CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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January 31, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #monkey #dancing animal
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#ghosts #prof. oddfellow #ghost hunting #video #penetralia #ghostbusting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Living water."  From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
[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 #potion #water #holy water
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 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 #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Colombotto Rosso, from The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 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 #fairy #full moon #hide and seek #moonbeam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
[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 #macabre #horror #skulls #carillon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #god #the people could fly #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We never forget our best teachers.  From Emerson's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
[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 #fox #rooster #folk tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Atlas Obscura says that old cinema cliché of a dastardly villain trying a damsel-in-distress to the railroad tracks never actually happened.  But it did happen in the 1980s.  From Lebanon Valley's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #railroad tracks #damsel in distress #villain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #goddess #halo #worship #ad
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #wizard #fairy tale #murder #fish #knife #giant fish #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #memoriam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
[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 #monster #giant #horror #vampire #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #harp #disparity #above the clouds #above it all
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #flower #vintage magazine #gardener #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We will be living proof that Gad Gives a Damn."  From Thornton's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#religion #effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gad
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
"The moonlit earth whirling around in inkiness."  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #space travel #earth #ship
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January 30, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)

Creating song lyrics by expanding single words into entire phrases via decoding the meanings of each letter?  We're delighted that the artist Velvet Tangerine was inspired by our two videos concerning alphabetic codes, one about the "Mantong" key, the other about the Christopher Smart key.  Here's his resulting song.
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#alphabet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghosts and Goblins by Wilhelmina Harper.
[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 #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[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 #horror #shade
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #edward lear
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Crossed Skis, by Carol Carnac:

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[As So-and-So Didn't Say dept.]

"No night lasts forever, as Swinburne didn't say."

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"I'm sleepy enough to snore the clock round."

["Snore the clock round" was new to me, though I see from a search that it's a well-established turn of phrase.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dizziness.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1941.
[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 #in love #heart #1940s #dizzy #heartsick #heart sick #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When you keep eating the pancakes even after winning the trophy.  From Southern Alberta Institute of Technology's 1963 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #1960s #pancakes #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1874.  
[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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #duck #hen
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #brexit #british empire #planet victoria #secession #existence #dot #sentient #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Old News (permalink)
"Fog at the end of the tunnel."  From Innis Herald, 1982.
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#fog #vintage headline #tunnel #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This photo may be used as a tool to facilitate time travel.  From Duke's 1971 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #streetlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #parrot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #rocky horror #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
[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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #ufo #helicopter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Thornton's 1970 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage ad #hieroglpyhics #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1927 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Peter Had Courage by Claude Moore Fuess.
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#vintage illustration #courage #old book #treehouse
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January 29, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Well, I always got sort of a bang out of loaded cigars, but I fail to see the humor in a loaded donut."  From North Central College's 1961 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #smoke #doughnut #donut #1960s #vintage woman
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The Right Word (permalink)
As the show was filmed in one take and on a grueling schedule, actors frequently flubbed their lines on Dark Shadows.  Here's one finishing his speech with, "etc., etc," in episode 24.  The actor who replaced him as the sherrif says in episode 59, "Well, I'm just trying to fill in the blank spaces, ma'am."
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#etcetera #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Halibut versus eagle: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #fish #1890s #animal fight #halibut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
[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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #russia #cathedral
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#cat #library #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A novel of gayest New York at its gayest!"  From Cosmopolitan (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 #dandy #new york #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
[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 #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Skull Talks Back by Zora Neale Hurston.
[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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#skull #talking skull
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Old News (permalink)
Sure, "dancers are people," but the bigger question and concern is what kind of people they are.  From The Gateway, 1976.
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#dancing #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But the girl whose life is innocent and unstained is unknown and ignored.  Why?"  From The Film Daily, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #innocence #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Almanach de Bonne Fortune, 1770.
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#vintage illustration #good luck #lucky number #lottery #vintage almanac #almanac
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Barnard's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skyline #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #vomit #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #iron butterfly #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University Of Washington's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #death #grim reaper #skull face #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1953 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The mystic ladder."  From Jerry Todd's Up-the-Ladder Club by Leo Edwards and illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon.
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#vintage illustration #ladder
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Every yearbook at every college from every year since the Model T Ford has complained about a lack of parking.  This is one of 50 Yearbook Motifs Bingo game we invented.  From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.

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#giant #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #parking ticket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.
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#ufo
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January 28, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #christopher smart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan of the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion #tarzan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old and New Japan by Clive Holland, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #pagoda #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman.
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#vintage illustration #hand #bone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ruins on the moon.  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #moon #ruins #crater
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #bed of nails #bed bugs #fakir #art
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage photo #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #parthenon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A little devil temporarily out of service.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #candle #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #rooster #giant rooster
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Old News (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1922.
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#truth #lying #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carleton's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dove #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #voodoo #voodoo doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Romance of Poisons by Robert Cromie and T. S. Wilson, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #poison #old book
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kaleidoscopic
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#ufo
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

***
[Nonexistent Beard dept.]
Paul Pullman stroked a non-existent beard and looked very wise.

***
[I think this "not bad for his age" practice on the part of a golf pro could, with a bit of development, fit in nicely as a "ploy" in the Gamesmanship tradition.]

