"How the spirits untie Jacoby."  From Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap Books by Hardin J. Burlingame, 1891.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.

Cavendish Morton's tranformation into Falstaff.  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

"Grotesque German design makes auto like whale."  From Popular Mechanics, 1920 (top) and 1914 (bottom).

"The handwriting reads, "I don't remember.  64 years ago.  I don't want it back.  Throw it out."  From 1907.  One is reminded of this spirit communication in which the spirit doesn't remember its time on earth.

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"We might say a painting is a world; a photograph is of the world" (Stanley Cavell, Philosophy's Recounting of the Ordinary, 1999).

Here's a relief outside Mount Edgcumbe House, Cornwall.

"Clothed in 'death costume' and preaching as 'a voice from the dead.'"  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

Today there are warning signs saying not to stand on the top.  But in the good old days ... what a time was to be had!  Photo courtesy of the AOK Library.

"His calm bearing suggests both ignorance of what looms behind him and serene awareness of his surroundings" (Esther J. Leong, Spaces and Time in Chinese Landscape Painting of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, 1970).  Photo courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

Jean Genet suggested that the sun resists the moon's efforts to muddle, thwart, and counteract the precise measurement of days.  Genet says that the sun cleanses time while the moon makes it elastic and immeasurable.  Here's another way to cleanse time, from Mocca, 1936.

Many are skeptical of "spirit photography," but here is what we know: (1) I took a photo of something "then," (2) linear time is an illusion, (3) you're seeing me take that photo "now," (4) there is a oneness.  Thank you for smiling.

You've heard that it's possible to toot your own horn without blowing it.  It's true, and even a scarecrow can do it.  From Mocca, 1936. 

Before bad Photoshopping, folks pasted in crying babies whose heads are impossibly smaller than kittens'.  But as a general rule, a basket of kittens does go with just about any photo, in the proper proportion, of course.  From Die Bühne, 1926.

"The imaginary horse isn't real, but your idea of it is real" (Marietta McCarty, Little Big Minds, 2006).  Photo as scanned by the Costică Acsinte Archive.