From Kladderadatsch, 1932.

A pyramid with a big black square in the middle?  It's a precursor to the Dolphin Resort at Walt Disney World.  From Salem's 1988 yearbook.

Try.  From the cover of Eulis! by Paschal Beverly Randolph, 1896.

Here's a precursor to Never Eat Anything Bigger Than Your Head.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.

The eye in the sky/eye in the pyramid is God's belly button.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.

"It is easy to idealize the past.  History, like a mirage, leaves the nether side of life in the shadow.  It is not fair to set virtues of a distant time, glamored by poetry, over against the vices of today." —Joseph Fort Newton, "Is the World Growing Better?" The Christian Century, 1921

Our illustration is from Lustige Blätter, 1899.

This is how the scan came out.  From The Matchless Altar of the Soul Symbolized as a Shining Cube of Diamond, One Cubit in Dimensions, and Set Within the Holy of Holies in All Grand Esoteric Temples of Antiquity by Edgar Lucien Larkin, 1916.

The Great Pyramid in New York City's Central Park.  From Popular Mechanics, 1934..

Ramming the pyramids.  (The caption identifies this as a symbol of ambition, though we mistook it for futility or suicide.)  From The Judge, 1913.

"Slap!  Bang!  Here we are again!"  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1884.

Wilhelm Kotarbinsky's "The Angels of the Pyramids."

"The pharaohs have vanished; the pyramids remain."  A headline from English Illustrated, 1898.

The Origin and Significance of the Great Pyramid by Charles Staniland Wake, 1882.