"Is he any good?"....
"Not bad for his age....Not bad at all."
Ned...didn't realise that this was the other man's stock response to any enquiry about a member's play....
***

[Bonus: At a board meeting in this book, the narrator augments descriptions of the various personalities present with reference to which Alp is behind each of them (i.e., paintings or photographs of specific famous mountains that are hanging on the walls). Sort of like an Internet-style "Which Alp are you?" quiz!]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic or Not? by Edward Eager and illustrated by N. M. Bodecker.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #japanese #dragon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
By Heidi Kling.  From Coraddi, 1988.
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#vintage photo #fog #hands #1980s
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January 27, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #bird of passage
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Old News (permalink)
"Girl in moon is an eskimo."  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#moon #man in the moon #woman in the moon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 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 #monkey #breadfruit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916. 
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fireplace #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cats were worshipped by the ancient Egyptians."  From Junior English in Action.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #cat #sentence diagram #cat god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #scythe #throne
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #faun
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ghostly #eerie #ghost #vintage photo #spiritualism #night photography #haunted piano #glowing #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #long hair #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #world #silhouette #bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It[']s been your dime."  From Pfeiffer's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#money #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dime
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[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 #japanese #hunter #stag #antlers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that most of us don't even know what's holding us back.  That may not apply to this photo from Wesleyan College’s 1978 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Boris Karloff, Dr. Nikola.  From The Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage hollywood #boris karloff
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Directly at his feet a tall, stately creature seemed to rise as though coming out of the very floor. It was a man, although dressed in a long robe of dazzling whiteness and glittering from a thousand flaming points."  From Pluck and Luck, 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 #ghost #aura #jesus
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January 26, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
"NGM rules, Amen," says Swedish musician Sigfus of our clockwork cover of Freezepop's "We Don't Have Normal Lives."  We're honored!
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #freezepop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Avila Examiner, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #skull #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I've got to go somewhere and do something immediately."  From Dark Shadows episode 335.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #hell mouth #eaten alive #church art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #magic lamp #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #red moon #blood moon #rockerfeller #globe lamp #world lamp #aladidn #giant moon #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Artist's impression."  (Some of our very favorite impressions are artists' impressions.) . From Journal of Transient Aerial Phenomena, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #egg #giant egg #thinker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #chariot #faces in things #winged horse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and darkness #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #penguin #laughing animal #laughing birds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking Glass.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #faces in things #lewis carroll #humpty dumpty #egg people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Victory goddess Nike.  From Wesleyan College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #victory #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek mythology #illustration #nike
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not everyone can get away with a liquid muttonchops look.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #water bucket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Old Man Depression, from The Film Daily, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #depression
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mystery solved: standing stones were for evading mad bulls ... before the invention of airplanes.  From Chatterbox, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bull #monolith #airplane #standing stone
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Old News (permalink)
"My date with an alien."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's rabbits fighting over a croquet mallet are from St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #tug of war #croquet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #king #elephant #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You know him as Alfred E. Neuman (right), but here he is (with more teeth) in Queen's University's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #1960s #alfred e. neuman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #feather #quill pen #goose
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January 25, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that Cyril the Sorcerer quoted from our Magic Words: A Dictionary in an instructional video for the Magic & Mystery School in Las Vegas.  Here's a brief snippet:
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#magic words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #frog #elves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #nest #animal attack #mountain climber #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #beetle #scarab
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #spinning #gyroscope #transference
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1940, courtesy of UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #falling apart #pull yourself together
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Eating clubs.  From Swarthmore's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #food #epicurism #epicure
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #fairy #skeleton #dance of death #grim reaper #russian dance #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A self-portrait of the artist Arpad Schmidhammer.  From Jugend, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #artist #illustration #self portrait #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College’s 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clubs #costume #playing card
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fable #crow #blackbird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
In full disclosure, we learned most all we know about the darkness from CliffNotes.
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#darkness #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #minotaur #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pet walker #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King of the Kerry Fair by Nicolete Meredith, with woodcuts by Nonny Hogrogian.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Gannon's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#cauldron #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hazing
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Old News (permalink)
"They HAVE landed."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #aliens #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A floating cat head guards the back cover of Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
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#vintage illustration #cat #floating head
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case Has Altered, by Martha Grimes:

Even the roots of his hair awakened with wide-eyed follicle-amazement.

***
From Dover and the Claret-Tappers, by Joyce Porter:

[Multi-word Middle Names (in Absentia) dept.]
"Consideration-for-others is not Dover's middle name!"
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry by Phylis Reynolds Naylor.
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#bats
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January 24, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored by DJ Tundra of Patronus Records, who praised our clockwork cover of The Cure's "Close to Me": "AWESOME work in the creation of this rendition and in the artistic way in which you really made the song your own. And the music video adds greatly to the overall allure of the production and is done so very well. A sensational audio/visual experience!!"
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Produced by permission of Fiction Records (license #1000000005538).  "Lullaby" written by Robert Smith / The Cure.  Neons Gone Mad cover performed by Michael Warwick.
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #the cure
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"White to play and win in 48 moves."  From Toike Oike, 1984.
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#checkers
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
"The old nursery form runs, 'Riddle-me-riddle-me-ree, p'raps you can't tell me what this may be?'  My reply runs, 'No.  Upon my life, I can't.'" —Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
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#riddle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"On the birch log sat a little figure."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #mars #war and peace #peace angel #wheelchair
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fantastic Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, 1972 (courtesy of Archive.org; our restoration, as per usual).
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #church #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabeth College's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #flower people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #four-leaf clover #lucky clover #clover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #lion tamer #circus #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #devil #on fire
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #otherworldly #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #goat #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1911 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #death #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sororities #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
"It burst all orange, then all blue, and disappeared."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#animal mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #animal costume #1980s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #biplane #guitar #walt mason
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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 #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He peered into a dark hole far up the trunk of the tree."  From Chatterbox, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy door #up a tree #hollow tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #living toy #yarn doll
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Old News (permalink)
"How much can I sin and get away with it?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #sin #horse #carriage #vintage headline #headline
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January 23, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)
So great when a character speaks her punctuation.  Actually, the full line she speaks is, "Period.  Exclamation point!"  The period/exclamation point combo is sort of like an interrobang, just less inquisitive.  From Dark Shadows episode 14.
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#punctuation #exclamation point #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #monster #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir Rhyne's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#balancing act #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #knife #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For those wise to Charles Fort's research, this will have additional significance.  From The Gateway, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #flying fish #fish #football
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Elmhurst's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #extraction
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #monster #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville's 1918 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fangs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skulls #medusa #gorgon #snake hair #serpent hair
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's so great when UFO-spotters look like aliens themselves.  It's also great when the newspaper is called "Irregular."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1970.
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#ufo
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lasell's 1937 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #1920s #running with scissors #big nose #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"In search of nothing."  From Innis Herald, 1982.
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#nihilism #vintage headline #nothing #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Silent Miaow by Paul Gallico. 
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#cat #vintage photo
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #disconnect #disengaging #disconnection
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Riviera Express, by T. P. Fielden:

***
The actor-manager struggled up from the floor, explaining that "William Tell" sung through gritted teeth while bending your knees and sliding up and down a wall was far better than Stanislavsky when it came to an actor preparing.

***
Dr. Rudkin was gnashing his teeth now and would have eaten his moustache if he could.
***

[Bonus: "face furniture" for facial features]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat #violin #musical animal #fiddle #cat and the fiddle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #tombstone #gravestone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #giant #poison giant
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January 22, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Magpie versus dog: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #dog #blackbird #bird #animal fight #magpie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #porcupine #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #underwater #fish #under the sea #seahorse
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Old News (permalink)
"Sheriff doubts that couple met talking bear."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#bear #vintage headline #talking bear #headline
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook #cockatoo #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion
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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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#centaur
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Peace College's 1984 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #angel #fire spirit #cherub #spirit #alcohol #barber #morrissey #musician #hairdressing #hairdresser on fire #haircut #art
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
The full sun, with eight flares, is reflected in his eyeglasses.  From Colorado College's 1978 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A loom shadow from Galaxy, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #shadow people #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William amd Mary's 1903 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Astrology is a fascinating hobby."  From The Link, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #zodiac
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This yearbook suspiciously enquires of its readers' vitality: "Are you dead?"  From American University, 1969.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#death #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #wasps #bear #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly
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January 21, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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Produced with the permission of Warner - Tamerlane - Universal - Polygram (license 1000000004769). "Cemetry Gates" written by Morrissey and Marr, The Smiths. Neons Gone Mad Clockwork/Spirit Radio cover performed by Michael Warwick.
Neons Gone Mad's Prof. Oddfellow goodies: Threadless and Zazzle.
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #morrissey #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #the smiths
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"'Books are not seldom talismans and spells.' —Cowper"  From The Gateway, 1971.  This book reads the mind of the reader: The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.
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#magick #occult #talisman #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #vintage hollywood #vintage man #hollywood #man #melting architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #haunted tree #tree spirit #horror
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Silhouette, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #frog #rat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rhode Island College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alligator #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #eaten alive
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A place to get warm."  From Ethos, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #cat #warmth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the 1998 Suffield yearbook. 
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#cat #vintage yearbook #panther
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #king #boots #tom thumb #queen
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Silver Ghost, by Charlotte MacLeod:

***

[Part of the disclaimer in the front matter]
Some resemblance between the Billingsgates' bees and real bees is unavoidable.

***
["Just when you think it's going to flop--it flaps!" dept.]

For a headdress, Appie had simply pinned the open end of a white linen pillow case around her head like a coif and let the rest of the case flop down her back. It was rather flapping than flopping just now, as a brisk wind had sprung up.

***
"Don't you know bee stings are supposed to be beneficial in certain cases? It would be quite like Aunt Bodie to try, if she could find a suitable bee."
"How'd she know which bee was suitable?"

***
Old Purbody took a beating on that shrinkage in the wool market.

***
"That peculiar-looking guitar Tick's niece Alison played yesterday for the minstrelsy was a pandora. Or bandore, if you prefer."
Max had no particular choice in the matter.

***
[Upon entering a sterilized, sealed-off honey-bottling room]
Casting prophylaxis to the winds, Max turned the white porcelian knob and pushed.

***
[Taking a leaf from Erle Stanley Gardner's "primers for extraterrestrials" writing guide...]

"What kind of plastic container?" Max wanted to know.
"The ordinary sort that gets used in a kitchen," Abigail told him. "Squarish, with a colored plastic top. You can buy them in any supermarket. We have a bunch of them around. I expect that you do, too.*"
"Oh, yes," Sarah agreed. "They're handy for leftovers and freezing things. Or bringing soup to the afflicted."

