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Today — April 11, 2026

Old News (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1917.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to progress the drawing. From The Teaching of Drawing by I. H. Morris, 1893.

From The Teaching of Drawing by I. H. Morris, 1893
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's puppet watching a puppet show is from Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Who am I?  From Skeptikko, 1996.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Now stop the action and look again."  From Walla Walla College's 1970 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1921.
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Pish tosh!"  "And I think she means it."  From The Addams Family, 1965.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1932 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Second Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1881.
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Old News (permalink)
"Houses of copper shining gloriously in the sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Days we remember."  From Wheaton College's 1928 yearbook.
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