CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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January 31, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The first time we were invited to a banquet, this is what we imagined.  We should have gone.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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The Right Word (permalink)
When the enemy is upon you, just "m-m-b-l-m-b-l-m."  From The Judge, 1917.    See Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.
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The Right Word (permalink)
"And yet—" [a very long dash followed by an isosceles triangle of asterisks].  From Possessed by Cleveland Moffett, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1894.
[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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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"The whole world is governed largely by intuition, which is a method of knowing, without knowing why."  From The Occult and Biological Journal, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Thus the horror and apprehension of a supernatural visitation terminated in a joyous wedding, which was consummated in the same chamber where the innocent Rosina had twice filled her lover with inexpressible alarm."  From "The Haunted Inn" in Ghost Stories, 1846.
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Old News (permalink)
It does take balls to model atom formations.  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.  The headline reads, "Models of atom formatinos shown with balls."
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chinese Clay Figures by Berthold Laufer, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894. 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Finis" by Charles Ricketts.  From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.
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January 30, 2018

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Cold Steal, by Alice Tilton:

***

But that habit of hovering was one of the things which Leonidas did not like about young Mr. Dow. He could find no fault with the actual quality of the hovering. It was deft and amiable and ingratiating. Mr. Dow was not a one to push. What troubled Leonidas was so much hovering.

***

"The Street Cleaning Department is mother's pet topic, next to what does she pay taxes for, anyway, she'd like to know, if."

***

"The House Moderne has gone to her head."

***

"When I was a puling infant, I remember seeing Swiss Chard scurrying in Medora's background, making lists and doing things up in brown paper packages. She's kept the brown paper industry booming."

***

The back-door chimes sounded, and at the same time... the front door.

"What do you do in a case like this?" Leonidas asked. "When you're alone, which do you answer first?"

"The nearest, unless the phone starts to ring, too, and then I ignore all of them."

***

[Spurious Quotations dept.]

He had held generations of boys at Meredith's in check by quoting just such hastily invented lines at them. There was something about a quotation from Shakespeare, even spur-of-the-minute Shakespeare, that seemed to stop people in their tracks.

***

[Bertie Wooster Couldn't Have Said It Better dept.]

"I am not," Leonidas continued swiftly, "experienced in the art of aunt-hunting, but I question your methods. If I had lost an aunt, and if I thought she might be in a given house, I should unhesitatingly ring doorbells and make polite and pointed inquiries. I should not lurk on snow-bound terraces, sneaking--"

"Who sneaked?" the girl demanded.

Leonidas took from his pocket the barber-pole lipstick....

"From this," Leonidas said, "I can only conclude that you have done considerable sneaking over a period of time."

***

"Tell me, how many varieties of Dalton are there?"

"Fifteen," Leonidas said.

"Seventeen," Cassie corrected him. "East Dalton, West Dalton, North Dalton, South Dalton, Dalton Hills,  Dalton Farms,  Dalton Centre [note the pretentious spelling!],  Dalton Village,  Dalton Falls,  Dalton Upper Falls,  Dalton [you guessed it] Lower Falls,  Daltondale, Daltonville,  Daltonham,  Dalton Landing,  Daltonwood--how many is that?"

"Enough," Leonidas said. "Do I gather that you got to the wrong Dalton, Miss Horn?"

"I got to more wrong  Daltons that [sic] I would have believed possible."

***

"Not, as my esteemed mother says, not on your tintype! No, sir!"

***

"The Blodgetts built it. He was a caterer, you know, and I always felt he let one of his pastry cooks design the house on his day off."

[...]

Cassie had erred on the side of restraint in describing Medora Winthrop's house. You could not attribute an edifice like that to one poor pastry cook. Flocks of pastry cooks must have made Blodgett's house their life work.

***

I've never felt so Columbus-and-the-eggy in my life," Cassie said.

***

"I've never in all my life been as utterly thwarted as I've been today, Cassie. Just one thwart, as you might say, after another."

***

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The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine (permalink)
From a ghost's autobiography: The Story of My Life by the late Colonel Meadows Taylor, 1878.  For an explanation of how this scanned page captures a genuine spirit, see that remarkable book The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine, which makes good on its promises of real ghosts, actual hauntings, and necromancy by proxy.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #architecture #faces in things #illustration #building face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The heart line.  From A Guide to Palmistry by Eliza Easter Henderson, 1893.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The demon with the matted hair."  From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #nicotine #cigarette #illustration #smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcoholism #monkey #alcohol #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Everything is wrong!"  From Cartoons Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #turkey #illustration #wrong
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Old News (permalink)
"Three sunsets seen in hour."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #sunset #vintage headline #illustration #many suns #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #illustration #toga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales of Enchantment, illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #illustration #sad king
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #ballet #ballerina #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

[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 #demon #grotesque #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #explosion #thrown clear #crash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #faces in things #illustration #haunted laundry #clothes line
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
[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 #goat #rabbits #rooster #duck #illustration #menagerie #indoor pet
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January 29, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
True even today -- the mask of science.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mask #jackass #big science
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dentist with a pickax.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #dentist #dental horror #mad dentist #pickax #fear of dentists
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #wee folk #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #current mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #alchemist #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #modern art #illustration #art history
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Old News (permalink)
Some heartwarming news: "Coldest cold ever produced still has a little heat."  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The New Jersey 'What-Is-It,' as Nelson Evans says he saw it on his shed roof at 2 a.m."  From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #monster #hybrid #illustration #cryptozoology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #donkey head #donkey headed #illustration #donkey mask #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Allegories by Frederic W. Farrar, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #in chains #illustration #tenderness
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #raised by wolves #wolf cub #nature boy #feral child #mowgli #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #illustration #art
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #illustration #tidal wave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull and crossbones #mustache #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1919. 
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#vintage illustration #decapitated #illustration #lost his head #film lover #film reel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #skull #gravestone #illustration
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January 28, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Far up the heights of wild Tibet / They say this beast is living yet."  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #monster #beast #tibet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #occult
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"The Muses are not the only pagan divinities who preserved their influence over mankind in modern times; for every age has its sirens, and every siren her votaries."  From Wonder of the World!! Fairburn's Account of the Mermaid, 1822.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #nest #rooftop #illustration #stork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Jumping off the great red log on the fire was a most lovely little man."  From Golden Curl by F. A. E. A., 1882.
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#vintage illustration #fire demon #imp #fireplace #tiny man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Molly and the Devil-fish."  From Whispers from Fairyland by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1875.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult #fortune telling #illustration #magic box #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #jesus #deity #war dead #buddha #1900s #war and peace #illustration #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alter Ejusdem by James Archibald Sidey, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #nose #long nose #runny nose #sinuses #plumber #faucet nose #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #animals #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #monocle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1919. 
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #scarecrow #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The son of seven mothers."  From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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Old News (permalink)
"The night-blooming serious."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #river styx #1930s #illustration
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January 27, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not at the horse show.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #centaur #seahorse #horse show
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The ships in the church."  From St. Nicholas, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #church #as above so below #illustration #ships #toy ship
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Celestia, I make you Fairy of the stars."  From The Kingdom of the Good Fairies by Adrienne Roucolle, 1898.
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#vintage photo #fairy queen #star fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.  Previously, this lady was shocked by a similar pose.  This lady, too.  And so was this cat.
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#vintage illustration #yoga #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the midst tripped the hot-water bottle."  From The Flint Heart by Eden Phillpotts, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When harpies attack.  From Jugend, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #harpy #illustration #harpies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #gay innuendo #men's underwear #vintage underwear #underwear #art #ad
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's Magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #skull #locomotive #giant skull #illustration #death train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Six soap bubbles inside one another, from The Windsor Magazine, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #soap bubbles #nesting bubbles #illustration
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A planchette dances with a tipping seance table.  From Pall Mall, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales From All Nations by Anthony Montalba and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1850.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #halloween #spirits #graveyard #spooky #ghosts #october #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #horse #whip #tables turned #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #bat #cherub #war and peace #illustration #peace angel #gorgon
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January 26, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
A gargoyle is thinking of you.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Short dresses are trimmed by ... His Satanic Majesty!  From The Judge, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #volcano #exotic
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Beginning with a Bash, by Alice Tilton:

