Referencing the Double Dutch Dictionary, from Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1880.

Here's just a sampling of all 264 blank pages that Flickr displays for the book Atlas Ichthyologique des Indes Orientales Néêrlandaises, 1862.  Perversely, not a single one of the beautiful color illustrations from the book was scanned.  To be clear, blank pages (most all of which are labeled as such, technically rendering them non-blank in the process) are the only pages from this book that the Internet Archive uploaded to Flickr.  We're merely trying to find some inadvertent visual poetry in the void.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to deepen the autumn.

Sydney Station clock hands, 1919.

Here's a precursor to the Transformers, c. 1890.  When the wheels hatched, it became a flying machine.

From Stories from the Earthly Paradise by C. S. Evans, 1915.

From Pinocchio, illustrated by Maria L. Kirk, 1914.

From Mary Ware, the Little Colonel's Chum by Annie Johnston, 1910.

Separated at birth: Spammish Constructs and Spanish Constructs.

	Spammish Constructs	Spanish Constructs
distinguished by an aggressive and repeated nature and by deprivation of the right of option	x	x
paternalistic	x	x
fragilely gendered	x	x
activistic	x	x
condescending	x	x
announces one "official" interpretation	x	x
decadent	x	x
fragmentary	x	x
invalid reply address	x

[Inspiration from Exemplary Ambivalence in Late Nineteenth-century Spanish America by Elizabeth L. Austin]

From The Sandman's Mountain by Louis Dodge, 1920.

You've heard of a "murder" of crows, but what do you call a collection of unfinished poems?  An "outrage."  The caption reads, "He hit the unfinished poems on the table a blow with his fist."  From Pearson's, 1898.  For some rather extraordinary tips of instantly transforming any piece of literature, see Machinarium Verbosus: A Curiosity Cabinet of Gadgets To Transform Any Book & Reader, To Be Sure.

You've heard of being "all at sixes and sevens," but here's all at seven and six [shillings and pence, in pre-decimalized British currency].  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1883.

Daredevil Birdie Draper crashed the brick wall of death on this day in 1938.

Here's one way to entice lunatics, New Zealand National Airways style.  Date uncertain.

"Mere oblivion sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."  From c. 1890.

"You make me tired!" circa 1890.

From The Key to Betsy's Heart by Sarah Noble Ives, 1916.