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Today — September 16, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Principles of Decoration by R. G. Hatton, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cartwheels by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You don't understand the Devil.  You never knew him."  From Canada's answer to Dark Shadows, Strange Paradise episode 7.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1920.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal an alternate illustration.
From Good Stories by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.

Click to reveal an alternate illustration.  From Good Stories by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The All-Seeing Eye, 1923.
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1913.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1931 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Power through realism."  From Emerson College's 1932 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College's 1930 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1929 yearbook.
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