From People and Places by Horn, McBroom & Bishop and illustrated by Sperry, Stein & Paus, 1940.

Dog versus elephant: which do you wager for the win?

"Don't worry about little things."  From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

Mouse versus elephants: which do you wager for the win?  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.

"Land of the white elephants."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.

"Turned his back to the sea."  From Beautiful Joe's Paradise by Marshall Saunders, 1934.

From Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls by Lina & Adelia Beard, 1904.

From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.

From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1964.

From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.

From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 1921.

From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.

From St. Nicholas, 1891.

From St. Nicholas, 1886.

You've heard that "the child is father to the man," and it was true for the Eleplant Man, too.  "'Elephant Boy' has grown up now."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.

Here's today's political elephant as a tree.  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  

From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.

Early stone age, Europe.  From Ancient Times, A History of the Early World, Second Edition by James Henry Breasted, 1935.

From Today and Tomorrow by Hildreth et al., 1940.

From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1928 yearbook.