From Clarion State Normal School's Sequelle yearbook, 1917.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From Yarns of an Old Mariner by Mary Cowden Clarke and illustrated by George Cruikshank, 1800.

"Will you allow me to offer you a very rough shawl?"  (He had promised the soft one to himself.  And why not?)  From Simplicity and Fascination by Ann Beale, 1883.

Angels write with quills and devils with dip pens [how could it be otherwise?], as we learn in this piece from Zwei Reisen in der Türkei, 1899.

Here are revealed the roots of introversion and extroversion, from the Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the 21st Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Vol. 3, 1875.

"Up he went, spinning like a top."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1898.

"The fire dogs," from Un-natural History Not Taught in Bored Schools by James Freyberg, 1883.

From The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford (1899).

From Mystères du Palais de l'Élysée by Jules Beaujoint, 1888.

"What recked she at the storm, or that the dull November day was passing into darkness?" from Birkheda Vicarage by Johanna Christina Augusta von Hofsten, 1874.

Here is revealed a long-held secret of typographers: exactly where the head and feet of an H are.  From Mistura Curiosa by James Archibald Sidey, 1886.

Here's a precursor to Cat People.  From "Turning Into Cats" by Frances Lee, St. Nicholas magazine, 1877.  The caption reads, "The minister and his son."

Here's a funnier way to spell "jokes," from the Normal Offering yearbook of the State Norman School of Bridewater, Mass., 1912.  (For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.)

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1904.

From Sunlight and Shade by Frederick Barnard, 1883.

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood, 1873.