***

"First Boston dowager I ever saw outside of a 'New Yorker' cartoon." She lowered her voice. "Hat teed high on her head, black velvet band around her neck. And you know without any doubt that the diamond in it is real as hell--"

[I like the idea of realness as being subject to degrees--a little bit real, fairly real, very real, real as hell--rather than being an either/or thing.]

***

"This stranger--can't we name him?"

"X," Dot said promptly. "All strangers are X. It's a law, or something."

***

[Marginalia dept.!]

"On looking through the book, I discovered certain vague pencilled comments in what I think must be North's own handwriting.... The marginalia... concern his thoughts not only on the subject matter of Phineas Twitchett, D.D. [Silly Fictitious Author name dept.], but practically everything else under the sun. I've known several people who had that habit of writing down their thoughts when they read a book, whether or not they concerned the book or its contents, at all."

***

"I recall... the law student who wanted Sullivan on Land Titles, published in 1801. Why 1801, I'm sure I can't imagine."

"Perhaps it was a favorite date of his."

***

"Did this red feather thing have like a red plume, dripping off from one side? Did it?"

"I was gradually working up to that, yes. It was the climax."

[...]

"I could tell that hat blindfolded. I could tell it if you was to put it in your pipe and smoke it."

***

"Grey eyes. That sort of grey-blue that looks at you and it seems like they seen you, but you might as well be a tin pie plate for all she cared."

***

He was calling on every saint he ever heard of, in order.

***

"I trust that the next passageway through which Providence forces me will be a reasonable forty-four. I'm not one of these women who feels she can do with a forty-two, which is the average size of all the passageways to date. I know my own limitations, or should I say unlimitations?"

***

Freddy['s]... snapping black eyes were hidden by a pair of black glasses, and... upper lip was adorned by an afterthought in the shape of a small moustache. He looked, Dot said, like a correspondence school freshman. [I'm not quite sure what she means by that, but I like it!]

***

Freddy surveyed them [underlings with whom he was dissatisfied] and then proceeded to give his vocabulary a thorough airing.

***

P.S. Two plot elements (SPOILERS) that I think are worthy of being noted:

1. When the protagonists, who have been chasing around in a stolen car for a while, are questioned by the police, it turns out that the "stolen" car actually belongs to one of the people driving it. Her companions, who acquired the car before picking her up, didn't realize the car they'd stolen was hers, and she hadn't bothered to mention it.

2. The storyline hinges on an embezzler who was subject to great absentmindedness and therefore had to leave a trail--for himself!--to the bonds he'd stolen and hidden.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The King of Topsy-turvy by Arthur Lillie, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #king #upside down #headstand #illustration #topsy turvy
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A "star circle" of spirits.  From Beyond the Vail by Jabez Hunt Nixon, 1901.
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#spiritualism #star #we are all made of stars #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swedish Fairy Tales by Herman Hofberg, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #demon #death #spectre #fairy tale #good and evil #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An apparition formed in full view."  From 'Twixt Two Worlds by John Stephen Farmer, 1886.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1944.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #sun #too bright #solar radiation #sun hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hard-headed business man (to shade of departed wife): Now, look here, Mary Ann, remember this is costing me over five dollars, and try to say something sensible!"  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #spiritualism #seance #illustration
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #harmonica #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #angel #fairy tale #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ocean #sea #waves #art
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.  
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#vintage illustration #illustration #library book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #crown #goose #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.   Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The sand within the space marked sank down," from Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 1901.
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January 25, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An ominous intimation that folk turn to mushrooms when others sleep.  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #metamorphosis #mushroom #mushroom people
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The entrance of the fairy cat in Whittington and His Cat, 1845.
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#fairy cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #playing cards #queen of hearts #queen of spades #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Death has a large hot-house on the other side of the lake.  From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #father time #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #giant #illustration #facade
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1919. 
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#vintage illustration #midnight oil #candle #hot seat #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
For fermented, read permeated.  For desire, read devise.  For moley, read motley.  "Two or three errors" [spoiler -- it's three] from The Michigan Journal of Education, 1860.
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#erratum #errata
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #wild animals #illustration #jungle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not the homes of unreal things.  From Prince Harold by Levant Frederick Brown, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #spider web #giant spider #illustration
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
"Just label it a queer puzzle, and put it away along with all the other queer puzzles."  From Furze the Cruel by John Trevena, 1908.
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#queer #puzzles of life #file it away
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Once a Week, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #princess #illustration #vizier
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Witch."  From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #broomstick #occult #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Noisy oysters interfer with ships' ears.  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#weird headline #vintage headline #oysters #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #giant #long beard #red beard #illustration #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #fairy tale #king #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Canard Sauvage, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #halo #god #holy family
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Form, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #tagore
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January 24, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The mustache fairy.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #mustache #moustache
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the band Art of Noise.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #noise band #noise music #art of noise
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Someone should write a cynic's birthday book with wicked epigrams and otherwise cynical sentiments for every day of the year.  From The Idler, 1894.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"That dreadful light burned into my brain."  From They that Sit in Darkness by John Mackie, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #storm #illustration
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
From Der Deutsche Kriegsbilderbogen, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #melting #faces in things #candle #illustration #candles with faces #candle face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #darkness #illustration #personal demons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The gypsy girl was sorting out the cards.  'Now cross my palm with gold,' she said."  From The Moving House by Pauline Bradford Mackie and illustrated by Howard E. Smith, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #card reader #gypsy #faun #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #phone call
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A ghost dog from Life, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #illustration #stork #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Fish learn to read alphabet."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The elf listening to the voice from the tree."  From Friends and Foes from Fairy Land by Lord Brabourne and illustrated by Linley Sambourne, 1886.   See also How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The toy princess."  From On a Pincushion by Mary de Morgan and illustrated by William de Morgan, 1877.

