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January 31, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"College is a time to discover who you are, what you love, where you want to go" (35 Ways to Discover a Major).  From Catawba's 1981 yearbook.
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#beard #occult #vintage yearbook #masks #yearbook #raspitin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #money #coins #sword #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Tear and the Smile."  From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough, 1910.
[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 #fire spiri
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The trunks got switched, but at first glance we thought this was a precursor to those diet advertisements in which a newly slim person holds up massively larger clothing.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
[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 #clothing #mixed up #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May lightning hit a giant snail and the man of your dreams pop out.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 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 #snail #hybrid #struck by lightning #giant snail #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Terrifying black eye holes.  From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
[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 #alcohol #eye holes #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #demon #ration book #food rationing #food card #war rations
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[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 #pitchfork #crocodile #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 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 #tiger #bear #france #jungle animals #french jungle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't smile so much, what'syourname.  It's far too wide for my lens."  From Le Rire, 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 #photography #camera #illustration #don't smile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.
[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 #crossbones #question mark #illustration
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It Bears Repeating (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1929.
[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 #human magnetism #giant magnet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
[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 #gossip #gorgon #snake hair #rumor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #skeleton #dance of death
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #tiny man #trick photography #black and white photography #big hand
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Precursors (permalink)
A car accident gets them hot -- a precursor to the Ballard novel and film of Crash.  From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #car crash #illustration #car accident #j. g. ballard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
[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 #feather boa #sad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A giant hand in Millikin's 1962 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #giant hand #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand of god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I am given to understand that Vienna night life is the wildest of all night life."  From Saturday Evening Post (1914).
[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 #vienna
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January 30, 2019

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Many, but crucially not all girls are less attractive when thet twist their feet awkwardly.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage photo #posture #woman #vintage woman #awkward #attractiveness #unattractive #ladylike #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
California in the 30s -- it feels worlds and lifetimes away.  And didn't students look older in those days?  "If we grow up too fast we grow old too soon" (The Country Gentleman, 1912).
From Santa Clara's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #jechonias #patriarch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #elephant #fountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1877.
[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 #grim reaper #scythe #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Above, costumes as they are designed.  Below, those same costumes as they look when worn by actors.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
[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 #theatre #costumes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
[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 #immolation #burned alive #into the fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Compendium in Sphaeram by Pierium Valerianum Bellunensem, 16th century.
[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 #sun #moon #vintage diagram #celestial #diagram #light and shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
[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 #dog #afraid #fear of dogs #cynophobia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
[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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#religion #vintage illustration #mythology #greece
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
[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 #skull and crossbones #pipe smoker #urn #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
[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 #boots #masquerade #puss in boots #cat mask #cat costume
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Judge, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage photo #crossed eyes #never knew #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
[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 #japan #bird hat
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #cloud #in a fog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
[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 #harpy #birds #hybrid #human headed #man bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 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 #mythology #goddess #stag headed #hunting #antlers #diana #stag man #artemis
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The letters behind the light appear to be N S E.  The [U]NSE[EN] may communicate by the light captured in this image.  From the University of Rhode Island's 1966 yearbook.
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#ghostly #eerie #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We are crushed sometimes with the brutal weight of matter."  From The One Woman by Thomas Dixon, 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 #fainting #weight of the world #crushed #collapsed #on the floor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It can be difficult to envision really large numbers, but here's what a billion looks like.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[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 #monster #billion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The amorphous blob of politics is here very accurately depicted on the chalkboard.  While Florida is shown flatteringly thick and long, the peninsula in truth suffers shrinkage from all the surrounding water.  From Eastern Kentucky's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #politics #teacher #florida #1970s #political science
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1876.
[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 #beer #tiny man
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January 29, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When you picture us poring through old yearbooks, is this what you imagine?  From Taylor's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #wet book
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Fairies caught on film.  From The Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#fairies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #death #giant #grim reaper #cholera
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
[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 #guillotine #decapitated #king of swords
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
[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 #camel #alcohol #noah's ark #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[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 #cow #animals #goat #music #farm animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Four legged pillow bird moulting."  From Judge, 1927.
[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 #pillow #moulting #pillow bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1932.
[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 #faces in things #trees #illustration #running trees #running forest #walking tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #shoe #footwear #illustration #legs
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Old News (permalink)
"The fish won't hear you."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#deafness #fish #vintage headline #headline
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #vintage magazine #illustration #snow sculpture #magazine
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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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 serpent #sea snake #swimming bull #swimming cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Auto exhaust cupids.  (It doesn't just mean that love is exhausting.  It's a reference to auto racer Lydston Grandville "Cupid" Hornsted.)  From Le Régiment, 1913.
And yet we also spotted a 14-years earlier instance of cherubs in car smoke, presumably not related to Cupid the car racer.  So it's some sort of "thing."  From Lustige Blätter, 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 #cherub #cupid #auto exhaust #carbon monoxide
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
[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 #bear #smiling animal #laughing animal #laughing bear #smiling bear #happy bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #magician #levitation #vintage magic #magic #weightless #stage magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
[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 #nice tomatoes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
[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 #full moon #man in the moon #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 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 #spaghetti #noodles #italian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1987 yearbook.  For instructions on how to be your own stray cat, see How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stray cat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Dead Don't Bite, by Douglas G. Browne:

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"Byrom, Byrom and Byrom," said Miss Chennery. "And about five more. Firm of solicitors in Bledcaster."

***

[In this line spoken by a couturier, the delightful name "Lady Twizell" is dropped out of the blue--that is, she's a completely incidental entity who otherwise does not appear in the book, either onstage or off. And, of course, I can't help hearing the interjection meshing with what precedes it, to result in someone called "the Duchess of Mon Dieu!"]

"There is a costume for Lady Twizell, who goes abroad next week; a frock for the Duchess of--Mon Dieu! there are a dozen..."

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January 28, 2019

Book of Whispers (permalink)
"Keep it bouncing; that's all the secret, keep it bouncing."  —Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
They gave this sentient dot two whole pages in Atlantic Christian's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #existence #dot #sentient
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #transportation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
[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 #man in the moon #faces in things #moon face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
[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 #knight #steampunk #mechanical horse #horse armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
[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 #conductor #bending over backwards #maestro
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
[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 #pan #goat legged #faun #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
[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 #weird fashion #costumes #cubism #architectural fashion #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[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 #faces in things
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #illustration #fear of medicine
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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 #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #cycling #exhausted #wobbly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fair God by Lew Wallace, 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 #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
[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 #political cartoon #giant #giant hand #hand of god #crushed #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge, 1927.
[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 #bridge #1920s #river styx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
[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 #yoga #bending over backwards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
[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 #animal headed #bear #bear costume #after the party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
[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 #pitchfork #pigs #boar
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Le Régiment, 1913.
You may already know this dieting innovation: on the How to Be Your Own Cat diet, you get to eat anything you want, whenever you want, but only until you're perfectly satisfied.  Thing is, most people eat more than they're actually hungry for.  The tips in How to Be Your Own Cat teach you the mindfulness required for this uncompromising diet.
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#vintage illustration #cat lady #cat costume #cat woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Toronto yearbook of 1959.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #decapitated
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January 27, 2019

