"What recked she at the storm, or that the dull November day was passing into darkness?" from Birkheda Vicarage by Johanna Christina Augusta von Hofsten, 1874.

Here is revealed a long-held secret of typographers: exactly where the head and feet of an H are.  From Mistura Curiosa by James Archibald Sidey, 1886.

Here's a precursor to Cat People.  From "Turning Into Cats" by Frances Lee, St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.  The caption reads, "The minister and his son."

Here's a funnier way to spell "jokes," from the Normal Offering yearbook of the State Norman School of Bridewater, Mass., 1912.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

The gears of November are powered by black cats and bunnies, as we learn in St. Nicholas magazine, 1908.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1904.

We can't make out many of the words on this diagram from Forecasting Business Conditions (1922), pictured left, but note that it seems descended from the Sami shaman drums of Lapland (right), and may more business diagrams be so inspired.

The text reads, "Soph[omore].  He thinks himself a bird.  But --- he is."  From The Chsite yearbook of Carey High School, 1920.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Sunlight and Shade by Frederick Barnard, 1883.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, 1873.