From Punch, 1923.

"250 tons of fog over London.  Weighing the mist."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.

"London just as foggy."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.

"A busy day in London."  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.

From The Cheerful Day by Nan Fairbrother, 1960.

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

From Hope College's 1934 yearbook.

"Don't go to any pub named after authors (Dickens) or characters (Sherlock Holmes).  When in doubt about a pub, find open water (river, lake) and you will find good pubs there!"  This London pub map from 1994 was drawn for Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.

Two London Fairies by George Robert Sims, 1906.

"Sphinx, Thames Embankment, London."  From 1913.

Here's a bird from Birds in London by W. H. Hudson, 1898.

"Rats or mice to kill," from The Cries of London by John Thmoas Smith, 1839.

Here's a watchman from The Cries of London by John Thmoas Smith, 1839.

From Bleak House by Charles Dickens and illustrated by H. K. Browne, 1853.