The American eagle hates fireworks, as we see in The Carolyn Wells Year Book of Old Favorites and New Fancies for 1909.

A baby is about to experience the miracle of flight in The Trail to the Woods by Clarence Hawkes, 1907.  Previously, we discovered a precursor to the film A Cry in the Dark (1988): a dingo takes a baby in an illustration from The Wide World Magazine (1900).

An illustration from an 1885 issue of Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours magazine.

Originally, the E of e-mail stood for eagle. From What Was the Gunpowder Plot by John Gerard (1897).  The caption reads: "The gallant Eagle, soaring up on high."

We bemoan the rampant demythologizing of our culture, yet the trend began with our founding fathers.  Originally, the immortal declaration was that all men are created eagle (a vestige endures in the word egalitarian).  "The entire conceptual castle of our mind relies on this creation of abstractions by metaphor from the foundations of our bodily experience in the world" (Piero Scaruffi, The Nature of Consciousness, 2006).  The eagle has landed as Apollo has fallen, leaving a hollow nest egg.

"How an Eagle Carried Off the Baby": an illustration from a 1900 issue of Wide World magazine.