The fogs of time can overwhelm old photographs, but often the essential spirit of a scene will somehow strive to communicate itself.  From North Central's yearbook of 1970.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.

"She touched the spider's webs with her fairy wand and turned them all to gold."  From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.

The world's most intact remaining forest happens to be self-illuminating and is contained with the pages of old yearbooks.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1978 yearbook.

"There wasn't even time to think."  From Saint Leo's yearbook of 1972.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.

From Jugend, 1928.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1932.

"The tree of knowledge."  From The Judge, 1915.

This photograph may be a tool for traveling back to a past Christmas.  From Southwestern's 1968 yearbook.

From Seton Hall's 1969 yearbook.

From Lob Lie-By-the-Fire by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, 1886.