CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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October 31, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Thanks to The Frozen Autumn (and side project Static Movement) for promoting our haunted clockwork cover of their haunting song "Radio Station."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1910, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #jack-o'-lantern #dancing #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #dancing cat #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you must face one of these today, may it be the least fearsome one for you. From Emerald Dragon Guide Book.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #yokai
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage halloween #hallowe'en #pumpkin head #costumes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Probably the tiniest dog we've seen all week.  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 #tiny dog #tiny animal
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Far ahead in the blackness he was aware of a dark world … HOME OF THE GODS!"  From Amazing Stories, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #outer space #home of the gods
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #musical animal
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Old News (permalink)
"I thought it was a lot of fun so I decided to do it again."  From Fairfield's 1994 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #fun #headline
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Old News (permalink)
News we can believe -- "Everyday's Halloween for pursuer of UFOs and other phenomena."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#halloween #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the UNC Chapel Hill yearbook of 1926.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #teapot #kettle #faces in things
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The dark middle of the tower allows us to see the pinnacle as a castle in the air.  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1956 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tower #castle in the air
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"And the horrible grinding never ceases."  From Ethos, 1965.
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#horror #grinding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wordeater, 1983.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #carved pumpkin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westminster Choir College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkin head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1983.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Drury College's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #wicked queen #poison apple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Screamer, 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 #black cat #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the Universith of the South's 1950 yearbook.
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#demon #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
The truth about ulcerative colitis.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #colitis #ulcer
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October 30, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
An old-fashioned Hallowe'en party menu (left) and suggested substitutions (right).  From The Book of Games and Parties for All Occasions, edited by Theresa Hunt Wolcott, 1924.
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#hallowe'en #menu
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #witch #halloween #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkin carving #carved pumpkin
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's rare but welcome to see skeletons and wizards riding UFOs to celebrate Hallowe'en.  From The Ufologer, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #ufo #wizard #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1979 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#witch #witchcraft #cauldron #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #mouse #mouse soup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #divination #playing cards #fortune telling #card reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we've never learned the violin.  From Dime Mystery, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horror #violin #vintage magazine #skeleton hands #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #ship's wheel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The caption to this yearbook portrait says that ten witches attended Wesleyan College in 1966.

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

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#witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sheep to the slaughter."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1974 yearbook.
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#halloween #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #esoteric #turtle #flying turtle #winged turtle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westminster Choir College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 2003.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage headline #headline #t-shirt
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1956 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hat
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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 #illustration #halloween party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tuft's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#black cat #silhouette #cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #top hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage magazine #woman #vintage woman #magazine
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October 29, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Live On A Farm, illustrated by Paul Brown, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two ghosts ordered vanilla milkshakes.  From The Current Sauce, 1956.
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#ghost #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We try to remember to ask about the returns policy when we acquire unusual boxes.  From Unknown, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #horror #box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Puple and White (Millsap), 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #halloween #hallowe'en #ful moon
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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 Kentucky College for Women's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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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 Wesleylan College's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #witches #hallowe'en #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #witches #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Reel Life, 1913.
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#skeleton #vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cornell'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 #tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tangent Annual, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #geese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage japan #japanese art #vintage yearbook #yearbook #japan #bridge #endpapers #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #witchcraft #cauldron #severed head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1985 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Haunted Woman by Sanford Friedman.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Most Immoral Murder, by Harriette Ashbrook:

***
["Things" dept.]
He knew...that among the services expected of a gentleman's gentleman is the "laying out" of a gentleman's "things." But what, he asked himself, if the gentleman has no "things"?
***
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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 #pumpkin head #pumpkin people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's a common but mistaken assumption that jack-o'-lanters come from pumpkins.  In fact, jack-o'-lanterns are grown separately.  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1969 yearbook.

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#halloween #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s #jack-o-lantern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #night drive
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October 28, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #fleeing #vulture #bear #illustration #wallflower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #catamount
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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 L'Eclipse, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #anthropomorphism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1988 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Fowles' The Magus.
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#vintage illustration #devil #occult #candle #old book #hored one
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that our advisors are here to assist throughout the journey.  From Centenary's 1964 yearbook.

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#beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume
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Old News (permalink)
"The rough end of the pineapple."  From Woroni, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #pineapple #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat #sausage #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We scowl back at glowering windows, but it doesn't do much good.  From Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx by Kathryn Heisenfelt and illustrated by Henry E. Vallely.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #castle #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the banshee's warning wail refer to someone else's house.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My Brother Was an Only Child, by Jack Douglas

***
To hell with Chapter 19. Every damn book has a Chapter 19.

[via Encyclopedia of American Humorists]
***

From The Rest of My Life, by Carolyn Wells:

***

If I begin a book or if a friend begins to tell me a story, my thoughts leap to the inevitable or probable denouement.