[*Which is why she needs to explain to him what they are.]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #faces in things #possum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #mouse #mice #teamwork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I love to lie in the warm sunshine."  From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #dog #sunshine
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
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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 #sea monster #tentacles #tentacle monster
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January 20, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #pterodactyl #dinosaur #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #witch #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
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#vintage illustration #knight #severed head #suit of armor #decapitated #headless ghost #armor
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1977.
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#smoke #night #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We changed the color of this book cover to green so that the lucky cat will bring you money.  From The Lucky Cat by Frances and Richard Lockridge and illustrated by Zhenya Gay.
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#vintage illustration #cat #good luck #kittens #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The mind is an enchanted glass full of superstition.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #phrenology #monkey #turtle #ostrich
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From When Last I Died by Gladys Mitchell.
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#vintage illustration #death
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Precursors (permalink)
This is more interesting that Tron's light cycles, in that they're based upon mundane motorcycles.  From Amazing Stories, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #science fiction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #murder #gun #knife #violence #stabbing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
*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 #umbrella #people who look like their dogs #walking the dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir's 1913 yearbook.  To use imagery like this as a potent tool, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #bigfoot #cryptozoology #weird news
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Old News (permalink)
"Joy to the world.  They have none."  From Purdue's 1896 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #jackass #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The unknown church is where we worship, too.  "Ibis-headed figure from an unknown church."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #ibis #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Wake Forest's 1987 yearbook.

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#grim reaper #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From A Touch of Strange by Theodore Sturgeon, 1958.
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#vintage book #book #strange
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #youth and age
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #achilles #vintage magazine #trojan #magazine #art
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January 19, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Blues artists won't play unless asked."  From The Gateway, 1976.
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#vintage headline #headline #blues music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cat #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 
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#vintage illustration #constellation #ship #night sky #stars
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Old News (permalink)
"Snowballs in space are hot issue."  As above, so below: A Snowball's Chance in Hell.  Headline from UFO Newsclipping Service, 1998.
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#comet #snowball #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The mysery of unknown forces that seek to possess us."  From Dark Shadows episode 690.
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#unknown #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elves and Ellefolk by Natalia Balting and illustrated by Gordon Laite.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #quill pen
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#solar deity #sun god #vintage illustration #esoteric #occult #sun #sunflower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The grand tradition of glowing trees in old yearbooks.  From Elon's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fable #peacock #giant bird #aesop #tiny man
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cat #drunk #pig headed #drinking blood #prussia #king wilhelm #after the party #party people #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook
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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 #lion #cauliflower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bear versus two vultures: which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #vulture #bear #animal fight
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you see anything green?"  From the Duluth Herald, 1895.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #elf #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #yarn ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #cat #jester #wink
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January 18, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
The camera takes off two decades!
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#music video #video #neons gone mad #haunted clockwork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The first post office in the sky.  From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #mail carrier #hot air balloon #postman #carrier pigeon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #kiss #penguin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We would all do well not to underestimate the duck.  From Phantasie IV Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to check first just to be sure he's not watching."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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#angel #eye of god #being watched #surveillance
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #radio #alien #deejay #art
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"Don't take this the wrong way, but the next time you do something like this, would you consult with me, please?" —J. Minter, Hold On Tight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage magazine #magazine #ghost in the machine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Query in the skies."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Brevard's 1950 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night owl #bug eyed
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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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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#bewilderment #bewildered
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winston-Salem Teachers College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dog #nervous #ad
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
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#vintage book #fantasy #book #reality
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot #hermit #light and darkness
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 2003.
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#vintage headline #fat man #slimming #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dover Three, by Joyce Porter:

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a dudgeon so high as to have snow on it

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"Mrs. What's-her-name who lives here came in and found Miss What's-her-name unconscious on the floor of her room." [Note that these two What's-her-names are no relation! Their actual surnames are Leatherbarrow and Gullimore, respectively.]

***
"What the hell does he want a French lesson for?"
"To learn French, of course."
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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January 17, 2022

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Hypnotized to dance in procession.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #dancing #hypnosis #procession #photo
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#bible #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Yosemite.  From The Century, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #yosemite #river
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly by Mary Ladd Gavell.
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#truth #lying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a rare book with a surprising price tag: Jeremiah the Cat by William Maurice Culp, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockingham's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ufo #spiral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark #encounters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #crocodile #musician #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #two-headed #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the University of North Carolina Wilmington's 1984 yeabook.

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#halloween #skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Counterpane Fairy, written and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #witch #mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Philadelphia College of Art's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyeglasses #hat #lightbulb hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1980 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #confession
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gryphon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unruly Robin, written and illustrated by Dorathea Dankovszky.
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#vintage illustration #bird #robin #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Drug!!!  You!  Me!  The other fellow!  Everybody!!!"  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drugs #medicine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We always look for anomalous clock towers in towns like this.  From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #cobweb #spider web #1940s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #strange light #fairy tale #whale #pyramid #pinocchio #folk tale #mouth of the whale #monstro #strange glow #art
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January 16, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Neons Gone Mad is pleased to by praised by Siberia's Stazhery for our haunted clockwork cover "Molnii":
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Stazhery's original track is here.
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#music video #video #neons gone mad #haunted clockwork #stazhery
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #shadow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I know the far sent message of the years[;] I feel the coming glory of the light."  From Salve Regina's 1969 yearbook.

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#darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sooty by Ambrosina Hurcum and illustrated by Eleanor Mussey Young, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cat #ink #paw print
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #question mark #chair #knife #thirteen #vintage hollywood #illustration #hollywood #13
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Old News (permalink)
"His eyes looked 'most peculiar,' but Don Jones "wasn't fearful."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aurora zine, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #bull #folk tale #pamela colman smith #art
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Old News (permalink)
From the Innis Herald, 1995.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1985 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig #mascot #1980s #razorback
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #chess #pawns
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Old News (permalink)
"Yet another breakthrough."  From Woroni, 1984.
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#vintage photo #bunny #vintage headline #headline #breakthrough
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ring Around the Moon by Edith Fowke.
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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #rainbow #faces in things #moonbow
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Ex Machina," by Henry Kuttner:

