Restoring the Lost Sense

Jack Frost and a parsnip from Mother Earth's Children by Elizabeth Gordon, 1914.

"About this time there occurred a strange incident."  A preliminary drawing for a 1950 strip cartoon version of Animal Farm from the cartoonist Norman Pett and his writing partner Donald Freeman.

"Ravioli 'Dave' -- no credit, no money, no business, no phone."

You've heard of a seafood croquette, but here's what the game of fish croquet looks like.  From Geographic Society of Chicago Bulletin, 1913.

From the San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives.  (The enlargement of the mysterious "face" is our own.)

The angel of peace contracted cholera, from Die Muskete, 1912.

From Once a Week, 1864.

Here are some of the luminaries from "Lantern City," in A Traveller's True Tale by Alfred J. Church and illustrated by C. O. Murray, 1880.

"A woman throwing boxes of the cough-remedy Pulmoserina at lions, representing the ability of Pulmoserina to provide defence against respiratory diseases."  From 1920.

"One day the dreary old King Death, / Inclined for some sport with the carnal; / So he took his shaft, well used to that craft, / And quietly stole from his charnel."  Color lithograph by Edward Hull, 1827.

From Stories of India's Gods and Heroes by W. D. Monro, 1911.

The third figure from the right has two heads that don't see eye to eye.  The postcard was originally scanned by UpNorth Memories.  (For those intrigued by Janus-faced figures, our Oracle of the Two-Fold Gods is finally in print again, and the first 57 pages are viewable here.  [Note that the preview may take a few moments to load.])