From Pacific College's 1937 yearbook.

From West Tennessee State Teachers College's 1926 yearbook.

From Rockford College's 1927 yearbook.

From Wittenberg College's 1924 yearbook.

"The death of a ship on a calm, silent sea."  From Chatterbox, 1913.

From Wabash College's 1926 yearbook.

From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.

From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 1908.

From the College of William and Mary's 1934 yearbook.

From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.

From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1894.

From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.

From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.

Imaginary letters are so rarely studied anymore, as they were in the 1940s.

From My Spelling Grade 5 by Yoakam & Daw, 1949.

From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Milo Winter, 1913.

"From the Great Deep to the Great Deep."  From Wesleyan College's 1926 yearbook.

From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)

From Lucian's Wonderland by St. J. Basil Wynne Willson and illustrated by A. Payne Garnett, 1899.