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October 31, 2020

This May Surprise You (permalink)
We drove 90 minutes to a ruined cemetery, inspired by this passage from the fantastic play The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky.  When we passed a hearse and drove behind a truck branded with the word “BEYOND,” we knew we were on the right road.
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#cemetery #graveyard #occult #prof. oddfellow #pendulum #paranormal #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Big Book of Halloween Entertainments, 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 #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkin carving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #satyr #illustration #art #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A night of horrors, apparitions, lanterns, lunacy, witches, evil, and endless nightmares.  Where were you on October 31, 1987?  From Tulane's 1988 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#halloween #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A card reader and her canine animal familiar, from Les Hommes du Jour, 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 #divination #fortune teller #dog #card reader
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From Emerson's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northern Junket, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin #hallowe'en #illustration #carved pumpkin #last minute
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It used to be that Oct. 32 was when things really got going.  From Illinois Woman's College's 1915 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #oct. 32 #october 32
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It is mere superstition that on October 31, Zorro will scrawl in lipstick, "Happy Halloween superwitch" on one's mirror.  From Guilford's 1967 yearbook.
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#mirror #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fright #spooky #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkin head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1918 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 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 #silhouette #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #king #cat #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When jack-o'-lanterns question your dietary choices.  From Guilford's 1994 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #vegetarian #animal rights #jack-o-lantern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"BOO, girl!"  From Wesleyan College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #boo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Shoulder fans.  From Nebelspalter, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #fan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1918 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #halloween #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Date unknown.  Courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #cat #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Last we checked, the hardcover of this book was nearly $900 on Amazon: Letters From the Dead by Campbell Black (our restoration of a poor scan).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#spooky #occult #vintage book #book #haunted toy #haunted doll
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October 30, 2020

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Glitch gremlins return with a vengeance: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#imp #occult #video #penetralia #glitch
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
We double-checked, and these are indeed the nine states of existence: 1. OK, 2. afraid, 3. asleep, 4. paralyzed, 5. petrified, 6. poisoned, 7. dead, 8. ashes, 9. lost [as a ghost wandering the otherworld].  From Wizardry Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #stages of life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Child's Book of Holiday Plays by Frances Gillespy Wickes, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #silhouette #cat #the end #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1978 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #birdcage #weird fashion #hat #weird hat #flower pot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1922 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institue's 1905 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #silhouette #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #moon #darkness #lantern #faces in things #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Together for an enjoyable time.  From Brevard's 1983 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#halloween #october #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #carved pumpkin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1915 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
"They come on the wind."  From Awake magazine, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #infestation #plague #vintage headline #locust #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From I Met Murder, by Elizabeth Ferrars:

***

"Baraud was your great-grandfather, wasn't he?"
"My step-great-grandfather actually," Ann answered. "He was my great-grandmother's first husband."

[The funny thing here is that they're calling the spouse who preceded the spouse who was a biological parent of the grandparent a "step," where normally it would be a spouse who succeeded the biological (great-)(grand-)parent who'd be called the "step." So it's [wait for it] a "step" backward! (But then, since all genealogy involves stepping backward, does it cancel out and become a step forward? (:v>)]

***
[I certainly don't agree with this, but I think it's an amusing bit of aphoristic nonsense.]

"You shouldn't read the books of people you like, any more than you should meet people who've written books you've admired. You're probably in for disillusionment either way."
***
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Old News (permalink)
From Salem's 1977 yearbook. 
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#bottle imp #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #bottled ghost #headline
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 816.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dark shadows #only a dream
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that you can always add on sub-themes to your costume "that are inspired by the current cultural zeitgeist" (Jim Glaser).  From Charleston Southern's 1970 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #pumpkin head
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Some folks are saying that Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts doesn't actually exist.  We offer proof, but as with seemingly all paranormal issues, not everyone agrees on what constitutes actual evidence.

> read more from This May Surprise You . . .
#vintage illustration #halloween #ghosts #sheet ghost #paranormal #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The reason for the season"?  The headline reads, "Jesus, not Jack-o-Lanterns, honored on Halloween."  From George Fox's 1979 yearbook.
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#halloween #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Date unknown.  Courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #cat #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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October 29, 2020

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's how to use correct punctuation.  From the College of William and Mary's 1922 yearbook.
> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #punctuation #physiognomy #vintage yearbook #face #yearbook #faces in things #face reading #cartooning #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You don't need to hire a staff to look your best, but you do need to employ a staff, if you get our double wordplay.  From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #wizard #fashion #vintage fashion #walking stick #robe #staff
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Our world was ruined a long time ago."  From Dark Shadows episode 1111.
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#end of the world #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A conundrum tasting -- it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#wine #video #penetralia #conundrum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Date unknown.  Courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#broomstick #cat #pumpkin #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bed of syringes.  From Woroni, 1980.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #addiction #drugs #syringe #bed of nails #drug abuse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #halloween #black cat #hallowe'en #vintage hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The witch's familiar senses us watching them tumble through the air.  From Unknown, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #cat #falling
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Old News (permalink)
"If nine-foot tricker or treater shows up, feed him."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1980.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Big Book of Halloween Entertainments, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #mask #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Watches over the Blood Feast."  From Wesleyan College (Macon GA)'s 1990 yearbook.

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

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#occult #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blood feast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #hand of god #illustration #crack in the ice
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1920.
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#ghost #vintage photo #spirit photography #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you've already taken the bull by the horns, take the world by the nose.  From Presbyterian College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #anthropomorphism #nose #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1918
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1918.  See Your Ship Will Come In.
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#vintage illustration #boat #sailboat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1844.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #processional
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Spellbound. 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org; restoration our own.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #bat #black cat #ornate frame #hallowe'en
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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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 #flying fish #sea monster #human headed #illustration
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October 28, 2020

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From B.A.R., 1985.
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#mask #vintage photo #seeing double #double vision #photo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Cheese divination, jester scepters, and cheating at a game of Go Fish: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#magic wand #occult #jester #marotte #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A night cloak or a shadow cloak -- maybe tonight?  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #fashion #vintage fashion #cloak
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We're glad when folks don't ask us if they're real (for the answer would terrify them).  As to what they're up to, we haven't the first clue.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1998.
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#ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Holidays are fun."  From Story Carnival by DeLancey and Iverson.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Big Book of Halloween Entertainments, 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 #owl #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #family skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Life in the big city.  From Weird Tales, 1948.  (Courtesy of Archive.org, with our own restorations.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #big city #new york #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #deity #old man winter #mountain spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1844.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hair on end #long hair #spiked hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Madam Lynx, from Duke's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woman #vintage woman #madam lynx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The werewolf leaped savagely.  From Red Ryder and the Secret of Wolf Canyon by S. S. Stevens, 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 #werewolf #cowboy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is the first college we've encountered that counts Santa Claus and a Halloween monster as graduates.  From Black Hawk East's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #santa #hallowe'en #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ear pulling #lantern hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her official yearbook portrait -- a cat in a jack-o'-lantern.  From Emerson's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#cat #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pumpkin carving #1970s #jack-o-lantern
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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 #king #biblical #nebuchadnezzar
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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 photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #dreamy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #deities #gods #thor #phaeton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #wink #singers
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October 27, 2020

This May Surprise You (permalink)
The crying, talking mannequins obsessed with mortality and reincarnation don't appear until episode 1096 of Dark Shadows.
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#mannequin #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's an ornate frame we restored, from Butler's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scissors #insect #beetle #1840s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #long neck #antennae
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The way is easily lost.  There's a ghost in every room."  From North Central's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#haunted #ghost #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #carved pumpkin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovod, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #sunset #vintage man #man #club #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #lol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"October 27.  15 yards to earth.  Unhurt.  Why?"  From Bluffton's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged man #the people could fly #unhurt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #woods #trees #kindling #firewood
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A library ghost (confirmed by our custom Uncanny Detector app), from Pfeiffer's 1974 yearbook.
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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #library #1970s #library ghost #haunted library
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A scene from Maxim Gorky's 'The Lower Depths' ('Night Lodging').  Presented by the Moscow Art Theatre in New York.  Drawn by Lucie R. Sayler."  From The Drama Magazine, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #stage design
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Were we, in fact, running away from ourselves?"  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#haunted #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #fog #running away
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #minotaur #hybrid #human headed #illustration #man bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Very rare -- a bucking Pegasus with a jester.  From Duke's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #jester #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Midsummer Murder, by Clifford Witting:

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Sheep and pigs...and cows...bleated, grunted and lowed, according to their persuasion.

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He was in the early fifties, clean-shaven, with thick greying hair brushed back from his forehead, large well-kept hands—but it will be as well if we return to our interrupted narrative.

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"That's the trouble with you," said Charlton severely. "You haven't mastered the art of digression."

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"We do know that all the persons who supplied the names in your copper-plate records are as innocent as a new-born babe or any other revolting simile that may occur to us."

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Martin murmured something about angles that would have pained Euclid.

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"Have you ever caught yourself taking an intense interest in anything written upside down?"

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To the best of her belief, the lettering on the side of it said:
"Something about somebody's biscuits."

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Mr. Muttigen smiled deprecatingly.
"The 'g' is hard, as in 'tiger,'" he said, as if the phonetic anomaly was entirely his fault.

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She suggested rather testily that he came [sic] inside, instead of standing there like, to use her own phrase, that.

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"I shall tell 'im just what I think, Mrs. Simmonds, and if you don't like it, you can do the other thing." [I guess the unmentionable "other thing" would be lumping it?]

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"Thank you, Miss Higgins," smiled Charlton.
"Iggens is the name," repeated the cook with an impatient flounce, "and Iggens is what I said. There's no haitch."

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"I'd 'ave given in me notice and packed me trunk before you could say--"
"But surely," threw in Charlton, who was sick of the gentleman she was about to mention.
"Jack Robinson," said Miss Iggens triumphantly.

[Unlike Charlton, I don't find I encounter Mr. Robinson all that often; but it happened that Jack R. also popped up around the same time in The Good Companions, which I was reading concurrently--and with some hat eating, for good measure.
"If we're not up, right at top o't'tree, a'most afore you can say Jack Robi'son, nay, I'll eat this cap."]

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"There are twenty-three Geoffrey Somebodies."

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[Falling in Love with Your Own Characters department, Editorial "We" division]

As John Rutherford was to say, she had dark shingled hair, an incontrovertibly tip-tilted nose, big brown eyes and a voice like the sweet sound that breathes upon a bank of violets. He was madly in love with the girl, of course, but then, if it comes to that, so are we.

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"There are now anxiously waiting for me a large assortment of ailing ladies, who have been at death's door for so many years that I really don't think there's anyone at home!"

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[Blank Maps to Nonexistent Risqué Poetry dept. The protagonists are looking over what is presumably a specimen of "dirty" verse, which is not shared with the reader.]

"That line doesn't scan," he said. "Listen to this."
He read the first few stanzas aloud, beating the rhythm with his hand.
"There, that's wrong, isn't it? If they'd put 'mournfully' instead of 'sadly' it would have made all the difference."
"Or 'disconsolately,'" suggested Charlton, falling in with the spirit of the thing.
"That's it!" said the Super enthusiastically. "'Disconsolately dumti-dumti-dum.'"

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"You say that it didn't matter to the Sniper whether 'e shot Ransome or the Four 'Orsemen of the Apoca-how-much."

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"I laugh only at my own jokes before lunch," said Weston severely.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Strangled by gargoyles.  From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #gargoyle #oz
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October 26, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #grim reaper #open grave #gravedigger #sskeleton
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Two weird secrets of unboxing -- it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Maybe I'm Dead by Joe Klaas.  You may know that Cotard Syndrome or Walking Corpse Syndrome is what psychiatrists call a delusion that one is already dead.  The thrice great Charles Fort had it [see our important post about that], as did the immortal Philip K. Dick.*  Thing is ... if this life actually does turn out to be a purgatorial realm, then those aware of being dead are the only ones not crazy.
*From Dick's Exegesis: "We are dead but don't know it, reliving our former lives but on tape (programmed), in a simulated world controlled by Valis the master entity or reality generator (like Brahman), where we relive in a virtually closed cycle again and again until we manage to add enough new good karma to trigger off divine intervention, which wakes us up and causes us to simultaneously both remember and forget, so that we can begin our reascent back up to our real home. This, then, is purgatorio, the afterlife, and we are under constant scrutiny and judgment, but don't know it, in a perfect simulation of the world we knew and remember -- v. Ubik and Lem's paradigm. We have for a long time been dying brains/souls slipping lower and lower through the realms, but the punishment of reliving this bottom-realm life is also an opportunity to add new good karma and break the vicious cycle of otherwise endless reliving of a portion of our former life. This, then, is the sophia summa of the six esoteric systems -- seven if you count alchemy -- of the entire world. Eight if you count hermeticism. We are dead, don't know it, and mechanically relive our life in a fake world until we get it right. Ma'at has judged us; we are punished, but we can change the balance... but we don't know we are here to do this, let alone know where we are. We must change the 'groove' for the better or just keep coming back, not remembering, not reascending."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's what a pumpkin really is and really means.  From Monsters News, 2012.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#pumpkin #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #costume #bat costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jolly Hallowe'en Book by Dorothy M. Shipman, 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 #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"I am exciting [sic] to meet new people and fully live life as a gopher" (University of Minnesota, "Orientation & Transition Experiences," 2009).
Our photo is from Pfeiffer's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #animal costume #gopher costume #gopher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box #living toys
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you wear a lampshade on your skull head, lest you blind others with your dazzling light.  From der Guckkasten, 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 #skull face #illustration #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Sacred Heart's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costumes
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Old News (permalink)
"As the shadows lengthen."  From The Judge, 1922.
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#shadows #time passes #ageing #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #cupid #illustration #under the bed #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you read while holding a pumpkin head, reblog this.  From Colorado College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #pumpkin head #woman reading #smiling woman
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Puzzles and Games :: Constellations (permalink)
Can you find the pictured constellation in this night sky?  Click the image for the answer and a nifty quotation.
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#constellation #whale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #socks #tiptoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #comedy and tragedy
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
postcard from our personal archives.
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#vintage illustration #edinburgh #castle #vintage postcard #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #choir
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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October 25, 2020

