From the University of Mississippi's 1906 yearbook.

From The Test of Time (Ostermoor Mattress), 1904.

"The sillier a song is the more successful. The top picture shows an English audience listening to a melodious song with real music and containing no idiocies.  The bottom picture shows an audience listening to a song of the 'umpty-iddy-um' order, and sounding like the product of a born lunatic. The different in the pictures explains the preference singers show for rubbish."  From the Daily Mirror, 1906.

From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.

From The Esoteric Teaching of the Gnostics by Frances Swiney, 1909.

From the United States Naval Academy's 1908 yearbook.

From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.

From the Daily Mirror, 1905.

From State Female Normal School's 1901 yearbook.

From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by W. H. Walker, 1907.

From Youth's Companion, 1909.

"The two strong barber-men barbered as hard as they could."  From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.

From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.

From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.

Map of the Black Sea.  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.  An entire atlas of seemingly blanks maps: The Carte Blanche Atlas.

From Purdue University's 1906 yearbook.

The telephone as the "sixth sense," from The Smart Set, 1909.