This is a silhouette of the Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon) made by my friend Jay and I. It is optimized for cutting on a Cricut.
Well, not all people in the past were stuffy like the Victorians. This woman from 1916 (it depicts a "Miss Hinman Bird") was doing a quite sexy dance as "Goddess of Dawn" in some weird artsy dance production. Wild!
"I shot the turkey but I did not shoot the deputy!" this guy is handing a murdered bird over to a couple in order to help the celebrate the american Thanksgiving holiday. I suppose this is back in the day when you would take a fresh one home and then pluck it yourself.
Two young lovers, in a field, exchanging a valentines day card. Awwww, so cute, right? Well, except the poem that accompanied this super old picture (from the 1910 Los Angeles Herald) seemed somehow profane:
"Jack Horner wrote a valentine. Bo Peep, sweet maid. My heart is thine; Let me tend your flock, rest beside my haycock, I'll share my pie if you'll be mine."