"To the island of the dead."  From Die Muskete, 1925.

You've heard of oldschool DJing.  Here's 1929-style.  From Die Bühne.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal a postmark.

The endpapers to The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922.

Here is revealed how magicians make time for practice.  From Die Bühne, 1925.

"Vintereventyr" by Theodor Kittelsen, ca. 1920.

"It was a very nice party and Mrs. Briggs did not have to get out the post-card album until almost nine o'clock."  From Wayside Tales, 1922.

You've heard that anything can be erotic, and here's how someone saw the Panama Canal as a lesbian kiss.  From 1923.

"A Blast Furnace" by Clive Gardiner, 1927.

Climate science hasn't come very far from 1920, when 90% of thermometer readings were inaccurate.  The more things change, the more they're misinterpreted.  From the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1920.

Hermetic Library comments: "I thought this was something about my reading habits; and it seemed meaningful enough at first blush I started to contemplate my life."

Okay, Charles Lindbergh, we get it.  It's that long.  Guess you won't need to ask for another endowment.  (Photo c. 1927, courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.)