Reblog if your big ears make you a good listener.  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.

Here's a precursor to the bunny ears prank in photographs.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.

From Le Rire, 1897.

From Jugend, 1917.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to wiggle his ears. From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click the image to wiggle his ears.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.

Everything wrong with the world can be traced to the fact that people have two sets of ears.  From The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to How a Hundred Million People (Who are Supposed in a Vague, Helpless Way to Haunt the White House) Can Make Themselves Felt with a President, How They Can Back Him Up, Express Themselves to Him, be Expressed by Him, and Get What They Want by Gerald Stanley Lee, 1920.

"The latest thing in ears."  From Pick Me Up, 1894.

From Jugend, 1896.

From L'Ame Amante de Son Dieu, Representée dans les Emblémes de Hermannus Hugo Sur ses Pieux Desirs, 1717.