From The Forester yearbook of Lake Forest University, 1911.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Echoes from the Rocky Mountains by John Wesley Clampitt, 1889.

Here's a vintage transsexual sheet ghost.  "A Chicago detective seized a male ghost and found a woman."  From Pearson's, 1908.

Sir Galahad opens the tomb.  From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 1902.

The only way the citizenry can get into the White House is as the vague, helpless ghost of a generalization.  We learn this in The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to How a Hundred Million People (Who are Supposed in a Vague, Helpless Way to Haunt the White House) Can Make Themselves Felt with a President, How They Can Back Him Up, Express Themselves to Him, be Expressed by Him, and Get What They Want by Gerald Stanley Lee, 1920.

Here's a precursor to the inflatable dancing tube figures used for advertising.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1873.

From The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1899.

Here's how grandfather clocks materialize, from King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908.

From The Adventures of Peterkin by Gilly Bear and illustrated by Helen E. Ohrenschall, 1916.

From Poems by Samuel Rogers, 1834.

 Here's the "ghost of the past [outhouse]" from The Ladies' Home Journal, 1948.

From Uncle Daniel's Story of "Tom" Anderson and Twenty Great Battles by John McElroy, 1886.

"Risen from the grave."  From Charley Wag, the New Jack Sheppard, 1861.

This "Cobweb Ghost" is an ancestor of the Haunted Mansion's attic bride.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1876.  (We're delighted to have contributed this item to this post over at Long Forgotten Haunted Mansion.)

Here's the science behind why one's "phantom limb" always gets wet in a rain shower.  From El Mundo Físico by A. Guillemin, 1882.

Crow ghosts from Wayside Poems for Old and Young by ELmer Van Slyke, 1902.

From Platform Echoes by John Gough, 1890.

From Luttrell of Arran by Charles James Lever and illustrated by "Phiz," 1873.