Unicorns (permalink)
Mythical sounds were second nature for voice artist Karen Kahler.  We're working with her and the band Cuddlebot on a musical translation of A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
So silly, but we invariably wonder what folks are reading in their old photos.  This woman in Eastern Kentucky's 1975 yearbook is reading what appears to be quite a scarce book today: the horse and girl novel Taffy's Foal by Elisa Bialk.  The novel was already decades old in 1975, and we suspect that it wasn't required reading for a class.  Perhaps it reflects something about this dorm student adjusting to her new life?  The book tells of one Nancy Irwin, who lives in Kentucky with her grandmother on a horse farm until her father in Chicago remarries.  Nancy is forced to leave behind her beloved mare Taffy, who is in foal.  Nancy must adapt to living in the city, make new friends, love her mare from a distance, and learn to love her stepmother.  Note that this student is using her stuffed animal as a pillow and is flanked by more literature.
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#reading #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #old book #children's literature #woman reading #horse and girl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #volcano
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
[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 #eagle #1920s #prometheus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1914.
[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 #antlers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1877.
[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 #dog #cape #purple cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
[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 #severed head #headless #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 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 #clown #balance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Give the people what they want.  From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
[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 #public speaking #tough crowd #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[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 #tree spirit #faces in things #tree face #wood cutter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No end!!"  From Judge, 1927.
[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 #artist #dandy #painter #no end
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #illustration #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Caused him to be clothed in the royal vestmentrs."  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 #magic #dwarf #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
[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 #pain #magnet #bed of nails #nails #back pain #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
[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 #bicycle #dandy #hat tip
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1923.
   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(
`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"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 #king neptune #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #vintage car #car #hood ornament #duck car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 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 #mythology #satyr #pan #pan pipes #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #you spin me round
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Bonfire ghosts haunting Lehigh's 1963 yearbook.
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#fire #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fire ceremony #bonfire #fire dance
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Bigamous Spouse:

***

“Can you,” she asked, “tell me the principle on which the telephone works, and how a voice can be transferred into electrical vibrations sent over a wire and then those vibrations again turned back into audible sounds so that the voice seems to come through the receiver?”

“Certainly,” Mason said. “You simply drop a dime in the slot indicated for such purpose.”

“Can you,” Della Street asked, “tell me why it is that it is noon in New York when it is only nine o’clock in Los Angeles?”

“Of course,” Mason said. “The people in New York get up three hours earlier.”

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January 26, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Growing Big and Strong by Andress, Goldberger & Dolch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #x-ray #1930s #giant skeleton #illustration #construction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cycling #boxing glove #wall of fists #get out of my way #punch out #propellor #propeller
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #tug of war #pulled in two directions #mobile home #illustration #house on wheels
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
I used one of those old school acquaintance finder programs, and these faces came up as probable hits.  What's weird is that I do, in fact, know two of them!  From Salem's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spirits #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #third eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #decapitated #red eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #horse #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #bacchus #party #on all fours
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #torture #damned #deviil #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #mushroom #mushroom people
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Judge, 1927.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #tornado #blown away
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #yoga #stretching #modern dance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #bunnies #rabbit #1900s #illustration #making faces #hares standing on end #hares
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #lion #lion's den #biblical #daniel
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #spirit #dreaming #scissors #seamstress #1880s
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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#vintage illustration #whisper #faun
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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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 serpent #sea monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #devil #shadow #horned man #card player
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
Here's my current collection of vintage people who look like their pets.
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#vintage illustration #dog #people who look like their dogs #pet walker #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we thought Cupid was being expelled from the bedchamber.  Maybe we still think that's what's happening.  From Le Régiment, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #bedchamber
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pursued by a ghost, in the 1921 Southwestern yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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January 25, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Cousin Itt from The Addams Family.  From The Judge, 1918.  Previously, we saw this other precursor to Cousin It.
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#vintage illustration #long beard #addams family #cousin it #cousin itt
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"College is a time when young adults want to experience things never available to them before" (This Book Is Not Required, An Emotional Survival Manual for Students).  From Catawba's 1981 yearbook.
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#occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figures #rasputin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #cheers #fragile symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Grim Sweeper sweeps the dust to which you shall return.  From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #death #broom #dust thou art #unto dust shalt thou return #Genesis 3:19
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #beard #giant #giant hat #top hat #pink #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She stared, and there was the rock as she had dreamed of it, but no man."  From Pearson's, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #winter #rabbit #1920s #hunter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #whiskey #shower
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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 #mythology #tree #world tree #yggdrasil #oldenburg tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cow #double vision #dizzy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #mask #sticking out tongue #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 #devil #satan #angel #goat legged #hell fire #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The white bird brought the precious box containing the light of the world."  From Everygirl's Magazine, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #folklore #fairy tale #light of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #demon #goya
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #beard #anthropomorphism #faces in things #pear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Compendium in Sphaeram by Pierium Valerianum Bellunensem, 16th century.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #sun #cosmos #light and shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How migraines begin.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #demon #imp #gnome #elf #elves #pain #headache #migraine #mustache #vintage man #man #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Blue Leopard seemed to crouch and spring with life."  From The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #pub sign #illustration #haunted sign #blue leopard #sign
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used as a tool for triggering a flash of insight.  From Worcester Polytechnic's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lens flare #reflected light #tower
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A House in the Country, by Ruth Adam:

***

I reflected indignantly that it was altogether too much to expect me to stand-in for a whole staff and then find that the dog apparently expected me to do his barking for him as well.

[So much for that figure of speech, "I'm not going to keep a dog and bark myself"!]

***

While they were with us, it seemed as though two different kinds of story had got mixed up in the same book-cover.

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January 24, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We've been on this road.  It's in Cornwall.  Frankly, there are lingering questions.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #questioning #vintage automobile #automobile
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Precursors (permalink)
A precursor to the Eraserhead baby!  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #david lynch #eraserhead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Remember the week-day to keep it holy."  From Pasteboard Proclivities by Elbert Hubbard, 1909.
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#holy day #weekday
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate astral travel to a world of blue and green. From the Wake Forest yearbook of 1981.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #arch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck (1891).
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#vintage illustration #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not hubcaps but lens caps, and every race is a photo finish -- the camera car.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #weird car #vintage car #car #vintage automobile #automobile #camera car #hybrid car #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #public transportation
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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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 #political cartoon #uncle sam #sea creature #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"That delicate death, known as a cat's sleep."  From Barks and Purrs by Colette Willy, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pitchfork #crocodile #pipe smoker #palette #painter #red crocodile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #demon #magick #wizard #occult #dragon #alchemist #illustration
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #despair #prayer #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Battle of the giants, or a planet in the rain age."  From Siderial Evolution, Or A New Cosmology, Being an Explanation of the Principles that Pertain to Universal Life Force and Its Expressions in Form by Thomas Cushman Buddington, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cosmology #illustration #deluge #planetary formation #rain age
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #starry night #long beard #illustration #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #drummer #rabbit #bunny #musical animal #lol #art
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
This is how bats come to be.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bat #cross breeding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Details from a letter of October 23, 1940, by Jenny Fleming, suggesting improvements to air raid shelters.  Courtesy of the National Archives UK.
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#vintage illustration #world war ii #air raid shelter #world war two #the blitz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #incendiary
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Pierre et Gilles.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #money #photographer #pierre et gilles
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January 23, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's as true today as it was then -- when you eat dragons or other endangered creatures, the eyes of a higher power are watchful and judging.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #eye of god #rare meat #exotic meat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lampshade #luminary
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Fortune-telling.  From The Book of Hallowe'en by Ruth Edna Kelley, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #divination #halloween #occult #october #vintage photo #fortune telling #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #duck costume #animal costume #turkey costume #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #skull #money bag #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ireland.  From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #ireland #hounds #hunting dog #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was beginning to differentiate the frog's chorus from the owl's solo."  From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #owl #frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #piano #birds #birdsong #rude awakening #piano bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Kicking out a sheet ghost.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #halloween #october #sheet ghost #kicked out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He never said a word to anybody."  From The Fairy who Believed in Human Beings, written and illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #introvert
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #illustration #animal combinations
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #sun #deer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #magick #smoke #burning hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you won't let it stop you.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #bed #recovery #convalescence #bed bicycle #sick bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic by John Henry Anderson, 1860.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #magic #spiritualism #seance #table tipping #faces in things #spirit rapping #table turning
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be a tool for facilitating astral journeys.  From the University of Rhode Island's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #exit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #axe #stump #faces in things #tree face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dancing #lion #baboon #dancing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's (1895).
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#vintage illustration #dandy #nature #lakeside #illustration #relaxation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The caption admits, "We don't know what it is."  From Presbyterian College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #unknown
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
I've curated a thousand favorite vintage imps and demons.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #demon baby #demon family
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January 22, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
What is the Venn overlap between radios and Southern Californians?  Thomas Pynchon reveals all in The Crying of Lot 49: both "outward patterns [have] a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate."
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#pynchon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"If it's all masks anyway, why don't you put some up around you that will make you feel safe?" (Diana Paxson, The Paradise Tree, 1987).  From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#grotesque #vintage yearbook #masks #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1893).
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#vintage illustration #angel #broken wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The peace angel is a sword swallower.  From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #sword #peace angel #sword swallower #sword swallowing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #oil lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #imps #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #supernatural #yokai #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #fairy queen #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 #fairy tale #goose #illustration #lock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #animals #noah's ark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"As soon as she saw the smoke rise she repeated some strange words."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #magic words #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #woodland god #greek mythology
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Some must take the good and some the evil / Dropped from either wing of this strange angel."  From "Al Hassan's Secret," in The Bird and the Bell by Christopher Pearse Cranch, 1890
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#good and evil #poetry #angel wings #strange angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #bear #prospector
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Magic by Archie Frederick Collins, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #vintage magic #magic #stage magic #black art #dancing skeleton
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
If your stairway to nowhere is engulfed, may a glowing orb hover above you nonetheless.  From Lehigh's 1963 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#sun #vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Duplicate Daughter, by Erle Stanley Gardner:

***

“Somehow you’re not the type that one associates with afternoons of dillydallying.”

“I was neither dillying nor dallying,” Mason said.

***

"I met a very pompous young man who takes himself very, very seriously indeed; a man who is saturated with college economics, with the analysis of financial trends, who would exude stock-market quotations as a wrestler would exude perspiration."

***

“They could perhaps remove evidence or think things over a little bit, or sometimes they might even slip out of the side exit door and then their secretary would be able to say quite truthfully that the man I wanted to see was gone and she didn’t know just where he could be located.

“I think I’ve got my singulars and plurals all mixed up there somehow, Mason, but I’m quite certain you get the idea.”

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January 21, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crocodile #musical animal #trident #accordion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #thermometer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if an all-seeing eye monitors the activity in your bed.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #all-seeing eye #heart #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Bras weren't the only thing getting burned in the 1970s.  From Taylor's 1977 yearbook.

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#occult #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faustus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here is how the angelic spirit of the grape is gradually transformed into a demon.  From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon #wine #alcohol #bacchus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cupid #cupid's arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #skeleton #dance of death #graveyard #gravestone #headstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vegetable people #vegetable head #vegetable costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #hunger #famine #feast and famine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ski writing."  From Judge, 1927.
[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 #vintage magazine #illustration #skiing #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #skeleton #walpurgisnacht #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Tío Clarín, c. 1867.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
[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 #torture #tied up #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #snow queen #ice queen #winter #lady winter #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #immolation #on fire #burned alive #book burning #up in flames
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"Let it drop over my forehead to-night, shading my faint eyes away from the light."  From Rock Me to Sleep, Mother by Elizabeth Akers Allen, 1883.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Bookbindings Old and New: Notes of a Book-Lover by Brander Matthews, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #ship #fog #feet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fair God by Lew Wallace, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #hat #eagle hat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From Colorado College's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #dark street #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #beard #wizard #castle #torch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I fell in a fainting fit."  From The Idler, 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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#vintage illustration #fainting
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January 20, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[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 #snake #bird #radio
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1969 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #masks #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 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 #owl #winking
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1876.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #nightmare #dream #scissors #1870s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to remove the sheet. From Lustige Blätter, 1904

From Lustige Blätter, 1904
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#vintage illustration #statue #ceremony #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #cobweb #spider web #fishing #patience
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
His skeleton hand.  From Kladderadatsch, 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 #skeleton hand
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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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 #uncle sam #submarine
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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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 #giant #sea monster #shipwreck #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
[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 #insects #bugs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Stories and Fables by James Baldwin, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #cinderella #fairy godmother #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #anthropomorphism #architecture #faces in things #illustration #house face #castle face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #mermaid #harp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Riverside Readers, Book 3, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #fairy godmother #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mask #youth and age #face cream #beauty cream #younger looking #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
[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 #spinning #you spin me round #unravel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
[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 #pumpkin #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance we thought he had attached it to his nose ring.  From Lustige Blätter, 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 #inhalation #inhale #nose ring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Fireside Magician by Thomas Picton, 1879.
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#magician #vintage magic #vintage book #book #stage magic #magic trick #parlor magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers of the 1927 Southwestern yearbook.
[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 yearbook #yearbook #bird #flowers #endpapers
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Condensed Interminable Novel, by Stephen Leacock:

***

During all this time women were calling to him. He knew

  and came to be friends with—

     Margaret Jones,

        Elizabeth Smith,

           Arabella Thompson,

              Jane Williams,

                 Maud Taylor.

