From The Old Line, 1936.

From an ad for Defying Destiny, in The Film Daily, 1923.

From East Carolina Teacher's College's 1925 yearbook.

From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.

From Flora Macdonald College's 1928 yearbook.

A detail from an undated Western Union ad.

From Ohio Northern University's 1983 yearbook.

"Ezekiel saw spaceship 2500 years ago."  From Australian Flying Saucer Review, 1962.

A prune chimney sweep.  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906.

From Illinois Woman's College's 1916 yearbook.

From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.

From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.

From Design Your Home for Living by Mabel Barbara Trilling, 1953.

From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.

"News awaiting a sleeping tortoise."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.

From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.

"The least of several evils."  From The Omen, 1996.

From St. Nicholas, 1889. 

Note the occult equation above the fingertips: skull and bones minus x divided by plus equals upside down semicolon colon upside down exclamation point upside down question mark. (Actually that colon may be upside down, too ... difficult to tell.)

From Colorado College's 1902 yearbook.

From The Old Line, 1949.