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January 31, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 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 #moon #cat #cow #dog #cow jumped over the moon #musical animal #1920s #illustration #nursery rhyme #cat and the fiddle #hey diddle diddle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 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 #drawing #bird #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy and His Daily Living by Helen Burnham, Evelyn Jones, & Helen Redford and illustrated by Iva Lou Wildey, 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 #sports #1930s #illustration #leisure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I wonder what that mouse is up to."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Share in the Home by Laura Baxter, 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 #vintage diagram #table setting #tea #diagram #1940s #illustration #tea service #tea table
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #illustration #raincoat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Noblesse oblige."  From Punch, 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 #smoking #tramp #noblesse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 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 #hybrid
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Old News (permalink)
"A witch told me I could do anything I wanted.  I married Frank Sinatra."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#witch #vintage headline #headline #frank sinatra
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Old News (permalink)
"Teen sleeps right through a miracle."  A headline curated by Spin Magazine, 1985.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #pixie #apple
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Old News (permalink)
"Strange things happen up above."  From Flying Saucer News, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley and Judy Crabb, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #chakra #illustration #kabbalah #tree of life
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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 #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
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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#skull face #mask #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1940s #pianist
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#ghost #spirit photography #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#skull #occult #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#diet #vintage headline #advice #headline
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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 #clown #donkey #vintage magazine #magazine
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1892.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #raft #seagull #stranded at sea
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January 30, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 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 #london #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monk #tiger #hinduism #1960s #illustration #ascetic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 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 #oz #illustration #up a tree #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 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 #horse #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 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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#vintage illustration #feather #native american #1920s #headdress #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Where the old locos end their days."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline
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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 #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you absent-minded?  Rare gift or unfortunate lapse, it is nature's safeguard against mental worry."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#memory #forgetting #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Horizon, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vintage diagram #physiognomy #jesus #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Compliments of the Season by Eleanor Donnelly, 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 #hobby horse
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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.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #magpie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 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 #inkblot #1900s #rose
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Old News (permalink)
"Local druggist makes many friends."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #pharmacist #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #buddhism #ascent to heaven #alice in wonderland #caterpillar #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#statue of liberty #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage headline #advice #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #eagle #animal attack #1890s
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Old News (permalink)
"Man bites tick."  From The Old Line, 1949.
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#vintage headline #headline #tick
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
"I would laugh if there was any laughing left in me."  From Dark Shadows episode 792.
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#laughter #dark shadows
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Life, August-December 1924:

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a retired hermit
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[Bonus: a Diana Warwick allusion to how (a century ago!) no one writes letters much anymore.]

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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.]
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#vintage illustration #sweeping #broom #1930s #illustration
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January 29, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scotland #dancing #scottish #bagpipes #1930s #illustration #highland fling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 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 #1920s #illustration #holly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 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 #faces in things #acorn #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #feet #socks #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Photo-Era Magazine, 1916.
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#cat
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Old News (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #waterfall #canoe #vintage headline #in a rut #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy's Rabbit Stories by Mary E. Calhoun and illustrated by E. Warde Blaisdell, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bear #melon
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the two hidden woodland spirits.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #hidden pictures
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Old News (permalink)
From Undead and Unpopular by MaryJanice Davidson, 2006.
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#undead #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Anomaly, 1971.
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#ufo #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #animal headed #hybrid #shield #knife #panther
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Neither of us had ever been able to explain the strange things that happened when we were together."  From Beyond Reality, No. 27.
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#friendship #strange friendship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1958.
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#vintage ad #headache #before and after #medicine #1950s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #hunter #stag #antlers
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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 #cat #butterfly #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blowing bubbles #butterfly net #vintage headline #headline
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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 #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1921 yearbook.

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#transformation #vintage yearbook #evolution #1920s #living toy #living doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #middle way #nagarjuna
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
So snoopy!  From Lighted Pathway, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #snoopy
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January 28, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpine Architektur by Bruno Taut, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #illustration #1910s
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Le Vocabulaire par la Méthode Naturelle Séri 1 by Les Frères du Sacre-Coeur, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #table setting #1900s #french #illustration #dinner table
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Father Time has ridden many horses."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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#father time #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
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#witch #vintage photo #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"Is Britain's newest monster a water vampire?"  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#vampire #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 #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse
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Old News (permalink)
"Telepathy in pets."  From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #occult #bull #vintage headline #telepathy #esp #headline
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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 #aesop #mouse #mountain
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Old News (permalink)
"Goes smiling to the electric chair."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #electric chair #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#mummy #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"New evidence that one can still be blinded by science."  From Woroni, 1996.
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#science #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #blinded me with science
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Black Hawk College East's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #sign #have a nice day
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Grassblade, rainbow, leafbud, daisy, anemone, raindrop, herald, violet, and sunbeam.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Georgia's College of Veterinary Medicin's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Almost Meeting by Henry Kreisel, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gallows #turkey #severed head #vintage yearbook #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Odd Creatures by Dum-Dum, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #lion #giraffe #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we thought they were blowing bubblegum bubbles, not holding lightbulbs in their mouths.  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #lightbulb #vintage women #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magnificent state bed of Louis XV, handsomely carved and burnished in gold."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#bed #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #turkey
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January 27, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #elf #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #monkey #evolution #darwinism #before and after #1900s #illustration #devolution #monkey man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1970s #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 #earth #map #greek #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Secret Service, Old and Young King Brady, Detectives, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #magician #severed head #vintage magazine #decapitated #magic trick #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
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#reincarnation #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We wear the hat on the left while preparing our posts and planning our videos.  From Shadowland, 1923.
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#vintage photo #dancing #1920s #costume #vaudeville
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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 #bird
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Old News (permalink)
"Pretty and imposed upon."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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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 #divination #fortune teller #cat #crystal ball #darkness #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2002.
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#ufo #vintage headline #rugby #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The peanut stork.  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #stork #peanut
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Old News (permalink)
"Meet a mink—forget the coat."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#vintage headline #mink #fur #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #rooftop #precarious
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Diamond Dick Jr. Boy's Best Weekly, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #circus #hot air balloon #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College'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 #lion #1930s #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Mr Edison did not know.  What is electricty?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #electricity #thomas edison #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Told By an Idiot, by Rose Macaulay:

