Eyes and I's, from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1869.

From an 1865 issue of Fun magazine.  This should also be of interest: How to Believe in Your Elf.

"Never burn your candle at both ends" (Erica Kane, Having It All, 1997).  Our illustration is from El Mundo Físico by A. Guillemin, 1882.

An illustration by Edouard Riou from In Search of the Castaways by Jules Verne, 1873.

From Beschryving van Ysland, Groenland en de Straat Davis, 1756.

"Get an elephant."  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.

The magazine that glamorized big game hunting and the clubbing of seals for their fur (not to mention poaching eggs from critically endangered species—for merely one example, see "Youth Fights Condor to Win Thousand-Dollar Egg" from the Nov. '29 issue, in which the condor's near-extinction is noted), promoted smoking, considered rainforests to have "no practical purpose," and predicted that blimps would end of war and disease by the year 2000 ... this same magazine was smugly skeptical of physiognomy.  Hence, we're less skeptical of physiognomy than ever before.  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.

"The acrobat dentist."  From Pick Me Up, 1892.

You've heard of "zombie Jesus," but some deceased bishops are also at large.  By Richard Henry Clarke, 1872.

Here are some faces in things from Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1901.

Marvelous Evidence, Or, A Witness From the Grave (Occult) by Thomas Bates, 1897.

I want my money, from Die Muskete, 1909.

Here's a precursor to the Pepper's Ghost illusions gracing the spooky portaits in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1875.

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