 

And he also got to know pretty well,

  Louise Quelquechose,

     Antoinette Alphabetic,

        Estelle Etcetera.

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January 19, 2019

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

Endangered Entertainment Is Going to Be Unpredictable

by Craig Conley

Comedian Kirk Marsh, of the Vendaros Circus.
 

Kirk Marsh, the unpainted clown in the Venardos Circus, says that in comedic performances, the lack of a fourth wall enables direct audience engagement.  What Marsh hints at but doesn't reveal outright is that a circus (root meaning "ring") does away with the other three walls as well.  As in the ancient puzzle of geometry, one cannot square a circle.  Without walls, traditional definitions of entertainment become hazy.  Preconceived boundaries become dotted, like a string of lanterns.  In light of such nebulous freedom, an audience is plunged into a rather profound sense of wonderment, but so are the performers, night after night.  In fact, a cloud of doubt looms over a circus tent, no matter where it is pegged.  "If you're striving to be excellent," ringmaster and producer Kevin Vendaros notes, "you never get to that place where it's all locked and ready to go.  There's a vulnerability.  The cast opens its hearts to the audience."  Just as the audience can't guess what will happen next, the performers are viscerally kept on their toes, moment to moment.  Unlike Hollywood or Vegas-style entertainment, in which illusion is par for the course, and unlike Broadway shows, which are necessarily rote, a traveling circus is about reality and unpredictability — not the reality of everyday life, granted, but not trickery, either.  The stunts and demonstrations are real and dangerous, celebrations of skill and not deception.

Traditionally associated in the public mind with exotic animals, today traveling circuses mostly feature human performers.  Ironically, it is the circuses themselves — analog entertainment in a digital age — that are now endangered.  Minister of Parliament Peter Luff summarized the situation this way: "When the world is so troubled with natural disasters, international terrorism, threats of flu pandemics, the impact of climate change and with scandalous poverty, malnutrition and disease, the circus may seem a rather trivial matter.  …  But I believe performing arts have a vital contribution to make to the welfare of our nation and that circus is perhaps the most overlooked, undervalued and misunderstood performing art of them all.  Today's touring circus is not just misunderstood — its very existence is under threat."  Luff went on to note that circuses visit some of a nation's smallest communities, and "For many thousands of young people, a touring circus is their very first introduction to live performing art.  The circus is a profoundly democratic art form, and its very nature is multicultural.  The innocent pleasure circuses bring, though, as highly talented professionals even risk their lives on a twice daily basis, is threatened." 

Undaunted by the iffy prospects, Venardos created his circus in 2014, having previously been the youngest ringmaster for Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus (at 22 years old), with additional experience at Big Apple Circus and Circus Vargas.  He set off on his own, desiring to be in control of his career and aspirations. But does Venardos' enterprise perpetuate the age-old dream of running away to join the circus?  "I am absolutely counting on it!" he says.

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#clown #circus #venardos #kirk marsh
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wearing funny mouse or bunny ears is timeless fun, but there's some serious math behind it.  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher #1970s #math #bunny ears #rabbit ears #funny ears #mouse ears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've drunk from the punch bowl itself.  From Lustige Blätter, 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 #punch bowl #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #frogs #nymph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #eagle #lion #1920s #giant lion #giant eagle #lion monster #eagle monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #haunted #seeing double #nervous #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[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 godmother
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pearson's, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #under glass #trapped #cone of silence #specimen jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #waterfall #boat #tarot fool #over the falls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #anthropomorphism #mouse #cat and mouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A little cannibal."  From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #cannibalism #cannibal #illustration #edible toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #dandy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #demon #harp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #boot #illustration #drinking from a boot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Accosted, from Die Muskete, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #furs #mink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #rose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #gambling #upside down #headstand #card game
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The Right Word (permalink)
A design idea for greeting cards: crisscrossing four quotations with a key word at the center.  From The Gospel Woman, 1881
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#vintage illustration #christianity #grace #bible #wages of sin #biblical #quotations #the blood of jesus #crisscrossing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pinball as an illustration of a college's department of religious studies?  According to the Church of the Silver Ball's Pinball Museum (which, sadly, is neither a church nor a museum, according to its own description), pinball can be a religion.
Our photo is from Colorado College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #pinball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Zooming in, we see that the spider has a horned skull face and bony hands.  Easily the best skeleton spider we've seen all week.  From Zritel', 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 #skull face #spider #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1895).

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#vintage illustration #angel
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January 18, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's why the caption is a lie.  It says, "A single trumpet is calling you, a mystic note only you can hear."  But it's not a trumpet -- it's a saxophone solo.  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trumpet #mysticism #mystic note
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #war #burned alive #moloch #furnace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck (1886).
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#vintage illustration #armor #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Every cat is a point of honor, as proven in this detail from an illustration in Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #light #trumpet #lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #rabbit #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.  Should have studied How to Be Your Own Cat instead.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #dog face #dog person #part dog #dog head #art
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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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 #fish #under the sea #fish heads #fish parts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We're calling this one "Horst power."  From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #racing #vintage car #car versus bicycle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The little singing frog."  From The Laughing Prince by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jay Van Everen, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #frog #musical animal #illustration #singing frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #back scratcher #tiny hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #you spin me round
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A last drink on the house, from London Society, 1879.
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#death #vintage #alcoholism #wine #alcohol #alcohol poisoning #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #divination #owl #fortune teller #palm reader #palm reading #palmistry #chiromancy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #vintage japan #japanese art #old japan #japan #old tokyo #vintage tokyo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if anyone ever tried to grab your celestial urchins away from you.  From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #sun #moon #celestial #faces in things
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
This photograph may be used either to facilitate time travel or, on an astral level, to move away from the darkness and toward the light. However, it should not be used for near-death experiences. From the Illinois State yearbook of 1978.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lens flare
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Mythical Monkeys, by Erle Stanley Gardner:

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"Mauvis Meade and murder," Mason said. Carlisle blinked his eyes as though chopping the information into separate statements by using his eyelids as punctuation marks.

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January 17, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Orbs are here identified as the "bright people."  From Richmond Technical's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #orbs #bright folk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #pegasus #winged horse #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #devil #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion #collars #wartime fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #creatures #swamp #up a tree #swamp things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #hairdresser #bald #shaved head #beauty parlor
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's how the backside of geometry can reveal a person's nationality.  From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #geometry #backside #rump #buttocks #i like big butts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott, 1855.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #nest #bird's nest #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #death #winter #old man winter #illustration #death of cold
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
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#elf #ink splatter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #costume party #vintage magazine #lamb mask #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #dove #birds #chicken #queen #bird droppings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #penny-farthing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #tiny person #living doll #dancing doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
For how to tap into the strangely potent spirituality contained within an old yearbook, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From Pennsylvania State College's La Vie yearbook, 1920.
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#religion #vintage illustration #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hunting for Nittersing," c. 1923.  From The Story of Nuttybub and Nittersing, illustrated by May Gibbs. 

