From Backsheesh! or, Life and Adventures in the Orient by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1875.

From Wehman Bros.' New Book of One Hundred and Fifty Parlor Tricks and Games, 1905.

The owls come to supper with her. From Mum Fidgets by Constance Milman (1892).

An illustration from The Revelations of a Sprite by Auber Melville Jackson (1897).  The caption reads: "'Hum,' said the owl."

An illustration from an 1873 issue of The Quiver magazine.  The caption reads: "The haunt of rook and raven, bat and owl. Drawn by A. H. Wall."

An illustration from Merriment and Mirth for Merry Little People (1889).  The caption reads: "For the owl and cats and I all grew larger every minute."

Here's an owl border we salvaged and restored from an 1860 issue of Arthur's Home Magazine.  For re-sizing convenience, we created an EPS version for downloading.

An illustration from an 1853 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration of an owl tent from an 1899 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.

The April Fool: an illustration from an 1883 issue of Life magazine.

"The Spirit of the Dusk":  an illustration from a 1901 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine.

An illustration from an 1879 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "I'm an owl; you're another."

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: