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Restoring the Lost Sense – November 23, 2014

From Life and Death by D. Lambden Flemming, 1873.

See also this collection of 112 cocktail recipes to be drunk in remembrance of the dead: Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.

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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #grim reaper #alcoholism #alcohol #1870s #alcohol poisoning #illustration #one for the road

Do-Re-Midi – November 15, 2014

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"The goslings of melody," from The New Hyperion by Edward Strahan, 1875.

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#vintage illustration #geese #1870s #illustration #goslings

Restoring the Lost Sense – November 14, 2014

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From Berlin Under the New Empire by Henry Vizetelly, 1879.

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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #crushed #1870s #illustration #crushing

Precursors – October 12, 2014

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Here's a precursor to the flamboyant Cockettes (founded 1969), from the medieval land of contraries, Cockayne. From Carols of Cockayne by Henry Sambrooke Leigh, 1874.

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#vintage illustration #high kick #1870s #transvestism #illustration #cross dressing #transvestite #cabaret #cockettes #Cockaigne #Cockayne

Restoring the Lost Sense – September 25, 2014

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From A Little Tour in Ireland by S. R. Hole, 1878.

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#vintage illustration #goat #great beast #1870s #illustration

Restoring the Lost Sense – June 20, 2014

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Like a stopped clock, she was correct twice a day. (The caption reads, "She stopped, like a clock.") This bit of time suspension is from Cornhill, 1875.

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#vintage illustration #1870s

Restoring the Lost Sense – April 22, 2014

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An illustration from an 1873 issue of The Quiver magazine. The caption reads: "The haunt of rook and raven, bat and owl. Drawn by A. H. Wall."

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#haunted #bat #owl #manor house #mansion #raven #1870s #abandoned #elegant decay

Restoring the Lost Sense – April 2, 2014

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An illustration from an 1876 issue of The Quiver magazine. The caption reads: "A mansion of the past." J adds: "and of the future—when it gets used as a stock exterior in various BBC series."

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#haunted house #time travel #vintage #mansion #1870s

Strange Dreams – December 14, 2013

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An illustration from The Day of Wonders by M. Sullivan (1879). The caption reads: "The letters ... tired of lying still."

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#alphabet #dream #fantastical #1870s #letters #language

Restoring the Lost Sense – October 27, 2013

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If it's the last dance, let it be with a goat. From an 1870 issue of London Society Illustrated magazine.

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#demon #devil #satan #death #love #goat man #vintage #goat #great beast #dance #lucifer #1870s #illustration #masque #mummer #olde worlde #great god pan #horned god

Precursors – July 3, 2013

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The (seemingly improbable) fourth side of a triangle, identified in this comic panel from Punch (1871), wasn't officially measured until 1993 by the University of Adelaide's B. F. Sherman (Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 5).

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#vintage illustration #triangle #1870s #illustration #mathematics

Strange Dreams – May 11, 2013

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An illustration from an 1873 issue of Punch magazine. The caption reads: "Currant Jelly."

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#vintage illustration #nightmare #rabbit #1870s #illustration #jelly #currants

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 8, 2013

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An illustration from an 1876 issue of Punch magazine.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #lion #1870s

Disguised as a Christmas Tree – May 3, 2013

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The absurd angles of this person disguised as a Christmas-type tree are from Punch, April 2, 1870.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #geometry #1870s #euclid #angular #illustration #math #strange math #weird math

Precursors – March 10, 2013

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Twenty years before George Vernon Hudson proposed daylight saving time, Father Time advanced the clock in Father Time's Story Book by Kathleen Knox (1873).

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#vintage illustration #father time #1870s #daylight saving time #illustration

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – February 21, 2013

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There's something about the lettering styles of the late 60s and early 70s ... no matter whether we're talking about 1860-70 or 1960-70.

"Revolution" lettering by Alan Aldridge. The Sunday Magazine lettering is, of course, from the early 1870s.

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#typography #design #1870s #1970s #seventies #70s

Staring Into the Depths – December 14, 2012

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An illustration from an 1879 issue of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly magazine. The caption reads: "He grew into a fashion of dropping his pen, or holding it idly in his fingers, and picturing dreamily sketches not written out for mortal ken, but only for his heart's comfort."

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#vintage illustration #1870s #vintage man #man

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – July 23, 2012

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Our work on Platonic solids tumbling through time is entitled Astragalomancy. It's all about how to divine the meanings of 21 discrete dice throws.

Knowledge of ancient Greek divination rituals is unnecessary. The simple interpretations are clear-cut, based upon specific, indisputable references to history, mathematics, literature, mythology, and arcane sciences from around the world.

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This illustration of Lady Luck appears in Punch, 1877.

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