From Indiana University's 1913 yearbook.

From Cosmopolitan (1893).

From Longwood's 1898 yearbook.

Here's a precursor to Jamiroquai's marvelous lyric, "I steal the moon on silver nights" ("Automaton," 2017).  Not only are silver nights and the moon mentioned in the first stanza, but in the second stanza there's "a little song."  From The Ballad of the Quest by Virginia Sheard, 1922.

Reblog if you've needed a pillow while standing up.  It's "The Midnight Crew," from Atlantic Christian's 1913 yearbook.

From the Blue and Gold yearbook of the University of California, 1901.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

Good morning.  From Zatmenie, 1907.

"We never sleep."  The cover of The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton, 1874.

"He went forth into the dawn sleepless."  From The Maker of Rainbows and Other Fairy-Tales and Fables by Richard Le Gallienne, 1912.

"Sentinel of the night."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.

Here is revealed how our own sleep is induced.  From Cosmopolitan, 1904.

"The yawning-hall for sufferers from insomnia," from The Sketch, 1910.

"How hard do you sleep?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.