From Die Bühne, 1934.

Here's the sun sitting on a capital V.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1884.

King Ludwig II of Bavaria as "Sun King."  From Jugend, 1902.

"A ride with the sun."  From In the Sky-Garden by Lizzie W. Champney and illustrated by J. Wells Champney, 1877.

"An imaginary flight to sun pictured by scienist."  Indubitably.  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

Harvesting sun rays.  From Ulk, 1917.

Decades and decades before Puff the Magic Dragon, The Rainbow Connection, and Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds, there were these sunbeam wishes of a floating song in Rainbow Verse: A Book of Helpful Sunny Philosophy by W. Dayton Wegefarth, 1919.

"Trying to prevent the sun from rising," from Grip, 1890.

This is one of the dangers of painting a realistic sun.  From Le Rire, 1903.

"Half-inch piece of sun will guide night flyers."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.

Please do join (if only as a spectator) my psychic battle against vintage Popular Mechanics magazine.  The phrase "printed matter can be demonic" delivers zero Google results, but that simply testifies to a massive coverup.  Vintage Popular Mechanics is the dragon to my St. George.  Root for me, even if my anachronistic quest to vanquish this beast perplexes you.  Merely recall that linear time is an illusion, and have faith that it's never "too late" to stop the toxic waste of vintage Popular Mechanics from contaminating our world.

"Pull down the blinds!  The sunset is assuming a shape I stongly object to!"  From Pick Me Up, 1894.

"Planets with four suns in their sky may be more common than previously thought, a new study suggests" (Space.com).  From Mocca, 1930.

You've seen faces drawn on the sun, but the trend goes all the way back.  From Le Rire, 1896.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.