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, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Keep out everybody."  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 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 #1930s #illustration #sign #no trespassing #keep out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life Magazine, 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 #1920s #illustration #armor #bed #personal protection
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Old News (permalink)
"On whom the belles told!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Brilliant scarlet scintillating at the lower edge of the moon.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Picture Show Annual, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fortune teller #1920s #card reader #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #handshake
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #yarn ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#window #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #keyhole #eyeglasses #illustration #voyeur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1920 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Bodie Book by Walford Bodie, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage photo #hypnotist #mustache #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Brief were my days among you."  From Morris Harvey's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #shadow #vintage yearbook #brevity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #rabbit #mushroom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1924 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #blindfolded
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Sandman: His Kittycat Stories by Harry Whittier Frees, 1917.
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#anthropomorphism #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bible
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 25.
[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 #ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's rarely discussed, but soap bubbles do indeed offer direct access to castles in the air.  From Hope College's 1926 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blowing bubbles #soap bubble #1920s #illustration #castle in the air
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hand #palm reading #diagram #pamistry
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January 30, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #duck #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (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 #fairy #fairy tale #1920s #illustration #fairy qyeen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
[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 #anthropomorphism #dog #dandy #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #cheshire cat #smiling cat #smiling animal #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Member of an ancient family.  Oyster and snail among his poor relations."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
"Our patron saint."  From Ohio State University's 1894 yearbook.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #high kick #dancing #patron saint #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A fly who wishes it were named Vincent Price.  From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lewis carroll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #boat #japan #sailboat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Hampden-Sydney's 1962 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#mask #vintage photo #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #decapitated #devil mask #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of Irish Literature, Vol. III, No. 2.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
This author in 1996 addresses her readers in the 22nd century.  From the rare Children of the Void by Regina Snow, 1996.
> read more from Temporal Anomalies . . .
#author's note
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Exhilaration, from Barnard's 1942 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair #exhilaration #elation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #ping pong #table tennis
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Frrom Vanity Fair, October 1916:

A contrived but cute bon mot from Benchley; a prescient bit from Dorothy Parker (debuting in this issue as "Dorothy Rothschild"--little did she know that, a century later, people would be turning the tables on her beau by incorrectly attributing other people's witticisms to *her*); and a list of silly names (with "Archibald Witherspoon Troutt" as a bonus, culled from a separate list that was mostly sub-par).
> read more from Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan . . .
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Old News (permalink)
"The poetry of food.  Food is the world's only common language."  From The Improvement Era, 1967.
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#vintage headline #food #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1898 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat grinder #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Pie floated away, followed by a chorus of good-byes from the Pantry-people."  From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #faces in things #pie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Game of Healthy Living by Winslow & Hahn, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #stick figure #1930s #illustration #trolley #poem
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January 29, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1930s #illustration #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1894 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #love and death #1890s #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The face that munched a thousand chips."  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #1930s #vintage man
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1892.
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#vintage headline #headline #dermatographia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of ten crystal ball pictures in Wilson College's 1946 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Why not dance a voodoo dance around a hospital table, chanting semi-guttural noises."  From Dark Shadows, episode 167.
> read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .
#voodoo #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1924 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #women #vintage women #sorority
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pan the Piper by Anna Curtis Chandler, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #pan #pan pipes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1927 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #1920s #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #war dead #casualties of war #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #puppet show #punch and judy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An eagle with goslings.  From Chatterbox, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #goose #gosling #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #pottery #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 #wink #knitting needle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The bird of time has but a little way to flutter and [lo!] the bird is on the wing" (Omar Khayyam).  From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #calligraphy #time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #omar khayyam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #in the clouds #ladder to the moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leaf #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Shrieking Pit by Arthur J. Rees, 1919.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jousting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #peacock #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #mice #cat and mouse #1900s #illustration
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January 28, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Appleton's First Reader, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #rat #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sheep #illustration #bighorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #buffalo
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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 #native american #rope
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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.
[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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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#murder #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #the end #ax #vintage men #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fear of tiny bicyclists.  From Chatterbox, 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 #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #musical animal #pig #accordian #accordion #dancing animal #dancing rabbit #musical pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's good to see brackets that resemble human face silhouettes.  From The Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft Excitement of 1692, and Its Practical Application to Our Own Time by George Beard, 1882.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #giant shoe #shoe
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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 #skeleton #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrews Presbyterian College's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #drugs #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #animals #cloud #cloud shapes
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #biblical #1980s #new testament
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Old News (permalink)
"The danger from dirt is everywhere!"  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1942. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dirt #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog to bring back "everything numbers."  From Ohio State University's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #number #overlapping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #milk #painter #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #housekeeping #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"The lonely man far away in the mountains."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage headline #headline
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January 27, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1987.
[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 #x-ray #teeth #dentist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #tail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The seventh labor of Hercules.  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #bull #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrews Presbyterian College's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The Mad Machine" (1975) by J. T. C.
[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 #mental illness #drugs #medication #hallucination #mental asylum
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Trinity Christian's 1982 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #animal attack #leopard #up a tree #tarzan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #1900s #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #snake #adder
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #foot #ink #tar heel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Too late for good advice."  From The Money Bag, 1858.
[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 #canoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #big head #swell head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 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 #moth #moon moth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #apple
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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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21146
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#vintage illustration #beast #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ashland College's 1974 yearbook.

