This photo is unexplained in the yearbook.  You may not wish to enlarge the photo to see his ghostly eyes.  We tried to narrow down the model of typewriter he's holding … presumably an Underwood, though the lip on the back seems too pronounced.  From Swarthmore's 1912 yearbook.

We retained the caption to this one.  From Duke's 1915 yearbook.

Some of her favorite squash.  (Other favorites not pictured, possibly due to camera-shyness or scheduling conflicts.)  From Weird Trips, 1974.

A spirit photograph from State Teacher's College, Farmville, Va.'s 1934 yearbook.

Before the laptop computer, there was the laptop typewriter.  From Emerson's 1977 yearbook.

"This is your death."  From George Fox's 1975 yearbook.

We wondered whether a ball of twine ever wrote its autobiography.  One actually did in 1912.  The opening words are, "I am a ball of twine."  Our photo is from Susquehanna's 1973 yearbook.

You knew about "the cat and the fiddle," but did you know it was a hostile takeover?

From The Film Daily, 1934.

Here is the giant of Chowan's 1971 yearbook.

Memories of college.  From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1975 yearbook.

Memories of college.  From Mars Hill's 1984 yearbook.

Here's a photographer who somehow fell behind his own footprints and photographed them.  We've had a similar experience, though we eerily encountered our footprints going the other direction.  From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.

From The Film Daily, 1922.

This gargoyle's portrait is featured amongst the students in Salve Regina's 1978 yearbook.

"But living takes me time."  From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1975 yearbook.

From Salve Regina's 1978 yearbook.

It used to be that "distancing" was the only way to slow the spread of computer viruses.  From Wingate's 1985 yearbook.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to calm his spasms. From Duke's 1976 yearbook.

The stress of being on television can make a person blink a staggering 176 times a minute.  But as proven here, one blinks only on television, not off of it.  It's a weird phenomenon.  From Washington College's 1974 yearbook.

UPDATED.  Interesting how often the people in old yearbooks all look alike, given clothing and hairstyle trends ... even fads like taking your own chair everywhere you go.  The fad endured through the 1980s.  From Manhattanville's 1944 yearbook (top) and Swarthmore's 1980 yearbook (bottom).