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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #orbit #polaris #solar system #diagram #roller coaster #amusement park #second sun #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #demon #homunculus #illustration #long tail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cat #mouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight
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January 23, 2018

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to dashing* humorist playwright Jonathan Caws-Elwitt for spotting our How to Be Your Own Cat and A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound at Quimby's Bookstore in Brooklyn.
*Jonathan is stylish, adventurous, and occasionally uses dashes** in his writing.
**He doesn't shy from going the full em dash, and he knows how to finesse an en dash when necessary.  He's no stranger to a non-breaking hypen (and that's not a minus).  We're confident that he could handle a horizontal bar (even if it had to be swung).
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precusor to the Eraserhead baby (with his toy train; aw, bless.)  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #david lynch #vintage magazine #eraserhead #eraserhead baby #lynchian #magazine
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the David Bowie lyric about "putting out fire with gasoline" ("Cat People," 1982).  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.  Speaking of cat people, see How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #fire #cat people #david bowie #putting out fire with gasoline #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Though these words apply eerily to a crystal ball, J. Milton Sanders is actually referring to a drop of water in The Crystal Sphere, Its Forces and Its Beings, 1857.  "Agencies are seen—like winged spirits of infinite power, each one working in its own peculiar way, and all to a common end—to produce, under the guidance of Omnipotent rule, the sheen of the midnight stars."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Professor Fiddlestix has a new string band."  From Judge's Library, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #beard #fashion #vintage fashion #musician #illustration #hat #vintage hat #incognito #men's hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #apparition #spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dreamland, by M. K. Lorens:

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"Oh, applesauce," I told him. "Look in your other pants."

"These are my other pants, blast you!"

***

From The Death of Corinne, by R. T. Raichev:

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["It's always nice to be given a choice of insults" dept.]

"Spoilsport," Lady Grylls said somewhat childishly. "Or wet blanket, if you prefer."

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She was so enraged that her turban shook.

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From A Temporary Ghost, by Mickey Friedman:

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It was as slick as a whistle and probably ninety-nine and forty-four one-hundredths percent horse manure.

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From Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones:

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Getting into Mrs. Fairfax's conversation was rather like getting into a skipping rope. You had to choose the exact moment, but once you were in, you were in.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #cat #balloons #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #giant snake #illustration #monster snake
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Rhetorical Answers, Questioned (permalink)
Whence, What, Where? by James R. Nichols, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In that sunbeam were six little fairies."  From The Saga of Jarl the Neatherd by H. Escott-Inman, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Q: "Is this monster locomotive a 'he' or a 'she'?"  (From Popular Mechanics, 1930.)
A: Where's the cure for cancer, eh?
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #vintage headline #big science #gender #headline #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #illustration #violins
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts #spiritualism #seance #postcard album #nice party #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #endowments #bequests #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
An illustration from an 1895 issue of Pall Mall magazine.  The caption reads: "She cautiously ventured one foot into the black-looking water."
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts #illustration #dark water
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #seaside #bird #illustration #heron #blond man #art
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January 22, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tag youself.  We're the decanter on the bedside table.  And that might sound weird, but Wendy Walker's sublime novel The Secret Service explains a Tibetan technique to transform oneself into an inanimate object like a crystal goblet.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #newborn #new mother
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Responding to our proof that all mirrors are magic mirrors, that reflections are real, and that we can literally drink the moon and the knowledge of the moon from a liquid mirror, George writes:

F-----------ck….that’s genius!

What a trip!!! In act one I couldn’t keep my eyes off of your glistening glasses but also not off of the marvellous multi-colored moon. Switching between the two gave me an instant high.

Act two brought a big smile on my face. The moon appearing, vibrating on the rhythm of your words, then disappearing again was a nice three act play all within itself.

“Lighting a candle never hurts” was put into practice when you helped me get to the end by leaving me in the worldly dark after lightning a fire within. 

Truly beautiful! Can’t wipe the smile off of my face.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The evolution of the bookworm, from the Harvard Lampoon via The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #metamorphosis #reading #evolution #bookworm #bookish #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Has a harlequin lion licked you today?  From Kladderadatsch, 1921.   See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #lion #harlequin #mustache #face licking
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"He had moods of mystery and dreaming and he wrote about very unusual things."  From Teaching, 1919.
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#mystery #dreaming #moods #edgar allan poe #unusual
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #beard #pipe smoker #eye #illustration #giant eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Vanishing Shadow by Margaret Sutton.
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#vintage illustration #mystery novel #shadow #vintage book #book #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fairy Tales, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bear #goldilocks #illustration #three bears
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The authors (one a spirit picture.)"  From Her Invisible Spirit Mate by Mrs. C. W. Glass, 1917.  See The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.
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#ghost #beard #vintage photo #spirit photograph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #u-shaped
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
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#invisible world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #faces in things #tree face
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Echoes of Life and Death by William Ernest Henley, 1908.
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#ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #mauled #other people's pets
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #ancient egypt #pharaoh #egyptian tomb #crypt #illustration #art
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"I was exposed to the mercy of the waves."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea #arabian nights #swept away #illustration #ocean waves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #elephant #thackeray #contortionist #costume #yoga #WTF #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #heaven #illustration
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January 21, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you agree: "I will always love them more than words can say, including my future cat children."  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910 (though the sentiment is our own).
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#vintage illustration #love #cats #kitty #kittens #cat lady #meow #cat children #cat family #i love cats #house of cats #animal companion #more than words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #cherub #butterfly woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Droste effect in New Adventures of Alice by John Rae, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #droste effect #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the mobile home/recreational vehicle -- if we have houseboats, why not house cars?  From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #mobile home #illustration #tiny house #house car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Tío Clarín, c. 1867.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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#vintage illustration #fortune #staircase #hanging #illustration #dangerous #that's life #treacherous
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The sun will soon teach you to run.  I noticed that with your predecessor last year."  From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #illustration #talking dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The cellular cosmogony," from The Flaming Sword, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #earth #illustration #cosmogony #cellular
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #mirror #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #blowing bubbles #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #illustration
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Apropos of Nothing (permalink)
From Curious Attractions by Debra Spark, 2005.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #mountain spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paul Ardenheim, the Monk of Wissahikon by George Lippard, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #apparition #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Transparent man like ghost."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I saw likewise other fish with heads like owls."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #arabian nights #illustration #strange fish #owl-faced
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #singing #metempsychosis #chippewa #spelling bee #big words #oneirocritical #asafoetida #synecdoche #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #allegorical #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #giant #mountain spirit #illustration #mountain man #art
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January 20, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a rare ellipsis plus exclamation point—written in blood.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #exclamation point #armless #wounded soldier #written in blood #war wounded #ellipsis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The genteel manners of cultured and refined foods.  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #sugar #milk #genteel #cultured #refined
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #psychology #current mood #inner turmoil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The bicyclopedia bird.  From Half-Hours With Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #hybrid #bird #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to take the train through a tunnel. From Le Rire, 1903.