***

Since Gallegher Plus, though a top-flight technician, saw the world through thoroughly distorted lenses, the labels were not helpful. One said "RABBITS ONLY." Another inquired, "WHY NOT!" A third said "CHRISTMAS NIGHT."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In case you could use a lift today.  From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
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#vintage illustration #boot #winged boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Club Drugs by Christine Watkins.
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#vintage illustration #drugs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy-Folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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January 15, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What an ideal Bigfoot encounter!  "It was quite relaxed and it clapped its hands when it saw me."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Boar versus dog: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal fight #boar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Father Time's office.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #time #architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pitture di Vasi Fittili (1838).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Art by S. Willerton for The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #hear no evil #deity #1960s #see no evil #six arms #many armed #speak no evil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Humpty-Dumpty William and Co. by George Macruder Battey, Jr. and illustrated by C. J. Holleran, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #beard #caricature
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1905 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nonsense
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #dove #vintage magic #top hat #magic hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1947.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobweb #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower #cape #illustration
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1872.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a gopher watching the devil (with tail coiling the pitchfork).  From the University of Minnesota's 1896 yearbook.

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Old News (permalink)
"Nothing meaningless."  From The Martlet, 1970.
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Precursors (permalink)
Ten years before Candid Camera, there was this Candid Cam.  From Texas Wesleyan's 1938 yearbook.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"A cosmic necklace across the throat of space, twenty flaming suns hung across the sky."  From Astounding Science Fiction, 1938. 
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January 14, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
The Tesla spirit radio tunes into the Black Iron Prison world described by Philip K. Dick ... a time-forsaken dystopia, blending past, present, and future and cast in wicked darkness.  Apocalyptic cyberpunk wavelengths bleed through.
"In My Mind" lyricized and performed by Neons Gone Mad.  Based upon "Overland (In My Mind)" by Forces (by kind permission).  Dedicated to Alexander Akers & Thomas Kernot.
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Two fists at arm[']s length."  From Australian UFO Bulletin, Sept. 1997.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Evansville's 1938 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #conductor #musician #baseball bat
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Old News (permalink)
"Now—may the Devil take the hindmost."  From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#devil #vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Barnard's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #castle #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Innis Herald, 1996.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Quest, 1976.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Your amoeboid brain demands to be indulged: beware its opiate, vegetative invitation."   From The Game of Life by Timothy Leary, 1993 (courtesy of Archive.org).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack and the Bean-Stalk by Hallam Tennyson and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

***
Part but not parcel of the proceedings.
[I never thought they'd break up the act!]

***
A sudden bob of activity on the part of Miss Nellie Roberts's straw hat saved him from having to take official notice of the question.

[N.B. This passage has no direct relationship, in the book, to the one that follows. And yet...]

***
"Oh, that's one of the things you shouldn't do, isn't it?"
"What is?"
"Endow an inanimate object with human characteristics."

[Now they tell me!]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #lion #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valdosta State's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #divination #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1993.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
An inexplicable smell of sulphur is no doubt some imp of darkness passing on its way to soul-destroying and mischief-making.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
From Cinderella's Mouse by Rosalie K. Fry.
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January 13, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Frightened to death by an owl.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#owl #vintage headline #headline #fear of owls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Apteryx.  From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #bird #kiwi #flightless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #living toy #yarn doll #yarn ball #knitting needle
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you dream of apricots tonight, be sure to avoid dried ones if fresh apricots are in season.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #symbol #fruit #apricot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.  See One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1913).
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Grelot, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #animals #rabbit #rooster #duck
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"Don't take this the wrong way, but we've got to do something about your hair." —David Wisniewski, Halloweenies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #imp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cubist regret.  From La Grimace, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #modern art #cubism #regrets
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scholar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Innis Herald, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #hands
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Columbia College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #books #sleeping #tired #exhausted #scholar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #king death #thirteen #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
We personally can't quite make out the 14 wonder words that earn money when repeated.  From Together, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #magic word #ad
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January 12, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #on all fours #bundle of sticks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Current mood.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #bat #vampire bat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
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#vintage illustration #dog #bottle
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #ship #giant hand #hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ruins on the moon.  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #earth #moon #ruins #earthrise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1894 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #incense #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #snail #exterminator #church art
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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.
73272 45448
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #human headed #snake charmer #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winking owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #croquet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot #king of swords
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The thirsty puppy's dream."  From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #puppy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taylor's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dreams, magic terrors, spells of mighty power, witches and ghosts who rove at midnight hour."  From The Monk by M. G. Lewis, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #monk #occult #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #pet walker #woman #vintage woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
They'd know everything!  (Though "you don't have to know about everything in the universe.")  From Dark Shadows.
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#knowledge #everything #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1915 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winking owl #winking animal
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Aesop's Fables, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #solar deity #sun god #aesop
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January 11, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #prod. oddfellow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Seagull versus owl: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #owl #animal fight #seagull
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't know a thing about spaghetti.  Or the real people."  From Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, 1991.
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#spaghetti
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #bunnies #rabbit #welsh rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You have slept long enough, my pansy; open your eyes."  From Stories of Mother Goose Village by Madge Bigham, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From the Innis Herald, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #rose
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Catawba's 1978 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duck mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Poor, poor ghost.  Have you no place where you can sleep."  From The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #sword #crown #illustration #prince
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We, too, eat 7.25 a.m. for breakfast.  From Swarthmore's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #breakfast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Some days—everything's a mess."  From Ethos, 1962.
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#that kind of day
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bit harsh?  "The college transition from jock to joke."  From Morris Harvey's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #man
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Old News (permalink)
"Space aliens are coming, but don't serve chocolate."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#ufo #vintage headline #alien #chocolate #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We wish you lots of "good look," too!  From William and Mary's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #good look
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
By Terry Mayew, from Rockingham's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Read Heads and Faces by James Coates, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #brain #diagram
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Death of a Difficult Woman, by Carole Berry:

***
[Flapping dept. The protagonist is trying to assemble a cardboard box, duly marked with "fold flap A over flap B"-style instructions.]

