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The Right Word – May 29, 2020

We use measuring tape as a bookmark so that we're always ready for big words. From The Film Daily, 1937. See Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #dictionary #smart animal #big word

Yearbook Weirdness – May 25, 2020

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"The pleasant books, that silently among our household treasures take familiar places, and are to us as if a living tongue spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces."

From East Carolina's 1930 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#calligraphy #books #hand lettering #vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 15, 2020

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This is us, digging up your favorite posts on the internet. From Woroni, 1982.

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#vintage illustration #books #scholar #studying

Yearbook Weirdness – May 12, 2020

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Buried in books. From Millikin's 1913 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #student #buried in books #scholar

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 6, 2020

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From Black On White: The Story of Books by M. Ilin, 1932.

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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy. We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free. The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]

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#vintage illustration #books #1930s #library #latin manuscript

Old News – May 5, 2020

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That's quite similar to the face we made the last time we tried to arrange a bouquet of eggs. From Bouquet of Eggs by Genevieve Bowdoin.

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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #vintage headline #eggs #headline

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – May 3, 2020

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I think I've read this one.

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#old book

Restoring the Lost Sense – May 2, 2020

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From Twilight Zone magazine, 1981 (courtesy of Archive.org).

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#vintage illustration #skull face #horror #book #faces in things #flower

The Right Word – April 30, 2020

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"You will greatly oblige me by sending those books." From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.

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#books #literacy #sentence diagram #send books

Yearbook Weirdness – April 28, 2020

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Catching wisdom between two kites, from atop a mountain of books. From Henderson's 1910 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kite

Yearbook Weirdness – April 27, 2020

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We initially misread this to say, "Books often give way more to important pastimes." From Canton Community College's 1967 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#books #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #college #student

This May Surprise You – April 23, 2020

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Yes, even Uncle Sam uses a ghost writer. Here's an "as told to" autobiography (when it comes to Uncle Sam, of course, history is autobiography): The Unpopular History of the United States by Uncle Sam Himself As Recorded in Uncle Sam's Own Words by Harris Dickson, 1917.

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#vintage illustration #uncle sam #old book

Yearbook Weirdness – April 18, 2020

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It's dangerous for a book to carry a torch. From Elmhurst's 1944 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #illustration #torch

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought – April 17, 2020

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Unusual to see a byline shared with elm trees. Yet who better than hedge-row elms to know about the countryside? And Mr. Woodward is aptly named, for whether we head woodward, hillockward, mountainward, rivuletward, or valleyward, we'll undoubtedly learn to enjoy the countryside. From How to Enjoy the Countryside by Marcus Woodward, undated.

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#old book #countryside

Yearbook Weirdness – April 6, 2020

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From Ohio Wesleyan University's 1923 yearbook.An illustration by D. Beck for Ohio Wesleyan's 1923 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #gem #diamond #radiant

Yearbook Weirdness – April 5, 2020

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A throne atop a giant book. Yet he didn't remove his shoes. From Monmouth's 1913 yearbook.

What is this theme of shoes on books? Also pictured is one from Bennett's 1966 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant book #throne

Restoring the Lost Sense – April 4, 2020

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You noticed how dumbed-down movies are, and here's why -- the dictionary ran out in 1934. In case viewers couldn't follow the simple statement, both the projection room and dictionary are labeled. The artist put the book title on the back cover. From The Film Daily, 1934.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dictionary #1930s #dumbed down #walking dictionary

Yearbook Weirdness – March 29, 2020

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Reblog if you walk through the valley of giant books.

From Mary Washington's 1947 yearbook.

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*For some unbelievably weird yearbook imagery, see our How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant books

Restoring the Lost Sense – March 28, 2020

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Manx Crosses, or, The Inscribed and Sculptured Monuments of the Isle of Man From About the End of the Fifth to the Beginning of the Thirteenth Century by P. M. C. Kermode, 1907.

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