Click to take the train through a tunnel
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#vintage illustration #dog #animated gif #illustration #love me love my dog #gif #kissing a dog
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's why what ghosts do isn't magic.  From F. B. Jevons' "The Definition of Magic" in The Sociological Review, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The golden mountain."  From Russian Fairy Tales From the Skazki of Polevoi, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #birds #illustration #russian fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #sword #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.res
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#vintage ad #cheers #headache #hangover #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Ulk, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #frog #hybrid #human faced #illustration #specimen jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The portraits on the wall seemed to give her a welcome."  From The Colonel's Money by Lucy Cecil Lillie, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #haunted mansion #haunted painting #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #life on mars #martian #illustration #long ears #aliens #alien life
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
A planchette reveals the mathematics of its own heart shape.  From The Survival of Man by Oliver Lodge, 1920.
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#spiritualism #seance #planchette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I was astonished at this sudden darkness."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #darkness #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #flamingo #giant door #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Fitzpatrick for the St. Louis Dispatch, reproduced in Cartoons magazine, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #magic trick #goop #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
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January 19, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's our proof that all mirrors are magic mirrors, that reflections are real, and that we can literally drink the moon and the knowledge of the moon from a liquid mirror.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ennui.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #depression #people who look like their dogs #weary #bored #melancholy #tedium #ennui #listless #lethargy #malaise
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's been said (just now) that the majority of trick photography gun accidents occur in the studio.  "Shooting himself,"  from The Idler, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #trick photography #shooting yourself
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
"Scenes That Are Brighter."  From The Life Beyond the Veil by George Vale Owen, 1921.
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#old book #brighter day
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #little mermaid #sea witch #under the sea #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #gin #tiny man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1930s #illustration #gas mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil #illustration #long arm
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
As with a joke, if you have to explain the title, it's no good.  (However, we like this one all the same.)  From 1888.
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#book title
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #monsters #illustration #periscope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Comic Magazine, 1832.
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#vintage illustration #reading #midnight oil #candle #illustration #hair on fire
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Iron man sings or whistles and reads newspaper."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #iron man #automaton #robot #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #war machine #flying machine #hot air balloon #air strike #flying carpet #art
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.
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#vintage illustration #bunny #illustration #non-circulating #library book #moon rabbit
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the untinted photo of Stanford's chemistry building.

Chemistry Building, Stanford University, California
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's Moloch, from Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #human sacrifice #idol #moloch #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Perceiving my companion, swallowed him."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #python #arabian nights #giant snake #illustration #eaten alive #swallowed whole
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Perfect Daughter, by Gillian Linscott:

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He... stared at us from half-shut eyes as if wondering whether we were worth the trouble of getting in focus.

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From Murder in Writing, by Anna Clarke:

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[Venn Psychology dept.]

A and B and C talk about D and E. But when only A and B are present, then they talk about C, who in turn talks with F, and so on in an infinite number of combinations and permutations.

Like mathematical sets, overlapping each other in places, and in other places standing on their own, as the innermost heart of the human creature stands alone.

The geometry of human relationships.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #cake walk #illustration
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January 18, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The amount of gold in one's belly correlated to mouth percentages.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #weird #gold #mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When vintage fashion styles come back, they attract ghosts.  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts #fashion #vintage fashion #fashion revival
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"By all means kick if it amuses you."  From Parry's Monthly Magazine, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #kick it #trunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #long neck #illustration #on the town #well-dressed
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's a spicy novel from 1873.
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#book title
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories of Enchantment, Or The Ghost Flower by Jane Pentzer Myers, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bunny #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #gluttony #strange dream #rude awakening #illustration #falling food
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #illustration
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Here's the patron saint of bureaucracy.  From Jugend, 1920.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #patron saint #bureaucrat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Comic Magazine, 1832.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #illustration #bear grease #moisturizer
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Old News (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #vintage man #diver #man #crotch #vital zone #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Clasped his legs about my neck so tightly that I swooned."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #arabian nights #illustration #wrestling
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #christianity #wind #kite #human puppet #puppetmaster #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a hippogriff from Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1901.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hunter college #hippogriff #mystical beast #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #skeleton #scissors #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, illustrated by William Heath Robinson, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My little brother, whom I love, sits below, and I sing above."  From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration #communism
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January 17, 2018

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"[Time's] music moves our feet" (Edmund B. Spaeth, Collected Poems).  Our evidence is courtesy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.
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#vintage photo #music #musician #accordion #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bobby—"I say, old chap, wouldn't it be queer if you were me and I were you?"
Robby—"Bah Jove! never thought of it.  P'raps we are."
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #personal identity #if i were you
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #yokai #illustration
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #angel #prayer #st. augustine #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From One Hundred Easy Window Trims, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mouse #mousetrap #illustration #ad
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
Actually, she's mistaken for a staircase.  From Le Rire, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"P.S. — it is a horse so you can get here soon."  From an 1863 letter in In Partnership by James Brander Matthews, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #come back #missing you #postscript
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dog #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #keg #cherubs #alcohol #cask #illustration #alcoholic #riesling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #clown #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
Balmy, not haling; ever, not even; disperse, not dispense; thy, not the.  Corrections from The Kappa Alpha Journal, 1901.
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#erratum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Medium" by Al Lunois.  From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #giant #dice #tiny men #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The stream carried me I knew not whither."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #raft #arabian nights #carried away #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #dog #winking #people who look like their dogs #pixelated #winking dog #wink #cthulhu #flying spaghetti monster #design #precursors #lol #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A decoration by Alice C. Morse for At the Ghost Hour by Paul Heyse, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton key #1890s #illustration #lock and key
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #strange dream #lobster #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #books #illustration #standing on books
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January 16, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Before music "streaming," there was music "steaming," which required a small burner and the cooperation of departed musicians.  From The Judge, 1916.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder at the New York World's Fair, by Freeman Dana:

[This mystery--by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, aka Alice Tilton, writing under yet another name--has the distinction of being sealed into a time capsule with other 1939 World's Fair materials.]

***

[From the introduction to the 1987 reprint edition, by Dilys Winn. I gather that the book had long been out of print when it was reissued.]

Surely, under whichever pseudonym, Mrs. Taylor is the mystery equivalent to Buster Keaton.  And never more so than here, where she surrounds her patrician Boston grande dame with fan dancers, licentious potentates... officious dignitaries, demented relatives, spurious artwork, window-shades in private train compartments, tour guide disguises, marching bands, traveling salesmen, a suitcase stuffed with a snake, fairground jitneys, fairground VIP limos, private eyes tailing the wrong people, wallpaper samples, and a newspaperman sidekick who hero worships our heroine's nephew.

***

[More from Winn's introduction.]

I am truly addicted to the 8 titles that appeared under the nom de nonsense Alice Tilton. Closer in feeling to World's Fair [than Atwood's other main series], these books don't make all that much sense, but they go a long way in proving that making sense is immaterial....

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What she had just seen in the corridor had bewildered her to a point of forgetting everything, even her far-seeing glasses.

***

"To be any good," Sam explained, "a fair has to have a theme. This fair's got two themes, so it'll be twice as good."

***

"Isn't that the building that has that--oh, you know. That thing. You know what I mean!"

She was, she felt, on perfectly safe ground. Every building at the Fair was sure to have something as a feature attraction.

***

"After yesterday," Sam went on, "I could pick Glue's face out of a million. Why, I dreamed about his eyebrows last night!"

***

She would have preferred almost anyone... to Elfrida in a militant mood. And Elfrida was militant. Daisy knew that by the way the feathers bobbed back and forth on that awful blue hat.

***

"Oh, you do, do you?" the plainclothesman said. "You do, huh?"

His irony sailed over the feathers on the blue hat.

***

[Literally Giving Someone a Penny for Her Thoughts dept. (Did people really do that?)]

Sam pressed a penny into Daisy's hand.

"I wasn't thinking much," Daisy said.

***

[From a letter Taylor wrote to the book's original publisher, Bennet Cerf, as reproduced in the reprint edition's afterword. As part of her extensive research, Taylor had visited the fair site while it was still under construction.]

"You've no idea how many [novel-plotting] obstacles an incomplete Fair can make."

[From the same letter.]

"After all, the bare outline of a mystery plot is simply, X gets killed; dither; Y gets killed: less dither. [Note the introduction of a colon after two semicolons.] A catches B."