The Proper Thing, revered as ever, gradually changed its face, or rather turned a somersault and alighted on its head.



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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University (Saint Louis)'s 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #1920s #illustration
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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 #fairy
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January 26, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #bird #pigeon #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #monster #dinosaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Uh-oh: "Eventually, the world will die out and become a dry barren thing with no life upon it."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #labyrinth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dragon #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From You Have to Stop This by Pseudonymous Bosch.
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#mummy #sarcophagus #egyptian #stop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #wee folk #tiny man
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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 #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1939.
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #b.o. #ad
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #shoe #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #smoke #secret society
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Old News (permalink)
"Bathes in the dew and garbed like Eve, she sleeps in the earth."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #headline #naturism
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Old News (permalink)
"We who are about to die salute you!"  From Concordia Teachers College's 1972 yearbook.
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#ape #vintage yearbook #costume #gorilla #vintage headline #1970s #gorilla costume
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #mask #dream #crown
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #life choices #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dizzy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #mountain spirit #illustration #skiing #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #radio #vintage magazine #1960s
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale #elves
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January 25, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1988.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #giraffe #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #lynx #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Good news for those worried about Jack and Jill tumbling down the hill -- Jack and Jill were birds all along and flew safely away.  From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #blackbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #elves #circus #brownies
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Old News (permalink)
"A bit like being surrounded by a cloud of gnats."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#infestation #vintage headline #swarm #gnat #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Colliers, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #prisoner #pork #ball and chain #pork barrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Feels like this yearbook is trying to psychoanalyze its reader.  From Beaver College's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of community college.  From Barton Community College's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #spacesuit #spacemen #hazmat
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1972.
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#snake #blaming #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown University School of Medicine's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #insect #human headed #insect man #human insect #pest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #automaton #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage ad #telephone #vintage hollywood #Barbara Stanwyck #hollywood #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I think it was just fate that brought us together."  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sing Omega by David Tibet.
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#face #book design
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"They receive a visit from ... the man in socks."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.
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#socks #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Life, April-July 1924:

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Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor. [Benchley]

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the Whatziz Motors scandal [ref. to a subplot in a real play; not sure if Benchley contributed the "whatziz"]
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #poison #medicine #illustration
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January 24, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #1920s #chick #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, April 1994.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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#religion #vintage illustration #buddhism #goddess #deity #1960s #illustration #mahamaya
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Old News (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #books #1920s #vintage headline #advice #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #phoenician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From She, The Woman-Man by Aleta B. Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1935. At Archive dot org.
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#vintage illustration #occult #esoteric #symbolism #1930s #jupiter #illustration #two headed eagle #occult diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #fire #caveman #illustration #prehistoric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Language A, Skills Practice Book, Teacher's Edition by Raisbeck & Smart, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fish #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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#cat #dog #word puzzle
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From Harper's, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #whisper #secret
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Old News (permalink)
"Weep for love."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1940.
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#love #crying #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #giant #war and peace #illustration #peace angel #torch
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1947.
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#divination #palmistry #hand #prediction #fortune telling #vintage ad #vintage illustration #ad
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Old News (permalink)
Chapter 1: Snakes.  From The Happy Art of Catching Men by Robert James Patterson, 1914.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Laughter, tears mingle."  From Ohio State University's 1968 yearbook.
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#crying #laughter #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #priest #gorilla #spikes #priest band #band priest #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Irish Fairy Book by Alfred Perceval Graves and illustrated by George Denham, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #leprechaun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Don't follow my footsteps."  From State University of New York Agricultural and Technical Institute's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Life is so strange."  From Lighted Pathway, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dog #vintage headline #strange #headline #life is strange
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January 23, 2026

Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #ship #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #owl and the pussycat #illustration #three men in a tub #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Europe has sold her soul."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage headline #europe #soul selling
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Save your animal instincts for tomorrow night."  From Dark Shadows episode 762.
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#advice #dark shadows
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Flittermice."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #bat #flittermouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
From These Degenerate Days by Minot Savage, 1887.
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#vintage headline #degeneration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cat #the end #mouse #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect #musical animal #bug #musician
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage headline #funeral #dying #headline #cost of dying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #angel #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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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 #anthropomorphism #boot #grasshopper #oz
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Old News (permalink)
"Horses are more human."  From Blue Book, 1936.
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#horse #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #button #1960s #belly button
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Old News (permalink)
"There's them that can and them that can't."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Alone in a crowd of ghosts.  From the University of Mississippi's 1972 yearbook.  See our video on how to handle it "When Faded Friends Ghost Themselves."