[Also via the Encyc. of Amer. Humorists, which states that "Carolyn Wells had a 'leaping mind.'"]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There are those who live in a twilight world, that is to say, not beyond this world, but living only half this life."  From Ethos, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #twilight #half alive
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
We're not sure what two rabbits plus booze equals.  Every time we check our answer, we can't read our own handwriting.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.  See Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #rabbit ears #booze
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Old News (permalink)
"It was orange, but was not the Great Pumpkin."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#halloween #ufo #hallowe'en #vintage headline #headline #great pumpkin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From College of the Albemarle's 1964 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#halloween #vintage photo #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #elephant #dreaming #tables turned
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1982 yearbook.

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#halloween #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #skull mask #vintage hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Guy Wetmore Carryl and illustrated by Albert Levering, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #weightless #illustration #bathtub
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October 27, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A sage promises that a horseshoe will keep the elves away, even as elves mock him.  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #horseshoe #elves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #portal #occult #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From City Sidewalks by Bank Street.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"666 - A bad omen, except for people who live by evil."  From The Gateway, 1975.
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#omen #occult #666 #numerology
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The college experience distilled into two photos.  From Swarthmore's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #explosion #costume #rabbit costume #bunny costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Stars Are Also Fire by Poul Anderson.
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#stars
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Old News (permalink)
"Awkwardness in elevators."  From Toike Oike, 2005.
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#vintage headline #elevator #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #goat #norse #thor #Tanngrisnir #Tanngnjóstr
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Sometimes lonely."  From the University of the South's 1954 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #solitude #vintage man #man #lonely
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Svetaet, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull #horse #blackbird #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #fish #under the sea #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #animals #bear #rooster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Huntington's 1922 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #cat #bats #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #witches #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #devil #journalism #media #the press
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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.
46655 43720
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Old News (permalink)
Though Buddhism would disagree, "Millions not hallucinating, says UFO expert."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#ufo #vintage headline #hallucinating #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1928 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916. 
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fairy tale #bear
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Old News (permalink)
"Religious societies with strange beliefs are numerous in the Russian empire.  Self-mutiliation and cannibalism are the practice of many."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#religion #russia #cannibalism #vintage headline #headline
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October 26, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Serapina by Anne White and illustrated by Tony Palazzo.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry 2 Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We always hear about how only the present moment exists, but in fact "The past is constantly being relived."  From Dark Shadows episode 462.

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#past #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
There really is a Satanic lure to gleaming flesh, for those with eyes to see it.  From The Gateway, 1980.
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#vintage headline #satanic #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #owl #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From College of the Albemarle's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pyramid #bug killer #plague #insects #insecticide #bugs #extermination #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Dermot and the Thirsty Stones, written and illustrated by Richard Bennett.
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#vintage illustration #folklore #beer #little people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I know what I saw."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #boa constrictor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The west wind."  From Tangent Annual, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #west wind
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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)
Yep, people will stare.  From Nebelspalter, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Eastern Kentucky's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #rabbit #1920s #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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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.
61948 26751
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #snowstorm #vintage photo #snow #winter #unaffected #singin' in the rain #singing in the rain #vintage man #man #eating snow #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #cannon #war dead #illustration #red sky #art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Letter of the Law, by Carole Berry:

***
[From the preface]
As for my prose, I apologize. It suffers from too many years on the lunatic fringe of law firms such as Ely Sneed. I was able to curb a regrettable tendency to begin paragraphs with "now," "therefore," and "to wit." My editor's blue pencil took care of the "notwithstandings" and "albeits." An "inasmuch as" may have slipped through, though. You can only do so much.

***
She had once been "on the stage," or had been on the stage once. Whether burlesque, a high school play, or the Royal Shakespeare Company was never made quite clear.

***
Ely Sneed had committees like gardeners have crabgrass....Battle one committee down and another would spring up in its place.

***
[Flapping dept.]
Her voice rose, she rose, her napkin rose and flapped through the air.

***
If I could hear his shoe creaking, what about my watch ticking? The power of suggestion became almost more than I could stand; it sounded like Big Ben was in the closet with me.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art #crocodile #monkey
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Old News (permalink)
"I escaped the black ink."  From The Gateway, 1986.
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#vintage headline #ink #headline
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October 25, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Prof. Oddfellow's pagan standup, but in the spooky "After Dark" setting.
190
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#prof. oddfellow #tarot #death card #video #penetralia #tarot death
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Old News (permalink)
"Desperate days demand desperate action."  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#vintage headline #headline #desperation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The laughing kettle.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #tea kettle #tea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You can't have."  From Time and Tigers by D. R. Amato. 
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#vintage illustration #insect #bug #fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #cat #giant cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dried bones of its own past, whatever it was."  Ruins on the moon, from Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #moon #ruins #crater
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wolf grinned."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fable #wolf #aesop #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Screen Guilds' Magazine, July 1934.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #caterpillar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien #extraterrestrial
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Knox College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1939, illustrated by Virgil Finlay.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #crystal ball
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #vintage photo #hamlet #trick photography #black and white photography #illustration #big hand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starwind, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Every "faculty" has "a cult" within its very name.  From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great news!  "'Your lucky star' is on the way to you!"  From The Film Daily, 1930.
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#vintage ad #luck #lion #good luck #1930s #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
There are those who think every single photo in a yearbook ought to be expressionistic.  From American University's 1985 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #infrared
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1978.
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#vintage headline #alien #extraterrestrial #headline
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October 24, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #magic #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myths From Many Lands by Eva March Tappan, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #anvil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Arlington yearbook of 1927.