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#vintage illustration #fairy #otherworld #fairy tale #wee folk #mouse #children's story
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #knight #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion #armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #creature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #human headed #evolution #darwin #monkey man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to accelerate decay. From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1893
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#vintage illustration #gif #urbex #decay #entropy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #peace angel
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January 16, 2019

Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)

"Wouldn't you like a rhetorical question with that?"

"Wouldn't I!"

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You noticed the lie here -- life isn't a carousel.  Rather, "life is a cabaret, old chum."  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #carousel
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The bass are big.  Date unknown.  Via UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #big fish #canada #fish #giant fish #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #religious fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #death #angel #skeleton #monks #open grave #saint #bull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #bats #goya
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #mice #mouse lover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #snail #tiny man #giant snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #eye #pointers #watch your
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #knife sharpening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Primary Education, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #paper craft #frog #illustration #paper cutting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #rabbits #bunnies #smiling animal #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Before the Mirror by Jane Heathcote.  (Book cover via 54mge.)
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #spiritualism #vintage book #book #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #blowing bubbles #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.  Speaking of which, see This Book is a Cactus.
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#vintage illustration #cactus #illustration #prick
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #fever #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #electricity #are friends electric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #bagpipe #what am i #dudelsack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #candle #big ears
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This crystal ball appears in the 1974 University of Massachusetts Amherst yearbook.

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#vintage photo #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fire spirit #fire #red hair
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January 15, 2019

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
If we post only one conventional photo this year, why not of our favorite type of cat and catnap?  From College of William and Mary's 1973 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #tabby #catnap #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Every act of reading is an attempt to construct meaning.  From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #big book #meaning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #under the sea #submarine #diving helmet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #shy #1890s #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A horseless horse.  From The Literary Digest, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #horse #robot #illustration #mechanical horse #horseless #horse robot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #yawn #musician #seal #yawning animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #sword #tarot #knives #stabbed #knifed #tarot swords #stab wounds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #beard #gnome #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #circus #tattoo #1920s #bearded lady #tattooed woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mice #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #under the table #privacy #no place to hide #in hiding
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"The snow sifted in all night long."  From St. Nicholas, 1879.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snow #illustration #cold night #cold bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #tennis #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919. 
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#vintage illustration #dove of peace #war and peace #illustration #bird trap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #death #pitchfork #monsters #angry mob #spiked club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #top hat #dog mustache #dog beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #monster #anthropomorphism #moon #scissors #faces in things #1870s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mask #animal headed #illustration #fox headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you've felt evening fall like a dark cloud from a smokestack. From the Illinois State yearbook of 1978.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smokestack #evening
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death in Fancy Dress, by Jefferson Farjeon

[Note: Though this is catalogued, like his other books, under J. Jefferson Farjeon--in fact, the lending library adds "Joseph Jefferson" in parens--the title page merely says Jefferson Farjeon.]

***

And above all, in every sense, a mammoth beret. Not the happy beret of a Borotra, but an endless expanse of dark ribbed stuff that flowed over the side of your head almost down to your neck, giving you the feeling that you were in deep mourning for a pancake.

***

He had put on his overcoat, but the loud slacks were not obliterated. They shouted for nine inches below where the overcoat ended.

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January 14, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to looking at crazy pictures on a smartphone.  From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #precursor #smartphone
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Unicorns (permalink)
Ursula K. Le Guin on why books about unicorns are true:

For fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.

So I believe that we should trust our children. Normal children do not confuse reality and fantasy - they confuse them much less often than we adults do (as a certain great fantasist pointed out in a story called “The Emperor’s New Clothes”). Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. All too often, that’s more than Mummy and Daddy know; for, in denying their childhood, the adults have denied half their knowledge, and are left with the sad, sterile little fact: “Unicorns aren’t real.” And that fact is one that never got anybody anywhere… It is by such statements as, “Once upon a time there was a dragon,” or “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit” - it is by such beautiful non-facts that we fantastic human beings may arrive, in our peculiar fashion, at the truth.

—"Why are Americans Afraid of Dragons?", The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
What do you picture when you think about college?  From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#spooky #full moon #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#imagination
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Toronto yearbook, 1951.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #monk #bear #thumbing nose
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click twice to raise the budget for the amateur dramatists. From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #theatre #costume #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you tend to travel in a reclined position, holding your favorite furniture.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #furniture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The old man, the hired girl, and the goat."  From The Grocery Man and Peck's Bad Boy by George Wilbur Peck, 1883.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis' Hieroglyphica, 1602.
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#vintage illustration #emblem #bird headed #hybrid #long neck #one-legged #hoof
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #mask #pig mask #pig head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1900s #roadrunner #bird in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat legged #rooster #illustration #cock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #giant snake #constrictor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #invention #cyborg #illustration #armor #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Woodcut by Wharton H. Esherick.  From Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk by Mary Marcy, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #illustration #red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #music #orchestra #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #giantess #long hair #tiny people #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #tiny elephant #pet elephant
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January 13, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When parallel universes collide, one may find oneself back to back with oneself.  From Atlantic Christian's 1971 yearbook.
This is actually a phenomenon in old yearbooks.  Previously, we saw this man who met a taller form of himself on a lonely pathway, as well as this encounter with a spirit double of pure light.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit double
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #angel #fashion #vintage fashion #costume #angel costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Which is my heart?"  From Rightly Dividing the Word by Clarence Larkin, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #heart #biblical #natural man #spiritual man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #headache #tea #funnel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #mice #grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #monk #anthropomorphism #human headed #bottles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #pitchfork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #backside #peace dove #global ass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #money #fashion #vintage fashion #pianist #money dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #illustration #tapir
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story Plays Old and New, Book One by Alice Sumner Varney, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Devil gets a make-over.  From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #illustration #makeover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Only the black cat is unfazed.  From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #death #black cat #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #clown #smile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #frog #giant frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #angel #swept away #broom #spring cleaning #giant broom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fright #fishtank #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #rooftop #tailcoat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to initiate time travel.  From Taylor University's Ilium yearbook of 1976.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #hallway
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Old Firm, by Joan Butler:

***

"Very nicely put!" said Guinevere. "I must make a note of that for my new book."

Elizabeth had pinched these lofty sentiments, almost word for word, from one of Guinevere's novels, but she hesitated to confess the theft.

***

"A loving heart never errs," Guinevere replied gently. "Even when it's dancing like a daffodil in the breeze," she added as a footnote.

Elizabeth, whose heart, far from dancing like a daffodil in the breeze, had sunk heavily until its descent was arrested by her suspender-belt, greeted this beautiful sentiment with a sniff.

***

She saw Sir Archibald as through a mist--which was perhaps the best way to see him.

***

Peake, the butler, warned by some sixth or seventh sense of the master's arrival, had appeared in the doorway.

***

"Did you follow me here?"

"Certainly not! I don't know where you get your ideas, but you should try some other place."

