From Sad Fate of Poor Robin, 1870.

From Northwestern University's 1901 yearbook.

From Chatterbox, 1917.

From Indiana University's 1927 yearbook.

From New Physiognomy by Samuel Wells, 1866.

"Is the machine always right?  The answer is no."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.

Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.

"I begin mirror writing in a New York Hotel."  From The New Liberator Weekly, 1931.

From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1892.

"He had to fight with a moose."  From the Duluth Herald, 1909.

From Chicago Normal College's 1920 yearbook.

From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.

From The Film Daily, 1925.

A marotte as a distaff for the spinning wheel.  From Centenary College's 1922 yearbook.  See this weird perspective on jester scepters.

"Sorcery has been called Magic; but Magic is Wisdom, and there is no wisdom in Sorcery" (Paracelsus).  From A Manual of Occultism by Sepharial, 1914.

From Susquehanna University's 1918 yearbook.

From Old Times, A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century by John Ashton, 1885.

From Hastings College's 1928 yearbook.

From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.