Within seconds flaps were going every which way....I felt so dopey trapped behind that half-opened box with all those flaps flapping that I started giggling. The harder I tried to fold the carton, the harder I giggled.

***
He waved his hands over the papers before him as if hoping the thing would magically rise from the clutter.

***
This was insane. I was fighting with my mother over a figment of my imagination.

***
She let loose a high-pitched giggle. That ended abruptly--mid-tee-hee--when her boss...walked in.

***
[Who Needs Context? dept.]
He had no interest in Sam or Sam's bill, and only a grommet interest in me.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The flying sausages of Eden.  From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #garden of eden #adam #sausage
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January 10, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland by Howard Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #rabbit #gryphon #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #buffalo
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Old News (permalink)
"Ask yourself why?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1895.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #why #headline #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1935.
*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 #winter #candle #giant candle #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"For days and days Nature sits by a huge fire and spins."  From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mother nature #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It was as though another personality was in his eyes."  From Fantastic Adventures, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #horror #split personality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We've seen this same background used for the phrase, "Don't lose sleep over the question."  From The Film Daily, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #question mark #problems #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Courage with a sense of humor."  From Lassell's 1944 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #courage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 2001.
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#heaven #silhouette #capitalism #shopping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Japanese god of longevity, Jurojin.  From Rockford's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage yearbook #longevity #yearbook #deity #jurojin
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1974.
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#turkey #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #walking dead #living dead #horror #undead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Minnesota's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #violin #musical animal #cat and the fiddle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Yours faithfully."  From Australian UFO Bulletin, Sept. 1997.
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#vintage illustration #shadow people #alien
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from Salem's 1951 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #merman #poseidon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #castle in the air #triton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #angel #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The owl train."  From Swarthmore's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Magazine of Horror, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #horror #illustration
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January 9, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#book burning #flammable
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #ghost hunting #video #penetralia #ghostbusting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #lantern #night light #illustration #hat #illuminated clothing #lighted hat #illuminated hat
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"Don't take this the wrong way, but is this supposed to be fun?" —Robin Palmer, For Better or For Worse
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
Without a fake cigar, her look falls flat.  (Sorry!)  From Mary Washington's 1990 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #groucho glasses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit #musical animal
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1974.
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#religion #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Park College's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #zombie
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
When you love a film so much you literally "eat it up."  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage ad #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Convent in the Modern World by Maureen O'Keefe.
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#vintage book #book #convent #nun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Walstonburg's 1951 yearbook.  For peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #monster #dragon #knight #dragon slayer #peace angel #armor #three headed
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis' 1978 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#clown #vintage yearbook
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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.
75421 33438
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#vintage illustration #silcrow #section sign #double s #sectional symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you're feeling locked into a situation, may this crafty pick get you out of it.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
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#vintage illustration #key #lock pick #thievery
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Shocking Pink Hat, by Frances Crane:

***
The interior of the cab was vibrant from her petulance.

***
"If my hunch about that gun isn't right I'll eat it--the gun, not the hunch."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad from If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #steamroller #steam roller #ad
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January 8, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She never pushed me off or said, Scat!"  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mirror #poem #existence #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
By Jeff Roll.  From Coraddi, 1993.
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#vintage photo #blurred #faceless #no face #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant #horror #yokai #art
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It's Really Happening (permalink)
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#happening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #candle #art
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #father time #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the Memphis yearbook of 1976.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #outer space #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Walking wide-eyed."  From Desoto's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyes #wide-eyed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Innis Herald, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #connect the dots
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Old News (permalink)
"Do it tomorrow."  From Tuft's 1987 yearbook.
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#procrastination #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1933.
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#vintage ad #vintage hollywood #hollywood #vintage underwear #underwear #ad
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Old News (permalink)
From Woroni, 1986.
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#horror #vintage headline #torture chamber #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to remove the mask. From Atlantic Christian's 1988 yearbook.

From Atlantic Christian's 1988 yearbook.
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#mask #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkin head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales from Story-Town by Mina Pearl Ashton and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #owl #silhouette
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Old News (permalink)
Great news: "things could be worse."  From The Martlet, 1974.
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#end of the world #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1909 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #cat #vintage yearbook #cat people #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #animal attack
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January 7, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We assume they weren't referring to fetal alchohol syndrome.  "The curse of drink."  From The Judge, reprinted in The Film Daily, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Innis Herald, 1988.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Can the rabbit see himself?"  From First Reader, Aesop and Mother Goose by Louis Nash, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #tom thumb #ogre
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From New York State School of Agriculture at Alfred University's 1942 yearbook and from Virginia Polytechnic Institute's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #nap #knitting needle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wow -- an amazing prediction of what it's like trying to get through to folks via social media, from way back in 1962.  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1962 yearbook.

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#blindfold #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Chistopher Voss, of the band Volt 44, for writing of our shadow-banned Youtube channel, "Love your content, friend. I feel I was born 100 years too late, and your channel fulfills my acquired taste for the strange and unusual."
[Image from the upcoming "Heavenly Hostess with the Mostest" episode, which time travelers can peek at here: https://youtu.be/Xp2t7_kPIGg]
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#prof. oddfellow #penetralia
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Unicorns (permalink)
From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #flying horse #winged horse #flying unicorn #winged unicorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The eyes haven't got it."  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #eyes #boo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Nobodies."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #headless #church art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Gladstone Bag, by Charlotte MacLeod:

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Boston ladies liked to get their facts straight, even when they were making them up as they went along.

