From Clara In Blunderland by Lewis Caroline, 1902.

From Clara In Blunderland by Lewis Caroline, 1902.

From The Choice Works of Thomas Hood, in Prose and Verse, 1881.

If not the White Rabbit, here's a white rabbit from Clara in Blunderland, 1902.

From Clara In Blunderland by Lewis Caroline, 1902.

"A mirror doubles the scene, confirming what is at first hard to make out and then hard to believe." —Peter Schjeldahl, The 7 Days Art Columns, 1988-1990

Our illustration appears in St. Nicholas magazine, 1912.

This vintage Colgate ad (from 1873) reminds us that we know our own teeth only through the looking glass!

The theory that Humpty Dumpty was pushed is nearly as old as the chicken-or-the-egg conundrum, but we finally lay the matter to rest with this evidence of the culprit, from The Baby's Museum by Uncle Charlie, 1882.

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Puck magazine.  Speaking of which, one of the many things we admire about our British brethren is that they've long been consciously aware that they've slipped down the rabbit hole.  So very few nations realize they're in Wonderland.

You can guess where we're going with this one.  What if Alice and the Wonderland caterpillar had found romance?  Arthur's Home Magazine wondered the same thing (not really) in the same year that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was published.

Before the walrus was Paul, the walrus was Lewis Carroll.  (Thanks, JohnnyDiego!)

Four months before the publication of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, we find this illustration in Punch:

The plural of Humpty Dumpty is "Humpties Dumpty."