***

[Wodehouse Emulation dept.]

"You wouldn't believe how glad I am you're not an otter."

"Or a water-vole," Miss Laughton suggested.

"Or, as you say, a water-vole."

***

An extraordinary spectacle met his gaze, and one which made him raise his eyebrows to the limit of their travel.

***

She went red and white by turns, and modestly dropped her gaze to the floor, or possibly even lower.

***

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January 12, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If only more yearbooks looked like this.  From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#ghost #spooky #full moon #occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #cursed #2000s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #dove of peace #hat #peace angel #winged hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog headed #dog people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #lifelike portrait #your face here #cutout
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child Classics, The Third Reader by Georgia Alexander, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #woodsman #fairy tale #illustration #forest fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #monster #anthropomorphism #cherub #alligator #cupid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #capital o #long beard #l. frank baum #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #spider #spider web #giant spider #caught in a web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #owl #full moon #ornate frame
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis' Hieroglyphica, 1602.
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#vintage illustration #alligator costume #crocodile costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #giant #flatulence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #cupid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #angels #1900s #armor #bathing #soap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Stars obscured by cloud" (via Gary Barwin).
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#vintage illustration #outer space #vintage diagram #stars #solar system #cloud #diagram #illustration #obscured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crocodile #alligator #crying animal #crocodile tears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Joural Pour Rire, 1851.
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#vintage illustration #monster #robot #mechanical dragon #mechanical monster #robot dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #saint #statue #grapes
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
A wickerman's dream?  From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst yearbook of 1974.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wicker man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Broma: Órgana Política Liberala, 1881.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird man #illustration
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January 11, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Grin even if it hurts."  From Atlantic Christian's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cheshire cat #smiling cat #smiling animal #grin
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From the Wisconsin yearbook of 1973.
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#snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #clock tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vaudeville, The Book by Caroline Caffin and illustrated by Marius De Zayas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #scorpion #vaudeville #scorpion woman #annette kellerman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #uncle sam #diamond #bling #power stone #wishing stone #lucky stone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #skull hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #mountaintop #mountain climber #illustration #tourists #view
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #two headed eagle #peace dove #dove costume #dove head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#esoteric #psychic #telepathy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #when pigs fly #flying pig #pig #flying animal #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #long nose #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #pipe smoker #human headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #angel #scythe #winged man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #crying elephant #crying animal #crocodile tears #crying alligrator
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click three times to adjust the painting. From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1894
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#vintage illustration #painter #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #birth of venus
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Iris, by Constance and Gwenyth Little:

***

"You look silly with a hat on--you know it?" Mrs. Balron observed.

"Naturally. Since I feel silly, and am silly."

[Good answer!]

***

[Again with metaphorial bandboxes! Not the same author as before, either.]

This lousy little bandbox of a house was full of odd noises.

[And a little more research shows that calling a small building a bandbox is not unique, either.]

***

[And meanwhile in the Eyewear Business dept....]

He did not bother with the kitchen since he knew that his aunts considered it an apartment to be viewed through a lorgnette--if at all.

***

"People as a whole," said Mrs. Balron, "are entirely too touchy."

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January 10, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you ever wondered about the Devil's alma mater, we spotted King Satan in the Municipal University of Omaha's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#devil #satan #vintage yearbook #yearbook #his satanic majesty #vintage man #man #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #demon #cauldron #hell #damned #boiled alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #letter s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #moon #bird #star #rooftop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis' Hieroglyphica, 1602.
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#vintage illustration #emblem #satyr #pan pipes #goat legged #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #dog #crow #blackbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The caption to this panel is a row of dots, like footlights.  (In full disclosure, we love giant lighting fixtures.)  From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #chandelier #lighting #light fixture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #playing cards #house of cards
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1908.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snow #drunk #footprints
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #two-faced #happy and sad #half and half
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #owls #winking #illustration #snowy owl #white owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #monster #pitchfork #goya #bird monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #shell #mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A woodcut from Der Schelmen Zunst, 1506, reproduced in Ancient Mysteries Described by William Hone, 1823.
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#vintage illustration #demon #woodcut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #musical animal #donkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We'd assume this was from a production of Dracula, if college yearbooks weren't such occult objects. From the Lycoming yearbook of 1980.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #dracula #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Munsey's Magazine (1897).
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#vintage illustration #horse #strength #muscle man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #death #fire #frog
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January 9, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A funny inkling led us to zoom in on the head of the glowing figure.  Sure enough, she has a terrifying skull face.  This phantom haunts Guilford's 1990 yearbook.

“I have always had a thing about old photographs. The older pictures have an uncanny ability of suggesting that there is another world where the departed are. A black and white photograph is a document of an absence, and is almost curiously metaphysical. I have always hoarded them. They represent a sense of otherness. The figures in photographs have been muted, and they stare out at you as if they are asking for a chance to say something.”  —W.G. Sebald, The Questionable Business of Writing

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

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#haunted #ghost #skull face #spooky #vintage photo #phantom #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Along the banks of the River Bug would be a good place for the establishment of a lot of mental misfit palaces of hallucination for future residences of all emperors, kings, and knaves."  From The Thinkograph, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #king #emperor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Got his nose.  From Zanoza, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #giant egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #locomotive #trains
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #cannon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #giant #fog #skull head #looming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a college graduate depicted as "A Freak L.S. (Living Skeleton)."  From the Codex yearbook of Beloit College, 1893.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #living skeleton
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Murdered Queen by Charlotte Susan M. Bury, 1838.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #death #witch #serpent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Saint Anne teaches a puppet.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #saint #puppet #saint anne
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Imperial 'U.S.,'" from The Chronicle, Chicago, reprinted in The Literary Digest, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skull #dollar sign #symbol #imperialism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #half dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bellunensis' Hieroglyphica, 1602.
[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 #emblem #crocodile #ship
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #birds #the birds #alfred hitchcock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #bird headed #anthropomorphism #hybrid #bird man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #head butting #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
The rainmobile of 1926.  From Fliegende Blätter.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rain #rainy day #invention #illustration #vintage automobile #water car #water power #water engine #alternative fuel #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1915.
I've collected over 700 vintage devils through the course of my research, in this gallery.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #cathedral #church fire #rheims
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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.
44808 44809
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #rainbow #biblical #illustration #noah
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #war #illustration #general death
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January 8, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You may have assumed that "John Q. Student" was a generic name, but he graduated from Taylor in 1977.  Previously, we saw the actual portrait of "Joe College" in another yearbook, here.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #1970s #vintage man #man #john q. student
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch Magazine (1898).
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#vintage illustration #big hair #pianist #muscle man
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The View from the Sixties, by George Oppenheimer:

***

For a long time [Harpo Marx] called me Benson. It was no special distinction; he called everybody whose name he could not remember by this label. Nights in his dressing room... you could hear him introduce his hordes of visitors to one another as Mr. or Miss or Mrs. Benson.

