Nothing needs to gel with that........ sorry, but all of those layouts are rather bad.
Also, I never saw a number start with 'eighteen hundred' before.
This is really a good example of how important a good layout/design really is. All the effects, pictures and doo-dads won't help poor execution of elements. Get rid of all that and place things for a nice clean flow and insert whatever effects for where it could be used at the end. If a ginormous picture is required, then make that your focal point, but don't annihilate the name in doing so.