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#cemetery #grave #graveyard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #tombstone #1970s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The old lady."  From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of California, Berkeley's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Three bodies in one coffin."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#coffin #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #tiny man #drunk
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Old News (permalink)
"As the twig is bent."  From The Instructor, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #tree #vintage headline #bent
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January 26, 2024

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 #cat #illustration #collie
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Old News (permalink)
"War on sweating."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#vintage headline #headline #sweat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reptiles and Amphibians by Feberal Writers' Project, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #turtle
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Old News (permalink)
"Sin and sinners not immortal."  From When A Man Dies by Carlyle Haynes, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #sin #the end #vintage headline #curtains #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1889 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #castle #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #toy #crafts
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
It's simultaneous 9:15 and 9:22 on this clock tower in Eastern Kentucky State College's 1959 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #rainbow #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photographer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Egypt of the Past by Erasmus Wilson, 1882.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #egyptian #anubis
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Castlecourt Diamond Case, by Geraldine Bonner:

***
I wouldn’t like to say how many times she mentioned the names of earls and lords; one of them, Baron—some name like Fiddlesticks—she said was her cousin.
***

[Bonuses: a jewel thief known as Laura the Lady (cf. my Laura the Laugher); and a town called Necropolis City, Ohio.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Juno, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
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#vintage illustration #chariot #peacock #deity #juno
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect #the end #bug
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #collage #trumpet #musician #newspaper dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #cat #painting #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair #the end #1900s #illustration
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January 25, 2024

Old News (permalink)
That's more like £26,000 in today's currency.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#crying #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This precursor to Playboy magazine seems more of a men's adventure theme.  From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #knight #lumberjack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #moustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #anthropomorphism #flower people #faces in things #flower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Greensboro's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #animal attack #leopard #animal fight #cheetah
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #big head #clamp
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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.
[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 #living toy #yarn doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #tiny man #graduation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Where UFOs come from?  Or where they're going?  From Official UFO, 1977.
[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 #ufo #outer space
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery's yearbook of 1935.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Leave the disappearing act to the magicians."  From Improvement Era, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic #1960s #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Nine scarecrows formed a club at Swarthmore College.  From the 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Urgent need seen for unconfused awareness."  From The Aberree, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gallows #vintage yearbook #hanged man #cowboy
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Old News (permalink)
"Drinks own blood and keeps alive."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vampire #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1912.
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#cat #vintage photo #1910s #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Charlie and His Kitten Topsy, written and illustrated by Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell, 1938.
[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 #silhouette #cat #1930s #illustration
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January 24, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Hune Ceaulage for commenting, "Thank you! Your methods resonate with me quite a lot. 'This man gets it!' I say. And then again I say I say."
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#magick #occult #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls by Charlotte Gulick, 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 #moon #symbolism #months #lunar calendar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #card game #professor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ashland College's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Loie Fuller's thousand-yard dress, from Black and White Budget, 1900.
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#vintage photo #costume #loie fuller
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Littleton College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #human headed #bee #insect woman #insect people #beehive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 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 #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spider web as a telephone line.  From The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature by Boria Sax.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #flower people #faces in things #flowers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1906 yearbook of UNC Chapel Hill.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Breese away to Joyland!"  From The Popular Magazine, 1930.
[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 #motorcycle #joyland #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery's yearbook of 1935.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #toys #living toy #stabbed #murder suicide #knife wound
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "Reptile Police Force" club.  From the Estherian and Lanier Literary Societies of Anderson College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #women #vintage women #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Woroni, 1953.  See also Bullet Lists.
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#milk #list #seven ages
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #1910s
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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 #statue #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1950s #bone
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"How long, O Lord, how long?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #vintage headline #headline
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January 23, 2024

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of wearing your heart on your sleeve, but apparently you can wear yourself as a blond on your sleeve, too.  From Assumption College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #double exposure #1970s #vintage man #man #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 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 #demon #imp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oregon State College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hot air balloon
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Old News (permalink)
Our own (illusion of) control went years ago.  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1948.
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#vintage headline #headline #control
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Father Bunny and His Birds by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Penny Ross, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tables turned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Serapina by Anne White and illustrated by Tony Palazzo.
[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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#hat #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The fun begins with the Witches rising out of the lake."  From Wesleyan College’s' 1995 yearbook.
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#witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mouse's Tail by Helen Pettes and illustrated by Julia Greene, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #wheelbarrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A head on legs, a head on a steak sauce bottle, a head on a rifle.  From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"Man entitled to one drunk, says court."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#drunk #vintage headline #headline
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They all started out to see the world."  From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #castle #elephant #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Pardon my left hand, old man, but I am holding my shirt front down with my right one."  From Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
"He had heard nothing."  From Mystic World, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #no news is good news
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

A highlight of this issue is a house party comprised of advertising trademark characters!
https://archive.org/details/sim_vanity-fair_1916-09_7_1/page/30/mode/2up?view=theater

There's also an opportunity to pre-order some light reading material for the Millennium:
https://archive.org/details/sim_vanity-fair_1916-09_7_1/page/126/mode/2up?view=theater

The "Cardinal Follies" headline is referring to individual entertainers in the Ziegfeld Follies as "follies"--so a star comedian or dancer is, apparently, a "folly." And a dance being partially adapted from a vase strikes me as a funny. Meanwhile, I'm not sure a trayful of dainty bonbons being served waiter-style by a clown is going to end well.




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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #illustration #headline #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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January 22, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #making faces #deception #mocking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times, written and illustrated by Marjorie & C. H. B. Quennell, 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 #elephant #spear #trap #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1897.
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#cat #vintage photo #1890s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #monkey #lion #barber #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1892.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State Normal School's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #beans #bile beans #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #practical joke #spooky #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
[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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Montclair's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
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#vintage headline #clueless #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Littleton College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 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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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Norteastern University's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #reality #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"What do you do with your little finger?"  From Movie Classic, 1937.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #finger #little finger #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Thousand-Yard Stare by James Soular, 1997.
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#eyes #staring
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Maybe nothing.  Maybe everything."  From Dark Shadows episode 154.
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#dark shadows
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1962.
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#effigy #vintage photo #1960s #doll #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus #sideshow
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #snowflake
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January 21, 2024

