Before the nightmare of "Room 101" in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), there was "Room No. 90" in Pearson's, 1898.

From Die Muskete, 1906. 

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

From Die Muskete, 1910.

From an 1863 issue of Fun magazine.

From The Magic Mirror, 1880.

From Pearson's, 1903.

From Sierra Leone, or, the White Man's Grave by George Banbury, 1888.

Here's an alcoholic monkey and parrot from c. 1890 ad for luncheon meat.

Here's an alcoholic monkey and parrot from a c. 1890 ad for luncheon meat.

What "the Snow-man wishes me to say" (c. 1902).  This style of anti-ventriloquism -- a sort of mediumistic channeling with a dummy figure -- recalls the ape's interpreter in Xavier: Renegade Angel episode 9, "Signs from Godrilla" (2007): "Now she's being very eloquent, saying some very touching things.  She's being moving."

Here's Monkey Santa from 1895.

There was a time when products were proudly tested on animals.  Plus, there's a capuchin/cappuccino joke in there somewhere.  From c. 1890.

From Once a Week, 1877.

Monkey versus parrot: which would you wager to win?  Plus, here's some maledicta from a c. 1890 ad for luncheon meat.