“A dude”, 1886. Published in the poetry section of the January issue of The Undergraduate, Middlebury’s newspaper.
From Pinterest I came across this great tumblr called Text Mode gathers “A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years.” Note the image above of a visual poem about “A Dude” from 1886. Included are all sorts of examples from typewriter art to animations to historical emoticons.