From Aimless Wanderings: Chuang Tzu’s Chaos Linguistics by Hakim Bey, 1992.

From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.

From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.

From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.

From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.

From St. Nicholas, 1892.

From Pictures of the Chinese, Drawn by Themselves, by Robert Henry Cobbold, 1860.

From Chatterbox, 1875.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1892.

From Pictures of the Chinese, Drawn by Themselves, by Robert Henry Cobbold, 1860.

From Chatterbox, 1894.

From Chatterbox, 1893.  

"Blue flames danced eerily."  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.

Learning pure English by being "on the sence [sic]" of Gone with the Wind.  One learns to say such things as "my ear bobs" and "you're not worth three hundred dollars."

"Watching classical movie, learning pure English.  The most classical movie in the 20th century.  Everlasting love affair over the centuary [sic].  Moving the heaven and world.  Vivien Leigh & Clark Gable as the leading feature.  Placing yourself into the scene, listening to idiomatic dialogue, learning in the fun.  You will get a great surprise in your oral English and listening skills after you understand ten movies."

It's a beautifully designed and rather bizarre language instruction, here on Archive dot org.

A Chinese kite.  From The Study of Man by Alfred Haddon, 1898.

"Ancient Imperial Chinese bed, carved and lacquered, sent by that government to the last Paris expoisition and returned to Pekin."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.

From Chatterbox, 1875.

Staring at the flame.  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.

"Chinese epigram - 'You can substitute a turnip for an egg only once!'"  From The Film Daily, 1942.