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#vintage illustration #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobweb #tree #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion #hat #vintage hat #men's hat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #popping cork #metallurgy #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baby new year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #mask #church art
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The rest of your life starts today."  From Yeshiva 's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #now is the time #quotation #inspirational #today
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Old News (permalink)
"Thirty hour day sought."  From The Gateway, 1977.
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#vintage headline #headline #not enough time #longer day #not enough hours
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #winter #1900s #ice skating
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #feat of strength #strong man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#standing stones #monolith
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From In a Canadian Canoe, by Barry Pain:

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I suppose you know that Art and Music are separated now. They sometimes meet, but they never speak.
--"On Art and Sardines,--but more especially Sardines"

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Materialistic friends have told me that too much pudding will cause exaltation.
--"On Exaltation"

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Edgar Allan Poe quoted these lines in his lecture on The Poetic Principle, and remarked on their insouciance. Well, he's dead.
--"On Exaltation"

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A train should never be allowed to go anywhere, but only back to the place whence it came.
--"On Reflection"

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I should like these pages to be of solid, material use to any young men who are really trying to lead the philosophical life, and are quite earnest in their desire to avoid the Scylla of action without falling into the Charybdis of thought.
--"On Reflection"

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We went so fast that a sparrow seemed to be literally flying past me. I believe that was what it actually was doing.
--"A Storm on the Backs"

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No one objects more than the well-trained loafer to enforced laziness.... It is not the waiting which the loafer minds: it is the having to wait.
--"On Loafing"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The warnings on the sign posts drive us onward."  (Speaking of which, did you know that one can read the palms of those illuminated crosswork hands?  It's true: Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands.)
Photo from the College of Notre Dame's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #stop sign #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #shark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The way this Latin is phrased is a Googlewhack.  From Lakehead Teachers' College's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #Latin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #skull #lyre
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October 23, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From When Fairies Were Friendly by Evaleen Stein, 1922.
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#fairies #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Doctor Bombay’s “Atmospheric Oscillator” from Bewitched.

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#invention #contraption #gif #betwitched
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#mummy #egyptian #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Joker of Death.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #jester #joker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A phantom hand upon the wheel.  From Ghost Stories, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I am those who see not!"  From Amazing Stories, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #cave #hermit #illustration #blindness #wise man
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #monster #dog #lion #words can hurt #ugly dog #hurtful words #canine #sad dog #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #eagle #hybrid #human headed #1930s #centipede #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #big headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big head #swelled head
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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 The Enchanted House by Edith Harrison and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wildcat #lynx #illustration #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #occult #lizard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Salve Regina's 1980 yearbook.

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#halloween #skull face #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A spirit photograph from American University's 1985 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis' 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #jesus
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1978.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#vintage photo #egg #giant egg #big and little #elephant bird
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October 22, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She had got us both to dress up as ghosts!"  From Chatterbox, 1920.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost
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Old News (permalink)
"Spook dances on king's remains."  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Nobody objects to black cats—if they stay put and don't cross the path."  From Together, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #superstition
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Count Petofi, finally reunited with his severed hand (the hand that touched the face of the Sphinx), notes that "When one deals with the unknown, as you know, it is exhausting."  From Dark Shadows episode 815.
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#occult #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #enough is enough #lightning #enough already
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What if Joe should get ripe and burst!  Mercy!"  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 #pumpkin people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #monster #hell #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Millikin's 1950 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s #man reading
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #bear #god #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The man who sees pink monkeys may be said to be full of animal spirits."  From Carthage College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Caricature, 1833.
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#vintage illustration #long nose #faces in things #giant pear
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #ghost #spook #dog #goat #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University Of Washington's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scientist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #tiny man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1993 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark #fog #archway
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From False Evidence, by Harry Carmichael:

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"If you want me to write your Column on Crime just say the word and I'll put you on our redundant list--with pleasure."
"To be redundant with pleasure is preferable to being redundant without."

***
"D'ye think Ah came up the Clyde in a wheelbarrow?"

[This rhetorical question was new to me! But I see that it's part of a whole "thing": https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns901]

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"Please don't be offended if I say I am beholden to you...whatever that might mean."

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"If it's any of your business I'd also inform you that it's none of your business."

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"But I couldn't see the wood for the trees...and I planted the forest myself."

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"Give me a ring later in the day and maybe we'll marry your vague notion to my vague notion."

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"Don't play the fool?"
"Why not? I'm good at it."
***

[Bonus: From a review of a different Carmichael book, excerpted on the dust jacket of this one: "He zigs when you expect him to zag, but never fails to arrive at a zonko ending." Who knew that the way to one-up the zigging/zagging trope was by employing a zonko!]

