French illusionist Henri Robin in an 1863 promotional image by photographer Eugène Thiébault.
vintage photography
Silent Sundays: Salvador Dalí (1940)
Salvador Dali painting La Cara de la Guerra (The Face of War) in 1940.
Silent Sundays: 13 Decapitated Soldiers (1910)
Thirteen decapitated soldiers, an early example of trick photography, photographer unknown, 1910 (via This is Colossal and The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
The Year of Halloween 