From Salem College's 1937 yearbook.

From The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Frank R. Stockton, 1930.

From American University's 1935 yearbook.

From Ohio University's 1927 yearbook.

From Wesleyan College’s 1931 yearbook.

From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.

From The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Frank R. Stockton, 1930.

Today's alligator on stilts bring watched by a cow is from The Children's Newspaper, 1922.

From Harper's, 1879.

From Le Charivari, 1889.

From Chatterbox, 1899.  

From Chatterbox, 1894.

When a reviewer took the presumptuous liberty of identifying our one-of-a-kind book on Astragalomancy as our own "feet of clay," we recalled that "Clown stilts have feet of sand to make walking easy."  From Popular Mechanics, 1925.

It's difficult for newer generations to imagine what mail delivery was like before the advent of electronic communication.  Younger folks would find the old ways quite stilted, literally.  From The Mysteries of the Court of London by George William MacArthur Reynolds, 1849.