But Oh! What Havoc He Made! (1902)

Ellen Velvin, “Rataplan, Rogue,” Illustrated by Gustave Verbeek, Rataplan, a Rogue Elephant, and Other Stories (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1902), frontispiece.

Bat before the Moon (1910)

Biho Takashi, Bat before the Moon, ca. 1910. Woodblock color print, 9 1/4 x 9 9/16 in. (23.5 x 24.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Dr. Eleanor Z. Wallace, 2007.32.4

Please, Mr. Bear, Will You Have a Cake? (1898)

 

Annis Lennoys, “Chinese Fairy Tales for Young and Old: No. 3—The Children Who Fed the Bear of Shang-te,”  Illustrated by Lawson Wood, Pearson’s Magazine 5 (January–June 1898): 619.

They Saw Him Begin to Go Round and Round the Robe, Counting the Quills (1917)

Francis Jenkins Olcott,  The Red Indian Fairy Book for the Children’s Own Reading and for Story-Tellers, Illustrations by Frederick Richardson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917), 150

A False Alarm (1901)

A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals, pictures by Percy J. Billinghurst (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1901), 11. 

The Birds Were Asleep, Except for Old Solomon Caw (1912)

“Peter Pan,” illustrated by Frederick Richardson. Harriet Taylor Treadwell and Margaret Free, Second Reader, Adapted and Graded (Chicago: Row, Peterson, and Co., 1912),  173.

Foxes for Horses (1917)

“From Tobytown by Chandler A Oates,” Bookseller, Newsdealer, & Stationer Holiday Number (November 15, 1917): 676.

“It Is Pleasant to Be Beautiful,” Said the Porcupine (1886)

“Rabbit and Porcupine,” Illustrated by Pruett Share. Laura E. Richards, ed., Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet: Furry and Feathery Pets and How They Live (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1886), 145. 

Awaiting Developments (1885)

“Their First Experience—Awaiting Developments” drawn by Culmer Barnes. Harper’s Young People 6 (June 16, 1885): cover.

Maternal Counsel (1885)

“Maternal Counsel,” drawn by W. Hamilton Gibson. Harper’s Young People 6 (January 27, 1885): 201.

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.