Happy Thought

Illustration.

Found in "Tell It All: The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism" by Mrs. T.B.H Stenhouse. Published by A.D. Worthington, 1874

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Snowbound

Trimmed illustration.

Found in "Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl" by John Greenleaf Whittier. Published by Ticknor and Fields, 1866.


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The Lesson

Trimmed illustration.

Found in "The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" published by Houghton Mifflin, 1882.

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Round Robin

Trimmed illustration of a robin.

Found in "Hints Towards Reforms" by Horace Greeley. Published by Harper and Brothers, 1850.

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Wag The Dog

Two trade card illustrations.

Found in "New Waggings of Old Tales" by J.K. Bangs and Frank Dempster Sherman. Published by Ticknor and Co., 1888.


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1932

Small color illustration. My guess is that it came from an old desk calendar.

Found in "When We Were Very Young" by A.A. Milne. Published by Dutton, 1925.

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A-Tisket A-Tasket

Trimmed color illustration.

Found in "God Revealing His Truth Through Patriarch and Prophet" by Walter Albion Squires. Published by The Westminster Press, 1921


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Safety Dance

Lovely color illustration, reverse is blank. Could have been part of an old greeting card or advertising card.

Found in "The Calling of Dan Matthews" by Harold Bell Wright. Published by A.L. Burt, 1909.


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Make Cooking Easy

Trade card advertising Glenwood Ranges.

Found in "An Illustrated Handbook of Art History" by Frank J. Roos, Jr. Published by The Macmillan Co., 1947.

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Peas And Thank You

Trimmed illustration of a pea pod.

Found in "Felix O'Day" by F. Hopkinson Smith. Published by Scribners, 1915.

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A Picture Of Good Health

You can imagine my mild surprise finding this fellow.

Color illustrated booklet, looks like it came out of an old medical or anatomy text book. Open up the head and you can see what's inside:

Found in "Minute Glimpes of American Cities" by Herbert S.  Kates. Published by Grosset and Dunlap, 1933.

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A Flower For Ruth

 Small illustrated card; "Ruth" written in pencil on front side.

On the reverse side is written "Ruth Scofield N.Y. 1907"

Found in "A System of Modern Geography" by S. Augustus Mitchell. Published by Cowperthwait, Desilver  & Butler, 1855.

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Sound And Fury

 Trade card, text reads "Espagne. Au Son Des Castagnettes."

Found in "Poems by Helen Jackson" published by Roberts Brothers, 1892.

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That's So Jeff

Illustration by Michael Twohy. Written at the top:

That's You, Jeff! - L

Found in "James Herriot's Treasury for Children" published by St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Delightful

Collection of various illustrations.

All found in "Home as Found" by James Fenimore Cooper. Published by Houghton Mifflin, no date listed.

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The Neighs Have It

Small illustrated card, no writing or printing on reverse.

Found in "The Yellowstone Nature Book" by M.P. Skinner. Published by A.C. McClurg, 1924.


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Churros

Comic. It looks like this is a photocopy; the original template comes from Ryan North's well-known Dinosaur Comics. I don't believe this is North's original work.

Found in "Neuromancer" by William Gibson. Published by Ace Books, 2000.

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The Masters

Collection of engraved portraits, I'm not sure of their true origin.

Found in "The English Ditties: Selected From W. Chappell's 'Popular Music of the Olden Time'" edited by J. Oxenford. Published by Chappell & Co., no date listed.

One tune you might recognize:

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I'll Try Anything Once

"Felix The Cat" illustrations, likely a cover from a book or comic. On the reverse is written:

If found return to Donald Ralph Vosburgh (State Police)

I think there's a little doodle of a knife and a pew-pew gun.

Found in "Marcella: A Raggedy Ann Story" by Johnny Gruelle. Published by Donohue, 1929.

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To Battle

Two illustrations featuring the United States battleships Illinois and Maine. There's actually a third, but just another copy of the Illinois.

Found in "Uncle Sam's Panama Canal and World History" by Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Published by World Syndicate Co., 1913.

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