From The Smoky God, A Voyage to the Inner World by Willis George Emerson and illustrated by John A. Williams, 1908.

From the United States Naval Academy's 1927 yearbook.

"The pirates encountering bears in the polar regions."  From The Frozen Crew of the Ice-bound Ship; or, the Terrors of the Arctic Regions. A Romance of the Wild and Wonderful, 1868.

From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1892.

From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1894.

From Life magazine, 1884.

From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.

From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1903.

Sea lion versus polar bear: which would you wager to win?  From St. Nicholas, 1886.

From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1903.

From The Film Daily, 1922.

From Chatterbox, 1899.  

Here's why the earth wobbles.  From Nebelspalter, 1909.

From Kladderadatsch, 1931.

An eerily accurate depiction of what goes on at the North Pole.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.

"I'm in the arctic" -- a precursor to the tacky tourist postcard craze, from Letters from High Latitudes by Frederick Blackwood, 1858.  (See our previous tacky postcard precursor here, with a Florida alligator.)