Old News (permalink)
"It takes a lot of courage to leave the box of common reality."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2000.
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#courage #vintage headline #headline #uncommon #outside the box
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We double checked, and it's weirdly true!  It's Always Three O'Clock.  It's also always breakfast time somewhere, as we discovered here.  And every day is Christmas, as proven here.
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#time #three o'clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pearl and the Pumpkin by Paul West and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you've danced with a jack-o'-lantern.  From Millikin's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkin head #pumpkin costume #jack-o-lantern #jack-o'-lantern'
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Child's Book of Holiday Plays by Frances Gillespy Wickes, 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 #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkin head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Devils at large."  From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #occult #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #satanic
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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 #alligator #vintage yearbook #yearbook #live to tell #baby alligator #still here #lived through it #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Sawers" by Frank Long.  From Berea's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woodsmen #sawer #sawing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bildermann, 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 #severed head #decapitated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal #singing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sacred Heart's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #face #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
INCENSE.
Laborer:  Well, I'll be blowed!
Isis (to Osiris):  At last, a worshipper!" 
By Otho Cushing, for Life (1903).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #osiris #incense #statue #1900s #holy smoke #deitiies #isis #otho cushing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #pursued
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Staring at himself in the mirror, as opposed to looking at the camera lens so as to engage with the viewer.  From Emerson's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #self portrait #vintage man #man #selfie
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Old News (permalink)
"Your automatic sprinkler system called tears."  From Awake magazine, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #crying #vintage headline #tears #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
For several worried moments, we though he'd finally had enough.  From Park College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #party decorations #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #leaf #woman #vintage woman
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Precursors (permalink)
Eight years before The Nightmare Before Christmas, there was this witchy tree.  From The Little Witch's Cat Book by Linda Glovach.
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#vintage illustration #witch #hallowe'en #halloween tree
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October 24, 2020

Old News (permalink)
"Trust no one, and watch those cows."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.
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#cow #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flying carpet #magic carpet #magic shop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #autism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #hand #finger puppet #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spooktator, Oct. 24, 1997.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #depression #clown #wedding #sad clown
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's all-too-rare for a student's official yearbook portrait to feature his shadow self just beyond the pane.  From Guilford's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Photo-Play Journal, November 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 #egyptian #snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Lisping oneself into the great Beyond is surely rarer than being killed by one's own art.  From Mitchell's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tombstone #epitaph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #the people could fly #winged woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Eastern Kentucky's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #masks #yearbook #costumes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A self-portrait of Pamela Colman Smith.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pamela colman smith
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Old News (permalink)
Great news: "Evil spirits scared away."  From Salem's 1977 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #evil spirits #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A halo of incense.  From West Virginia Conference Seminary's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #Mephistopheles
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
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#occult #radio #video #penetralia
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October 23, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cat #drawing #artist
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The hash sign's occult origin -- it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#occult #palm reading #palmistry #video #penetralia #hash sign #hashtag
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Old News (permalink)
"Lost in time.  He hardly believes it himself."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1988.
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#lost in time #vintage headline #temporal anomaly #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So much has changed since the 1980s, and yet it's said that the most powerful core values endure over time.  From Saint Mary's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #torch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant hand #hand of god #crushed #1930s #art
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1885.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #rain gear #hat #rain hat #water management
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Long ago it must be."  From Santa Clara's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #leaves #long ago
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Mask down, mask up.  (We tried to make an animated gif of these photos but failed to notice from the backgrounds that they obviously wouldn't match up.)  From Pfeiffer's 1974 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's all-too-rare to encounter a scarecrow on a decrepit bicycle, holding a ruined umbrella.  From The Relief Society Magazine, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #bicycle #umbrella #illustration #strawman
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Mae Marsh, from Cine-Mundial, 1922.
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#ominous #vintage photo #terror #1920s #being watched #surveillance society #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Caricature, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ric et Rac, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #reconciliation #light and dark #handprint
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Medical College of Virginia's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #head drill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Paul Berthon's "Andhré des Gachons," from The Chap-Book, 1896.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #muse #writing #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Gay Life, by E. M. Delafield:

[Just this: There's a character called Mrs. Wolverton-Gush. That's pretty good already, but then someone refers to her as "Mrs. Thingamy-Gush."]

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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

We're delighted by this 5-star review of our book The Skeleton Key of Solomon:
Hidden Symbols, Come To Find One Another In The Dark

Five Stars.  "Amazing as always, the inimitable Professor Oddfellow's tireless research and enthralling delivery has brought us a Goetic Work unlike any before it! The good Professor's comparisons of traditional Yoruban (and other African diaspora) Vévés and sigils that comprise what is in the West known as Voodoo or, more properly Vodou, but also encskeleton key of solomonompasses many Yoruba faiths like the more widely known Santeria, to European Grimoire traditions, such as the Lesser and Greater Keys of Solomon and many lesser known tomes, is ambitious. Professor Oddfellow simply compares and contrasts, he makes no feeble attempts to justify or negate anything or anyone. The ending of the book simply asks us to consider that perhaps rather than being influenced by one or the other that we all have access to a Universal technology that accesses Worlds and Intelligences far beyond our mundane world. With such a Work that the Professor has undertaken herein, there could be any number of failures and assumptions, which he avoids with tact and grace, leaving us with beautiful questions and the imagery of disparate cultures, both reaching in the dark for a Light." —Holy Mountaineer
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#occult #sigil
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October 22, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The unseen witness."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #satan #grotesque #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why, whenever we acquire a clock with a pendulum, we inquire about the return policy.  From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #death #clock #pendulum #1930s
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #human headed #illustration #dog man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Play Journal, October 1920.
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#vintage photo #crystal ball #woman #vintage woman #anita stewart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #creature #oz #crying animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bunte Kriegsbilderbogen, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #bug #giant insect #giant fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"If it feels good, do it!"  From Presbyterian College (Clinton, S.C.)'s 1981 yearbook.

