Today's stairway boat is from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1918.

From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.

From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.

From Cincinnati Bible Seminary's 1946 yearbook.

From A Book of Famous Myths and Legends, Vol. Vi, 1901.

From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.

From Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss, 1908.

There are different ways to go boating.  From Lawrence University's 1965 yearbook.

From Consolation magazine, 1939.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

From Presbyterian College's 1932 yearbook.

Castles in the air may also be islands in the air.  From Greenbrier Military School's 1932 yearbook.

"Ship arrives from the past.  Odd scene in the Atlantic."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.

From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.

From St. Nicholas, 1915.

"Internal navigation."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1891.

"In all his crimson glory."  From The Strand, 1894.

From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.

From Marion College's 1931 yearbook.

From The Magic of Spices, written and illustrated by Joseph Dreany, 1961.