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But Oh! What Havoc He Made! (1902)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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“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)

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“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)

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“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)

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

Maternal Counsel (1885)

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

Fairies—Truly Fairies, Midst the Trees (1908)

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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)

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

Aunt Carrie Winds the Clock (1877)

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

A Game of Croquet without Rules (1885)

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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)

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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)

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

University of Virginia Yearbook, Clubs and Organizations (1922)

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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)

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“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)

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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)

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

The Term Border Is Fairly Comprehensive (1903)

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Lewis F. Day, Pattern Design : A Book for Students Treating in a Practical Way of the Anatomy, Planning, & Evolution of Repeated Ornament (London: B.T. Batsford, 1903), 220.

The Kiln at Dale Was Situated Just Outside the Abbey Gate-House (1890)

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John Ward. “Notes on Encaustic Tiles, Dell Abbey and Morely, Derbyshire.” The Reliquary Quarterly 4 (Jan.–Oct. 1890): 220.

Thus the Child Learns Measuring and Its Value in Designing (1912)

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Austin Craig, “Stick Laying,” Primer of Industry (New York: World Book Company, 1912), 17.

Every Part of a Room Has Its Possibilities for Beauty (1901)

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Chesire Lowton Boone, “Clay Working in the School,” Year Book of the Council of Supervisors of the Manual Arts Volume 5 (Worster, Mass.: The Davis Press, 1901) 70.

New Patterns in Book-End Papers (1892)

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Supplement to The British Bookmaker 58 (April 1892).