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

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#axe #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #maniac #if it feels good
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #harp #cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #fashion #vintage fashion #armor #war fashion #personal protection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figures
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #horse #don quixote #illustration #jousting #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You've heard of having a flair for jazz.  Here's what a flare for jazz looks like.  From Emerson's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lens flare #musician #saxophone #street musician #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Costume shops aren't what they used to be.  From Le Charivari, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #costume #animal costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #costume party #costume
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Happiness is an 11:00 phone call."  From Hope College's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telephone #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Our sentiments exactly: "I can or I cannot; I wish to or I don't wish to."  From Dark Shadows episode 641.
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#dark shadows #equivocal
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October 21, 2020

Old News (permalink)
"Demon band to receive new uniforms."  From The Current Sauce, 1977.
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#demon #mask #vintage headline #1970s #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #cat #smiling animal #war and peace
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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 #bound and gagged #grandfather clock #hero #damsel in distress #villain #hot poker #time bomb #death trap #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #halloween #black cat #silhouette #full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #piano #lion #musical animal #pianist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
In the 1930s, wearing winged shoes to play basketball was not considered cheating.  After winged shoes were prohibited, players had to be taller.  From Swarthmore's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #basketball #winged shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Born rooters.  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pigs #rooting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Clarion's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #1970s #photo
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's what happens to last year's fashions.  From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #comet #faces in things #shooting star #art
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the Estherian Literary Society's 1914 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #jester #dancing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard that it's the teacher who finds the student.  Here's what it looks like.  From Millikin's 1959 yearbook.

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#wizard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #prospero #hooded figure #photo
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Old News (permalink)
"Jehovah's starry heavens."  From Awake magazine, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #night sky #celestial #stars #starry night #heavens #vintage headline #illustration #jehovah #headline #starry sky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
That's obviously an otherworldly entity he's consulting, complete with elongated cranium.  From the Medical College of Virginia's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #elongated skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
They all knew how to read the word "milk" and spell the word "mew."  From Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, Written Principally By a Lady of Ninety, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #cats #animal learning #smart animal #literate animal #clever animal #literate cat #cat school #clever cat #smart cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard about artists and their personal demons.  Sometimes a studio is full of them.  From Cine-Mundial, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #artist #painter #personal demons
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The Right Word (permalink)
Good to see an all-consonant word defined.  This particular word has been exploded (presumably by the cold).  From Woroni, 1988.  See Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.
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#letters #consonants
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October 20, 2020

The Right Word (permalink)
"Cousened" is an obsolete version of "cozened," so the conjurer is himself tricked.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #mask #magician #animal mask #animal headed #conjurer
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Sphinx and Her Circle by Violet Wyndham (a rare book -- last we checked, it's going for over $800) does not circulate.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #non-circulating #library book
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
May you fall on money if you must take a fall while ice skating.  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #money #falling #ice skating #1930s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pearl and the Pumpkin by Paul West and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin head
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
"You figure it out."  It's actually a map, and we can even prove it: see The Carte Blanche Atlas.
From National-Louis' 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #blank canvas #empty space
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Norman Anthony, for Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This is actually offered as "proof" of study abroad in Australia.  Overlooking the offensive stereotype of the continent, a novelty cutout of a kangaroo at a zoo is perhaps even less convincing than posing with a baguette and calling it France.  From Duke's 1994 yearbook.
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#kangaroo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #australia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dark Regions, 1987, courtesy of Archive.org.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's well-known that colleges dedicate inordinate resources toward athletic programs; lesser-known is why they are so coerced.  Here's a hint, from UNC Chapel Hill's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bildermann, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #rocking horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College (Clinton, S.C.)'s 1981 yearbook.

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#coffin #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #vampire #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #elves #night #wee folk
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#prayer #estrangement #strange prayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #demon #good and evil #illustration #exorcist #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #monocle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dancing has changed so much since the 1930s.  From the University of North Carolina's 1934 yearbook.
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#whiskey #vintage yearbook #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, need a giant painting to hide the ugliness from your field of vision.  From Le Charivari, 1885.
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#personal protection #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Jugged Journalism, by A. B. Cox:

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The chief thing about a short story is that it should be both short and that it should tell a story. Otherwise it is liable to degenerate into a full length novel or an essay upon "Forty-Seven Different Ways of Cooking Bananas." This makes the thing practically useless as a short story. If therefore you find anything like this happening to your short stories, you may be morally certain that something is wrong with them.

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The soulful story.... is written with a pen dipped deep into the human soul; and if you can contrive to dip your pen so deep that little blobs of soul drop off it and smudge the pages of your manuscript, then lift up your heart and rejoice.

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Slowly his great bushy eyebrows rose on end, waved for a moment in the breeze and locked hairs across the bridge of his hooked nose. How well was I to know that danger signal in future--the only sign of emotion which this impassive being ever permitted himself!

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I wonder sometimes what would happen if the Man Who has been Silent all this Time at this sort of gathering had not really got a story to tell after all. But that is unthinkable!

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The making of real poetry is the worst paid job in the world; so unless you are a real poet and therefore can't help it, I cannot advise you to take it up seriously.

***
For our model piece of real poetry we will take the subject of Parting. It doesn't really matter in the least what subject we take, because it all comes out the same. However, we will call it "Parting," and hope for the best.

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I am an uncle, aged thirty-one.
I am in point of fact several uncles, each aged thirty-one. I am also three or four step-uncles, an uncle-in-law or two, all sorts of uncles various times removed, and a large number of courtesy uncles, aged, in each case, thirty-one.
Let us disguise the fact no longer. I am a born uncle (aged thirty-one).

***
"What ho! What ho!"
"What ho! What ho! What?"
"I mean, what about Freddie Devereux?" I asked, to change the conversation.

