Here's a precursor to the "museum in a box" concept.  Chicago's Field Museum packed carefully back in 1927 (for an expedition in Abyssinia).

Current mood.  Courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

"The snow isn't snow at all.  It never was" (Bridget Asher, The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted, 2011).  Our proof is courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

This was entitled "2 Women" by the Boston Public Library, but our analysis finds that it's a single ghost that is bilocating.  Photo by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.

You've heard of seeing life "through the bottom of the glass," but you can also navigate that way.  From 1962, courtesy of the Tyne and Wear Archives.

"We would like to preach John Barley Corn's funeral sermon."  Date unknown.

"I need a soft shoulder to cry on" (Private Dick Hackney McTrite by Walker Jackson).  Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

"Have ball, will orbit": The Vanguard TV-4 Missile, 1958, via the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

"The Hobnob of The Merchant Tailors of Salisbury."  (A detail from a postcard, date uncertain.)

"They watch with loving and gracious eyes as you flail about, because they, too, have fallen, flailed, and found new life on the other side" (Jenny Simmons, The Road to Becoming).  Our photo is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

An encounter with one's own ghost, date uncertain.

"Stude and Kavaleff in Helsinki Zoo, May 1898."

Jim Hester performing a night flight over Ocean Park, 1920.

From 1936.

Did you know that psychological warfare has its own pageants?  Photo by Vern C. Gorst, c. 1950.

"All set to go places and do things!"  From 1938.

From the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.  (The enlargement of the mysterious "face" is our own.)

The third figure from the right has two heads that don't see eye to eye.  The postcard was originally scanned by UpNorth Memories.  (For those intrigued by Janus-faced figures, our Oracle of the Two-Fold Gods is finally in print again, and the first 57 pages are viewable here.  [Note that the preview may take a few moments to load.])