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The Sphere, England, November 5, 1927
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The Sphere, England, November 5, 1927
Image © The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.
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Heim der Jugend, 1905
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The Boston Globe, Massachusetts, June 25, 1899
No cats were harmed in the making of this illustration! Wikipedia says that Fliegende Blätter was a humor and satire magazine.
And it’s also apparently the first place this duck-rabbit optical illusion appeared (in 1892):

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Hasenbuch (rabbit book), K.F.E. von Freyhold, 1908
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The Alma Enterprise, Kansas, May 4, 1923
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Chicago Tribune, Illinois, December 15, 1912
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Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico, October 10, 1946
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The Evening News, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June 29, 1918
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San Francisco Chronicle, California, June 16, 1870
We keep no saucy girls..
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Proud papa, Germany, ca. 1910
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New Berne Weekly Journal, North Carolina, January 11, 1907
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, August 4, 1907
The Bend Bulletin, Oregon, May 1, 1945
“It is announced that our fuehrer, Adolf Hitler, this afternoon at his command post in the reichschancellory, fighting till his last breath against bolshevism, fell for Germany.”
“..marked by his heroic death..”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 23, 1901
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, November 17, 1907