[Also: The protagonist sometimes says "De-da...de-da...de-da," in the sense of "etc., etc." or "yada yada." I've never heard this before, and I don't know whether it has general currency.]
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"They come from afar."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#ufo
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October 21, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #mouse #spinning wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May your day be hobgoblin-free.  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 #monster #hobgoblin #gobin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #jack-o'-lantern #seeing double #hallowe'en #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By L. Wiley Fine, from Coraddi, 1965.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #mother
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy's Rabbit Stories by Mary E. Calhoun and illustrated by E. Warde Blaisdell, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crow #musical animal #fiddle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The "squidgecumsquees" follow themselves.  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 #japanese art #eating its own tail #yokai
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spinning #chasing its tail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nice impressionistic effect from scanning a photocopy of newsprint.  "Next door?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skiing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #full moon #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #practical joke #hot seat #electrified #electricity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Richmond Technical Institute's 1980 yearbook.

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nursing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #fist #hand head #giant fist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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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 #death #vintage #crown #hand #palmistry #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An ornate frame (our restoration, as per usual) by Geneva Holmes for the University of Chicago's 1912 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 #in memoriam
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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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#vintage illustration #grotesque #musical animal #pig #fiddle #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #hunter #antelope #hunted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #sun #melting
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October 20, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Campus Enquirer (University of Alberta), 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage ad #shoes #high heels #ad
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#octopus #music video #cthulhu #tentacles #video #neons gone mad #haunted clockwork #kutulu
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're delighted to see Sir Russ living the dream in his Flying Carpet & Smiling Pillow and Esperanto Kitty t-shirt, as well as his Prognosti-Goat t-shirt.  Thank you for visiting our Threadless shop and for being part of the Penetralia world, Sir Russ!  
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#penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #seal
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Old News (permalink)
"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you!"  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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#trouble #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #frog #canoe #folk tale #frog king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 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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#religion #vintage illustration #goddess #mary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Well-dressed."  From The Film Daily, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #money #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #expensive #money suit #money clothes #ad
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #teddy bear #long horse #cow moon
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Q: "Why did the mystery kangaroo cross the road?"
A: "Obviously, to get to the Other Side."
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#kangaroo #other side
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By R. v. Hoerschelmann.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #crying #crying animal #bird skeleton #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We weren't sure what exactly the mascot was eating, until we saw a separate photo of the mascot carrying away an effigy of its rival Ole Miss.  By the way, it's a terrible thing to photograph a mascot (or one of its close relatives, theme park characters) with its head removed.  We've sent a message back through time, cautioning the photographer against violating mascot etiquette.  (What's the point?  You know nothing will convince him not to use these photos.)  From Memphis State's 1963 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 #tiger #costume #tiger costume #mascot #1960s #telephone booth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1993.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #ant #dancing ants
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
"Space does not permit us to list the journals which have previously rejected this author's satire."  From The Martlet, 1973.
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#satire #rejection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The minute hand is bending counter-clockwise because reading makes time go backwards.  From The Gateway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #reading #clock #time bending #tiny man #1980s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Honestly Now! by Jack Sharkey:

***

"Oh, dear. Is she one of those?" [i.e., an overly demanding hotel guest]
"Madame Umbro is at least two of those!"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #anthropomorphism #spider #daddy longlegs
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October 19, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#vintage ad #faces in things #egg #the squeeze #stress #squeezed #egg man #head in a vise #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just in case you need to be persuasive today ... From the Wizardry 2 Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #good luck #lucky charm #blarney stone
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Lethargy.  From Human Magnetism, or, How to Hypnotise by James Coates, 1904.
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#vintage photo #fatigue #tired #hypnosis #vintage man #man #lethargy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's true -- night and day we talk about night and day.  And the difference between what we say about night as opposed to day ... well, it's like night and day.  From The Film Daily, 1946.
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#vintage ad #night and day #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #balloon #inflatable #beach toy
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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.
66040 41472
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war #flying bicycle #winged bicycle #art
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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 #octopus #tentacles #illustration
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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)
"And there he saw the fairest tower and there under was a fair town full of people."  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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #le morte d'arthur #thomas malory
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Queen of the living puppets.  From Fantastic Adventures, 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 #queen #puppeteer #marionette #1940s #puppet master #living toy #living puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 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 #fairy #fairy tale #winged horse #kelpie
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
Everybody's doing this now!  From The Danish Fairy Book, illustrated by George W. Hood, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #hats #red hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #garland #illustration #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1993.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #woodcutter #faces in things #forestry
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A window into the mysterious glowing forests that spread through old yearbooks.  From Belmont Abbey's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #glowing forest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The reproduction of the image made it very impressionistic, but perhaps that adds to the mystery of being spirited away in your sleep.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1998.
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#astral travel #out of body #alien abduction
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Convivial Codfish, by Charlotte MacLeod:

***
[The necklace] couldn't have fallen off. Those massive, overlapping links had been clinched together for aeons to come by an old-time artisan who'd known whereof he clinched.

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"He was in a highly aggravated state of profanity when I left him."

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"A man doesn't go buying a new set of false whiskers every day in the week, does he?"

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"Look at this." He pulled out a long drawer filled with beards and mustaches in every possible shade and design. "And this, and this, and this."
He seemed ready to go on slamming drawers and waving beards indefinitely, but Max conceded the point.

