From the archives of the State Library of New South Wales comes a set of hilarious photographs that depict the five stages of inebriation.
Shot by photographer Charles Percy Pickering, the staged pictures show a man acting sober to being cross-eyed, to finally passing out.
According to the library, they may have been “commissioned by a local temperance group for educative purposes”, and might have been used by an engraver for illustrations.
Check out the rest of the photographs below.
[via Retronaut, images via State Library of New South Wales]