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"Every day life more remarkable than imagination of novelist."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage headline #headline #daily life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Animals are people too."  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook #caged animal #animal rights #inhumane #animal cage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From White Stacks, by William Hewlett:
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a little squirk of laughter

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It was called, for no ostensible reason, the Blue Room.

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The "crinkle-crankle" of a bath chair was heard in the carriage drive.

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White Stacks...had no room for a family skeleton. All their cupboards were full.

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Mr. Thynne made the sound usually written as Tut-tut.
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Old News (permalink)
"Who has the dummy?  The dummy hasn't walked out on its own."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.
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#vintage headline #mannequin #headline #1950s
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January 22, 2026

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #dragon #sea monster #john bull #1900s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #rain #rainy day #umbrella #puddle #1930s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From People and Places by Horn, McBroom & Bishop and illustrated by Sperry, Stein & Paus, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The visit of a god."  From Laughing Horse, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #deity #native american #1920s #navajo #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 1911.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Make some ice cream.  But do not color the ice cream.  It is white."  From Manual for Teaching the Primer The Little White House by Russell & Ousley, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Era Magazine, 1920.
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#cat #vintage photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Poured the whole thing -- every single bit of it, over her head."  From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #hat #hat tree
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Hypnotic catalepsy, from The Master Course in Hypnotism by Harry Arons, 1948.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#wolf #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #faces in things #cherries #fruit #1950s #coconut #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pan
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Old News (permalink)
"An awful time."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cohasset's 1977 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cape #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #statue #monument #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Not playing with a full deck."  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to overlay the cover image (also missing an apostrophe).  From The Devils Tiger by Robert Flynn.

Click to overlay the cover image (also missing an apostrophe)
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#vintage book #book #tiger #animated gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #mustache #1890s #illustration #vintage man #moustache #man
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January 21, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Vampires, were-wolves, fox-women, etc."  From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth by Timothy Green Beckley, 1992.
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#vintage diagram #diagram #hollow earth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #playing cards #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mammoth Story Book, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #goat #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Prospero's own island.  Millions of Ariels longing to be free."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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#shakespeare #vintage headline #headline #prosperp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #disraeli
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychic Science, 1927.
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#ghost #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #bird #grouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Little Egyptian Cousin, written and illustrated by Blanche McManus, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #pyramid #donkey #1900s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #picnic #bear #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Americans Who Have Been Reincarnated by H. N. Banerjee, 1980.
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#reincarnation #eyes
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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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Old News (permalink)
"Fear: don't be afraid of it!"  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#fear #phobia #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #worn out #exhausted #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't bother to call.  She sought an escape."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1882.  See Secrets of Guinea Pig Whispering.
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#vintage illustration #cat #animal friends #guinea pig
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Old News (permalink)
"The man looked solid — but he vanished when he was approached.  Then a photo revealed that ... this ghost blocked the light."  From Fate Magazine, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1894 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #transformation #big headed #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #before and after
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #cigar #1920s #faceless #vintage man #no face #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The buffalo demon."  From The Deadwood Dick Library, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #demon #buffalo #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage men #illustration #men
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January 20, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1951.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Marsh marigolds.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1933.
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#jester #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flight of Icarus by Raymond Queneau.
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#falling #icarus
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Old News (permalink)
"Shame was unendurable.  Fell into platter of eggs."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#egg #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #manor house
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Richmond Professional Institute's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hook for a hand #vintage yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #minotaur #vintage yearbook #mustache #horned man
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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 #tornado #cloud #waterspout
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #whip #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"The spirit was missing."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #1910s #gourmand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tip Top Weekly, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #king death #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #winter #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From New York University's School of Education's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #comedy and tragedy #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"It's the little things."  From Lighted Pathway, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #little things
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Wisdom of Laziness, by Fred C. Kelly:






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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fox versus lion.  Which do you wager for the win?  From Favourite Fables In Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir, 1870.
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January 19, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #kettle #fog #diagram #1930s #steam #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

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#occult #prof. oddfellow #penetralia #standup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #boat #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #1860s #illustration #cobbler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #volcano #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"With agonizing clarity, I heard the call of death."  From Together, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #death #fire #burned alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chair #rat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #masonic #star #handshake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Windsor Teachers College's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #potato #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 120.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon College's 1964 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The story so far."  From The War Cry, 1969.
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
When everybody's into a smoky eye look.  From Saint Francis College's 1965 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Recreations for Girls by Lina and Adelia Beard, 1906.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1930 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blasts from The Ram's Horn (1902).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1913 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1910, via UpNorthMemories.
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Old News (permalink)
"Eskimos were giants."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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January 18, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A bad place to leap."  From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This Peruvian sphinx is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Puppet faces (Judy, Policeman, Foreigner, Ghost, Doctor, Clown, Jones, Hangman) from Dick's Parlor Exhibitions by William Brisbane Dick, 1882.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1911.
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Old News (permalink)
Refreshing honesty in a headline: "The same old story."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Old King Cole and his fiddlers three.  From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae College's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #dynamite #slingshot
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Old News (permalink)
"Same old story."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  
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#vintage headline #history repeating #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas Polytechnic College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #watering can
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
"Can you take one more year?"  From the University of Mississippi's 1947 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1933.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Tired, wet, stuffed, and relaxed."  From Circleville Bible College's 1974 yearbook.

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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1975.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Montclair's 1978 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Devil Tales by Virginia Frazer Boyle, 1900.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Fom The Viaduct Murder, by Ronald Knox:

***
The house itself may be condemned to the scrap-heap, but you can always make a golf-course out of the Park. Acres, that for centuries have scorned the weight of the plough, have their stubborn glebe broken with the niblick, and over-populated greens recall the softness and the trimness of earlier lawns. Ghosts of an earlier day will walk there, perhaps, but you can always play through them.

***
(distrust the author whose second paragraph does not come to ground in the particular)

***
That Mr. Carmichael, the fourth member of the party, had been a don you knew as soon as he opened his mouth. There was that precision in his utterances, that benignity in his eye, that spontaneity in his willingness to impart information, that no other profession breeds. A perpetual fountain of interesting small-talk, he unnerved his audience with a sense of intellectual repletion which was worse than boredom.

***
“I agree with you about inference,” said Marryatt, disregarding Carmichael’s last remark—one always did disregard Carmichael’s last remark.

***
Gordon proceeded to look up the trains with an irritating thoroughness, while Reeves danced with impatience—there is no impatience like that engendered by watching another man look up Bradshaw.

***
“You see, he was always a very reserved gentleman, Mr. Brotherood was; very silent, if you understand what I mean, in conversation.” (Reeves felt that this was probably a characteristic common to most of Mrs. Bramston’s interlocutors.) “Time and again he’s said to me would I mind leaving him now because he’d got a great deal to do.”

***
October sun glowed temperately over the links, with the air of a kind old gentleman producing sweetmeats unexpectedly.

***
The 4.50 from Paston Oatvile had to connect with it for the sake of passengers going on to Paston Whitchurch or Binver, and was still wandering up and down in a siding, flirting with a couple of milk-vans and apparently enjoying itself.

***
If you say, Has the rain stopped, he won’t say Yes, or No; he’ll say, It has, or It hasn’t. The explanation of that is a perfectly simple one: there is no native word for either in Irish, any more than there is in Latin. And that in its turn throws a very important light on the Irish character——”
“Oh, go and throw an important light on your grandmother’s ducks,” said Reeves.

***
“That’s it,” said Carmichael, opening the door, “I remember once in Eastern Roumelia——” but, as he managed to fall down the step into the passage, the reminiscence was fortunately lost.

***
“There’s a chewing-gum motif running through life at present which is worrying me more than I can say.”

***
“An hour,” said Gordon, “cannot be properly measured by the movements of a clock, an inanimate thing which registers time but doesn’t feel it.”

***
“Do you realize that, quite possibly, Davenant may have stood behind that hole in the wall and heard us coming solemnly to the conclusion that he didn’t exist? That he never had existed, except as a sort of spiritual projection of old Brotherhood, and now, consequently, he had ceased to exist?”

***
“Carmichael will have it that Davenant is a mode of Brotherhood. Like the materialist or the idealist he is stultifying experience for the sake of a formula....Brotherhood, representing Matter, leaves off where Davenant, representing Spirit, begins. Carmichael, representing the modern mind, finds this an excellent reason for supposing that they are really, somehow, the same thing. The materialist sees Brotherhood everywhere, the Idealist sees Davenant everywhere.”

***
“There’s one other question I want to ask you, a rather odd one. Have you any reason to think that Davenant was carrying a golf-ball in his pocket when he came up on Tuesday afternoon?”
“He might be, of course. But he would hardly have mentioned it, would he?”

***
"I should be careful how you accuse people of theft merely because their pipes are newly cleaned."
***

Bonuses:
two characters named Masterman referred to collectively as "Mastermen"
exclamation points referred to as "shriek-marks."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
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January 17, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1988.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Suddenly everything was quiet and peaceful once more."  From Wee Wisdom, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #japanese #goddess #1900s #illustration #benten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Life, A First Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan & Vernon L. Kellogg, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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Old News (permalink)
"It still moves.  Watching the spin of the earth."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Prehistoric cave engravings.  From Ten Years Under the Earth by Norbert Casteret, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Golden Rod, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #oarsman #canoe #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Are victims of science."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #big science #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #outsider
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Old News (permalink)
"Dead horses and pregnant jelly beans."  From Queen's University's 1981 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Texas at Arlington's 1975 yearbook.

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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weston's 1970 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A living statue from The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Readers Book III, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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January 16, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Most all of the Cheshire Cat's tips are helpful outside of Wonderland, too.  From the Windham Classics Alice in Wonderland game manual, 1985. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #shepherd #sheep #illustration #little boy blue #little bo peep #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The curse will never end."  From Dark Shadows episode 1244.
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From Modern Theatre Practice, A Handbook for Non-Professionals by Heffner, Selden & Sellman, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #color theory #venn diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #lamb #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #buddhism #talisman #hunger #churchyard #out of reach #bread basket #pie in the sky #tibetan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#mask #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage magazine #1960s #knitting #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Kisses sent over phone."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Horizon, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #lightning
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Saced sun-stones.  From The Rational Almanac by Moses Cotsworth, 1902.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Yes, we came back, but why?  Why do we keep coming back here, back to this microcosm rat race?"  From Saint Joseph's College's 1974 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 28.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1919 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Biography of the Bulls by Rex Smith.
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#vintage illustration #bull #endpapers #bullfighter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Alta Smoll fights bacteria!"  From Detroit Bible College's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #germs #1970s #woman #bacteria #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"We are living in illusion, we are perhaps ourselves and all we see including even our universe, nothing but illusions."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

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Mr. Ricardo, indeed, embroidered and developed and expounded his image of an opal to a degree of tediousness which even in him was remarkable.

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"She romped without romping."

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Mr. Ricardo had perused every word of this letter before he realized that it had provoked in him no uncanny sensations whatsoever.... It is true that the ink was purple instead of black; and for a moment or two Mr. Ricardo sought an unworthy consolation in that difference.

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Mr. Ricardo had undoubtedly earned some good marks, not so much for putting two and two together as for discerning that there might be two and two which would possibly want putting together afterwards.

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Even those flattering words did not reach beyond the porches of Mr. Ricardo's ears.

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He rubbed his hands together with a what-do-you-say-to-that? air about him.
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[Inspector Hanaud (who is a bit of a recognized Poirot precursor), in this third or fourth work, takes his enthusiasm for English slang, and his consequent malapropisms, to eleven. It's now the author's main vein of comic relief (with Mr. Ricardo's amour propre in second place); and while I'd say it's overdone, it definitely has some great moments:
"warm material" for "hot stuff"
"lock the door after the horse has stolen the oats"
"upset the carriage of the pears"]

[A few more snippets attached, including a bonus giggle courtesy of the typesetters: The ecret is out! Or rather, the S is out of "secret." Don't worry--it's just dropped downstairs for a moment, awaiting "discovery."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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January 15, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #dog #drawing #1900s #illustration #doll #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #harp #greek #lyre #1900s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Savage Folk by John MacLean, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #raft #boat #native american #eskimo #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #bee #1930s #illustration #animal friends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #murder mystery #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English In Action 1 by Tressler & Shelmadine, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #1930s #illustration #necktie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lots of black things."  From Do This Do That Wookbook by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #black
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #dreaming
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  
Answer: "The child sits by the window watching the cat climb a tree." (The eye is an I, the tea is a T, the bee is a B, and the branch is a "limb"). (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
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#vintage illustration #rebus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1902 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #fairy #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #quill pen #ink spill #ink #ink bottle
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Old News (permalink)
"Is your child backward?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1949.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Human Culture, 1903.
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#phrenology #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A nurse in the making."  From Baylor University's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #nurse #nursing
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Sandhya, Songs of Twilight by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, 1917.
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#poetry #erratum #errata
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The well house, from Indiana University's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #cobra #snake charmer #musician #illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the U.S. Naval Academy's 1901 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Surprises by Gerrard & McInnes, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #fishing #fisherman #1960s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Who is the man with the flying saucer in his hand?"  From Campbell University's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #illustration #frisbee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #oz #illustration #1910s
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January 14, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #night #deer #1900s #illustration #animal friends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lewis Story Method of Teaching Reading and Spelling Manual, illustrated by Bess Bruce Cleaveland, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #elf #letter x #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit #crying #crying animal #1930s #illustration #crying rabbit #crying fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #fashion #vintage fashion #california #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Ancient Times by McClure, Scheck & Wright, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #smoke #caveman #illustration #smoke signals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Stone marten versus owl: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #owl #animal fight #illustration #stone-marten #stone marten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sing Me a Song by Kirth, McManus & Carmack.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #musical instruments
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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 #coffin #living dead #horror #zombie
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Old News (permalink)
"Minister insists heaven's 'up,' and 'up' is toward north pole."  From The Aberree, 1954.  
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#heaven #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #jester #bubble pipe #blowing bubbles #soap bubble
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #high kick #woman #vintage woman #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #mosquito
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Old News (permalink)
"Murder's so permanent."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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#murder #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we're so careful on drawbridges.  From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #sea serpent #moat monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spiritualism #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's cupid in football pants is from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cupid #vintage yearbook #football #1910s
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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 #aesop #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Savannah State College's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiger
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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 #fairy #seeds
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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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The Right Word (permalink)
He can't call her his peach or the apple of his eye because he's in the whelk trade.  From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #whelk
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January 13, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #horse #veterinarian #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion1924.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #ironing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #ice #winter #1900s #thin ice #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of Al-Sufi, 15th century.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #sword #decapitated #illustration #15th century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magic trick #illustration #moth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #goat #dancing #1920s #lamb #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"No man of sense ever took any pains to appear wise, as no honest man ever used tricks to display his own integrity."  From Brown's Language Lessons by Henry Kiddle, 1889.
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#vintage diagram #sentence diagram #diagram #1880s #honesty #wise
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the teacher's manual to Starting Points in Mathematics 5, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #geometry #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
You've heard that "the child is father to the man," and it was true for the Eleplant Man, too.  "'Elephant Boy' has grown up now."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline #elephant man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #jazz
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Old News (permalink)
"Can anyone give me back six years of my life?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #boat #sailboat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #long hair #barber #haircut
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1971 yearbook.

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#portal #vintage yearbook #clouds #yearbook #window
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan University's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #cat people #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wild West Weekly, 1909.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A bride of the midnight sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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Old News (permalink)
"The placebo cures regret."  From Rich by Craig Raine, 1984.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Life, Jan.-Mar. 1924:

***
Although Neighbors is, for what it sets out to be, all right, there isn't much to be said for what it sets out to be. [Benchley]
***

[Bonus: Magnolia Smidge, recitrice]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's shoe-stealing rat is from St. Nicholas, 1915.
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January 12, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#prof. oddfellow #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #illustration #pillow #aphorism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1962.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #body language #stick figure #1920s #posture #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clothing for Moderns by Mabel Deane Erwin, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #demon #horror #cape #vintage headline #headline #dirty #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #sphere #ball #mothball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Seer, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #astrology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When one word to the wise is not sufficient, use three."  From Marion Theater News, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #polar bear #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Joplin Junior College's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1960s #cross dressing #men in drag #homecoming queen
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1966.
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#religion #vintage illustration #idol #idolatry #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Broome Community College's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #armor #personal protection #tin foil hat
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Old News (permalink)
"'I want to throw up' ... and other things."  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#vintage headline #throwing up #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1931 yearbook.

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#sleep #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #vintage man #man #sleeping man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Human Skull: A Cultural History by Folke Henschen.
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#vintage illustration #skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dice #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New People and Progress, Teacher's Edition by Gray et al., 1955.
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#vintage illustration #coyote #cowboy #illustration
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January 11, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #highwayman #diagram #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #giant #cat #puss in boots #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #map #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
"Widow killed black snake that charmed her cat, then died of apoplexy."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Washington College's 1936 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dolphin
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Old News (permalink)
"Any time can be headache time."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #headache #1940s #vintage headline #illustration #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He thought that his antogonist needed a lesson."  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #sword #sword fight #men fighting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brisbane Sun, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dancing #alcohol #cocktail #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This yearbook kicked off with the apocalypse.  From St. Louis University's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #end of the world #apocalypse #vintage yearbook #pope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #woodcutter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower
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Old News (permalink)
"They stole my brain."  From San Francisco Bay Guardian, 2001.
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#zombie #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #stick figure #before and after #injured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dark ages
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #kick #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #hands #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The House of the Arrow, by A. E. W. Mason:

***
"I step into a little narrow alley and I peep round the corner. I peep with my eyes," and Waberski pointed to them with two of his fingers as though there was something peculiarly convincing in the fact that he peeped with them and not with his elbows.

***
The clocks in Dijon clash out and take up the hour from one another and pass it on to the hills.

***
Of course, Jim reflected, there was a strain of the mountebank in Hanaud....A strain of the mountebank indeed! He had a great deal of the mountebank. More than half of him was probably mountebank. Possibly quite two-thirds!
"Oh, damn the fellow! What in the world did he notice?" cried Jim. "What did he notice from the top of the Tower? What did he notice in this hall? Why must he be always noticing something?" and he jammed his hat on in a rage and stalked out of the house.

***
[Who Needs Context? dept.]
"The young lady," said Jim, "happens to be a port-manteau!"

***
To the amazement of them all Moreau began to laugh. Up till now he had been alert, competent and without expression. Stolidity had been the mark of him. And now he laughed in great gusts, holding his sides and then wringing his hands....Once or twice he tried to speak, but laughter leapt upon the words and drowned them.
"What in the world is the matter with you, Nicolas?" Hanaud asked.
"But I beg your pardon," Moreau stammered, and again merriment seized and mastered him. At last two intelligible words were heard. "We, Girardot," he cried, settling an imaginary pair of glasses on the bridge of his nose, and went off into a fit.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fox #illustration #arctic fox
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January 10, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, April 1993.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Chiron and Achilles."  From Youth's Companion, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #centaur #1920s #achilles #archer #illustration #chiron
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Second Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sandman Time by Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From House Scraps by G. Duckworth Atkin and illustrated by Geo. Cruickshank, F. C. Gould, and Lucien Davis, 1887.
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#cupid #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A mummy climbs aboard.  From Collier's, 1915.
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#mummy #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southeast Missouri State University's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #initiation #1970s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1989 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #vintage man #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Eat just as you please."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1936.
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#diet #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Loyola University's 1960 yearbook.

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#mythology #vintage yearbook #greek #furies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte
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Old News (permalink)
"We were found in various situations."  From Lee's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1987. 
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #drunk #bottle
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Old News (permalink)
"A snowball's chance in hell turns out to be pretty good."  From The National Post, 2000.  Speaking of which, see A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#hell #snowball #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan College's 1988 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #trapped #vintage woman #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"The importance of the improbable."  From Improvement Era, 1940.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest University's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1900s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #constellation #vintage book #book #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"It sure is loud out."  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1961 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Peterson's Magazine, 1882.
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January 9, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by W. H. Walker, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1979.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1972.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I have created my own hell."  From Dark Shadows episode 11.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today and Tomorrow by Hildreth et al., 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"One morning he tumbled over.  There was the handle of a broom where the Snow Man had been standing."  From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #parrot #monkey #fireplace #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Birds always prefer to be bossed by a male, while mammals often place their trust in a female."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #occult #triangle #1890s #symbol
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Old News (permalink)
"We want to shift this shadow!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vintage ad #monster #giant #depression #shadow #1940s #vintage headline #illustration #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The bones of yonder dead man must tell the story behind this mystery."  From American Indian Weekly, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #cowboy
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Old News (permalink)
"A little nod will help us know if you like this."  From the University of Maine at Fort Kent's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #vintage headline #headline #nod
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kitty and Her Kits by Frances Crompton et al. and illustrated by Harriet Bennett et al., 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emory University's 1987 yearbook.

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#skull face #vintage yearbook #costume #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Beyond Fantasy Fiction, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #horror #eyes #being watched #surveillance society
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The American Mercury, 1924:

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A Pirandello play is less a play than a compromise with a play. [Nathan]
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[Nathan also deplores a play adaptation's "deletion of the parrot" from the original.]

[Many snippets attached. Re. Steinmetz, Wikipedia tells me that this inventor changed his name from Karl August Rudolph Steinmetz to Charles Proteus Steinmetz, and that he was not only nicknamed the "Forger of Thunderbolts," but also "The Wizard of Schenectady"]















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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #long nose #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #feather #1900s #illustration #elijah
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January 8, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They were dry like the eyes of a snake."  From The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales For My Children by Charles Kingsley and illustrated by Helen Monro, 1855.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #illustration #1850s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1960.
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#cat #vintage photo #animal intelligence #talking animal #1960s #talking cat #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's crying potato is from The Instructor, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #potato #onion #illustration #vegetable people #crying potato
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
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#vintage illustration #dog #mouse #illustration #anti-coloring
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Old News (permalink)
"Music that named itself."  From Magic Music by Fannie R. Buchanan and illustrated by Roby Ann Nelson, 1931.
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#music #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Who was to blame?"  From Shadowland, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #blame #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram #tree of life
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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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#canada #vintage headline #big science #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #celtic #druid #stone circle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #alcohol #raven
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sports #vintage yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Baseball sure has changed over the decades.  From All-Sports Library, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #bull #baseball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1972 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #1970s #ugly man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #nose #physiognomy #drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"Man as a species is doing little to get above animal mind."  From The Aberree, 1962.  
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#evolution #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pfeiffer College's 1972 yearbook.

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#tin can #vintage photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From MacMurray College's 1989 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mannequin #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Being a model husband—for one day only!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1936.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage headline #headline
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January 7, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1950.
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Precursors (permalink)
Before Eat, Pray, Love, there was Eat, Walk, Jump, Fly.  From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From By the Roadside by Dunn & Troxell and illustrated by Nell E. Hukle, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic Seasons, Teacher's Guidebook by Allinson & McInnes, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #1970s #illustration #sorcerer's apprentice #stairs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Enjoy Pictures by J. Littlejohns, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #tree #illustration
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
Snow can be covered in frost (top right).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.
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Old News (permalink)
"Which way up does the picture go?  Either way for the Moderns." From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#upside down #modern art #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This is a naked eye.  (Looks sad, doesn't it?)"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #eye
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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 #china #gate #peking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1987 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bats #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 1996.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #horror #hand of god
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1926 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rude awakening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #outer space #doctor #vintage yearbook #giant skull #space skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #esoteric #star
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Old News (permalink)
Even the Tin Man wears an aluminum-foil hat.  From Ohio University's 1975 yearbook.
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#wizard of oz #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #tin foil hat #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Falling out of a pipe with a dog on your shoulder.  From Nick Carter Weekly, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1950 yearbook.

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#severed head #vintage yearbook #executioner #decapitated #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawings by John Leech, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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January 6, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1959.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Understanding the Arts by Helen Gardner, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit #snowball #1960s #illustration #skiing
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A hen-house, a barn, and a pig-pen are all [places animals live / places children live / places scarecrows live]."  From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1927 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #biblical #david and goliath
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #occult #microcosm #macrocosm #ezekiel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bluefield College's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1940s #faceless #no face #bandaged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #aquarius
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Old News (permalink)
"Head of family of 1200 succumbs to the heavy burden."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1921 yearbook.

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #potato #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gnome #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #basketball #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Staggered and reeled."  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #duck #1900s #illustration #ducking
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blotto, Twinks and the Phantom Skiers, by Simon Brett:

[Just a pair of sisters called Berengaria and Aurelia ffrench-Windeau]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State University of Iowa's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #1900s #illustration #doctor death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bees and honeysuckle.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #flower #bee #1930s #illustration #honeysuckle
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January 5, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #balloon #illustration #water balloon
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #toothpaste #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #medieval #knight #illustration #men fighing #twelfth century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #reindeer #1920s #illustration #lapland
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories to Study, B 4, 1970.
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1951.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #chicken little
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1931 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #faces in things #bridge #natural bridge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Exhausted."  From St. Nicholas, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #fatigue #tired #exhausted #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Newton Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #mascot #1960s #vintage man #man #smiling man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1934.
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#vintage ad #before and after #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' University's 1952 yearbook.

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#skull #snowman #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #snow sculpture #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#money #abraham lincoln #vintage book #book #penny #coin
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Old News (permalink)
"Not 'dead sure' he is not his own brother."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  Speaking of unlikely relationships, see Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.
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#genealogy #vintage headline #headline #inbreeding #intermarriage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Heavens! what a disappointment!"  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #making faces #disappointed
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January 4, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #dummy #ventriloquism #puppet #diagram #illustration #1950s
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Next to the illusion that money can confer happiness, is the illusion that the giving of money is the only form that practical helpfulness can take."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars by Carl Garrison, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #money #sentence diagram #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #turtle #tortoise and the hare #1930s #illustration #rebus
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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 #night #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phonic Primer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #horn #illustration #1910s
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #ship #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The rabbits bolt for their holes."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#rabbit #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 1936.

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#vintage illustration #beetle #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Only people cry."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #crying #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artgum, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #explosion #seeing stars
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost still guards buried treasure at Fort Benning."  From Fate Magazine, 1967.
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#ghost #buried treasure #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia Military College's 1983 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #faceless #no face #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Boo!"  From Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen by F. Anstey, 1803.
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#boo #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Book dust is second skin."  From Goshen College's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #dust #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #sun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
She looks good for 60.  From Goucher College's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #candles #birthday cake #woman #vintage woman #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"'Human cat' in balloon."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#cat people #vintage headline #balloon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of Wooster's 1953 yearbook.

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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From On the World's Roof by J. Macdonald Oxley, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Fom "Velvet Ear-Pads," by Edith Wharton:

a murmured expletive which was to a real oath what Postum is to coffee



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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stage and the School by Katharine Anne Ommanney, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #theatre #1930s #illustration #stage set
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January 3, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #rooster #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #powder #1890s #makeup #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Book About Mary and Bill by Felton & 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 #cat #yarn #1940s #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Pentagram of the Magi or Burning Star or Star of Bethlehem.  From The Metaphysical Magazine, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #star #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler 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 #faceless #no face
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Old News (permalink)
"Hears she is widow; is killed by shock."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Telephones sure have gotten smaller over the decades.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1937.
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#telephone #giant telephone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #occult #crown #king death
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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.

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#vintage illustration #locomotive #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #bride
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Old News (permalink)
From The Dead Don't Get Out Much by Mary Jane Maffini, 2005.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College'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 #whale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #war #tanks #farmer #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Saturday ends."  From the College of Wooster's 1953 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #weekend #saturday
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
One's heart might be reading deceitful ideas while drinking lemonade and wearing sensible shoes.  From Lighted Pathway, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #heart
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1970 yearbook. 

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

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#snowman #vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What is it?"  From Scribner's, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #swimwear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1932 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 #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 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 #squirrel #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Teaching of Drawing by I. H. Morris, 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 #drawing #bucket #1890s #illustration #shell
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January 2, 2026

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited by Justin Kim in Adventist Review.  
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#magic words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Treats and Treasures by McInnes et al., 1964.
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#vintage illustration #caterpillar #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #snow #1930s #illustration #snow fairy #poem #january
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cubby in Wonderland by Frances Joyce Farnsworth, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #geology #1930s #illustration #yellowstone
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
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#vintage illustration #ugly #1900s #illustration #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bridge #illustration #covered bridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Marie: A Seaside Episode by J. P. Ritter, Jr. and illustrated by Coultaus, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1992.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mountaintop #buddhism #temple #mountain #illustration #ascension
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.

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#prof. oddfellow
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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 #spider #1920s #illustration #little miss muffet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #moon #starry night #night #window #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #france #french #illustration #renaissance #1500s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a mountaineer is glad when his holidays are up."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#vintage headline #headline #mountaineer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #france #chateau
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #wine #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The ponderables and the imponderables.  From The International Standard, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sandman's Might-Be-So Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker and illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, 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 #wind #king neptune
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
"Scientists say dowsing is bunk and list its failures.  Laymen say dowsing works and tell of its successes.  Who is right?"  The laymen are right.  From Fate Magazine, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #dowsing rod #dowsing
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Old News (permalink)
"Bigfoot!  Fabled creature may be alive and well in Iowa."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1980.  It actually exists: the Bigfoot Bible.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't understand what's going on.  But then, why should I?"  From Dark Shadows episode 759.
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#dark shadows
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From At the Villa Rose, by A. E. W. Mason:

He was an exaggerated person. He was to be construed in the comparative.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers, Second Book by McIntyre, Dearness & Saul, 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 #constellation #bear #hunter #illustration
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Today — January 1, 2026

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored to be referenced several times in magician Rick Deezie's "The Power of Magic Words: Creating Something from Nothing."  
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#magic words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 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 #1920s #shepherd #illustration #little bo peep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #new year #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 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 #oz #illustration #patchwork girl #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 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 #king #illustration #1880s #george the third
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #jack frost #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice by Mary Wilder Foot Tileson, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sleeping #illustration #bed #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 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 #architecture #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Trésor des Jeunes Conteurs by J .E. Poirier, 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 #bird #swallow #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puppetry by Virginia Murphy, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #puppet #diagram #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, in Essay de Papillonneries Humaines (1756).  Via LifeTakesLemons.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dancing #butterfly people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1927 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 #stilts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 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 #artist #edward lear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #1920s #donkey #jackass
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1980.
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#the end #vintage headline #headline #thank god #it's over
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Brevard College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #snowball fight
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Childhood's pets are very real friends."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1934.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air #rubaiyat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mystery of the pyramid, the five-pointed star, and cross."  From Azoth, 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 #vintage diagram #esoteric #star #sacred geometry #diagram
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Old News (permalink)
"Not this year."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #despair #vintage yearbook #crying #january
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Old News (permalink)
"Why does the new year begin on January 1?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#new year #vintage headline
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