondershoot, the village tyrant, inspected the phenomenon narrowly."

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption simply reads: "Science."