From Taylor University's Gem yearbook, 1941.

"The imaginary horse isn't real, but your idea of it is real" (Marietta McCarty, Little Big Minds, 2006).  Photo as scanned by the Costică Acsinte Archive.

"The first heaven, that of the Moon, is guarded by the lowest order of angels" (in Dante's Paradiso, as noted in The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories), and here's what it looks like.  A guard stands before Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt's moon model at the Field Columbian Museum, 1898.

"It seems our pretty young royals are shrinking before our eyes" (A Current Affair, July 13, 2011).  Pictured, Brisbane decorates for Queen Elizabeth II in 1954.

A double exposure from a 1933 yearbook, as scanned by Miami University Libraries.

One is reminded of Woman Has Two Faces: Re-examining Eve and Lilith in Jewish Feminist Thought.  From a 1940 yearbook, as scanned by Miami University Libraries.

Here's a precursor to the "museum in a box" concept.  Chicago's Field Museum packed carefully back in 1927 (for an expedition in Abyssinia).

From 1936.

Did you know that psychological warfare has its own pageants?  Photo by Vern C. Gorst, c. 1950.

"For when the frost comes, all will be safe till Spring" (R. H. Budd, The Complete Practical Farmer, 1835).  Photo courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.

Photo by Leslie Jones, date uncertain.

From 1970.

"Those are bigger fingerprints than yours, though” (Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Enchanted Village, 1950).  Pictured is Ralph Hargrove, 1966.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see how Judge Paul B. Johnson, Sr.'s photographer tried to be flattering.

Here's a spider from c. 1900, Australia.

A 1962 ad for Turner's cameras.

"Bed can be anywhere or nowhere" (John Gore, Mary Maxse, 1870-1944, 1946).  Our photo is from the Newport Naval Training Station, Rhode Island, 1917.

You've heard that a person has a light side and a shadow side.  However, "you must remember that you have two light sides instead of just one" (Popular Science, Sept. 1941).  Our photographic proof is from a 1939 yearbook scanned by Miami University Libraries.

"The space in the forehead is a doorway for thoughts" (Swahilya Shambhavi).  Our photo is as scanned by the Costică Acsinte archive.

INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the photo that inspired the postcard.