***
Max opened his eyes and smiled, causing his mustache to twist beguilingly though he hadn't intended it to.

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An avocado plant some seven feet high had its pot mounted on roller skates and its branches festooned with strings of gilded peanuts.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A mouse, a dried pea, and a sausage were roommates.  From Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #sausage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia State's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#flower people #vintage yearbook #costume #1960s #watering can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #violin #fiddle #musician #illustration
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October 18, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The jackdaw and his friends."  From Chatterbox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #blackbird #jackdaw
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #shinto #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #advice #living toy #yarn doll
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Looks like the cat who wasn't there was especially not in Brighton.  From The Cat Who Wasn't There by by Lilian Jackson Braun.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage ad #allergies #sneeze #handkerchief #hay fever #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times by Frances Browne and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fairy boat #boat
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Old News (permalink)
"More Yeti to come?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #yeti #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
It takes all kinds.  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #funny pages
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #skull #poison #bottle #the shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #gallows #hanged #1930s #art
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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 #fable #hare #turtle #tortoise and the hare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Worlds of Wonder by Mae Knight Clark.
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#vintage illustration #globe #animals #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford's 1970 yearbook.

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#skull #beer #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Which Was Witch? by Eleaore Myers Jewett, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A strange and alien place."  From Georgia State's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1982.
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#emptiness #faceless #no face #glowing head #1980s
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October 17, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #quoit
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Why We Don't Like People by Donald A. Laird, 1933.
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#vintage book #book #hermit #misanthropy #misanthrope #recluse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brains and How to Get Them by Christian D. Larson, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #brain #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 Clarion's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #new moon #catsle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #coffin #living dead #war dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spirit animal #wolf #spirit wolf
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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 #demon #grotesque #open mouth #current mood #man's face #yelling #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salve Regina's 1969 yearbook.

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#witch #halloween #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Hangmen also die.  From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #hangman #1940s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1908 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #beard #twisted #illustration #church art
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the brick wall that substitutes for "Shell Beach" in the superior film Dark City.  From College of the Albemarle's 1980 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lighthouse #brick wall #mural #dark city #shell beach #painted wall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Secret Beach, No. 2.
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#sphinx #surfing #vintage magazine #magazine #secret beach
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The five aces.  From Georgia State's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #aces
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Even unconfirmed entities can be endangered.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #endangered #cryptozoology
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From One Kind and Another, by Barry Pain:

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Old Paget is a solid, dreary man, without one spark of humour in him. Compared with Paget, Bradshaw's time-tables are fanciful.

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He was seated in a Bond Street tea-shoppe, eating something unpleasant that made his fingers sticky, while Mrs. Tyson did what was necessary with a muffin.

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"Even an uneducated costermonger in the gallery will see Capulet's garden or the cell of Friar Laurence, and will see it the more clearly because it will not be there."
***

[Bonus name: Mr.  Waffle]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Scales could tell your weight; could they read your soul?"  From Weird Tales volume 42 number 4 (May 1950).
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#vintage illustration #soul
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October 16, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #animal attack #eaten alive #tarzan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #cat #wet cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
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#vintage illustration #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun with Monsters by Richard Cummings.
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1918 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 #medicine #sedative
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#demon #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobweb #spiderweb #1980s #dewdrops
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms."  From The Monster Times, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #monster #dinosaur #vintage poster #poster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #devil #money #coins #penny-farthing #1890s #devil's tail #art
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Old News (permalink)
It turns out that "love is a dragonfly."  From Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1972.
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#love #dragonfly #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Should you whistle past the eerie graveyards in old yearbooks?  Or do they harbor occult secrets?  All is explained in How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.
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#cemetery #graveyard #vintage yearbook #gravestone #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
We say "yes, yes, yes" to this extraordinarily positive headline from 1954, reprinted in UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I waited for you in America."  From The Martlet, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #waiting #hitchhiker
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Well I don't understand."  From Dark Shadows episode 23.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Mighty Yog.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #bigfoot
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October 15, 2021

Book of Whispers (permalink)
"The great secret of ironic handling ... [is] to run the risk of not driving a point quite home than that of driving it too hard and too far" (George Saintsbury, The Academy, Feb. 17, 1894).
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#irony
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"It was a terrible experience."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #ocean #sea #kite
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not dream of chilblains tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #disease #symbol #chilblains
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #owl #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Even a tomato is a star."  From Festive Food Decoration for All Occasions by Shelia Ostrander.
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#vintage illustration #seeing stars #tomato
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art
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Old News (permalink)
"They saw metal balls, light, but now 'feel silly.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The farther back in time you go, the more interesting the college societies are.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #hat #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scandinavian Legends and Folk Tales by Gwyn Jones, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose by Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #mother goose #endpapers
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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 Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #electricity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some initiations are overseen by clowns.  From Northeastern's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"That's telling 'em!"  From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage ad #hand lettering #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Behold the vortex.  From Concordia's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vortex
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #faun
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Old Contemptibles, by Martha Grimes:

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Here he'd been drawing a cow when he should have been thinking up a story.

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[You recently discovered that, after all, there *is* such a person as Nobody. Well, now here's Everyone.]