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 #illustration #beaver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Littleton College's 1907 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #ladder #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 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 #owl #anthropomorphism #doctor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #flute #musician
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The author here admits to being wholly unqualified to write about Mexico, having spent little time there and having failed to study its history, geography, language, art, archaeology, philosophy, or economics.  From Notes For A Book About Mexico by Howard Vincent O’Brien, 1937.
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#foreword #unqualified
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny men #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 1964.
[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 magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mummy my eyes feel funny!"  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.
[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 #eyes #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ashland College's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #bartender #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage men
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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.]
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#vintage illustration #medieval #alchemist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1949 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #arrow
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1934.
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#vintage ad #photography #1930s #vintage man #man #snapshot #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot #justice
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Old News (permalink)
"'Talking with the dead'???  Is such a thing possible?  Or is it merely simulated by unseen powers of evil?"  From Millions Now Living Will Never Die! by J. F. Rutherford, 1920.
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#necromancy #occult #ouija #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Auburn University's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#snowman #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #1960s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the old woman who lived in a shoe.  From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #shoe #old woman who lived in a shoe #hidden picture
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, November 1916:

Doing the math...about jokes. (Complete with terms like "statisticized" and "statistify.")
https://archive.org/details/sim_vanity-fair_1916-11_7_3/page/120/mode/2up?view=theater

And a bunch of tidbits are attached. A lot of this issue's highlights were to be found among the ads!









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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's half-lion on a leash is from The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #lion #oz #pet walker
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
"The All Saints club."  From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"From a little puppy who was once very bad and is now very sad."  From Year-Round Fun by Gates & Riordan, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #shoes #smart animal
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January 20, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"The dignity of the oval."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage headline #headline #oval
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shores of Darkness by Edward B. Hungerford.
[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 book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Books as architecture.  From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends by Marshall Saunders and illustrated by Diantha Horne Marlowe, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"How do you like him, Daddy?"  From Birmingham-Southern College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meet the parents
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
[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 #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1978 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #fox #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This explains the wobble in the earth's rotation.  From the Peace Institue's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #rotation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down #hand of god #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Are men too politie to you at parties? Gray hair sets you apart, brings you respect instead of heart-warming admiration."  From Movie Classic, 1933.
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#vintage ad #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #literary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just in case you could use more piety or youthfulness today.  From the Wizardry 2 Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #good luck charms #lucky charm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Auburn University's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #don't touch #sign
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Old News (permalink)
"A trip to the mystic mind."  From Beyond Reality, No. 27.
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#vintage illustration #occult #mystic #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess Belle-Etoile by Walter Crane, 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 #fairy tale #bird
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Old News (permalink)
"Drunk hits inoffensive man."  From The Duluth Herald, 1908.
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#drunk #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit drawing (bottom) and its possible inspiration (top).  From The Direct Phenomena of Spiritualism by Edward T. Bennett, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #moses #spirit drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Exhibition of the Kevorkian Collection, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #persian #animal #gazelle #art
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Old News (permalink)
From Rosicrucian Digest, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #occult #silence #esoteric #candle #meditation #vintage headline #headline #ad
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January 19, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our One-Letter Words: A Dictionary is cited in Dr. C. Savithri's "The Language Structure of Sanskrit and Dravidian Languages" (Inam: Multidisciplinary International E-Journal of Tamil Studies).  
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Heinlien novel and film Starship Troopers, concerning Earth's war against alien insects.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#insect #vintage headline #bugs #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book C by Donalda Dickie, 1945.
[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 #horse #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Get rid of 'tiredness.'"  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fatigue #tired #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy Scout Trail Blazers by F. H. Cheley and illustrated by Charles L. Wrenn, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #scout
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From York Junior College's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winking #buddha
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Tadson Bussey offers no speculation as to why there's a ten minute discrepancy at this clock tower in Hudson, Ohio.  But as Grey Wolf has noted, "you’ll be surprised by the variations in Ohio’s timeless countryside."
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#temporal anomaly #clock tower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Auburn University's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#piano #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #musician #noise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
[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 #the people could fly #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A Ouija board under a prayer book to keep it quiet.  From The [Niles, California] Township Register, 1927.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#ouija
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene College's 1931 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 #trumpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1981.
[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 #smoking #dragon #smoke #cigarette
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

I liked this piece:

"Oratorical Platformation"
https://archive.org/details/sim_vanity-fair_1916-08_6_6/page/46/mode/2up?view=theater

More tidbits attached. "Lotta Miles" is, technically, left over from the last issue--but, heck, she'll probably show up again in September, so who's counting? The Judge magazine ad copy was funny to me because, hey, you name your periodical "Judge," then feel obliged to bend over backward explaining how nonjudgmental it is. And here's what I said about the Florence Nash portrait on Facebook:

Please know that I'm not mocking anybody's "resting face" when I say that, given the sober, thoughtful expression in this nice portrait photo, the caption writer is inviting wisecracks. I might have revised it to "blessed with a genius for comedy [not shown]"; or maybe "blessed with a genius for very, very dry, deadpan, understated comedy, which, when you build up to it in the right way in a well-engineered context, can be highly amusing indeed."  Looking at other photos of Nash from this earlier part of her career, she does generally look pretty deadpan. I can't find relevant film footage (the famous movie that she's in was from much later), but it would be interesting to see if she deadpanned through everything à la Buster Keaton. If she was famous enough as a deadpan comedian at the time this magazine came out (1916) that the audience would already be familiar with that personality, then maybe the caption writer did fine. It's not the caption writer's fault that, 100+ years later, I know who Keaton was but not who Nash was!





