Restoring the Lost Sense

An illustration from an 1896 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "The ball took the eye out of the portrait of our great-grandfather who came over the Mayflower."

An illustration from an 1894 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "My library did not seem to afford him the kind of reading matter he craved."

An illustration from an 1871 issue of Godey's magazine.  The caption reads: "Where is the night key?"

An illustration from a 1916 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Life itself is only a vision, a dream."

In the grand manner of spirit photography we see two spectral ladies join the pair when the Google scanner catches some sanguine bleed through.  Illustration from an 1847 issue of Godey's magazine.

An illustration from a 1901 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "So haunted at moonlight with bat and owl and ghostly moth."

An illustration from a 1900 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "Mr. Hunt observes the fate of the hypnotist."

An illustration from a 1904 issue of The Strand magazine.  The caption reads: "The carpet wants you to let it go to its old home."

An illustration from a 1915 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Lazar had forgotten everything but the sense of immortal ecstasy."

An accidental androgyne courtesy of the Google scanning machine:  illustrations from an 1877 issue of Godey's magazine.

An illustration from an 1890 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "It was like a black worm swaying its blind head to and fro."

An illustration from a 1906 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine.  The caption reads: "She tried it, but the boy cried."

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Hampton's magazine.

It's been said that like a poet, a golfer is born and not made.  It may all boil down to a baby's affiliation with fairies.  The illustration is from Punch, 1892.

An illustration from an 1869 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The wise man's home changed."

An illustration from a 1907 issue of The Strand magazine.

An illustration from an 1877 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "Almost unconsciously Sue sang to the night."

An illustration from a 1905 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "One of the new German kindergarten appliances."

A surrealist illustration from a 1906 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.  The caption reads: "A yawning chasm, to fall into which meant at least a broken neck."

Dedicated to Jordan Wright.