Fairies—Truly Fairies, Midst the Trees (1908)

Maude Morse Robin, “At the End of the Moonlight Way,” Illustration by A.M. Upjohn, Good Housekeeping 47 (August 1908): 159.

“Nothing but a Dog,” Said the Boy (1897)

“How ‘The Skipper’ Was Saved,” The Quiver (1897): 179.

Aunt Carrie Winds the Clock (1877)

“Aunt Carrie Winds the Clock,” St. Nicholas IV (March 1877): back cover.

A Game of Croquet without Rules (1885)

Peter Newell. “A Game of Croquet without Rules,” Harper’s Young People VI (June 30, 1885): 552.

Up, Up, My Hounds, ’Tis Lillie Comes (1865)

Harold King, “The Golden Wedding in the Workhouse,” Once a Week, an Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science & Popular Information 1 (December 1, 1865):  34.

Bruna Leads Nona into the Cave (1876)

“The Good-Natured Bear,” St. Nicholas IV (December 1876): 37.

University of Virginia Yearbook, Clubs and Organizations (1922)

Corks and Curls 35 (1922): 359.

This image, or any like series, was not in my plans to post to Abaculi, but after I discovered the image Wednesday night in a 1922 UVA yearbook, it seemed an apt moment to publish. How do we begin to talk openly and honestly about a culture that normalized images of terror to the point that one could be used so lightly as an illustration for the club section of a (then all white male university) yearbook. How do the images and attitudes normalized in earlier decades allow for, or influence, what happens sixty, eighty, or nearly one hundred years later?

A Bouquet of Snow Blossoms (1866)

“Snow Flowers,”  Once a Week, an Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science I (Jan-June 1866): 12. 

There Is No Occupation in the Kinder Garten Which Affords so Wide a Field for the Gratification of the Imagination and the Exercise of the Artistic Faculties (1879)

Johann and Bertha Ronge, A Practical Guide to the English Kinder-Garten (Children's Garden): For the Use of Mothers, Governesses, and Infant Teachers : Being an Exposition of Froebel's System of Infant Training : Accompanied by a Variety of Instructive and Amusing Games, and Industrial and Gymnastic Exercises, Also Numerous Songs Set to Music, and Arranged for the Exercises (London: A.N. Myers & Co., 1879), 41.

Little Snow Stars (1899)

Ellen M. Cyr, The Children’s Primer (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899), 99.