Precursors

Here's a precursor to The Beatles.  From Al'manakh, 1906.

Here's a precursor to "Paris Syndrome," the psychological trauma triggered by that city.  The syndrome was first named in 1986, but of course it's nothing new, and this depiction of it in Lustige Blätter goes all the way back to 1900.

Here's a presursor to "It's Raining Men."  By the way, you've heard that we are all snowflakes, but some of us are hailstones.  From Bomby, 1906.

You've seen the famous Life Magazine photo of the sailor kissing a nurse ("V-J Day in Times Square" by Alfred Eisenstaedt).  Here it is four decades earlier, from Lustige Blätter, 1904.  We're not sure if the lady with the stick hates public displays of affection or merely wants in on the action.  (This was Europe, after all.)

Here's a precursor to "Bed in a Box."  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.

Here's a precursor to Morrissey's song "Hairdresser on Fire."  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.

Here's a precursor to the ghosts in Disney's Haunted Mansion.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.

Here's a precursor to Hugh Hefner.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.  We previously saw this other precursor to Hugh Hefner.

Here's a precursor to the pet cologne craze.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.

Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.

An undressing woman and a drill through the wall -- it's a precursor to the film Body Double.  From Le Courrier Français, 1907.  Previously, we discovered this other precursor to Body Double.

You've heard of the famous collie Lassie (1940), but 21 years earlier (that's 97 in dog years) there was Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune.

Here's a precusor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Cosmopolitan, 1909.

Here's a precursor to the novelty propellor hat that spins in the wind.  (We saw one in the windy wild yesterday!)  From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.  

Here's a precursor to The Incredible Melting Man.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.

Here's a precursor to Brian de Palma films.  You'll be forgiven for identifing all Brian de Palma films in this one image.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.