***
In this lesson we strike a severely practical note. We are now the stern man (or woman) of affairs, and our chin is sticking out like anything. We have probably donned a pair of horn spectacles as well.
***
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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October 19, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When all else fails, call on a friend."  From B.A.R., 1987.
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#vintage illustration #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We could use a few lessons in running and hiding.  From Making Up with Mr. Dog by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Paine, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #run and hide
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Flying in the face of fiction.  A 'wedding cake' UFO."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
There's a fine line between a pattern of changing seasons and a changing pattern of seasons.  From Anderson's 1967 yearbook.
A printed collection of A Fine Line Between... is now available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #snow #winter
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #chin up #nose in the air #turning one's nose up #haughty
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Very rare -- ringing a bell underwater.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #underwater #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bell #diver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1906.  It's no longer merely a dream: see How to Be Your Own Cat.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #cat people #lion man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The "stream" of experience.  From The Psychology of Feeling and Emotion by Christian Ruckmick, 1936.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's bugle-playing eagle is from North Carolina Central's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #eagle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal #1960s #bugle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Sea Shell and Other Plays by John Farrar, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fish costume #tentacles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #genie #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Caricature, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #skulls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #big hat #pig's head #people who look like animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Augustana's 1918 yearbook.  To better understand and actually use imagery like this, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #dandelion #hair loss
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #letter g
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Forgotten Wisdom (permalink)
From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook:


Inspired by Gary Barwin, who responds:

Falling back into the sky
creating angels from stars
Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon.  Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.
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#constellation #snow #ram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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October 18, 2020

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
If you're going to wear wood, veneer is shabby and not chic.  We refinish and restain our wooden clothing to keep with the trends.  From Mechanix Illustrated, May 1945.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #woman #swimwear #vintage woman #wood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
These Legion of Honor medals look like the original, cast metal playing pieces in Monopoly.  From Le Charivari, 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 #stars #medals #bling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Hiding won't save you."  From St. Andrews' 1994 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in hiding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #crying animal #crocodile tears #alligator tears #crying alligator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Caricature, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #shadow
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Piedmont's 1933 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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#vintage illustration #pirate ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #futuristic #expo
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
The color of God is "white of god red black and everything."  From Visions of Gerard by Jack Kerouac, 1963.
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#god #color
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"A life-sized apparition built up from the ectoplasm emanating from the medium 'Eva.'  One of 201 photographs taken by Mme. Bisson and Dr. Notzing, 1909-12."  From Hearst's International, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #seance #spirit medium #ectoplasm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #giant #poseidon #king neptune #trident
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird costume #costume #rooster costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Greetings.  From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greetings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #punch bowl #drunk #hangover #leg goblet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So many books fall into these basic sections:
I. Utopia
II. The Mob
III. A Commentary
IV. Heroes and Hero Worship
V. Defense of Nonsense
From Swarthmore's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird cage
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from a larger illustration in The Man in the Moon by Margaret G. Otto and illustrated by Paul Galdone.
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#vintage illustration #owl #illustration #hollow tree
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October 17, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #occult #esoteric #flying turtle #winged turtle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A constellation of orbs hovers among the dancers.  From Queens College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#ghostly #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #orbs
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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 #immolation #on fire #burned alive #book burning #up in flames #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #bird people #bird woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lucky 13
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We spotted this tiny owl sitting on a quill in the corner of an illustration in Lustige Blätter, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile #traffic jam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spooktator, Oct. 24, 1997.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #carved pumpkin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you're of three minds but only two moods.  From Queens College's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #three heads #costume #three headed
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Old News (permalink)
"Can earth be cleansed of war?"  From Awake magazine, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #earth #war #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #doctor #deathbed #medicine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Mae Murray, from Cine-Mundial, 1922.
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#1920s #costume #horned woman #woman #vintage woman #mae murray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
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#vintage illustration #angel #falling #fallen angel #spyglass #icarus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's an upside-down page that was disrespectfully dedicated to the sophomore class' ungreat history.  From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #upside down
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Caricature, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crab #dancing animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puli, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A little late for him to "cleanse the soul" at a wet sponge toss.  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How to deal with the energetic equivalent to flatulence -- it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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October 16, 2020

Old News (permalink)
"The man who married his nightmare."  From Supernatural Cats, edited by Claire Necker, 1972.
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#nightmare #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #sphinx #egypt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #dog #lakeside
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #mask #masquerade #big nose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And there began a strong battle with many great strokes."  From Washburn's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jousting #le morte d'arthur #thomas malory
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sea creature #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bildermann, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #blackbird #birds #crows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #tiger #radio
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Aspirants, from the cradle to the grave.  From Kansas State's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'There's the moon,' said Harkness."  An illustration by Harold Matthews Brett for Harper's (1906).

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #darkness #pipe smoker #night #vintage men #men in suits
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Warrielaw Jewel, by Winifred Peck:

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Only from an angle did I catch a glimpse of the old house with its thick walls, deep-set windows and crow's-foot roof, sheltering behind the meretricious classical front like a little old lady with a mountainous toupee.
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Alpha Disney Pi, a little-known sorority in which country bear costumes are requisite.  From Queens College's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #bear costume #disney #sorority
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's awful silly to gild a lily!"  From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #lily #flower #paint #gilding
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Cheeky philosophy -- the Temple of Feelosofee.  From West Virginia Conference Seminary's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #philosophy #jackass #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #horse #oz #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1893 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #burned alive #boiled alive #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
God is hard on artists.  From Nebelspalter, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #artist #god #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #big bad wolf #little red riding hood #architectural hat #wolf attack
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October 15, 2020

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Just as people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, those with paper faces shouldn't toss airplanes at crayons.  Or is it the other way around?  From the rare (going for over $500, last we checked) Paper Faces by Michael Grater, 1968.
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#mask #vintage photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her traditions include crowning an animal's severed head on a platter and festooning it with leaves.  With bells on.  From Queens College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #meat #pig's head #traditions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From The Mystic Bell by Edward Kuntze, 1869.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #artistic animal #animal painter #painting bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
That might be Elizabeth on the right.  From Queens College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #breath
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina Teachers College's 1951 yearbook.  There is an easier way (and non-surgical): see How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat people #cat headed #conveyor belt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How a theatrical ghost walks.  (But no mention of how ectoplasmic perambulation occurs.)  From Spook Crooks by Julien J. Proskauer, 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 #ghost #vintage diagram #magic #hallowe'en #diagram
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Those things which are said to be done by Nature are done by Divine Art."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.
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#sentence diagram #deity #nature #divinity #divine art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #birds #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's looking at you.  From Berea's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyes #here's looking at you #here's look at you
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horses #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"You are only young once.  But if you want to you can make that once last forever —."  From Butler's 1929 yearbook.
The secret to this lies in harvesting time's by-product, the odd moment, as we saw in this clipping.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #forever young
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration #bust
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"From out of the past, where forgotten things belong."  Plus, the headline says that "you were there."  And you didn't even tell me about it!  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Practical Lessons in Hypnotism by William Wesley Cook, 1901.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis
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Old News (permalink)
An eerie prediction of summer 2020, 37 years in advance.  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #summer #headline
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Someone ought to write a book about how to find a staircase in a book.  One thing I'm hoping to learn: are all staircases in books spiral ones?  From Dark Shadows episode 1085.
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#staircase #dark shadows
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October 14, 2020

Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
In today's dollars, that's $1,093,613.  From Millikin's 1948 yearbook.
* Learn more about Presumptive Conundrums at Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #inflation #groceries #ad
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Something, Defined (permalink)
In this case, "something something" means a gypsy curse that kills every person you love.  From Dark Shadows episode 797.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Thump! and the fall was over."  From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #rabbit #circus #peanut
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Because timelessness is defined as zero succession and infinite simultaneity, clock towers without clock hands are paragons of timelessness.  This handless clock tower near Mansfield, England was documented by Stephen McKay.
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#clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.
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#vintage illustration #imp #vintage magic #magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wish Fairy and Dewy Dear by Alice Ross Colver, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 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 #fairy tale #castle #witches #endpapers
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
An old postcard gifted to me by friends in Wales.
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#wales #vintage postcard #cottage #ugly house #betws-y-coed #postcard
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Old News (permalink)
"Can pills cure anxiety?"  From Awake magazine, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #anxiety #medicine #vintage headline #pills #headline #prescription drugs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's troubling when a portrait painter ends up working directly on your face.  This happened to us with a silhouette snipping artist -- those scissors haunt us to this day.  From Le Chariviari, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#artist #portrait painter #makeup #vintage illustration #painter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is presented as a joke, but mirrors actually abhor being disturbed.  For proof, see our video about a haunted mirror we acquired at an antiques shop, and our video in which we're trapped within a shattered hall of mirrors.
From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mirror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #do not disturb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #ruler #yardstick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Looking backward.  From the 1950 yearbook of New Jersey State Teachers College.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #janus #two headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #cow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
All poetry worth reading begins the same way, with a battle between two bears.  From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #poetry #yearbook #bear #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #giant #red beard #giant killer #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Looks like the news was broken as far back as 1911.  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#news #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary.  Can you guess which entry this illustration is from?
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#alien
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October 13, 2020

Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
Why was U96's "homage" (such a kinder word than "blatant ripoff") of Visage's "Fade to Grey" entitled "I Wanna Be a Kennedy"?  The overlap between "grey" and "Kennedy" is, of course, Grey Gardens, the cult documentary about fading Kennedy in-laws.
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#grey gardens
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
I make this little mistake every single day.  From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
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#vintage ad #aging #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Kansas State's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish people
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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 #castle #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Dreaming of immortality.  From Le Chariviari, 1884.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #angel #dreaming #longevity #immortality #eternal life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Otto Bromberger.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #fairy #insect
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #saint #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #weightless #floating #the people could fly
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Old News (permalink)
"Lion roars and cock crows from cathedral tower."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#cathedral #lion #vintage headline #cock crow #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bunte Kriegsbilderbogen, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #monster #bug #giant insect #giant fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mysteries #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #alcohol #bottle #absinthe
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From What Dread Hand? by Elizabeth Gill:

***
"He [the book's absent-minded professor] never knows if it's to-day or yesterday."

[I like the way that's worded, as if one can not merely think it's Wednesday when it's actually Thursday, but in fact think today is "yesterday."]
***
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Is merely existing enough?"  From Sacred Heart's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #chalkboard #existentialism #existing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #hallucination #surreal #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
We rarely see news like this anymore.  The 1970s were like an alternate universe.  "Let's learn to make dulcimers."  From The Current Sauce, 1977.
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#vintage headline #musical instrument #headline #dulcimer
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October 12, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A firebug from The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #fire spirit #fire #fire starter #firebug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pearl and the Pumpkin by Paul West and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #glowing eyes #pumpkin people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you agree that striped trousers are still most appropriate for matters of unfurling.  From Butler's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flag #standard bearer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #brat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #masks #illustration #visor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #bats #eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Everybody watched him go up and up."  From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 
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#vintage illustration #ship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wingate's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #puppets #marionette #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #two sides #rich and poor #shabby chic #front and back
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #mice #cheese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The prophetic pyre."  From Santa Clara's 1948 yearbook.

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#fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonfire #pyre #prophetic
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1899.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her official yearbook portrait.  Looks like she got her mop hair bangs cut for the occasion.  As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.  From Anderson's 1989 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles.  From Otterbein's 1920 yearbook.

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Old News (permalink)
"The curious history of human stupidity."  From Mysteries: An Investigation Into the Occult, the Paranormal and the Supernatural by Colin Wilson, 2006.
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October 11, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A rare play, going for over $800 -- The Island of the Mighty, written and illustrated by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Roly-Poly Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #egg people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sculpted heads mystery.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #mysterious #sculpture #head
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Prohibitionist Uncle Sam is secretly drinking "Mr. Bootlegger Kill Me Quick" moonshine.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1930.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard that "landscape is architecture," and here's the best proof we've found to date.  From Anderson's 1959 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #singer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1954 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat man #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She's got problem parents, in The Daily Colonist, 1944.
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#vintage ad #problem parents #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This Hallowe'en photo didn't look right no matter how we rotated it.  This is how it appeared in Olivet Nazarene's 1975 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#horror #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1895.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My God!  The morgue!"  From The Judge, 1920.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trompe l'oeil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fountain
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1918.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spooktator, Oct. 24, 1997.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1911 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We are all puppets, being controlled by one master or the other" (Sean Williams, The Big Picture, 2009).
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
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October 10, 2020

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How to make every word you say more mysterious. Plus, pendulum innuendo and golem fashions.  It's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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Precursors (permalink)
An anthropomorphized mouse and the letters "EB" -- a precursor to E. B. White's tale of a mouse, Stuart Little.  From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #stuart little
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #humor #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Danger lurks behaind [sic] that headache."  From Awake magazine, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #headache #migraine #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #world #atlas #mythology #earth #weight of the world #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He insisted that the property belonged to him for Eternity.  And he was probably right, at that."  From Weird Tales, 1942.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage japan #vintage yearbook #yearbook #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #tree spirit #faces in things #tree face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1938 yearbook.

