From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.

From Michigan State College's 1941 yearbook.

From Indiana University's 1977 yearbook.

From James Millikin University's 1914 yearbook.

From Armour Institute of Technology's 1905 yearbook.

That feeling of resting for the first time in a hundred years.  From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 1925.

From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.

Given that the "sawing a person in half" magic trick had been around since the 1800s, the skeptic in us wonders if the saw is in on it, that this and other such "investigations" are all smoke and mirrors.  From the Duluth Herald, 1911.

From The Current Sauce, 1951.

From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.

We've seen a saw played as an instrument, but here's one playing an instrument.  (This one is not literally a "bow saw," however.)  From North Central's 1948 yearbook.

From Les Types de Paris, 1889.

From Kladderadatsch, 1927.