Trying to tell which end of the moon goes up, from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1873.

The words "Phosphoric acid" over a row of capital I's?  How to make sense of this scan by the Internet Archive from the Elementary Treatise on Stock Feeds and Feeding (1911)?  We find the answer in Philip M. Bailey's Homeopathic Psychology (1995): people of the phosphoric acid personality type are "often selfish, obsessed with self-gratification."

You've heard that the fabric of space and time is knit together in countless ways.  Here is one of them, from 1958.

From Alter Ejusdem by James Archibald Sidey, 1877.

Here's an ominous peacock from De Kapelle der Dooden by Abraham a Sancta Clara, 1741.

The North Wind and the Robin, from The Baby's Bouquet by Walter Crane, 1899.

From The Phynodderree, and Other Legends of the Isle of Man by Edward Watson Callow, 1882.

From My Odd Little Folk by Malcom Douglas, 1893.

"The doughnut squabble."  From Forest Glen by Elijah Kellogg, 1877.

"Bella at Eden."  From Half-Past Bedtime by H. H. Bashford, 1922.

From Days of the Colonists by Louise Lamprey, 1922.

"I knew I could dood it."  From Carolina Magazine, 1942.

Here's a Swiss alternative to the Buddhists' "chop wood, carry water":  "Chop wood, gather edelweiss, look after goats."  From "Wooden Tony: An Anyhow Story" in English Illustrated, 1890.

How well do you know your pig-headed ghouls of history?  This one, from Fun magazine, 1864, is King Wilhelm of Prussia.  (The answer is in black text on a black background.  Highlight it to view.)

"Architecture doubles as atmosphere" (Interiors magazine, 1968).  This accidental double exposure is from C. W. Allen's WWII album, scanned by the San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive.

Artist unknown, ca. 1900.  A scan by Nasjonalbiblioteket.  This should also be of interest: How to Believe in Your Elf.

From Wren Handman's Command the Tides.

From What Happened Then Stories by Ruth Dyer, 1918.