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The Right Word (permalink)
A secret message revealed by overlaying a "grille."  From Cosmopolitan, 1904.
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#secret message #tryst
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"The snowman is not afraid of you."  From At the Open Door by Louise Robinson, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #dog #winter #illustration #not afraid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #skull face #two headed #illustration
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
From an ad for a lecture by Abbe Dimnet, 1921.
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#france #thinking #french #subjects
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There at last he was free and forever from those halls hung with enigmas, tapestried with tears, before which the sphinx in fight gallops like a jackal."  The final line in The Ghost Girl by Edgar Saltus, 1922.
Eerily, this passage seems to describe our very own sanctum!
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#magick #wizard #occult #magician #prof. oddfellow #gpoy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #card reader #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #guillotine #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #flying cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #human headed #swarm #illustration
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
"The scientist points out that each color of starlight tells its own story."  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.
* Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In this rebus-style puzzle, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes. Try to guess the exact hue of each. Roll your mouse over the colored boxes to reveal the missing words. Click the colored boxes to learn more about each hue. Special thanks to Paul Dean for his colorful research.
 
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#night sky #starlight #colors #star color
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a spirit message being developed in a vial.  From Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena by Chung Ling Soo, 1898.  We dedicated one of our books to Chung Ling Soo (and it's one of our very favorite projects to date): Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #snow #clouds #ruins #illustration #ruined tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Country walks with an object," from The Sketch, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #giant #genie #arabian nights #illustration
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January 15, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
There are 2 Google results for "Thomas the Tank Engine phobia."  Here's a precursor.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #locomotive #faces in things #vintage magazine #trains #fear of trains #magazine #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bug #illustration #salt #fly in the soup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Kisses at the end of a letter, plus a printer's ornament, from Jack O'Lantern, A Tale by Eleanor W. Talbot, 1878.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #winged man #dandy #illustration #the people could fly #butterfly man #butterfly costume
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's the answer to how much it costs to get an ancestral spirit to lend tone to a place.  "It depends."  From "Uncle's Ghost" by Owen Oliver, in The London Magazine, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #flower people #flowers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #fire #tug of war #electricity #illustration #gas or electric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #duck #illustration #duck fever
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #bear #narcissism #illustration #pink bear #pink narcissus #vintage bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #will-o'-the-wisp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A lawn mowing ghost.  From Cartoons Magazine, 1920.
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Old News (permalink)
"What animals do at night shown by flashlight."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#night creatures #flashlight #vintage headline #no shit sherlock #headline
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #eskimo #illustration #eskimo kisses #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #occult #zodiac #esoteric #apocalypse #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #eagle #animal attack #arabian nights #1890s #illustration #bird attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In his claws he carried a small fairy," from Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 1901.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #owl #fairy tale #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Once a Week, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #angel #fairy tale #illustration
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January 14, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
War and Peace are an item.  Not only that, they crossdress and are into all sorts of scenes.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #magick #spirits #genie #occult #djinn #invocation #genii
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #books #monkey #animal learning #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fairy Tales, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration #jack and the beanstalk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #hand of god #illustration #ruined building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration #gas mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #reno #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Aurora skates with polar bears at the North Pole.  From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Clocks that are never right give world correct time."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#time #clocks #vintage headline #even a stopped clock #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Oberon's Horn by Henry Morley and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #owl #fairy tale #jester #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #giant #cyclops #arabian nights #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Swiftly the car rushed on towards Violet's prostrate body.  The child clapped his little, chubby hands together with delight."  From The Sketch, 1904.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #bad seed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A woodcut of a drawing by William Harvey for Edward William Lane's translation of 1001 Nights.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Skulls of Torres Straits Islanders," from Report on the Zoological Collections Made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean During the Voyage of H. M. S. 'Alert' 1881-2 (1884).
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#vintage illustration #skull #torres strait #new guinea #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #smoking kills #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
"The mystery of unbearable cold."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #winter #vintage headline #illustration #frozen #freezing cold #headline #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #candle #illustration #light of knowledge #art
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January 13, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is actually how Carmen Miranda's famous tutt-fruitti hat worked.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #pop-up #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Max Leidlein.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #full moon #castle #flying ship #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Live Language Lessons, First Book by Howard Driggs, 1920.
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#black cat #snowman #vintage photo #winter #snowy day
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #typewriter #illustration #simian #monkey feet #hands and feet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Dwarfs' Tailor by Zoe Dana Underhill, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #fairy tale #occult #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #serpents #snakes #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #typography #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #north pole #carousel #merry-go-round #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There appeared to her three very beautiful spirits, clothed in white."  From The Bird of Truth and Other Fairy Tales by Fernan Caballero, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[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 #elephant #arabian nights #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Illustrated, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #monster #serpent #giant snake #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A postcard by Arthur Thiele, World War I-era.
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#snowman #rabbits #gnomes #dwarves #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #smoking #on fire #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He began to play, and then all the smiles ceased."  From The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #king #illustration #minstrel #sad song
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January 12, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
We now take wireless communication for granted, but there was a day when tiny telephone poles connected interoffice calls.  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #communication #telephone #telephone pole #wired #interoffice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #distillation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Because I knew that it had loved me."  From Twenty-five Ghost Stories by West Bob Holland, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cat #ghost story #illustration
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
"How loving Laili became young again."  From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fire #immolation #burned alive #illustration #up in flames #fairy alive
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #sleigh #illustration #sleigh bed
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1944.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #shipwreck #octopus #tentacles #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #hunger #dreaming #starvation #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"See more evil, hear more evil, speak more evil."  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #evil #monkey #see no evil #illustration #three monkeys #more evil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An airplane dumps chemicals to be illuminated over Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition.  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #chicago #airplane #illustration #exposition #contrail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ordered the vizier to go and find out the truth."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #arabian nights #illustration #vizier #truth seeker
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two monk-fish and a bishop fish from English Illustrated, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #merfolk #merman #monk fish #bishop fish #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #goat #billygoat #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1927.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #cow #illustration #bovine #steer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He went to bed with the chickens."  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #chickens
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Sebastian Faulks's Jeeves and the Wedding Bells:

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"Sir Henry was deterred by the Latin name, which he described as 'fancy nonsense.'"

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There are times to take offence, but this was not one of them. I left my high horse unmounted--though tethered pretty close.

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From John Cleese's memoir:

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'When the powers that be persisted in refusing to roll [a film editor's] name at the end of The 1948 Show, we gave him a credit nevertheless, but for "Choreographing the underwater chariot race." This went through unchallenged.'

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'But we raced ahead.... confident that from a score of decent three-minute sketches (or scenes) we could construct a hundred-minute film, and so displaying an optimism similar to that of two youths who, having put up a garden shed, now decide to build a cathedral.'

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When we've been a stranger in town, we've not felt invisible.  But we weren't consulted on this book cover design.  Stranger in Town by Robert Bloomfield.  (Book cover via 54mge.)
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #illustration #invisible man #stranger
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January 11, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
This is how, if you aren't careful about the artwork near your bed, you can end up with a family.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #ghost baby #stendhal syndrome #erotic painting #erotic art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like woman's traditional sphere is a shaft.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #women's roles #feminism #square peg round hole #gender equality
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
There's a good argument for it -- "Say nothing to anybody."  From The Idler, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #handshake #keeping mum #say nothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how to snuff out a candle.  From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #candle #illustration #nasal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1833.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #elves #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #skulls #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #stroller
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #ape #circus #strong woman #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Ship figurehead of Hercules becomes 'wishing image.'"  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#figurehead #hercules #wishing #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #peace #illustration #hug
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)

"I wonder if his crystal ball is a talisman, too?"  From Cut Adrift by Albany Fonblanque, 1869.

