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Cat eating corn, photo by Allan Grant in Life Magazine, 1951

Leaning Tower of Pizza, Quincy, Massachusetts. Photo by John Margolies from his Roadside America photograph archive, 1984

“Books of hour” are medieval Christian prayer books and are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript. They are all unique and often lavishly illustrated with various drawings…some of which were quite bizarre. There were a lot of bored monks transcribing them. This one comes from a whole set of anthropomorphic animals (scroll to the bottom)

“Macaroni” was a pejorative term used to describe a fashionable man of 18th-century Britain, usually considered effeminate in nature. They were a common subject of teasing in caricatures at the time.

(Source: McClure’s Magazine, July 1907 from my personal collection)

“Charles Darwin” by Frederick Watty, from Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day, 1873

For Krafft-Ebing, any desire for sex unrelated to procreation was a deviation from the heterosexual norm, making, for example, gay sex a "perversion" of the sexual instinct.

(Source: McClure’s Magazine, July 1907 from own collection)

An early 20th century postcard against the coercion of motherhood and promoting the usage of contraception.

I’ll take one Human Talker from the Largest Mail Order Bird House in the World, please (Source: McClure Magazine, July 1907 from my own collection)

From Albert A. Hoskin’s book “Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions” (1897)

Old Gold cigarette ad, 1940s

(“Abuse” in this case probably meant masturbation, which Victorians often believed made men weak and sickly)

High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry, 1910

Turners on the pommel horse by Heinrich Hamann, c. 1902

Dyke's Beard Elixer, 1882

“Auto Polo”—A short-lived sport thought to have been created as an advertising stunt to sell Ford Model Ts in 1911.