[Tangent: When I read Groucho and Me as a kid, one of my favorite details was how Groucho repeatedly used "Delaney" as the name of minor personages whose real names didn't matter or which he couldn't recall or didn't want to reveal or whatever.]

***

Also assigned to the screenplay... were Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin.... Goldwyn never referred to them by name, but only as "de boys." This created considerable confusion since William Du Bois was also working for Goldwyn.... Time and again Goldwyn would buzz me on the dictagraph, order me to bring in de boys, and hastily buzz off, leaving me to figure out whether he wanted William or Sheekman and Perrin. Inevitably I guessed wrong, whereupon Goldwyn would scream at me, "I said de boys, not Du Bois" or vice versa.

***

"Damn it," I said irascibly after losing another rubber, "let's have some light. I can't see my nose in front of my face."

"That isn't where it is," said Charlie [Lederer].

***

[Doing the Math]

There was a scene in which [Garbo] and Douglas had to do a tango. Robert Alton, the choreographer, was showing her the steps and I was required to tango along with them, injecting and shortening the dialogue lines to the rhythm of the dance.... In this case it took three to tango.

***

One of the theaters... was a loft on the second floor of an ancient building on Martha's Vineyard. Directly underneath it was a merry-go-round with a calliope. The love scenes became even more unconvincing when accompanied by "East Side, West Side" or "Anchors Aweigh."

***

"I like my job. I'm happy in New York."

He shook his head sadly. "Boy," he said incredulously and, lest I might have misunderstood him, he repeated, "Boy."

***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #piano #phonograph #don't speak #hush #shush
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Comique, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #rabbits #bunnies #laughing animal #laughing rabbit #laughing bunny
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click twice to grow his hair. From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1903
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#vintage illustration #hair restoration #baldness #gif #hair growth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #fairies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #heatwave #balance #night air #open air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Liquidation sale — everything must go.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#religion #vintage illustration #statuary #relics #icons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #music #violin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #monster #cyclops #yokai #ogre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #moloch #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #faces in things #bunny #mushroom #mushroom people #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #father time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #winter #old man winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a mesmerist from Le Journal Pour Rire, 1852.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Toronto yearbook, 1951.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing cats #musical animal #caterwauling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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January 7, 2019

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From the Wisconsin yearbook of 1973.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #dog #fashion #vintage fashion #big hat #fruit
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"What I now know, I'm now held to a higher level by knowing it."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #wasitline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who are we?"  From the Record of the Class of 1891 of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #sword #faces in things #impaled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #piano #treble clef #music lover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #false teeth #1930s #nutcracker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant #pipe smoker #colossus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #snail #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's one from our growing (and sometimes glowing) collection of vintage skull imagery.  This one is from Le Rire, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #optical illusion #skull #faces in things #illustration #trompe l'oeil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Trembling' at the church door."  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 Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #illustration #furnace
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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 #ghost #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #war #rabbit #1930s #tank #bomb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #satyr #animal headed #bird costume #hybrid #costumes #horned man #pear costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #severed head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Russian Story Book by Richard Wilson, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #horse #castle #knight #leaping #illustration #russian fairy tale #white horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly
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January 6, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of "Joe College," but did you assume he wasn't an actual person?  Here he is, in the Municipal University of Omaha's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #smiling man #joe college #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #wine #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #silhouette #cerberus #dog headed #three headed
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to examine the upper painting. From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.

Giraffe art critic from L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905
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#vintage illustration #museum #animated gif #long neck #art museum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #artist #painter #done in
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Old News (permalink)
"Something new in vampires!"  From The Judge, 1921.
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#vampire #weird headline #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #mercury #pig #winged feet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a card reader from our growing collection of card readers and other fortune tellers.  This one is from Le Rire, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #fortune telling #card reader #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, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #rats #crocodile #horror #illustration #precarious
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cobweb #spider web #tiny men #goth #black widow #spider woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #drum #amen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There are more games than one."  From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #masquerade
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
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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 #ghost #shipwreck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #alarm clock #1890s #rude awakening #cannons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Epworth Herald, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Toronto yearbook, 1951.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #giant bunny
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder at Beechlands, by Maureen Sarsfield:

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"Old Lord Whatsisname came to tea and simply wouldn't go. Such an old bore, otherwise I'd have asked you both to come up."

No Lord Whatsisname had been to tea with her, but as she had to make some sort of excuse, she might as well make an impressive one.

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January 5, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Cousin Itt from The Addams Family.  From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #long beard #bigfoot #addams family #cousin it #cousin itt
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored by this review of The Pencil Witch:
"Five stars.  Like the artwork, Professor Oddfellow's text is intricate and filled with beautiful mysteries un-raveled only through extended and repeat visits. If Dumbledore and the faculty of Hogwarts were to write a textbook it would something like this." —Cyril Maypencil witch
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#magick #witchcraft #occult #esoteric #hogwarts #practical magic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If only one photo could capture our own experience with higher education, this is it.  From Guilford's 1990 yearbook.

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#occult #vintage photo #mysterious #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Prophetic Lights by Ellet Joseph Waggoner, 1888.
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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 #monster #prophecy #sea monster #biblical #beast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #lion #hairdo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #centaur
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #sprouting #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #train #locomotive #trainwreck
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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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 monster #spat out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #heart #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.

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#vintage illustration #rooftop #zip line
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #questionable #questioning #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #mythology #satyr #goat legged #illustration #austin osman spare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Land by Villamaria, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #underwater kingdom #underwater palace
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
*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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #boxer #boxing horse #tiny horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
Serpent lovers will find my unusual collection of vintage snake imagery here.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #snake charmer #serpent handler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #demon #skull face #two headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #human headed #insect man #insect people #bug man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to find a lost love via astral projection.  From the 1921 Southwestern yearbook. 
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #lovers' lane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #toadstool #mushroom #blood
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January 4, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
In our urbex exploration of a ruined wizard's manor, we found in a locked library a strange book and a secret of How to Be Your Own Cat.
George Parker, author of The Little Book of Creativity, writes:
I carry this book everywhere. On my iPad, sure, but I still carry it around and read from it every once in a while. To get that whack against the side of my head and wake up from the sometimes numbing and increasingly one-dimensional world of news, politics and chores. Great to see some of it animated with nice visuals and a great voice over! Thanks.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Cat-Lover," a woodcut by Frank Long, from Berea College's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #woodcut #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat lover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #ram #horns
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Walking through the tiny skull flowers.  From Pchela, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #roses #red sky #skull flower
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Act One, by Moss Hart:

***

It is taken for granted that a cabinetmaker or a shoemaker, . . . starting with a certain degree of talent for his profession, does, after the practice of that profession for ten or twenty years, learn how to make a good cabinet or a decent pair of shoes. . . . Not so the playwright. He is quite capable after twenty years of practice of having a left shoe for the second act when a right shoe is obviously called for.

***

[Expressive Back of Head dept. (I think this has come up before!)]