Pictured: In a magical shop at Universal Studios Orlando, we discovered a crystal ball that seems to project holograms of its gazers in all directions.  Here's the snap we captured of the effect as we consulted the mysterious sphere.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #telephone #1900s #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Mocca, 1937.
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#owl #vintage photo #pipe smoker #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's Connla of the Fiery Hair, son of Conn of the Hundred Fights.  We traced our ancestry back to these legendary folk and explain how in Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.  From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #owl #astrologer #illustration
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"Don't take this the wrong way, but please butt out.  You don't know me, not really.  F---, I don't even know me all that well.  So if you don't want to watch, turn your head or go in the other room or something.  But I have to do this.  I have to." —Marc Richard, Harm's Way
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January 10, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They can talk about their Geromes and the Monkeycheese as much as they like, but that's my idea of what is what!"  From Judge's Library, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #dog #illustration #dog lover #dog art #dog painting #art appreciation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #thorns #illustration #carnivorous plant #prickly
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"The surprising truth is that the kingdom of heaven is with us."
Robert Murphy, Life After Heaven
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's a rabbit."  From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #phobia #illustration #worried #pink stripes #fear of rabbits #leporiphobia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexander Chodźko, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #owl #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #log
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #grim reaper #scythe #illustration #goose egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dragon #knight #alcohol #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magic #magic trick #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #illness #sickness #pig #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #bull #illustration #by the horns #bullfighter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #sphinx #mystery #1920s #illustration #thinker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Poured enough into every jar to strifle and destroy the robber within."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #arabian nights #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1887.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #musical animals #crows #thread #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #demon #devil #champagne #innuendo #illustration #art #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to wiggle his ears. From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.
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January 9, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #coffin #panic #woke up dead
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Buster inhaling his mother's exhaled smoke in Arrested Development.  From The Judge, 1920.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)

Tina Turner was Queen Hatshepsut?  Confirmed!

As if to say (translated into the vernacular), "This is my relaunch, bitches," Tina Turner opened her Private Dancer album in a most astonishing way:
I'm a new pair of eyes
Every time I am born
An original mind
Because I just died
Yes, Tina Turner is the reincarnation of Queen Hatshepsut, having ruled as pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (1478–1458 BC).  We can confirm this as an eye-witness—we are the same age as Grace Jones, who told the New York Times that she is 5,000 years old.  And we were there.  But even more importantly, Tina Turner still is Queen Hatshepsut.  This fact is explained by Nick Cave in his book The Sick Bag Song:
Everything is happening and has happened and will happen again. Everything that exists has always existed and will continue to exist. Memory is imagined; it’s not real. Don’t be ashamed of its need to create; it’s the loveliest part of your heart. Myth is the true history. Don’t let them tell you that there are no monsters. Don’t let them make you feel stupid, just because you are happy to play down in the dark with your flashlight. The mystical world depends on you and your tolerance for the absurd. Be strong, my darling ones, and believe!
The Tina Turner song in question is, of course, "I Might Have Been Queen," and the amazing lyrics continue:
And I'm scanning the horizon for someone recognizing
That I might have been queen
For every sun that sets there is a new one dawning
For every empire crushed there is a brand new nation
Let the waters rise
I've ridden each tide
From the gates of the city
Where the first born died
And I might have been queen
I remember the girl in the fields with no name
She had a love
Oh but the river won't stop for me
No the river won't stop for me
I'm a new pair of eyes
An original mind
With my senses of old
And the heart of a giant
And I'm searching through the wreckage
For some great recollection
That I might have been queen
For every sage that falls
There's an ancient child
And I might have been queen
I remember the girl in the fields with no name
She had a love
Oh but the river won't stop for me
No the river won't stop for me
I look up to the stars with my perfect memory
I lived through it all, and my future's no shock to me
I look down, but I see no tragedy
I look up to my past, my spirit running free
I look down, I look down, and I'm there in history
Oh I'm a soul survivor
I might have been queen!
(Soul survivor on the river, but it won't stop)
I know the secret combination
(Soul survivor on the river, but it won't stop)
I might have been queen!
(Soul survivor on the river, but it won't stop)
I know the secret combination
(Soul survivor on the river, but it won't stop)
I might have been queen, I know the secret combination
(Soul survivor on the river, but it won't stop)
I might have been queen, I know the secret combination
(Soul survivor on the river, but it won't stop)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ramming the pyramids.  (The caption identifies this as a symbol of ambition, though we mistook it for futility or suicide.)  From The Judge, 1913.
[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 #egypt #suicide #pyramid #vintage car #car #ambition #hitting a wall
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Rookery Nook, by Ben Travers:

***

MRS. LEVERETT:

I am a working wife and mother, and there at home waiting for me is my five children and cetera, not to mention my husband and what not.

GERALD:

Oh, you've got five children and a what-not...

***

MRS. LEVERETT:

I may as well show you the house and quit.

GERALD:

Where's the quit?

MRS. LEVERETT:

Quit. Go. I'll go.

GERALD:

Oh, go. You'll go. Good! Yes, thanks very much. I see. Quit--I thought you meant the quit was some sort of--well, I mean, quit--it might be anything.

***

From Thark, by Ben Travers:

***

KITTY:

Ronny, I’m terribly upset.

RONNY:

I know—I’m always upsetting someone or something. I upset a basin this morning. That’s a terrible thing to do. Nothing’s worse than a basin when it’s upset. It either breaks into small pieces, or else it runs round the room on the bias.

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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #temperature #hot and cold #variable weather #vintage car #car #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Le Rire, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #cat people #illustration #lion man #cat man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #well #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
If you've ever wondered about people you encounter, here's the explanation: "In every thousand people who are living on this earth, not more than one is alive."  From The Art of Being Alive by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1914.
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#ghost #walking dead #undead #dead man walking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #sea serpent #sea monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #skull #skull bowl #illustration
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Doing the math.  From Life, 1920.
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Old News (permalink)
"Perfume to put you asleep under Egypt's sands."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#egypt #perfume #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard about currency competition, but here's what it looks like.  From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #money #anthropomorphism #cycling #bicycle built for two #illustration #currency #bike race
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #angel #genie #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The man who could not forget" — an illustration by Alec Ball for London Magazine, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #memory #spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Once a Week, 1860. 
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#vintage illustration #angel #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here are some interpuncts translated by Isabel F. Hapgood for "It Is Enough" by Iván Turgénieff, 1915.
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#interpunct #interpoint #middle dot #centered dot #dead artist
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January 8, 2018

