From Scribner's 1874.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1910 yearbook.

"So what?"  From Improvement Era, 1944.

Surpised that this does not represent a street sweeper sweeping snow in Alaska.  From the University of Saskatchewans 1932 yearbook.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.

From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.

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. 

"Only the nothingness of being in limbo."  Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seinfeld to be the first show about nothing. 

From High Society: Hints on How to Attain, Relish, and Survive It by Fish, 1915.

From Youth's Companion, 1916.  See Divination by Punctuation.

From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.

From The Romans by Alfred Duggan and illustrated by Richard Powers, 1964.

"Family of suns now coming toward us."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.

Leopard versus hippo: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 1900.

"They broaden the scope of 2 -|- 2 = 4 into?"  From Wyoming Seminary's 1942 yearbook.

From Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures In Art with Special Reference To Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb, 1906.

"We've come a long way ... maybe."  From Southeast Missouri State University's 1976 yearbook.

Today's fashionable ostrich is from Picture-Play Magazine, 1920.

From the College of William and Mary's 1912 yearbook.

From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.

From State Normal School's 1912 yearbook.