Here's a semi-transparent sheet ghost from Jenny by Hómer Michael Faustinetti, 1883.

"Hans howled again, finishing off with a fiendish laugh," from The Kloof Bride by Ernest Glanville, 1898.

An illustration from Every Day Characters by Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1896).  Illustration by Cecil Charles Windsor Aldin.

Here's a classic sheet ghost from Buffalo Bill's Rough Riders, 1890.

Is this, as Gordon Meyer has observed, a gingerbread man sheet ghost?  The phrase "gingerbread man sheet ghost" is a googlewhack, but we did encounter this joke:

Q: What do the ghosts of dead gingerbread men wear? 

A: Cookie sheets!

Our illustration appears in Love Lyrics and Valentine Verses by E. M. Davies, 1875.

"A practical joke," from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, 1883.

"Who are you?":  an illustration from a 1913 issue of Munsey's magazine.

J writes: "Well, the answer that jumps to mind is 'Bob Hope.' Anachronistic, yes (I believe Leslie Hope would still have been, literally, in short pants in that decade, except when donning baggy pants for his award-winning Charlie Chaplin imitation); but if a ghost can't be exempt from strict chronological considerations, who can? I also, of course, love the fact that it's the *apparition* asking the *mortal* who the hell he is."

"A most concrete ghost, it has revealed itself in office blocks towering above Kuala Lumpur."
—Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown, Chinese Business Enterprise, 1996