We're often asked, "what were you on?" when we decoded the secret meanings to the profuse ellipses in an obscure novel from the 1920s.  (We compiled our surprising findings into Annotated Ellipses: Revealing A Hidden Dot-To-Dot Game Within A Novelist's Eccentric Punctuation.)  Well, the answer isn't so much what we took in but rather what we put on: special eyewear from the year 1623, as described in Uso de los Antoios para Todo Genero de Vistas.  Here's an illustration from the book, showing how the glasses focus upon rows of dots.  Here also is another illustration from the book, rather accurately showing the wearer's view of the world. 

We don't often encounter sun faces comprised of playing card suits.  This one appears in Bingham Military School's Sword and Rifle yearbook, 1903.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1905.

From the University of Wisconsin's Badger yearbook, 1916.

From The Travels and Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1860.

From Ward Seminary's Iris yearbook, 1912.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

From St. Nicholas magazine, 1891.

Here's a centaur from Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, 1906.

From Kokomo High School's Sargasso yearbook, 1920.

From Tribune Popular Science by Louis Agassiz, 1874.

From The Comic English Grammar by Percival Leigh and illustrated by John Leech, 1852.

From Aunt Carry's Ballads for Children by Caroline Norton, 1847.

From Once a Week, 1860.

From Laugh and Grow Wise by Senior Owl, 1856.