The Proposal (1891)

Frank R. Stockton, “The Squirrel Inn—V,” The Century 42 (September 1891): 702.

Daring Rescue at a Tenement Fire with the Searchlight’s Aid (1908)

“Daring Rescue at a Tenement Fire, with the Searchlight’s Aid,” Drawn by Arthur E. Jameson, Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly Newspaper 145 (February 6, 1908): cover. 

She Waves Her Hand to the Attendant Raven, & with a Rush that Sends a Spirtle of Bright Sparks up from the Embers, She Is Away—up the Chimney through the Overhanging Branches, through the Ragged Clouds, & far on Her Journey under the Stars (1908)

Oliver Madox Hueffer, The Book of Witches, (London: Eveliegh Nash, 1908): frontispiece.

[Curator's note; this is from a poor quality scan and normally it would not have been collected here, but I found the image so compelling even with the degradation—or perhaps because of it—that I did what I could to soften the worst of compression noise and went forward.]

A.S. Wilkinson Illustrations Tales to Tell (1910)

from Tales to Tell (1910), Nesbit, May, & Vrendenburg