"The souls of the unhappy dead find … peace."  From The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood and illustrated by W. Graham Robertson, 1914.

The "weight of time" that we feel in every breath looms upon us from the clock tower in the sky.  It's there, no matter which way you turn, as proven by the endpapers of the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1952.  

Iowa State's 1927 yearbook.

Reblog if these sorts of accidents are perfectly avoidable and need not ever happen again.  From Nebelspalter, 1930.

From Northern Illinois' 1902 yearbook.

When is a white elephant gift not actually a white elephant?  When it's a slime mold.  We were gifted Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture (in honor of our love for Philip K. Dick's character Lord Running Clam, an intelligent slime mold who speaks and has telepathic powers, from the remarkable Clans of the Alphane Moon).  To our surprise, conversation turned to how slime molds urge the legalization of marijuana and an open border to Mexico.  (As the spokesman for the Plasmodium Consortium put it, "Their advice is objective, and transcends our polarized political environment, because they don’t belong to our species.")

Here's a precursor to one of Penn and Teller's elaborate "Is this your card?" revelations.  From Nebelspalter, 1930.

"Let your spirit soar."  From UFO Review, 1987.

Here's today's giant teddy bear cutting a train down the middle.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.

Reblog if you, too, never sleep, can see well in the dark, wander among the rocks and bushes all night long, and (referring to the chapter number here) are in financial ruin.  From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1917.

This professor cherished all his pupas.  From Black Hawk's 1970 yearbook.