"Hell's bells, it's six p.m., where is everyone?"
"Right here, old sweat," said Marshall Trueblood, Long Piddleton's Everyone.

***
It was very difficult to describe Castle Howe without a fulsome use of italics.

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""Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.'"[....]
"I wish you'd stop saying that."[....]
"I've only said it twice...in ten years."[....]
"Do you have to say it?"
"Yes."[....]
"Why?"
"It's the only Latin I know."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #winter #tree #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Though it's famously said that the map is not the territory, it depends upon how big the map is.  From Saint Joseph's College's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Find the secret center of your locality in this One Odd Minute:
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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October 14, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Leopard versus boar: which would you wager to win?  From Scribner's 1875.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #animal fight #panther #boar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #orion
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Ring loudly -- we ARE home to some appreciation.  From Together, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #bell #hand #appreciation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May no goblins inconvenience you today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #artist #rollerskates #painter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Brevard's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For those wondering, yes, you can play the sax while wearing a gas mask.  From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #musician #saxophone #gas mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #gentleman #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #woodsman #tree spirit #woodcutter #faces in things #tree face #lumberjack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears and Other Stories by Anna Williams Arnett, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #illustration #carved pumpkin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #monster #swamp thing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1904 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sorority
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Portrait of the chemist as a bottled ghost.  From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry #bottled ghost #bottle
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Old News (permalink)
In our experience, pigs tend always to remain mum about mysterious circles.  From UFO Newsclipping, Service, 1990.
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#geometry #pig #vintage headline #circle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack and the Bean-Stalk by Hallam Tennyson and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #giant #jack and the beanstalk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Hell has its own problems.
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#hell
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October 13, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the ghost bride in Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.  From The Improvement Era, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted mansion #attic #attic bride #ghost bride #wedding dress
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A black candel [sic].  From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #occult #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #cave #woodchuck
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Since sleep is the twin of death, death is the twin of life. Sleep in this mirror until you are awakened."  From Dark Shadows episode 871.
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#death #mirror #sleep #vampire #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene's 1929 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sheep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #omen #talking bird #blackbird #illustration #bad news #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A gourd-headed grave-digger.  From Swarthmore's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tombstone #gravedigger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #spider #antenna
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weightless #drunk #lamp post
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You've heard of "Joe College," but it should be written "Joe, College" because Joe's his last name.  Here's College Joe, from Omaha's 1950 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #joe college
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #night #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Old News (permalink)
"What strange stars and skies."  From Fantasy & Science Fiction, 1963.
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#night sky #stars #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grapes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pfeiffer's 1975 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook #sign #slumber party
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Old News (permalink)
"Beware the man in black" (1984).
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline #men in black
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mice #cat and mouse #banquet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ann's Family by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Presumably reflected in water, one of the mysteriously glowing trees whose forest spans old yearbooks.  From Brevard's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #church art
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October 12, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
GrevusAnjl's exquisite "I Disbelieve" gets the Neons Gone Mad clockwork treatment.  (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #umbrella #animal attack #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester #smile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline #spacemen #alien abduction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Morris Harvey's 1957 yearbook.

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#halloween #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costumes #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #demon #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Recueil d'Antiquités by Antoine Mongez, 1804.
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#vintage illustration #beard #angel #deity #god
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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 the Kansas State yearbook of 1953.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #folk tale #pumpkin head #vegetable people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A yearbook that acknowledges that it's a sarcophagus.  (A secret: they all are!)  Explanations: How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
From Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's 1951 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pyramid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Plain Old Man, by Charlotte MacLeod:

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Well, these things were sent to test us, as Cousin Mabel was wont to say. The rest of the family were more inclined to assume Cousin Mabel had been sent to test them.

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Emma chatted on about their...program for the day while Sarah went on with her breakfast. The costumes were being verbally pressed when the doorbell rang.

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"Come on, chin up. Stiff upper lip."
"Stiff upper horsefeathers!"

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Dolph Kelling loomed behind, looking like the chairman of a society for the prevention of something or other.
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[Bonus: Someone is said to be "making a horse's necktie of himself." A quick Google Books search suggests that this may be a Charlotte MacLeod original.]
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
A blindfold is a powerful tool for making a blank map even blanker.  From The Film Daily, 1932.  See The Carte Blanche Atlas of seemingly impossibly blank maps.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mop wigs are not restricted to elegant looks.  Casual, carefree, even silly moments may be enhanced with mop wigs.  From Southern Methodist's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #cross dressing #mop hair #mop wig
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1968.
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#religion #good and evil #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From MacMurray's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Closeup magazine #1.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #archer #sagittarius
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October 11, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to James Hootman, of the band Order 0v Thee Octopi, for saying that "[Prof. Oddfellow] trips me out in the best way you can be tripped out."
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Old News (permalink)
"His dream of bliss ended, all because he sent stockings instead of gloves."  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #griffin #firecracker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #potato #vegetative #dispassionate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #fire spirit #occult #smoke #smoke spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #occult #snake #esoteric #torch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There's at least one flamer in just about any group.  From Morris Harvey's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #candle
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The Right Word (permalink)
A little joke at the end of Cupid's Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford, 1910: the appendix has been taken out.
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#appendix
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
Whispering Devils.  From Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #imp #devil #vintage hollywood #illustration #whispering #hollywood #movie #vintage movie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #war and peace #peace angel
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #let there be light #creation #light #god #biblical #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And of course we have fun …"  From Atlantic Christian College's 1960 yearbook.

