This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea

From Chatterbox, 1878.

From Chatterbox, 1894.

From Sea Monsters Unmasked by Henry Lee, 1883.

From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).

From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.

From Medieval Days and Ways by Gertrude Hartman, 1937.

From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).

From There Are Demons In the Sea by Richard Carl Hoefler.

From Chatterbox, 1889.

From Ball Teachers College's 1929 yearbook.

"I saw something heaving itself out of the sea."  From Chatterbox, 1913.

"By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea ..."  From Purple Parrot, 1948.

From Sunk at Sea by R. M. Ballantyne, 1869.

From The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature by Boria Sax.

From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1902.

From our review of Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.  We love this sort of anthology that seems hell-bent to convince readers that the locality in question is plagued by vampires, werewolves, ghost ships, sea serpents, aliens, flying carpets, and other haunting anomalies.  Every region should have one!  See also How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.

From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.

From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.

From Scribner's 1877.