Here's a precursor to the eerie atomic bomb test with mannequins in the Nevada desert in the 1950s.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1930.

Adjusted for inflation, Tammy would now cost $57.  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1973 yearbook.

Our custom Uncanny Detector app positively identified this glowing mannequin as a genuine ghost.  From the NC State yearbook of 1936.

From Le Courrier Français, 1885.

"And saw a swarm of little fairies busily engaged in shaping a large block of ebony into the rude form of a doll."  From Fairy Tales by Mark Lemon and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1875.

"Chickens exposed to natural hair beard on mannequin."  From "Microbiological Laboratory Hazard of Bearded Men" in Applied Microbiology, 1967.

This wedding attended by statues is a precursor to the William Castle film The Night Walker.  From Satirikon, 1909.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.

Floppy foppish mannequins slapping each other.  From Judge's Library, 1895.

From Die Bühne, 1929.

From Die Muskete, 1926.

Here's a precursor to near-literates sharing their every thought on the internet.  "Dummy reproduces writing at a distance."  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.

Here's a precursor to the all-mannequin cast of the Japanese series The Fuccons (a.k.a. Oh! Mikey).  From Popular Mechanics, 1920.

"The most economical model."  From English Illustrated, 1888.  Note that artist Harper Pennington's signature is written in cursive but severely slanted and vertical so as to resemble Japanese calligraphy.

Aviator Amelia Earhart has been suspected of being a spy, a lesbian, and even a fish, but we can now reveal that she was a mannequin sculpted by Dorothy Fox.  Our photographic evidence is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.