Old News (permalink)
He's everyone's contemporary: "John J. Coincidence."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1919.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phrase "Death's mustache" delivers just four Google results.  But here it is.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #skull face #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard the idiomatic boast about "eating (something or someone) for breakfast."  Here's someone who eats reincarnation itself.  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #reincarnation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #painter #illustration #van gogh #impressionism #orange beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[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 #giant #fairy tale #tom thumb #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #goat #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The black sheep."  From Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles, illustrated by G. H. Clements, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sheep #illustration #black sheep
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's the figure (as well as the all-consonant word) for a cartoonish smooch.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.   See Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.
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#pictograph #glyph
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
"The Odic forces generated by man."  From On the Heights of Himalay by Albert Van der Naillen, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #occult #aura #occultism #illustration #odic force
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It is surprising what pretty designs can be made in the white napkins with the pickled beets."  From Cartoons Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #reflection #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"'Aura' observed by spiritist speeds spring training."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#horse #aura #spiritualism #spiritism #vintage headline #spiritist #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #pump #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The musician in death's hands."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #dance of death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #skeleton #owl #grim reaper #gravestone #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"As she was ascending, she heard a great flapping of wings."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #angel #genie #arabian nights #winged #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #tiny people #illustration #art
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1937.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #skiing
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January 7, 2018

The Right Word (permalink)
Words actually used in Fred Flintsone's vocabulary.  From The Boston Edge, 1986, via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#flintstones #jonathan caws-elwitt
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The Right Word (permalink)
If, in the language of flowers, friendship is a four-leaf clover, love is a daisy, and courtship is a rose, then divorce is an onion, marriage is a cabbage, and alimony is a lemon.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #language of flowers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Your teeth are worth one question, surely."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #teeth #illustration #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #illustration #current mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #giant frog #illustration #jewish legend
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #pig #illustration #pig pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #devil #silhouette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[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 #demon #skull #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#vintage ad #1930s #vintage headline #no money #say goodbye #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Light in Darkness by Sarah Robinson, 1876.
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#vintage book cover #book cover #vintage book #book #old book #light in darkness
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
If the moon is made of cheese, then this pairing with a mouse (courtesy of our custom widget that checks for duplicated images) makes sense.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine by Joel Chandler Harris, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #joel chandler harris #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #giving up #heater #illustration #radiator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swedish Fairy Tales by Herman Hofberg, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #goblin #fairy tale #cauldron #illustration #shoes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirits #war dead #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pursuing the enchanted dumplings.  We've pursued enchanted dumplings, too.  From Holme Lee's Fairy Tales, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #faces in things #dumplings #enchanted #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #pitchfork #merman #mars #king neptune #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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January 6, 2018

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Steven Svymbersky, who praised our non-surgical method for How to Be Your Own Cat as "a scientific breakthrough."  Prove it to your own satisfaction, at Quimby's Bookstore in Brooklyn or at Amazon.
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#book cover #cat people #cat lady #cat book
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Precursors (permalink)
Long before Lichtenstein and the pop art and op art movements, there was this.  From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #pop art #op art #lichtenstein
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bear climbs a tree to click a cloud of honey that is really a puddle on a plate.  We've all been there.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #bear #superflat #flies #honey #folded space
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #spooked #anthropomorphism #pumpkin head #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[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 #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #costume party #fish costume #illustration #shark costume
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to transform the mood.
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.

From Kladderadatsch, 1940
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #sawed in half #magic trick #illustration #legless #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zaphra, a Story of To-day by John P. Stockton, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #angel #life after death #soul #astral body #illustration #out of body
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tag yourself.  Are you the couple innocently coming home to find their loft invaded by four inebriated strangers and two animals?  Are you the person in a tiny hat sketching while your mates are passed out?  Are you the dog surprised by what you just licked?  Are you the only cat who knows what's happening?  Are you the one who dropped a toy airplane before losing consciousness?  Are you the dunce dreaming that tomorrow is a holiday?  Are you the mask on the wall overlooking them all?  From Ulk, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #tag yourself #inebriated #illustration #after the party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[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 #pigs #serenade #bear #banjo #musical animal #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #vintage photo #illustration #gas station
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's a royal scribble we noticed in the book Self Control, Its Kingship and Majesty by William George Jordan, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The American Garden, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #wildfall #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The glass never remained bright and clear."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #goat #illustration
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #champagne #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1937.
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#vintage photo #masks #masquerade #carnival
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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January 5, 2018

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Intolerance is produced by intensively farming one idea.  Prudery is the dead bones of virtue bound together with barbed wire."  From The Judge, 1912.
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#news #vintage news #intolerance #prudery #aphorism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ilona came floating up through the waves."  From Mighty Mikko by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jay Van Everen, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #under the sea #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #horse costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tale as old as time.  From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #precipice #cliff #illustration #get off #let go #kicked in the head
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The Right Word (permalink)
For fruit read forest, but for forest read first.  For growth read girth.  Corrections from The Indian Forester, 1891.
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#erratum #errata
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1944.
[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 #death #skeleton #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #earth #animals #illustration #national animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A black cat takes a ride on a soap bubble balloon.  (One of the very few things we've believed in vintage Popular Mechanics.)  From 1931.
[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 #black cat #soap bubble #balloon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The epic radius, rhetorical radius, and colloquial radius, from Voice, Speech and Gesture by Robert Blackman, 1904.
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#vintage diagram #public speaking #gesture #diagram #elocution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magician set them on fire, and when they were in a blaze, threw in some incense."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
[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 #magick #magician #incense #arabian nights #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #clouds #storm #illustration #sky man #man in the clouds #man in the sky #man of storms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
[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 #winter #illustration #red flowers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1937.
[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 #bed of nails #fear of insects #illustration #fakir #fear of bugs
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Allingham's Tether's End:
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"A Super is paid to keep his feet on the carpet, his seat on his chair and his head should be a box marked 'Members Only.'"

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He had a large friendly face and practically no top to his head, so that the peaked cap which lay by his elbow suggested the lid of a mustard pot.

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From Allingham's Pearls Before Swine:

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"He had a way not so much of smiling as of hinting that he was about to smile which lent his face a pleasant uncertainty."

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"You always felt she was just about to be terribly witty and yet she never was."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
[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 #devil #spooked #shadow #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
A sensationalized headline for a classic fable.  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1919.
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#earthquake #tortoise and the hare #vintage headline #headline
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January 4, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Andrew Wyeth's "Christina's World" (1948).  (Thanks, DeliaJones!)  From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #vulture #cliff #isolation #adrift
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
[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 #winged horse #vintage magazine #illustration #pink horse #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"I don't want to be catty, but —."  See How to Be Your Own Cat.  (Headline from The Saturday Evening Post, 1919.)
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#vintage headline #catty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #monsters #yokai
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
[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 #black cat #spider #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"On, on, they went, whizzing through the stars of heaven."  From The Shoemaker's Apron, A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jan Matulka, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #flower #color #vintage headline #illustration #big flower #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #elephant #cockatoo #chalice #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1845.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairies #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'He talk with the evil spirits,' Day Bird whispered."  From Pearson's, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #evil spirits #satanic prayer #strange prayer
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the second photo.
William Burroughs plays a statue at Glastonbury Tor, summer solstice (identified elsewhere as 1972).

William Burroughs plays a statue at Glastonbury Tor
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#vintage photo #william burroughs #glastonbury #gif #photo
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #spirit #warrior #deity #four winds #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1937.
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#vintage photo #vintage hollywood #hollywood #vintage collage
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Echoes of Life and Death by William Ernest Henley, 1908.
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#ghost #end of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This magic box brings the world to you."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #world #statue of liberty #illustration #atlantic ocean
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #opera glasses #binoculars #art
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"They try to take her ring."  From The Ruby Ring by Mrs. Molesworth, 1904.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1919.  
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#vintage illustration #fetuses #illustration #test tube babies #fetus in a jar #specimen jar
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January 3, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
The phrase "Cupid's mustache" delivers zero Google results.  The best we could find is a mustache taming wax called "Cupid's Blend," though "Cupid's mustache" is not explicitly mentioned.  From Welcome Guest, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #valentine #mustache #moustache #tiny angel #mustached angel #art
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The Right Word (permalink)

From the literary scalawag Jonathan Caws-Elwitt:

Chaos is inchoate, but it's so inchoate that its "c-h-a-o" has no etymological relationship to the other word's "c-h-o-a."

