As Harry Hill would have put it on TV Burp, "I like the moon considered as a planet; I like the moon considered as a world; then again, I like the moon considered as a satellite.  But which is better?  There's only one way to find out—fight!"  From The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite by James Nasmyth & James Carpenter, 1885.

You're aware of "the complex ways we distract ourselves from our inevitable demise" (Doug Bower, From Horseback to Desktop PC, 2007).  One of them is bobbing for apples while a witch peers through one's window.  Date uncertain.

"The moon only looked fitfully now and then out of the driving clouds," from Cassell's, 1891.

"No moon," circa 1890.

"Half light is good light," from an ad for Bauch & Lomb Plastigmat lenses, date uncertain.

"If our wives only knew the trouble we're in."  A card for the Harrison-Gourlay Company's humorous play "Skipped by the Light of the Moon."

Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.  (Individual cards are available from Zazzle, and deep discount bulk orders of 10 or more are available from Vistaprint.)

From Once a Week, 1863.

"The moon?  I can't reach the moon." —David Halperin, Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel

Our photo is from the Field Museum of Natural History's Annual Report of the Director to the Board of Trustees for the Year 1924.

From The Human Side of Birds by Royal Dixon, 1917.

The space program has long been accused of faking the moon landing, and artificially enlarging the celestial orb in photographs doesn't help their credibility.  (As any photographer will attest, the moon never looks this big in a photo without special effects.  You don't have to be a rocket scientist to doctor a photo.)  Our photo is as scanned by the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.