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#shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mannequin heads
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sword in the Stone, written and illustrated by T. H. White, 1939.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Taylor's 1975 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by W. Juttner.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #lamp #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #monster #cat and mouse #billion #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spooktator, Oct. 24, 1997.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #spooky #tree #hallowe'en #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flamingo
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Old News (permalink)
"No enlightenment for the blind.  Darkness never relieved."  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#darkness #vintage headline #blindness #headline
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October 9, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #singing #1890s #many headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #long tail #debate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.  No pricks: This Book is a Cactus.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #popping cork #alcohol #squirrel #ad
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Old News (permalink)
How true those words are, even today.  From Savannah State's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #beware #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #arise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #faces in things #illustration #flambé
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dishes flew over her head into the pantry."  From The House of the Red Fox by Miriam Byrne and illustrated by Anna Milo Upjohn, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ah, bless -- on the way to the slaughterhouse.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #horse #slaughterhouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #goddess #rabbit #fish #tiny men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Playing card royalty, after the game.  From Hampden-Sydney's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #queen #royalty #playing card #queen of clubs #king of clubs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #futuristic #robot #space station
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if all lighting should probably be like this.  From Flora Macdonald's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #dramatic lighting
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light in darkness #night balloon #tempter #martyrdom #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Calendars and Constellations by Emmeline Plunket, 1903.
Interesting: how to understand this depiction of Assur almost instantly: The One Minute Mystic.
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#vintage illustration #deity #assyrian #assur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When newspapers still had integrity, people wore them.  From Elon's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #newspaper dress #newspaper fashion #newspaper clothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #oz #bird cage
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Last Will and Testament, by Elizabeth Ferrars:

***
[Figurative Made Literal dept.]

"I can't tell you how sorry..."
At that point Nigel had a fit of coughing, so that he really could not go on saying how sorry he felt.
***
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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October 8, 2020

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Daughter-in-law jokes from the marvelous play The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky, 1960.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #eyes #woman #vintage woman #bright eyes #ad
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles.  From Le Chariviari, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #globe #earth #why the earth wobbles
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Purple masque, from University of the South's 1940 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #hooded figure #illustration #masque
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1948.  (Courtesy of Archive.org, with our own restorations.)
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#vintage illustration #imp #wizard #weirdisms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #robot #bow tie #home automation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The House of Truth."  From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #frog prince #illustration #fear of frogs #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Brief" demon, from Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #owl #full moon #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #winking #window display #art
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cullowhee's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, March 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #butterfly #dancing #dancing insect
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When you've collapsed but are still conscientious about fire safety.  From Chatham's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #passed out #collapsed #vintage woman #fire safety
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we're very careful about which forests we step foot into.  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #faces in things #trees #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like this book is going for over $900 on Amazon!  From True and False Possession by Jean Lhermitte.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil #exorcist
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October 7, 2020

Precursors (permalink)
Before the Castle Freak, there was the Castle of Phreex.  From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #castle
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The camera lies."  Plus, there's a free drag name for you -- "Camera Clix," pronounced like "Camero" but with an "a" at the end.  From Mechanix Illustrated, May 1945.
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#trick photography #1940s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #wind #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Demureness meditating mischief."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #mischief #church art #demure
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lighthouse #sailboat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if a fish has gifted you a shell.  From The Mystic Bell by Edward Kuntze, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fish #shell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #horses #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mermaid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sororities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #devil #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Riding a tiny goat and frogs.  From Wide Awake, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #frog #squirrel #tiny goat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #cat people
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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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#ghost #haunted house #wizard #spooky #shakespeare #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #floating head #the tempest #decapitated #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#religion #vintage illustration #giant #pope #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Skomorokh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #imp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"There are the keys that open the door of a house such as never was built before."  From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton key #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #key ring #keys
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #piano #scissors #pianist #musician #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #1920s #teacher #red ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #spool of thread
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October 6, 2020

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A cat undergoing auto-hypnosis.  From The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.
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#cat #auto-hypnosis
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the band name Tears for Fears.  "Go ahead and cry my dearest, it's good for you.  It can be a relief from fear."  From Dark Shadows episode 852.
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#fear #crying #tears #dark shadows #tears for fears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Maybe if I run fast nothing will catch me. ... I'm went so fast that I turned into a ghost!!!"  From Monsters News, 2012.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #fear #pursued #running
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
An asterisk of time?  It's a phenomenon!  This one is yellowish, but there's a black asterisk of time, too: "In the black asterisk of time that I did not remember until now, right now" (Stephanie Gangi, The Next: A Novel).  Photo courtesy of temporal anomaly investigator Neil Hester.
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#timepiece #clock #asterisk #temporal anomaly
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Old News (permalink)
A composite sketch of the people of Oregon.  We've been to Oregon and can vouch for the authenticity.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mermaid's Message by Ruth Bishop, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Dogs and the Fleas by Frederic Scrimshaw, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #1890s #flowers #conehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Game of Life by Timothy Leary, 1993 (courtesy of Archive.org).
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#divination #tarot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mountains #faces in things #mountain spirits #chairs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #window display #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's (1907).
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#vintage illustration #mythology #centaur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #upside down #headstand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This book likens itself to a china shop and provides its own bull on the front cover so that it will self-destruct.  From Butler's 1929 yearbook.  Related: Machinarium Verbosus: A Curiosity Cabinet of Gadgets to Transform Any Book & Reader, To Be Sure.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #self-destructing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #money bag #anthropomorphism #beggar #panhandling #1880s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of Sir Adam Braid, by Molly Thynne:

Miss Webb, a quivering interrogation mark, was standing on the threshold.
***

[Bonus: This book used the phrase "good egg," not in the usual sense of "decent person," but as a jubilant expletive. Good egg!]
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October 5, 2020

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Refreshing honesty -- this yearbook admits up front that it is in no way a part of reality.  From the University of the South's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #unreal #foreword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Graphic Presentation by Williard Brinton, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #new york #city
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Things to do.  From Lasell's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mandala #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sacred geometry #things to do #geometric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bunte Kriegsbilderbogen, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #bug #giant insect #giant fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #vintage yearbook #alchemy #yearbook #chemistry #big science #test tube
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #ape
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Aspiring to the holy grail.  From Chowan's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #holy grail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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#vintage illustration #demon #ornament
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Baron Samedi, the strongest of the voodoo houngans."  From Voodoo Island by Michael Duckworth, 1989.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#voodoo #baron samedi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 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 #animals #horns #antlers #illustration #cows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Boston College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #devil #pitchfork #hell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chatham's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
If you have trouble with math, maybe it's not you -- "Numbers don't add up."  From Antioch News, Oct. 1996.
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#weird headline #math #numbers #doesn't add up
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The first three photos in Hollins College's 1964 yearbook challenge the viewer's prescription lenses.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #double vision #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The trees could easily accommodate an entire team of spies."  From Woroni, 1988.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #surveillance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Though demon looks come and then change with the time, their basic function never changes."  From The Current Sauce, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#demon #mask #1970s #demon mask
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October 4, 2020