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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #yawn
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Old News (permalink)
"Girl is seized by an octopus."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#octopus #vintage headline #tentacles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #starry night #stick figure
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"Do your best this year for next year I'll be handicapped."  From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artgum, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #artist #painter
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January 18, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in Samadova Shaxnoza's "Some Opinions and Comments on Linguistic Means of Magic and Witchcraft in Fairy Tales" (Golden Brain Scientific Journal).  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
[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 #elf #cat #illustration #living toys #toy box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 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 #fairy tale #boat #fish #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Reading Revised, B by Patricia Chesterman, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #illustration #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Octopus at our gate.  The old man of the sea.  Bathers beware."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 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 #frog
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Old News (permalink)
"He'd rather die than eat meat."  From Movie Classic, 1932.
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#meat is murder #vegetarian #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Washington State's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hidden WItchery by Nigel Tourneur and decorated by Will Mein, 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 #peacock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Mysteries of rainbows and sunets."  From Saint Joseph's College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #puma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Official UFO, 1977.
[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 #esoteric #intuition #psychic #esp #mindpower #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Threatened by ambrosia."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #turtle #running
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit drawing (left) and its possible inspiration (right).  From The Direct Phenomena of Spiritualism by Edward T. Bennett, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #moses #spirit drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage diagram #diagram #lunar halo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Don't worry — the swelling will be gone next year."  From Slippery Rock State Teachers College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #1920s
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"The sun worshippers."  From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#religion #vintage illustration #sun #sun worship #solar deity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emory University's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Jim and Judy by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[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 #illustration
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January 17, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 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 #spinning wheel #1930s #Rumpelstiltskin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #fox #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas University's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
[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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#lion #star
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#snail #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Troy and Her Legend by Arthur Young, 1948.
[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 book #book #trojan horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene College's 1930 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #church #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fountain #spanish mission
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Old News (permalink)
"Advanced perception: it's dangerous!  But you, too, can do it."  From The Aberree, 1961.
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#perception #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I still say that the only way to judge a woman's age is by the back of her neck."  From Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1943.
[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 #serpent #occult #snake
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #greek
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Old News (permalink)
"Peeresses' perky pelts."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1927 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 #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
[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 #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Unsupported, band plays on."  From College of the Holy Cross' 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #1970s #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Novelties' Curio Catalog, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #king #throne #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Can you relax?"  From The Instructor, 1956.
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#vintage headline #relaxation #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greenbrier Military School's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stagecoach #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf
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January 16, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the mind of literary scalawag Jonathan Caws-Elwitt comes a spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s: it's Grave Mood Rings.  Here's the debut of this weird intersection in the universe of Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 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 #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #frog #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage japan #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rickshaw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 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 #constellation #scorpion #scorpio
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #public speaking #audience
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #baldness #hair less #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
[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 magazine #musician #jazz #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #tuba
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #sleep #dreaming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #magician #magic #vintage yearbook #yearbook #presto chango #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #cougar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #queen #knighthood
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Old News (permalink)
From Witching on Hardscrabble by Walter McDonald, 1985
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#witch #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #boxing #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The avenging angel, from Unknown World, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Folly Of Eustace, by Robert Hichens:
[This was the last Hichens in my queue--yet another study of characters who cultivate silly behavior for its own sake. Where "Berkeley Square" was delightfully lighthearted and "Carnation" was calculatingly cynical, this novelette was ultimately sad and depressing. But snippets, hey, I'll take 'em. (:v>]

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While Mr. Lane hunted adjectives, and ran sad-sounding and damnatory substantives to earth...

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“I wonder whether the supremacy of Eustace Lane is moral, or intellectual, or—neither?” said Winifred. “There are so many different supremacies, aren’t there? I suppose a man might be supreme merely as a—as a—well, an absurdity, you know.”
Jenny smiled the watery smile of the sentimentalist; a glass of still lemonade washed with limelight might resemble it.

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The newspapers occasionally mentioned him as a dandy, a fop, a whimsical, irresponsible creature, yet one whose vagaries were not entirely without interest. He had performed some extravagant antic in a cotillon, or worn some extraordinary coat. He had invented a new way of walking one season....

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He soon began...to reduce buffoonery to a modern science.

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In fact, they supposed he must be a genius because he was erratic. Many people are of the same opinion, and declare that a goose standing on its head must be a swan.

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What is a modern smart wedding but a second-rate pantomime?