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#jonathan caws-elwitt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #cycling #illustration #bicycle wheel #wheels
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[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 #fairy tale #king #illustration #cradle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The mouse is saved when the cat gets spooked.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #cat #ghosts #mouse #illustration #wine cellar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #king #goat #illustration #stein
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mountaintop #dragon #anarchy #throne #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Giants, written and engraved by William Strang, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #giant #bicycle #eyewear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #weird #bug #fly #bluebottle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a detail of the "butting in" certificate we posted previously.
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#vintage illustration #devil #goat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1919.  
[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 #innuendo #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #illustration #watering can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1937.
[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 #devil #frightened #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A portrait of Locke as a lock.  From The Comic Magazine, 1832.
[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 #anthropomorphism #lock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
[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 #vintage ad #bats #illustration #light bulb #light in darkness #art #ad
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How to Write a Blank Book (permalink)
Forestall the pain of the future for a while
Within the blank pages of an unwritten book.
—Mark Kavanaugh, Poems and Wondering Thoughts.  
See our own hacker-proof blank book, Let's Do and Say We Didn't.
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#future #unwritten #blank book
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Which is better: a good book or a game of chess?  The answer is from The Idler, 1894.  The game of chess and a good book are combined here: If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#chess #i prefer reading #good book
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January 2, 2018

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

Revealed at last: our actual age, as well as how to use a spooky old mirror to test whether you're dreaming or awake. We didn't know how this video would end ... until we posed a question to the mirror and then had to face the uncanny answer.

If you like our video, please leave a thumb-up so we know.  It's lonely out here in cyberspace!

Jim writes: "Definitely by far your very best video yet... it's hysterical... it leaves you completely baffled at the end... posted it on Facebook."

Marja writes: "I can see this over and over and over.  Your story, the way you tell it, leads me away from all the ordinary things.  Love the non-ending.  Grace Jones might not be impressed.  I am.  Thank you."

J writes: "So entertaining! The 'lucid waking' premise is terrific, and I LOVE the concept of your appearing only in stained-glass lighting (and, of course, carrying the windows around!!). And then the way the hilarious recursiveness paradigm morphs into a salad bar, hahahaha! (Oh, and you're really rocking the fedora, by the way.) Bravo!!"

George writes: "What a f#$#%$g  treat this clip was!! Loved the sliding in and out of reality both in script and video. Great structure leading us in, adding the glitches that woke us up, creating the shock of a non-mirrored reflection except for the ?, and then diving into what that means and leaving us with a haunting last image. Brilliant!"

G writes: "Oh my! The visual and SFX in this are great! Loved the little echoes and jumps; timed perfectly. The mirror writing was unexpected and fun, and the ¿ definition was the perfect ending (complete with old school incremental zoom steps on your shocked face!). I love that you’re getting some good mileage out of the haunted mirror, and I enjoyed using it to reflect the window, which of course is symmetrical, so it nicely foreshadowed the ending.  Oh, and finally, the title of the video on YouTube is, of course, so up-to-date. I laughed out loud and how well, sadly, it fits into the moment.  Thanks, I enjoyed it! A good way to start the new year."

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#prof. oddfellow #video
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Margery Allingham's Police at the Funeral:

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He was a large lugubrious individual, whose pale waste of a face was relieved by an immense pair of black moustaches. He was in shirtsleeves, a fact which seemed to dismay him when he perceived the girl.

"Lumme, I thought you was alone," he remarked. He turned to the visitor with a ghost of a smile. "You'll excuse me, miss, being in negligée, as it were."

"Nonsense," said Mr. Campion, "You've got your moustache."

***

[British names dept. "Foon" is a dog.]

"Foon," he said. "Written 'Featherstonehaugh.'"

***

[Intentionally Mixed Metaphors Dept.]

"And after all, you don't want me turning up with the family skeleton in my beak, wagging my tail and shouting miaow, as it were."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Troubles of my own."  From Every Where magazine, 1905.
[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 #trouble #illustration #troubles of my own
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"A ghost is a walking secret."  From Hood's Magazine, 1846.
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#ghost #secret
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
[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 #fear #afraid of the dark #terror #illustration #bogey man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.
[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 #witch #fairy tale #tree spirit #illustration #enchanted tree
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click the image to wiggle his ears.
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1937
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#vintage photo #ears #vintage man #man #wiggling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Aren't you afraid to push on when you can't see where you're going?"  From The Cup of Fury by Rupert Hughes, 1919.
[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 #illustration #push on
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #orchestra #conductor #illustration #music fight
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"When you can't quit."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#vintage photo #too legit to quit #can't quit #don't quit
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #winter #snowing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wiener Revue, 1946.
[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 #vintage magic #magic trick #illustration #watches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1937.
[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 #illustration #fire breather
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
[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 #fashion #vintage fashion #birds #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman, 1901.
[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 #fairy tale #title page #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
[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 #giant #giant hand #illustration #hand from above
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #illustration #two men #sit tight
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January 1, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The year 2017 in a nutshell: "Thousands of rats and millions of hornets came tumbling down."  From Pilot, and Other Stories by Harry Plunket Greene, 1916.
[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 #rats #bad day #black dog #hornets
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #winter #freezing #attitude #cold weather #record cold #frigid
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A Retroactive Lifetime Goal*: for our tireless crusade against the toxicity of vintage Popular Mechanics magazine, Johnnyola2000 toasted us as "the one brave man on tumblr."
*Phrase courtesy of literary scalawag Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Primary Education, 1903.
[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 #polar bear #winter #january
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Frank's surprise."  From London Society, 1881.
[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 #falling #surprise #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
[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 #fashion #vintage fashion #question mark #exclamation point #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1936.
[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 #fishtank #1930s #vintage magazine #illustration #fish tank #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
[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 #money #page of pentacles #tarot #illustration #page of coins #coin face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
[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 #mythology #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"His Satanic Majesty sends out cards for the rest of the year."  From The Harvard Lampoon, 1895.
[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 #satan #playing cards #his satanic majesty #illustration #cards
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Old News (permalink)
"Is the universe exploding astronomers inquire."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#universe #vintage headline #exploding #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of champagne and spirits, but here's the spirit of champagne.  From Jugend, 1907.
[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 #spirit #champagne #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Palmistry and scarpology (divination by old boots, as invented by Dr. Garré of Switzerland).  From Die Muskete, 1937.
[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 #divination #hand #palmistry #shoe #illustration #scarpology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Giants, written and engraved by William Strang, 1898.
[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 #giant #lamp post #electric light #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy's Search by Emeline S. Smith, 1847.
[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 #fairy #muse #writing #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #beard #anthropomorphism #weird #vintage #cross #faces in things #broom #ritualist #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
[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 #demon #devil #satan #pitchfork #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
[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 #giant #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A happy new year from The Harvard Lampoon, 1886.
[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 #skull #happy new year
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