Three members of the 72nd Squadron in Hawaii, 1928, courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

Photo courtesy of the Stanford Historical Archive.

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.

"The sky is an umbrella to the earth" (Sri Venkateswara University's Oriental Journal, 1981).  Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

That's some aura around the light ship Brenton.  Photograph by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.

The Telemark canal in Dalen, Norway, ca. 1960.

Undated photo by Mário Novais.

Clive Bell suggested that "Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation.  For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life" (Art, 1914).  Our photo is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

A ghostly sighting from 1899, from the National Archives U.K.

La Sousa Clown Band at Luna Park, 1909, scanned by the Seattle Municipal Archives.

"You're nothing but a few chemicals!—Why worry about the general election?  You may 'go off' by spontaneous combustion."  From The Sketch, 1910.

It's been said that there are many ways to fly.  Photo courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

Note the two backward N's in Mt. Wilson's one-hundred inch telescope, 1920.

You've heard of Lindbergh's so-called monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis, but which one?  Indeed, "Spirit is not singular" (Glenn Poveromo, The Spirit's Self-Help Book).  Our photo is courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.

"The jumper plunges into this vortex" (Tobi Tobias, "Three Times Lucky," New York Magazine, 1984).  Photograph by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.

"Those are bigger fingerprints than yours, though” (Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Enchanted Village, 1950).  Pictured is Ralph Hargrove, 1966.

The eclipse of August 31, 1932.

You've heard of an airplane's "horsepower," but did you know how literally to take that?  From c. 1937.

Here's a fine line of screech owls from Bird Lore, 1919.