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![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Chatterbox-1916/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-386x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
Some pictures scanned from the Chatterbox Annual from 1916. Chatterbox was a magazine for boys published weekly in the UK from 1866 to the mid 1950s, and in the US from 1870 to 1933; I have a US edition. Project Gutenberg has a copy of the 1905 edition.
Title: Chatterbox Annual
Date: 1916
Total items: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Panting was his heart with fright]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Chatterbox-1916/wm/big/397-panting-was-his-heart-with-fright-q85-163x200.jpg "[picture: Panting was his heart with fright]")
Panting was his heart with fright
A dog is leaping in chase after a rabbit; another rabbit looks on nervously in the background. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Children with their teacher]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Chatterbox-1916/wm/big/000-Title-Page-detail-children-read-to-teacher-q75-229x200.jpg "[picture: Children with their teacher]")
![[picture: They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberately]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Chatterbox-1916/wm/big/396-they-knelt-on-the-seat-and-fired-deliberately-q75-164x200.jpg "[picture: They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberately]")
They knelt on the seat, and fired deliberately
It’s winter, and the horses are pulling the sleigh over the snow and through the forest, with wolves in hot pursuit. The young people (teens?) in the back are firing their rifles at the wolves. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Chatterbox-1916/wm/big/000-Front-Cover-q75-154x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover]")
The front cover of the 1916 Chatterbox annual features a picture of a crafty boy using an umbrella to shield himself from snowballs thrown at him by other children. There is also a higher resolution (enlarged) version of the snowball fight. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title Page]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Chatterbox-1916/wm/big/000-Title-Page-q75-147x200.jpg "[picture: Title Page]")
The ornate title page from the 1916 Chatterbox annual. There are pictures of a girl with straw on her head, a group of children reading, or perhaps singing, to a lady I take to be their teacher; a boy climbing tree; acorns, flowers and leaves. [...]group of singing children. [more...] [$]
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