I signed the slip as he counted out the money, conscious that the people immediately behind me were whispering to each other. "It is not George Kaufman," I heard a woman's voice say. "It must be the other one."

As nearly as I could, I tried to achieve a look of modesty with the back of my head while I waited for him to finish.

***

[From My Lucky Star by Joe Keenan]:

***

"I'd felt certain this would unnerve her, but her response was well to the left of fiddle-dee-dee."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Burelom, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #bear #tables turned
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #anthropomorphism #river water
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #headless #plank #carpenter #woodworker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #golf
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
*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 #holding hands #beach
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #winter sports #skiing #snow skiis #extreme skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #modern art #weird art #illustration #art installation #raining
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #rabbit #illustration #tail feather #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Serbian Fairy Tales by Elodie L. Mijatovich and illustrated by Sidney Stanley, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale #flames #forest fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The rollercoaster ride of a card reading.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #card reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #goat #party crasher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #x-ray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 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 #hands
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From the Illinois State yearbook of 1978.
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#moon #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #babylon #biblical #trumpet #beast
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January 3, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An Escheresque holder for an hourglass gives you more time.  From Lehigh's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook #escheresque
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Developing photos with blood.  From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #darkroom #photographer #blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #king #faun
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Precursors (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal this precursor to the "cone of silence" from Get Smart. From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.

Preursor to the cone of silence from L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905
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#vintage illustration #animated gif #cone of silence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #christianity #church and state #window display #communism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #dance of death #open grave #living dead #dancing skeletons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #doppelgänger #like looking in a mirror #double #twin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #angel #angel costume #angel wings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
[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 #ghost #cemetery #spirits #graveyard #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.
26733 28759
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#vintage illustration #weightless #floating #ocean spirits #tsunami #tidal wave #aloft #lifted up #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
[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 #rabbits #bunnies #gymnastics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[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 #monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #cart before the horse #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly #butterfly woman #winged woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #strangled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's an illustration feeling claustrophobic in his circular frame.  From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #claustrophobia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #florist #1890s #flowers #faceless #no face #gardener #say it with flowers
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January 2, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
[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 #rabbit #face off #six arms #ambidextrous #rabits
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Our planet's spokeswizard, Cyril the Sorcerer, honored us with an invitation to formulate a magical coin.  We jumped at the prospect of alchemical metallurgy, but this wizard added the twist that he wished to work with precious woods, not metals.  He sought something less silver than sylvan.  For his coin design, I was inspired by the wizard's remarkable eyeglasses.  They have marvelous loops at the ends of the ear pieces.  I overlapped those loops, like linking rings, to form a third eye of wizardly wisdom.  The lens pieces are emblazoned with the two heavenly luminaries most associated with our planet.  The coin's other side depicts an open hand reaching for a star, surrounded by Cyril's teaching that "the magic is in your hand."  What a privilege to be a part of our planetary spokeswizard's enchantment!
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#magic #coin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some days.  From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skull #blood #blood rain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #griffin #1914
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #mustache #vintage men #men #scratched #claw marks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#religion #vintage illustration #totem pole #pacific northwest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Of course the spirit of Louisiana couldn't resist the temptation of the lottery forever.  From The Judge, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #temptation #devil #lottery #louisiana lotter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #demon #satyr #champagne #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #masquerade #see through dress #transparent dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #lion #musician #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 A Guide to Palmistry by Eliza Easter Henderson, 1893.
[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 #palmistry #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The haunted Brocken."  From Fairy Tales from the Harz Mountains by Alfred Cooper Fryer, 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 #haunted #fairy tale #illustration #brocken
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
[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 #monster #giant #illustration #eiffel tower
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
*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 weather #snow #weather deity #old man winter #weather god #winter storm #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1925.
[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 #dandy #big eyes #long eyelashes #it's a look #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A plunging pinnacle, some purple prose, and a thousand voices saying exactly the same words.  From Pearson's, 1902.
[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 #leaning tower #falling monument #falling tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When you allow Cupid to take the wheel.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[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 #cherub #cupid #car wreck #off a cliff #car accident #down a cliff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 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 #moon #man in the moon #faces in things #moon face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #owl #parrot #birds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The long-courted devil appears with locust demons to harass and worry his elect.  From The Devil's Bride by Milton H. Stine, 1910.
[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 #prophecy #end of the world #apocalypse #book of revelation #locust
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
That fraternity grip.  From The Oregana yearbook of the Univeristy of Oregon, 1920.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #handshake #secret handshake
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January 1, 2019

Unicorns (permalink)
It's true and believable: our very own Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound is a precursor to Have You Ever Heard a Unicorn's Song?
Meanwhile, we're pleased to announce a new installment in our audio companion to the unicorn field guide.
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#unicorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if even bigger equipment is required to ensure your own night's rest.  From the UW Stout yearbook of 1948.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #radio #sleep aid #sleep machine #man sleeping
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
No chapter 13 and no more curse.  "This is the year of the happy ending."  From Reversing the Curse: Inside the 2004 Boston Red Sox by Dan Shaughnessy, 2005.
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#uncursed #curse removal #not cursed
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"What I now know is that making decisions based on clouded emotions or other's opinions often are the wrong choices."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #skull face #spooky #faces in things #cyclists #bicyclists
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
To understand how to use printed skulls like these for powerfully magical purposes, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From The Cornhusker Yearbook of the University of Nebraska, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #magick #skull #occult #college yearbook #fraternity #yearbook #secret societies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
[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 #beer #hybrid #snail people #half snail #snail headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if a satyr ever carried you into the new year (with your top open).  From Le Courrier Français, 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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#vintage illustration #satyr #new year #1894
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
[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 #vision #biblical #prophet
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From The Judge, 1890.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monk #self worship #president cleveland
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
[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 #snowman #carrot nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #butterfly #hybrid #human headed #human butterfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Primary Education, 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 #snowman #january
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #death #skull face #illustration #foot warmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1925.
[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 #bunnies #rabbit #1920s #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
[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 #halloween #october #hallowe'en #costumes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
[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 #father time #baby new year #1926
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #seeing double #clones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
[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 #cat #elephant #doctor #illustration #cat nurse #animal doctor #sick elephant #art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Pomeroy, Deceased, by George Bellairs

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["Patrick, Undergraduate" dept.: All the front matter says "Pomeroy, Deceased"--with the comma--but the dust jacket is "Pomeroy Deceased" sans comma.]

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[Coming Out of a Band-Box dept.]

He might have just come out of a band-box. He was dark-haired, and every hair was in its place. He looked as if he had a bath and a complete change of linen for each patient.

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[Eyewear Business dept.]

He polished his monocle with his handkerchief as though preparing it for playing a part in what was ahead.

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It sounded like a lot of nonsense to Dorange and Littlejohn. Dorange hesitated. Littlejohn felt they were rather like a couple of travellers in a lift who had got out on the wrong floor.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bortsy, 1906.
[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 #anvil #sledgehammer
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