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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The Right Word (permalink)
A cat chained to a dog as an example of a "double negative."  From Junior English in Action.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #grammar #cat and dog #double negative
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Nevada, Reno yearbook of 1985.

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#ufo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #orbs #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Jesus shoes."  From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #walking on water #jesus #1940s #shoes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Omaha's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #ape costume #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #wolf #lone wolf #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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October 10, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #blackbird #magpie
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #afterlife #video #penetralia #bardo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here Cerberus seems to be likened to the gate of Hades itself.  From The Martlet, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #cerberus #gates of hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #pulley
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phenomenon of the headline or title having nothing to do with the story is hardly new.  From the (Ontario) Tangent, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #waiter
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Old News (permalink)
"If you're crazy, I'm nuts, too."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brains and How to Get Them by Christian D. Larson, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #brain #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1843.
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#vintage illustration #giant #cannibalism #tiny men #skewered
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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 #ghost #death #spirit #polar bear #horror #white bear #giant bear #sky bear #spirit bear #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #angel #biblical #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Interlachen's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lighthouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #snake #brain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1912 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human faced #donkey man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sun #butterfly #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snowflake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #infestation #wasps #insects #swarm
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Stories and Interludes, by Barry Pain:

Old Dr. Farnham told the story of the blind zebra once more.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #moon #ocean
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October 9, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Late Italian foliate mask."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #mask #illustration #church art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
As seen in the Penetralia VIP Room, our Don't Laugh Game is a flip book of 180 responses and captions to trigger an outburst.
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#laughter
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I have feelings that cannot be contradicted."  From Dark Shadows episode 407.
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#feelings #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Evil Eyes."  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Stress reactions to routine medical procedures.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #operation #knife #phobia #stress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #frog #fish #fishing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pursued by a scarecrow.  From You Better Come Home With Me by John Lawson and illustrated by Arnold Spilka.
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#vintage illustration #witch #scarecrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #magician #vintage magic #magic #rabbit #hat trick #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale #knight #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #sword #barbed wire #tightrope #justice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tired #exhausted #overworked #working late
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #cat #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pan's Garden by Algernon Blackwood, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #arbor day #forest #tree spirit #tree #nature #reverence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #fish #under the sea #shark #diver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont's 1980 yearbook.

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#halloween #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #statue of liberty #tin foil hat
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Old News (permalink)
"Hello, is anybody (way) out there?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Dancing around an atomic explosion.  From Western Carolina's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #atomic
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Old News (permalink)
"Cowboys to get beds."  From The Martlet, 1975.
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#cowboy #vintage headline #headline
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October 8, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Men scarce in Michigan."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
An episode of Penetralia, followed by a shocking "reaction video" filmed live:
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#occult #prof. oddfellow #pagan #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1874.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's like us waking up every morning: premonition, monition, telepathic communication, intuitive insight.  From a Rosicrucian ad, 1972.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #gunshot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A "visible brainstorm," from Richmond Technical's 1983 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Focusing the light from the eye in the sky through a magnifying glass is a good way to start ritual fires, but keep books well away.  From La Colotte, 1910.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #face #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From South Carolina's 1968 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1924.
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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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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Sam the Sudden, by Wodehouse:


***
“That wastepaper basket over there has been in my office only four days, and already it knows more about the export and import business than you would learn if you stayed here fifty years."

***
[Who Needs Context? dept.]
Sam had many excellent qualities, but he did not in the least resemble a potted geranium.

***
Their windows are dirty and forlorn and most of the lettering outside has been worn away, so that on the second floor it would appear that trade is being carried on by the Ja— & Sum—r— Rub— Co., while just above, Messrs. Smith, R-bi-s-n & G——, that mystic firm, are dealing in something curtly described as c——.

***
[Walking Quasi-Reference Books dept.]
One of the things that make these old retainers so hard to bear is that they are so often walking editions of the chroniques scandaleuses of the family.

***
Swiftly reaching a decision, he went to the desk and took out a cable form.
The wording of the cable gave him some little trouble. The first version was so condensed that he could not understand it himself.
***

[Bonus: A nightclub called the Angry Cheese]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #giant #deity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #door #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blacky Daw by Adelaide Palmer and illustrated by Dorothy Saunders, 1930.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From When I Relax I Feel Guilty by Tim Hansel, 1979.
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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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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #symbol #idiot
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October 7, 2021

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

The many guidebooks for the dead, from antiquity to current times, presume that death is not an ending but rather a transitional journey that requires attentive planning.  Seemingly ironically, these guidebooks are simultaneously about living life to the fullest, comporting oneself while keeping body and soul together, and knowing that our spiritual destination is inextricably tied to our corporeal choice making and conduct.  As Ptolemy Tompkins notes in The Modern Book of the Dead, those who hate and fear death are unable to live happily, while for those who think the right way about death, "life loses that gloom and becomes something entirely different: something larger, stranger, and in- finitely more promising and positive than we might ever have imagined."