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If only we knew what was supposed to happen, we could at least try to prevent it."  From Dark Shadows episode 1075.
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#divination #tomorrow comes early #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The bearded skull of revolution.  From Nebelspalter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skull face #revolution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Otboi, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig man #animal headed #hybrid #rabbit man #bird man #rabbit headed #pig headed #parrot headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #bird man #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #throne #bayonet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan's 1927 yearbook.  For how to use imagery like this for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling skull
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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 #serpent #snake #bunny #predator #constrictor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Thorns and stingers.  From Bunte Kriegsbilderbogen, 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 #insects #thorns #blond man #brambles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #queen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 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 #anthropomorphism #crying animal #funeral
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"It's sacred too."  From the University of the South's 1954 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night #sacred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puli, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #red sky
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Old News (permalink)
Yes, we're picturing a blueblooded fox keeping quiet in an elevator.  From Mars Hill's 1989 yearbook.
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#fox #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, belong to "other societies."  From the University of Montana's 1927 yearbook.  Crucial: How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #witch #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mayans, 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 #esoteric #tree of life
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Traveling out-of-body into a deer … and almost not coming back.  From Secrets of the Kaula Circle by Elizabeth Sharpe, 1936.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#deer #astral travel #out of body
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A day-to-day existence insignificant in fragments, but important in its entirety."  From Salem's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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October 3, 2020

Old News (permalink)
"Are you epistemologically correct?"  From B.A.R., 1984.
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#costume #vintage headline #headline #1980s #tv head #television head #television costume #epistemology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From B.A.R., 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #geometry #illustration #shapes #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today, when a campus is undergoing growing pains, portable trailer classrooms are employed.  But back in the day, hollowed-out giant fruit was the only solution.  We, too, studied within an enormous apricot.  From Wesleyan College's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant fruit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #armor #armored clothing #personal protection #body armor #spiked clothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Full of Fun by Dean Rivers, George Thatcher, and Henry Firth Wood, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #humor #vintage book #book #illustration #vintage man #mirth #man #smiling man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A lawyer joke from Wake Forest's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lawyer joke #vulture #gravestone #headstone #lawyer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some levitation from Wide Awake, 1884.  The caption reads, "Not going to rise?  Ah, she had to!"
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #blackbird #sword #faces in things
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Old News (permalink)
From Butler's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #on high #headline #rocky perch
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this pairing of two instances of our dictionary of one-letter words spotted sitting atop a Bible.
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#bible #dictionary #one-letter words #alpha and omega #ironic pairing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Reserve's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bildermann, 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 #warrior #unprotected
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #big hat #handshake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine and illustrated by Willy Pogány, 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 #silhouette #troll #bear #endpapers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hartnell's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rope #lasso
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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 #witch #fairies #fairy tale
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October 2, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rabbit versus fish: which would you wager to win?  From Le Charivari, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #fish #animal fight
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This video offers a special tip on how to leave an earworm when making an exit (works better on Zoom than it does on GoToWebinar. Meanwhile, let us never forget the general rule: the more secure the sign-in, the more forbidding the banishing.)  It's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#occult #prof. oddfellow #pyramid #video #penetralia #pyramid power
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #peace symbol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #addams family #cousin itt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Meeting the "Bad-Penny."  From The Kingdom of Coins by Bradley Gilman, 1894.
We met at least one bad penny that time we unlocked a vintage weight scale that was literally overflowing with pennies: video.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #money #anthropomorphism #coin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Man in the Moon, from Moon Lore by Timothy Harley, 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 #man in the moon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A snowman over a bonfire.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #snowman #bonfire #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Sea Horse by Isabel Anderson, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #neptune #ocean #king neptune #trident #illustration #white horses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #father time #new year #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maliar, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #angel #skeleton #mythology #lion #muthology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We've been to this sort of card game.  Frankly, by the end of the night, it's just overwhelming.  From American University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing card #three of clubs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dolls with a history -- and a mystery."  From Spellbound. 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witchcraft #occult #enchanted #doll #living toy #poppet
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Butler's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage men #men #line dancing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Lakeview's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1869.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alley cat #meow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zanoza, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #human sacrifice #idol #moloch #eaten alive
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death of an Airman, by Christopher St. John Sprigg:

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"Appallingly pleased to meet you."

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Dr. Bastable's wooden face wrestled with a knowing expression.

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"A low-wing monoplane," he added. "Do you know enough about these noisy contraptions to recognize that?"
"I think so. I know that's not one, anyway," Bray answered, pointing to a bulky machine in the corner.
"Of course it isn't. That's the aereodrome mowing-machine."
***

Bonus: A small treasure trove of funny names!

Lord Grunnage and his sister, the Countess of Crumbles
a Hollywood star named Veronica Gubbage
Lord Entourage
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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October 1, 2020

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"'There's no telling what's going to happen, is there?'  'No, not even the computers can fugure that out yet.'"  From Dark Shadows episode 1073.
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#prediction #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This sort of science is rarely taught anymore ... and look at the state of the world.  "The flower that lives above the clouds."  From The Bluebird's Garden by Patten Beard, 1915.
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#flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blue Planet Project: Alien Technical Research - 25 (undated).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #smoke #chimney #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Giving artists the benefit of the doubt, my best guess as to why they regularly put titles on the wrong side of the book is that their artwork gets inverted during the printing process.  Otherwise, artists give an unsettling impression that they've never seen an actual book and are depicting them from pure imagination.
From Richmond Professional Institute's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #america
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Karl's Journey to the Moon by Maja Lindberg, 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 #flowers #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We suggest that more candles with faces should figure into religion.  From Knox's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #monk #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #candle #candles with faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, March 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #musical animal #songbird #nightingale #singing animal
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's true that when one gets to a certain age, one looks better in silhouette.  From the University of the South's 1954 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #light
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
May October fling you into its autumnal atmosphere.  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.

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

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#vintage illustration #october #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #violin #fencing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"October."  From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#black cat #october #pumpkin #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Curse of the Dream Witch by Allan Stratton.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #curse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One's shadow self may be massively larger.  From Pennsylvania State's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #shadow self #voting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #tree #life and death
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chatham's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trapped #woman #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"Women take bath."  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage headline #bathing #women #headline
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