From Our Abecedarian Blog . . .

Today — May 22, 2026
	Precursors (permalink) 48 years before the debut of the Pillsbury Doughboy mascot, there was this doughboy.  From A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron and illustrated by Elizabeth Colbourne, 1917. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Precursors . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Archive, 1926. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Red Herring, April 1994. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Wee Wisdom, 1937. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From Grimm's Fairy Tales Retold In One-Syllable Words, 1899. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) "Fanny was fussy."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) A vision of 3000 A.D.  From Barnard College's 1984 yearbook. . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) "Passions under control."  From Mental Disease by Peter Michaels. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1919 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Old News (permalink) From Fate Magazine, 1956. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Old News . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Lafayette College's 1909 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Images Moving Through Time (permalink) INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to an alternate depiction from within the book. From The Wreck of the Red Bird by George Cary Eggleston, 1882. . . . read more from Images Moving Through Time . . .

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink) From Muskingum College's 1932 yearbook. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Children's Newspaper, 1926. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink) From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936. Click to view a larger image . . . read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .