Some of the best snowmen are out of books.  A postcard from the early 1960s, via UpNorthMemories.

"I told you ... you know nothing about wickedness."  Orson Welles, The Lady from Shanghai.  From The Film Daily, 1948.

Sometimes it's a little of both -- "Sorcery or saucery, they ask."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1972.

Here's some sort of laddie Godiva (we recognize that sort of thing, as we're related to Lady Godiva — the barest branch of the family tree — on our maternal side).  From Unknown, 1940.

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From Millikin's 1934 yearbook.

From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

We were researching what the night contains and shouldn't have been surprised to discover sheet ghosts.  Do you agree that it is sheets ghosts who, in the final lines here, billow down lanes at dusk, like a mist of bleached portraits that don't exist, "who walk like a shivering laundry of shifted humanity"?  From The Force by Peter Redgrove, 1966.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.

The endpapers from Santa Clara's 1931 yearbook.

From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1922.

One sign features a line misattributed to Lewis Carroll: "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."  The other says "Super Rabbit."  From Wesleyan College's 1966 yearbook.

From Curse of the Dream Witch by Allan Stratton.

From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).

From Chatterbox, 1914.

Not everybody wonders about a Christmas tree's underwear.  From Costuming Made Easy by Barb Rogers.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.

From Coraddi, 1935.

When a ghost gives you second sight for Christmas.  From Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Don Bolognese.