***
"If she's a genuine artist, I'm Whistler's mother." [Note that Whistler's mother is funnier than the Mona Lisa.]

***
"The great auk's calamity was that it couldn't fly. Or wouldn't. It had wing feathers but apparently never got around to developing them properly."
For a moment he seemed quite put out with the great auk, but soon recovered his spirits.

[That reminds me of Darwin and the earthworm.]

***
"Puffins aren't everything," he told her in a fine burst of renunciation.

[Later]

"Man cannot live by puffins alone."

***
That was why Marcia hadn't put her foot down about this slightly insane affair of letting a bunch of totally unknown who-are-theys park here for the summer.
***
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vegetable people #asparagus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #costume #ruler #1980s #ruler costume
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Old News (permalink)
"Hairyman tells hunter to 'leave us alone.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #yeti #bigfoot #sasquatch #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed photo appears in Colorado College's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cursed photo
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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January 6, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But most of all, his feet!"  From Billtry by Mary Kyle Dallas, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #artist #foot #painter
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #bell #video #penetralia #ghost bell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #lion #alexander the great
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Repulsion.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #repulsion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From City Sidewalks by Bank Street.
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#vintage illustration #silence #quiet #ear plug #ear muff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #break the chain
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
When a pocket becomes the card itself.
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#library book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #chicken
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #halo #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Atlas tugged.  From Hampden-Sydney's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #atlas #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some were after the marvellous wild animal thrills, others came for the jungle romance.  From The Film Daily, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #idol #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There are now mustache waxes that protect against this sort of thing.  From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #salamander
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1921 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Can you think straight?"  From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #lesbian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #great beast #many headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drama
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghosts among the sandwiches?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #beard #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alchemist
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1979.
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#vintage headline #popcorn #headline
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January 5, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #rhino
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
They're not the world's tiniest violins -- the Statue of Liberty is just really big.  From Woroni, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #violin #statue of liberty
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Old News (permalink)
"I write my life on hyphens."  From the Innis Herald, 1993.  See Divination by Punctuation.
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#vintage headline #headline #hyphen
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #ship #levitation #weightless #flying ship #mirage #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tag yourself in this garden of zoological freaks.  (You may be more than one.) 
The hungry disconsolate were-wolf.
The bold bad chick.
The luckless amatory goat.
The histerical [sic] bird.
The literary jackass.
The bacchanalian sheep.
The professorial rat.
The popular pig.
The festive declamatory calf.
The sportive oratorical cow.
The bow wow family.
The athletic bull.
The sabbatarian white rat.
The sesgipedalian [sesquipedalian] cat.
The goose goose goose.
From Hampden-Sydney's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #animals #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The bear broke into a fit of laughter."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fable #bear #aesop #laughing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Humpty Dumpty, from Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Maxfield Parrish, 1807.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #humpty dumpty #egg
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thirteen #clover #art
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Old News (permalink)
"The Martians HAVE landed."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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#ufo #vintage headline #martians #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Tubeway Army song "Praying to the Aliens."  From Kent State's 1963 yearbook.
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#ufo #vintage photo #prayer #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx by Kathryn Heisenfelt and illustrated by Henry E. Vallely.
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#vintage illustration #priestess #candle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #guitar #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy's Rabbit Stories by Mary E. Calhoun and illustrated by E. Warde Blaisdell, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #rabbit #ironing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess
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Old News (permalink)
"No anti-calendar this year."  From The Martlet, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #bookworm #worm #1960s #vintage headline #headline #anti-calendar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis' 1978 yearbook.

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mannequin #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Time and Tigers by D. R. Amato.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #circus #lion #caged animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara College's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #antlers #vintage man #man #horned man #1950s #out of circulation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The House That Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #rat
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January 4, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Bear a skillful surgeon."  (The story is about a hunted bear who used tree sap to staunch a bullet wound.)  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#bear #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of F.G. Hilton Price (1897).
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#egyptian #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #lighthouse #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bullet Points by Mark Watson.
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#silhouette #psychiatrist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #two headed #siamese twins #conjoined #two heads
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Through with love?"  From Modern Screen, 1952.
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#vintage photo #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bear
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Old News (permalink)
"5 husbands lost to the vampire."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1975.
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#vampire #vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobra #snake charmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We have a pen and ink on our shield, too.  From Nebelspalter, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #imp #owl #pen and ink #chariot #quill pen
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ghost #camel #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Is the sense of the passage of time different for those in the past?  "Perhaps their time is different from ours. Perhaps a moment of our time is a month or a year of theirs."  From Dark Shadows episode 461.
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#time #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Mothers News, 2011.
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#crying
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

***
"We've been free of that sort of person, thus far."
Considering that Diane Demorney [the speaker above] had moved to Long Piddleton direct from London with no stopover in a That Sort of Person decompression chamber, it was hard to distinguish her from a London "emigrée," in other words, That Sort of Person.

***
Macalvie seemed to be tasting his thoughts, his words, and not his dinner.

***
"Why, just the other day, Miss Fludd was saying--"
"Miss Fludd?" Plant and Trueblood chorused.

[Cf. The Can of Yams:
HEATHER
Oh, dear--I hope it’s not a second-rate Pickle Festival. I would feel so bad for Euclid.
ALAN AND DELPHINIA
(Together) Euclid??]