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Kite-flying in London seemed an odd notion. Was it lively and entertaining, or merely silly? Which ought it to be?
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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 #rocks #river
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #seal
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Old News (permalink)
"What is happening on the moon?  Astronomer who says things grow there."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#moon #vintage headline #headline
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January 15, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.  See our weird video involving the bear constellation here.
[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 #constellation #big dipper #night sky #starry night #bear #illustration #ursa minor #little dipper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Easy Growth In Reading Workbook to Accompany I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Roy, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Nothing is true ...
  • in Washington until officially denied
  • especially in charcoal
  • but that which rings of right
  • and everything is permitted
  • but the brutal, the vulgar and the vile
  • in the false, cruel sea
  • and anything is possible
  • and nothing is eternal
  • until it is discovered for oneself
  • or what is true is not evident to us
  • but falsehood
  • but Heaven; nothing sure excepting sorrow
  • is a logically untenable statement (the phrase destroys itself)
[snippets gathered through the course of our research]
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#list #truth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
[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 #fable #tree spirit #poem #willow tree
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question: "What can the superintendency do abbout 2 1/2-minute talks?"  From The Instructor, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #biblical #mountain #whirlwind #elijah
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant hand #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand of god #crushed #giant thumb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."  From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene College's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#beard #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #roller skates #vintage man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #cathedral
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grindstone #grinder #grinding stone
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Old News (permalink)
"I'd been around.  I thought I could handle my own emotions, but I was wrong ... so wrong!  My first pickup."  From Modern Screen, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ward-Belmont College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #seashell
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A black magick incantation from Dark Shadows episode 762.  "I call upon the flame to summon you. I call upon the raven and the bat and all the dark creatures of nature, upon the charred and blackened clouds that reigned at your beginning." 
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#magick #occult #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"Ignore inner selves."  From Flying Saucer News, 1963.
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#vintage headline #headline #bad advice #inner self
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #fog #tower #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 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 #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No broken sleep."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
[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 #insomnia #aerosol #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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January 14, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #illustration #measuring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's Rempham star if the Kabbalah is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
[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 #inverted pentagram #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
[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 #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Can larks take a joke?  We don't know."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
[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 #bird #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #flying machine #carried away #1890s
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mustache #vintage headline #vintage man #man #headline #sexual orientation #vintage mad #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 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 #cat #cat fight #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1968.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #harpy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 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 #effigy #clown
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #native american
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Bananas and cider.  Circa 1910, Michigan, courtesy of Up North Memories.
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#vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #vintage yearbook #yearbook #anubis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories of Big Animals by Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #queen #endpapers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene College's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1980s #space alien #e.t.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 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 #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #1890s #rude awakening
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The caption says that her pet leopard was indisposed the day this was photographed.  From Motion Picture Classic, 1917.
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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #woman #polka dots #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ward-Belmont College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook
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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 #crab #queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #violin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #oz
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January 13, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
57
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#penetralia #video #prof. oddfellow #satyr
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The timeless elegance of a mop wig and bonnet.  From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1960s #cross dressing #mop wig
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Old News (permalink)
"Why do we want to live?"  From The Instructor, 1968.
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#meaning of life #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've just been squirted with water.  Reblog to keep it going.  From Wesleyan College's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[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 #animal headed #arctic #jackass
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
She's reading Campus Caviar.  From the University of Oklahoma's 1943 yearbook.
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#reading #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #woman #vintage woman #1943
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
[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 #sheep #illustration #wolf in sheep's clothing #communism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From York Junior College's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #potato #queen #1940s #spud queen #queen spud
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Angel in the Hayloft by Katherine Niles.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage book #book #barn #hayloft
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #chemistry
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1923.
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#vintage photo #hypnotism #1920s #hypnotist #vintage hollywood #vintage man #hollywood #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories From the Faerie Queen by Mary Macleod and illustrated by A. G. Walker, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #wizard #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cape #no parking #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Key to Phrenology by William Seymour, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blank
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Old News (permalink)
"Medicine is likened to a slow embalming."  From The Aberree, 1961.
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#medicine #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson Colleges 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers, illustrated by Samuel Weller (Thomas Onwhyn), 1837.
[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 #charles dickens
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1930s #ink pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
[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 #jellyfish
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January 12, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The Moon's Tears" by Laurence Alma Tadema, in The Children's Book, 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 #dancing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lizard #illustration #draco #flying lizard #flying dragon
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Old News (permalink)
"Man who frightened himself.  Terrible power of imagination."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#imagination #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to overlay a page from the book.
From Field Book of the Skies by William Tyler Olcott.

From Field Book of the Skies by William Tyler Olcott
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#constellation #big dipper #vintage book #book #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #flying horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 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 #vintage ad #crystal ball #chewing gum #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Richmond Professional Institute's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Little sins have sharp teeth."  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Dead Alive and Busy by Alan Shapiro, 2000.
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#living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Enough magnificence to spoil plain living.  Hardly anyone wanted tea."  From The Daily Colonist, 1959.
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#tea #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect #bookworm #1910s
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.
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#etymology #word
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Book of Evelyn, by Geraldine Bonner:

***
There is one thing in the front room I must get rid of—the rug. It is a nightmare with a crimson ground on which are displayed broken white particles that look like animalcula in a magnified drop of water.

***
["Landlady" as a verb!]
Mrs. Bushey lives next door (she has two houses under her wing) and when not landladying, teaches physical culture.

***
[Who Needs Context? dept.]
My knowledge of nymphs and dryads is small, but I feel confident if one of them had ever sung a modern Italian aria through a modern American register she could not have rendered it with less heart and soul than Miss Harris did.

***
Betty’s summons are not casual outbreaks of hospitality. There is always an underlying purpose in them, what a man I know who writes plays would call “a basic idea”.
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You know, Jim ... you'd look good with a moustache."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #moustache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colored Agricultural and Normal University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #bowing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #worm #illustration
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January 11, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers Primer by W. A. McIntyre & John C. Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #1900s #chick #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Before Marc Almond sang of "Bedsit Land," there was bedspread land.  "The land of Counterpane."  From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #toys #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #poem #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #owl #fairy tale #cat #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir Rhyne College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #noise maker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 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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#polar bear #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #lion tamer #circus #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Twenty-three inseparable pairs of manfriends.  From Concordia Teachers College'a 1928 yearbook.

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

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#severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage gay #1920s #gay #male couple #family tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #off a cliff
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Old News (permalink)
"Bad dreams to blame [for stories of alien abduction], says expert."  From BUFORA Newsfile, 1996.
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#nightmare #vintage headline #bad dream #headline #alien abduction #abductee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thumbing nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Make this goblin your ally!"  From The Goblin, 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 #gnome #elf #goblin #chocolate #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #illustration #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #automaton #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).  (There's a weird song about a will-o'-the-wisp in our video about how to write party invitations as horoscopes.)
[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 #will-o'-the-wisp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #guitar #flower people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Romans by Alfred Duggan and illustrated by Richard Powers, 1964.
[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 #roman #illustration #trebuchet
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January 10, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 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 #fairy #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Richer Ways of Living by Wilson, Wilson & Erb, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #ice skating #1930s #illustration #courtesy #helping hand
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Old News (permalink)
"Diamonds in the sky, where the earth is invisible."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene College's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #camel #strange law
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia Southwestern College's 1971 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 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 #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"Happy now!  What about later?"  From The Instructor, 1938.
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#vintage ad #happiness #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"The Coney Island of the mind."  From Valparaiso University's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #coney island #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 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 #elf #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dummy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #ages of man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of a crystal ball, but some pronounce it "crystal bowl."  From Ohio State University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s
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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 #native american #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern State Teachers College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All by Edgar Dubs Shimer and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #sleep
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people #cat headed #illustration #bobcat
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Old News (permalink)
"Bigger feet for Chinese women."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#foot #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #illustration #football #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Magnificent Milo is a centaur who lives with wyverns, griffons, fauns, and harpies but accidentally takes a fall into the world of men and circuses.  Charmingly illustrated by author Joan Balfour Payne (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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#processional #centaur #wyvern
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January 9, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
[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 #practical joke #dog #monkey #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"In the dark with 7 tigers."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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#tiger #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grasshopper's Hop by Zitella Cocke and illustrated by Joseph J. Mora, 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 #vintage book #book #musical animal #grasshopper #fiddle #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #snake #scythe #ouroboros #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mental Disease by Peter Michaels.
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#vintage illustration #conscience
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery, 1928.
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#dandering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tiger versus elephant: which would you wager to win?  From Moving Picture World, 1919. 
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#vintage illustration #elephant #tiger #animal fight #vintage hollywood #hollywood #sensationalism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1974 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso University's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #sun and moon #biblical #night and day
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
From Amusing Experiments (After Martin Gardner) by M. Stoliar and L. Formin.
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#vintage illustration #hand #math #multiplication
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #tuxedo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bathtub
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Old News (permalink)
"New 'pill' is discovered to make patients suffer."  From The Aberree, 1954.  
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#medicine #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Highlights from Vanity Fair, July 1916:

1. I thought this "Where is Greenwich Village?" piece was interesting, both in terms of the early(?) demonstration of a "there's no 'there' there" angle, and as an unusual(?) instance of a magazine calling itself out for mythologizing:
https://archive.org/details/sim_vanity-fair_1916-07_6_5/page/64/mode/2up?view=theater

2. A mildly funny serving of revolving-restaurant shenanigans:
https://archive.org/details/sim_vanity-fair_1916-07_6_5/page/68/mode/2up?view=theater

3. [Attached] Wodehouse in drag and in duplicate (afaik the third critic is not PGW).

4. [Attached] The megaphone just strikes me as comically silly, for some reason.

5. [Attached] Nonsense dept.

6. [Attached] Remember this drawing from last month, when it illustrated an imaginary invention? Well, apparently it's already in use, by people communicating with their personal shoppers! (:v>




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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where the Wind Blows by Katharine Pyle and illustrated by Bertha Corson Day, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun with Tom and Betty by Ousley & Russell, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The annual explosion of the braincell of the house of a thousand troubles.  From Armour Institute of Technology's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"God is dead.  He has died in our time and we have killed him."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#deity #god #vintage headline #god is dead #headline
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January 8, 2024

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"A contented cat."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1937.
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#cat #vintage photo #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Beat it.  Here comes th' main squeeze!"  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Argus, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #claustrophobia #bending over backwards #cramped #tight space
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1898 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 1919. 
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#vintage ad #shadow #wolfman #werewolf #1900s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #music #dancing #vintage magazine #magazine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Ever-glowing through time -- the mysterious trees that spread through old college yearbooks.  From Wabash College's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Little Kittens Who Lost Their Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #winter #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Truth, tho it crush me."  From Concordia Teachers College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #truth #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #swan #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Relaxing is the first step in speechmaking."  From Charleston Southern University's 1973 yearbook.

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#gun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #public speaking #1970s #vintage man #man #speechmaking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ward-Belmont College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #1920s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Raphael's Witch!!! by Jonathan Blewitt, 1831.
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#astrology #asterisk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Educational Dope: My remedy for your cultural breakdowns and ignoramus complaints."  From Earlham College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird's nest #bird #shoe #bird nest #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #head in the clouds #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Shoes to go with winter.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #old man winter #shoe #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #hand #1920s #illustration #hand gesture #making faces
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Old News (permalink)
Many strive to be a Perfect Ten, but others set their sights lower.  "Wanting to be the Perfect One."  From Mars Hill College's 1991 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hand of evil inclinations, from What Your Hand Reveals by Henri Rem, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #hand #palmistry #1920s #illustration #hand gesture
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January 7, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"Village wakes up at midnight.  Strange pillar of salt."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline
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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 #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"Thought he was a woman."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #gender #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The stork delivers a Granby phonograph.  From The Talking Machine World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #phonograph #stork #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage ad #ghost #spiritualism #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #bottled ghost #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You're the only student I've really changed."  From Purple Parrot, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #penguin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montclair State's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #tiger costume #mascot #1960s
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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.)
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#vintage illustration #map #1920s #europe #world conquest
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1977 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"Who, me, repent?"  From The Instructor, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #repentance #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sailboat #husky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wishbone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ward-Belmont College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Free coffee and gab."  From Indiana University's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #coffee #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #lion #oz
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From someone's Peter Noone writeup (from 2016):

"His show was great. He did a great impression of Mick Jagger and accurately portrayed his dancing. We even had a nice conversation about socks."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #hare #illustration
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January 6, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Golden Links in the Chain That Connects Mother, Home and Heaven by Mrs. J. P. Newman, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #afterlife #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #sunflower #art
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From Duke University's 1941 yearbook.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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#vintage illustration #monk #esoteric #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #thermometer #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia Southern College's 1970 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #1970s #glow in the dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"L'art nouveau bed, showing part of the interior of a modern Viennese bed room."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1977 yearbook.

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#mask #animal headed #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #treasure chest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #light #laser
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College;s 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #beard #mirror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hobo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #propeller
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1910 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #whisper #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hush
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children of Mu by James Churchward, 1931. 
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#vintage illustration #symbolism #creation of woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's cactus chemist is from the University of Arizona's 1953 yearbook.  See This Book is a Cactus.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cactus #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Parson Beecher and His Horse by Bricktop, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"A doctor talks to tomatoes—and finds that they have their mental problems, too!"  A London Daily Mirror headline, reproduced in The Aberree, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline #tomato
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From South Western Normal College of Pennsylvania's 1917 yearbook.
*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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cow #hidden picture
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January 5, 2024

Oldest Tricks in the Book (permalink)
"Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence." —Tennessee Williams, Paris Review, 1981.
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#magic trick #tennessee williams
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #falling #winter #slippery
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #squirrel #nut cracker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From XYZ and Other Poems by John Lascelles, 1894. 
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#vintage illustration #snake #vintage book #poetry #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chatham College's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1960s #paper bag head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They would knock the stars about our tumbling chimneys."  From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #comet #shooting star #chimney #falling star #melting building
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flowers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What's the use."  From Movie Classic, 1934.
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Flunkers.  From the University of Arkansas' 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The deficiency of the internal secretions which made Napoleon eligible for glory was also responsible for his downfall. His rise and fall followed the rise and fall of his pituitary gland."  From Shadowland, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Voice of Conscience by Alfred Martin Rehwinkel, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #ear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #leopard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit medium's portrait of Jesus.  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Aug. 1882.
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Old News (permalink)
"What we do is popular."  From Missouri Southern State University's 1992 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1881
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#vintage illustration #night sky #starry night
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Green Carnation, by Robert Hichens:

[As you might gather from these snippets (or already know), this book goes to town spoofing Oscar Wilde et al. Taken as a whole, alas, the novel is rather nasty (and probably homophobic), but this is my pick of the more innocently amusing bits.]

***
"I think the art of losing things is a very subtle art. So few people can lose anything really beautifully. Anybody can find a thing. That is so simple."

***
"Men always fall into the absurdity of endeavouring to develop the mind, to push it violently forward in this direction or in that. The mind should be receptive, a harp waiting to catch the winds, a pool ready to be ruffled, not a bustling busybody, forever trotting about on the pavement looking for a new bun shop."

***
"She is a good woman, Reggie, and wears large hats."

***
"I am unchanged. That is really the secret of my pre-eminence. I never develop. I was born epigrammatic, and my dying remark will be a paradox."

***
She rustled away with weary grace, rattling delicately a large bunch of keys that didn't open any thing in particular. They were a part of her get up as a country hostess.

***
"I am perpetually meeting her, and she always asks me to lunch, and says she knows my brother. She seems to connect my poor brother with lunch in some curious way."

***
"Some of them even labour under the wild impression that...Mr. George R. Sims—what would he be without the initial?—is a minor poet."

***
His wittiest jokes, nude, no longer clad in the shadowy garments of more or less conventional propriety, danced like bacchanals through the conversation, and kicked up heels to fire even the weary men of society.

***
"He fascinates by being sedulously unexpected. Listen to his anthem. He is beginning to play it. How unexpected it is. It always does what the ear wants, and all modern music does what the ear does not want. Therefore the ear always expects to be disappointed, and Lord Reggie astonishes it by never disappointing it."

***
He was holding up a table-spoon filled with marmalade to catch the light from a stray sunbeam that filtered in through the drawn blinds, and wore a rapt look, a "caught up" look, as Mrs. Windsor would have expressed it.
"Good morning," he said softly. "Is not this marmalade Godlike? This marvellous, clear, amber glow, amber with a touch of red in it, almost makes me believe in an after life. Surely, surely marmalade can never die!"
"I must have been mistaken," Mrs. Windsor thought, as she expressed her sense of the eternity of jams in general in suitable language.

***
"I suppose it is always difficult not to take oneself seriously."
"I do not find it so. My mental proceedings generally strike me as the best joke I know."

***
"Mr. Amarinth is generally amusing."
"Yes, he has got hold of a good recipe for making the world laugh and think him clever. The only mistake he makes is, that he sometimes serves up only the recipe, and omits the dish that ought to be the result of it altogether. One cannot dine off a recipe, however good and ingenious it may be. It is like reading a guide-book at home instead of travelling."

***
"It is like the garden scene of 'Faust.' Martha ought to come on now with Mephistopheles. Ah! here are Mrs. Windsor and tea. They will have to do instead."

***
She still wore her big and shady hat. She declared it made her feel religious, and nobody was prepared to dispute the assertion.

***
"We are so frightfully punctual that I feel quite like an early Christian. I wonder why the Christians were always so early before we were born? They are generally very late now."
"I suppose they have grown tired," he answered, arranging the carnation in his buttonhole meditatively. "Probably we suffer from the activity of our forefathers. When I feel fatigued I always think that my grandfather must have been what is called an excellent walker."

***
"People who have nothing to say always do preach long sermons, don't they? They keep hoping they will have something to say presently, I suppose."
"And they hope out loud," said Madame Valtesi.

***
"Don't any of you stare at him while he is singing," he said, "or he will get sharp. He always does; I have noticed it."
"What a pity staring does not have that effect upon all of us," said Madame Valtesi. "London would be quite brilliant. I have looked at people for hours, but they have never got sharp."

[later]
The anthem passed off fairly well, although Jimmy Sands went rather flat, perhaps owing to the fact that none of the party from the cottage so much as glanced at him during his performance.
"He evidently made allowance for our staring," Madame Valtesi said afterwards.
[I think that may be my favorite bit in the book!]

***
Ever since he had made a name for himself by declaring that he was pleased with the Equator, and desired its further acquaintance, he had been talked about. Whenever the public interest in him showed signs of flagging he wrote an improper story, or published an epigram in one volume, on hand-made paper, with immense margins, or produced a play full of other people's wit, or said something scandalous about the North Pole. He had ruined the reputation of more than one eminently respectable ocean which had previously been received everywhere, and had covered Nature with confusion by his open attacks upon her.

***
[I know you and stiches in time go back a long way.]
"How can I talk?" she replied. "Don't you see that I am knitting?"
"Are you doing a stitch in time, the sort of stitch that is supposed to rhyme with nine?"

***
"Afterwards in the drawing-room he gave a lecture. I rather forget the subject, but I think it was, 'Eggs I have known.' He knew a great many."

***
"Esmé, you are talking nonsense!" Madame Valtesi said, dropping two more stitches with an air of purpose.
"I hope I am. People who talk sense are like people who break stones in the road: they cover one with dust and splinters."

***
"Really clever men never wear spectacles. Wearing spectacles is the most played-out pose I know."

***
"Is it nearly tea-time, Mrs. Windsor?" he added, as she came up, a little flushed with under exertion. "I only ask because I am not thirsty. Tea is one of those delightful things that one takes because one does not want it."

***
"Are you ever excited?" asked Lady Locke.
"Sometimes, when I have invented a perfect paradox. A perfect paradox is so terribly great. It makes one feel like a trustee. Can you understand the sensation? Have you ever felt like a trustee?"
"I don't think I have," Lady Locke said, laughing.
"Then, dear lady, you have never yet really lived."

***
"The world is even surprised when Mr. Gladstone is found to have been born in several places at the same time—as if he would be born at different times!"

***
[Precursing Fran Lebowitz, as immortalized in one of my Garfield-Lebowitz mashups of yore (see attached).]
"Children are very sticky," she remarked. "I am glad I never had any."
"Yes," said Madame Valtesi; "they are as adhesive as postage-stamps."
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sing Me a Song by Kirth, McManus & Carmack.
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#vintage illustration #clock #cuckoo clock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  
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#vintage illustration #fly #syrup
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Old News (permalink)
"Do eagles carry off children?  How a parrot saved its life."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#eagle #parrot #vintage headline #carried aloft #headline
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January 4, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1933 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #hand of god #wink #1930s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
While looking for castles in the air, be sure not to miss the castles in lampposts.  From Fairleigh Dickinson University's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lamp post #advice #illustration #castle in the air #1950s #lamppost
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #owl #1940s #illustration #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwest Missouri State Teachers College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Snickerty Nick by Julia Ellsworth Ford and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 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 #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage magazine #magazine
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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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#pyramid #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #vinage diagram #accidents
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 115.
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#ufo #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #doll #living toy #toy #living doll
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"They sink to the bottomless depths of corruption."  From Dark Shadows episode 210.
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#cemetery #graveyard #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #falling #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #gorgon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #winter #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clubs #card game #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Make sure you survive killing yourself, that's the way to go."
—Michael Cisco, The Divinity Student
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#survival
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
"Nonsense initiators."  From Goshen College's 1964 yearbook.
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From the Journal of Borderland Research, Vol XLV.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #star #color theory #color #diagram
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January 3, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
We think we discovered where The Prisoner's boatlike artwork ended up — at West Virginia State College (as seen in the 1979 yearbook).
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#the prisoner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Practice For Tip, Tip and Mitten, The Big Show by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #boat #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pied piper #musician
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1950 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The great battle between good and evil."  From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #good and evil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A lion with his paws helped to dig the grave [of Mary of Egypt]."  From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #grave #lion #gravedigger #mary of egypt
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Old News (permalink)
You've seen comedians spray atomized perfume into their mouths or take swigs from perfume bottles, but perfume booze is no laughing matter when it comes to liquor licenses.  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#perfume #alcohol #vintage headline #booze #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This cover is better than others for the same book, in that it takes the reader underground.  From A Trick I Learned from Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge, 2012.
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#cemetery #graveyard #book design
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #faces in things
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #duck woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Titania's Radio Fairies by The Sandman, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ship #fairy boat #fairy ship
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"In the highest civilizations the book is still the greatest delight" (Emerson).  "Books: wealth of the world, fit inheritance of generations and nations" (Thoreau).  From Ohio State University's 1960 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[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 #knife
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1931 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cinderella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #mousetrap
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January 2, 2024

Colorful Allusions (permalink)
Thanks to Milo "Ectoplasmicwyrms" Ramone for saying, "Love this guy. Go watch his channel."
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#magick #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #coquelicot
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Old News (permalink)
"A grand old mediocrity."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #seahorse
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Old News (permalink)
"Always keep your eyes wide open."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1950.
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#insomnia #vintage headline #advice #never sleep #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pen Drawings and Pen Draughtsmen by Joseph Pennell, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Are you disappointed in the laxative you're taking?"  From Wild West Weekly, 1935.
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#vintage ad #laxative #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso University's 1949 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #love #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lamp #flame
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Crib-horses, from the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #horse #rabbit
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Guilford College's 1978 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy #cat #pussy willow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #printing press
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #drawing #making faces
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Stairway to the belfry, from Kansas State's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stairway #belfry
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #tug of war #grammar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1907 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
> read more from Images Moving Through Time . . .
#vintage illustration #sheet ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #white rabbit #rabbit
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Highlights from Vanity Fair, June 1916:

[Needless to say, I initially interpreted "write for a dog" to mean writing /on behalf of/ a dog, i.e., acting as a dog's ghostwriter or private secretary. And I note that the illustration doesn't exactly discourage that interpretation!]

 

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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
We, too, omce started up the chimney ... and come to think of it, we've not yet come down.  From Chatterbox, 1909.
[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fireplace #chimney
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1901 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #top hat #dandy #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"(You can look young forever.)"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#longevity #aging #vintage headline #headline
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January 1, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"The snake that swallowed a blanket.  And what happened."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[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 #twins #snowman #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #crossword puzzle
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Like Christmas, the month of June seems to come earlier every year.  "June in January," from The Improvement Era, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #flower #temporal anomaly #june #january
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State University of New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences at Binghamton's 1949 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #covered wagon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is where Baby New Years are incubated.  From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #baby new year #incubator
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The rats respond to a human infestation.  From Winthrop University's 1901 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rat #tables turned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers: Fun and Frolic by Mary Elizabeth Pennell, et al. and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #baby new year #new year
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #baby new year
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The Right Word (permalink)
A diminishing poem from Toike Oike, 1955.
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#poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Missouri State University's 1940 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1940s #vintage man #spaghetti
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Clock Tower Ghost by Gene Kemp, 1984.  We documented our own strange adventure with a clock tower ghost in Solvang, California.
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#ghost #clock tower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Martin Methodist College's 1975 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I am what I've become.  I'll do nothing."  From Dark Shadows episode 7.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1974 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #squirrel #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"It's june ... in January."  From Concordia Seminary's 1945 yearbook.
> read more from Old News . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #temporal anomaly #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #mythology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1919 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation #wounded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An Etruscan mask from Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#mask #vintage illustration
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