Here's one of the cards from the Self-Intuiting Polarity deck.  Sunlight streams into a vase due to a crack.  The sunlight reflects through the vase and onto a cloud.  "In the middle of the shadow, like a gleam of light through a crack, the way ... is in our power, as long as we will ourselves to do so” (G. von Leibniz).

The eye in the pyramid begins life as a polyhedron.  From Alpine Flowers for English Gardens by W. Robinson, 1870.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to improve the gardens.

"The boys with the golden stars."  From The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1906.

Here's how grandfather clocks materialize, from King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908.

From Christian Similitudes by John Warner Barber, 1866.

From Rübezahl Erzählungen by K. A. Müller, 1800.

From Harper's Young People, 1883.

From Ward Seminary's Iris yearbook, 1911.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Before the woeful decline of literacy, folks were actually accosted for not reading.  The caption says, "Here, I say, you don't seem to be reading!"  From English Illustrated, 1897.

To this day, this is the only known reference to the "Krikketekrakkle."  "There was once a king who was a deuce of a king, and he was afraid of nothing in the wide world by a Krikketekrakkle."  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1878.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to transform in many ways (including the spelling of Joshua).

It's been said that "A marriage is made of moments" (Jodi Blazek Gehr).  The caption here reads, "We've been married exactly an hour and ten minutes."  From Cassell's, 1895.

A 1962 ad for Turner's cameras.

From The Adventures of Peterkin by Gilly Bear and illustrated by Helen E. Ohrenschall, 1916.

From Bell Telephone Magazine, 1972.