***
"I'm just taking my nut-and-ginger cookies out of the oven, Mr. Jury. Your favorite. Come and have some."
Mrs. Wasserman always assumed everything was Jury's favorite.

***
"Why is there a dog in the first-floor flat?" He didn't want to ask why it was playing the piano.

***
"Is this going to be another 'deep time' lecture?"....
"I'm not talking about deep time; I'm talking about dark matter. Can't a person even look at the universe without being persecuted by you?"

***
He thought of Nancy Fludd. Her name wasn't Nancy, but he thought it fit her, and he was tired of calling her Miss Fludd.

***
"Silliness, my dear, is my stock in trade."

***
"That's your idea of 'not philosophical'? Hey, hey"--his hand shot out for the telephone--"let's call Plato, let's call Kant."

***
"They're always making movies around Santa Fe. If I see Robert Redford one more time I'll throw up."

***
Oh, do shut up! cried his other, sensible, sterner self, glaring over the top of gold-rimmed spectacles.
[This character does wear gold-rimmed spectacles for reading, but I like the idea that when he's arguing with himself, only the sensible self wears the glasses.]

***
[A blank map, in so many words!]

Melrose ran a couple of blanked-out maps of the United States through his mind.
[....]
It was Jury's fault, of course, this blank map.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1952.
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#vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official faculty portrait.  As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.  From Millikin's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #wig #chemistry #mop hair #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat #bear
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#worry #vintage headline #1970s #headline
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January 3, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bones for dinner.  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit photograph produced from a lock of hair.  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Aug. 1882.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spiritualism
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Here's a reworked version of our first Neons Gone Mad music video.  (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #neons gone mad #haunted clockwork
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
All hail the rocking horse of the sun.  From The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Such a man!  Such a figure!"  From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #rescue #stranded at sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This may or not be good news.  From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
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#vintage illustration #today
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1890.
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#religion #vintage illustration #statue #japan #buddha
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1981.
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#good and evil #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Stop now."  From Owlglass, written and illustrated by Will Nickless.
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#vintage illustration #animal communication #smart animal #stop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Nothing ever held you like paste."  From The Old Line, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #paste #glue #adhesive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #angel #war and peace #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Seascape.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #artist #seascape
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #spaceman #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From North Central's 1966 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #iceberg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From Emerson's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #headless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull face #jester #surreal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1918 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage illustration #silence #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #idol #deity #secrecy
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #man in the moon #snow #faces in things #moonlight #vintage headline #headline #unansweed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story Carnival by DeLancey and Iverson.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house
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January 2, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This professor, who allows profanity in the classroom, is not pictured lest his irresistible face be snipped out and thus ruin the 1918 yearbook of the University of Wisconsin.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #blank space #no face #not pictured #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #lion #gold #glowing animal #golden animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #magic #ink pen #no hands #hands free #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"And hey, ho, the wind and the rain!"  From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wind #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #drummer #tiny woman #living toy #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'You,' said the childlike demon, 'are the Entity.  Nothing else is real.'"  From Unknown magazine, July 1940.
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#vintage illustration #demon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stendek, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #strange light #light and darkness #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big book
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mask #chinese mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
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#vintage illustration #pig #boar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maoriland Fairy Tales by Edith Howes, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sledding #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #spider #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ornamental design
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #fly
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "What You Need," by Henry Kuttner:

[Re. a sign painted on a window that, to the passing observer, reads "DEEN UOY TAHW EVAH EW."]

"For five years I looked at that window every day and read the sign backwards--from inside my shop. It annoyed me. You know how a word will begin to look funny if you keep staring at it?....Well, I discovered I was getting a neurosis about that sign. It makes no sense backwards, but I kept finding myself trying to read sense into it. When I started to say 'Deen uoy tahw evah ew' to myself and looking for philological derivations, I called in a sign painter."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
[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 #snow #winter #rabbit #bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
[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 #animals
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January 1, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Bel the Blasphemer, who writes of our Penetralia series: "I am determined to offer all the encouragement I can summon to express my continued, if not continuous, appreciation of your person(as) and your work. (The reason for my sporadicity — beyond the nature of being, I mean — is that I cannot bring myself to binge your videos instead of savouring them. Meanwhile, from the glacier I'm riding, you have been racing.)"
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#prof. oddfellow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We stared at each other while he blew a blast on his panpipes."  From Chatterbox, 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 #pan pipes #musician #panpipes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
[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 #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 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 #laughter #fish #1890s #laughing fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1953.
[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 #seeing double #running late #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Soviet Sputniks, 1958. 
[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 diagram #dog #space dog #astronaut #diagram #cosmonaut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A prediction about Twitter?  "You screech because you're afraid."  From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
[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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Staring at the flame.  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 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 #occult #fire #chinese #smoke #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The laughed so hard ... POP went the buttons!"  From The Film Daily, 1942.
[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 ad #buttons #laughter #1940s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
[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 #model t #vintage automobile #automobile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montreat-Anderson's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #1970s #dracula
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 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 #fairies #forest #will-o'-the-wisp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #queen of hearts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1985.
[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 #imp #radiation #computer
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: "Why is a clown?" (asks the University of Wisconsin's 1918 yearbook).
A: "A clown is a clown because the person has the face of a clown, dresses like a clown, and jokes around like a clown" (Asuncion G. Teung, Growth and Development, 1982).
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#vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Violent anti-fog demonstration."  From The Martlet, 1974.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#fog #demonstration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the apparently rare Southern Ghosts by Nancy Roberts.
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#ghost #night photography #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 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 #fairy tale #princess #wicked stepmother
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram
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