Long before John Waters' "Odorama" or Hans Laube's "Smell-O-Vision," books were doing it.  From Fairy Prince by Eleanor Abbott, 1922.

Reblog if you, too, are still resisting abstractionism.  From Dark Shadows episode 133.

From North Central's 1926 yearbook.

From Nebelspalter, 1913.

It's so rare to see a jester calming a nervous winged horse.  From Duke's 1926 yearbook.

"Is aluminum poisonous?"  From Awake magazine, 1947.

A friendly clerk from Ball State's 1971 yearbook.

From Lebanon Valley's 1921 yearbook.

The important firefly.  From St. Nicholas magazine, March 1917.

From Henderson College's 1908 yearbook.

From Lustige Blätter, 1903.

From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.

"You want to sum it up and bring it home but it's not the time, it never is and only the fool would speak the final word."  From American's 1972 yearbook.

From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.

An interesting attitude toward the weather: "It always has stopped raining."  Plus, never try to fist-bump a lady with a book in her hands.  From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.

Wait -- I know this.  Mustachioed, mustard, and mustiness.  Oh yeah, must-read, must-see, and must-have.  That's six.  This book says there are 6,000 must words.  I hate to question that number, since folks initially doubted that I'd collected 1,000 one-letter words for One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.