Prof. Oddfellow's Books of the Dead is a distillation of twenty-four books of the dead from around the world and across the centuries.  Each book’s most intriguing, poetic, and useful revelations are painstakingly gathered here.

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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Major Nelson: The clocks haven't stopped, just the calendar.  Every day is Sunday, and if we don't do something about it, the world could be destroyed.
Dr. Bellows: How long has it been Sunday, major?
Major Nelson: Yesterday was Sunday and today is Sunday but what really worries me is that tomorrow is gonna be Sunday and the day after, unless I get some rest.
Dr. Bellows: You just lie there.  I'll be right back.
Major Nelson: Thank you.  Where are you going?
Dr. Bellows: To call a calendar maker, to stop the calendars for you.
From I Dream of Jeannie, season 2, episode 2.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"The dream palace."  From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #castle #boat #sailboat #palace #dream palace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fox #sleeping
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From A Trip to the Land of the Midnight Sun by Martha Buckingham Wood, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ya-Hoo, 1954.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #angel #fairy tale #genie #djinn #fiddler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A syringe of the healing power of laughter.  From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene's 1929 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #ice skating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fear of falling is not necessarily irrational.  From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #demon #falling #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The answers lie somewhere at the bottom."  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #jesus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#religion #vintage illustration #candle #insect man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #serpent #snake #turtle #helmet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is how we weigh ghosts, too.  From South Carolina's 1968 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ghost #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you and a kitten are the party.  From North Adams' 1986 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Happy Tinker Day!  It falls after the first frost in October, when all plans are cancelled and everyone dons silly costumes and climbs a mountain, eats Tinker cake, performs skits, and sings songs.  (First celebrated in the 1880s at Hollins College.)  The exact date is a closely held secret.
From Hollins' 1981 yearbook.

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#unicorn #vintage yearbook #holiday #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May no strangler vines choke your path today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #vine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to use tools."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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#mask
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October 6, 2021

The Right Word (permalink)
"Can't Get a Word In": Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cat Walk by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales from Story-Town by Mina Pearl Ashton and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #spinning wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
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#vintage illustration #witch #black cat #hallowe'en #puppet #puppet show #cat puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's something broke out of somewhere."  From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #straitjacket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What did Eve say to Adam --- 'Is love everything?'"  From The Film Daily, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #serpent #snake #garden of eden #adam and eve #apple #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The story of Jonah.  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #biblical #jonah #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #angel #carried away
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They spoke a language that sounded like a tape recorder played backwards.  Physically, they were pale and very cold to touch."  From UFO Update, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #spacemen #alien abduction #flying saucer #space alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #zoology #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #stranded at sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bowman Gray's 1964 yearbook.

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#skull #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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
(Our restoration, as per usual.)  From Presbyterian Junior College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #full moon #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #frog #rabbit #night #aesop
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Old News (permalink)
The line about cheap entertainment is from the article above.  But we left it.  "Pigs run amok."  From The Gateway, 1980.
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#pig #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
There are those who think all yearbook photos should be this impressionistic.  From Mars Hill's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"The dead are not silent."  From Woroni, 1980.
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#dead #spirit communication #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Farewell My Herring, by L. C. Tyler:

***
Somewhere in the background we could hear the clock in the hallway ticking slowly and confidently, as if it knew something we didn't.

***
"Maybe a little bird told me."
"That's rather unlikely up here, don't you think?"
"It could have been a snow bunting."
"No, it couldn't. You don't get them in Yorkshire."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #living dead #horror #undead
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October 5, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to long-time viewer Haley, who writes: "Your collection means a lot to people. Things we will never see or imagine you have brought to the surface and I appreciate all your hard work and presence. Be proud. Hell *I* don’t have a you tube channel! That’s pretty badass!"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #penguin
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
At first glance we thought this was a backsided view of religion, but presumably she's merely reflected in a mirror.  Still, their eyes aren't down there, lady.  From Together, 1959.
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Old News (permalink)
"Through the night but no rising sun."  From Woroni, 1963.
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#darkness #night #vintage headline #headline
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From When Fairies Were Friendly by Evaleen Stein, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Calendars and Constellations by Emmeline Plunket, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"His third eye opened slowly and looked after the man."  From Startling Stories, 1948.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taylor's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus
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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 Barnard's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing cats #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fishing #valentine #wooing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1909.  This is achievable: see How to Be Your Own Cat.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #1920s #hallucination #dizzy #world spins #melting architecture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An ex libris from Tufts' 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #harp #yearbook #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let's bust beautiful (but empty) bubbles."  From The Film Daily, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1976. 
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Something the Cat Dragged In, by Charlotte MacLeod:

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He'd never been one to bestir himself at first crack of dawn. Or second crack, either, if there was such a thing.

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She herself had been a Swope from Lumpkin Upper Mills. Why any group claiming to be "dedicated to the preservation of our heritage" had passed up its chance to take in both a Lomax and a Swope at one swoop was something she'd never understand to her dying day.

***
Mrs. