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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1930.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's frog riding a lizard.  From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brownie and His Friends by Gates & Karabin, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
Ice crystals avoid one another while growing (middle photo).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1928 yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1968 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From India, A Country Study, edited by Heitzman and Worden, 1996.
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Old News (permalink)
"He called her 'Pretty Monkey.'"  From Snappy Stories, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan College's 1914 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.
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