As the show was filmed in one take and on a grueling schedule, actors frequently flubbed their lines on Dark Shadows.  Here's one finishing his speech with, "etc., etc," in episode 24.  The actor who replaced him as the sherrif says in episode 59, "Well, I'm just trying to fill in the blank spaces, ma'am."

Halibut versus eagle: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1898.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

From The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.

"A novel of gayest New York at its gayest!"  From Cosmopolitan (1919).

From The Skull Talks Back by Zora Neale Hurston.

Sure, "dancers are people," but the bigger question and concern is what kind of people they are.  From The Gateway, 1976.

"But the girl whose life is innocent and unstained is unknown and ignored.  Why?"  From The Film Daily, 1922.

The endpapers from Barnard's 1931 yearbook.

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From Unknown, 1941.

From Taylor's 1953 yearbook.

"The mystic ladder."  From Jerry Todd's Up-the-Ladder Club by Leo Edwards and illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon.

Every yearbook at every college from every year since the Model T Ford has complained about a lack of parking.  This is one of 50 Yearbook Motifs Bingo game we invented.  From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.

From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.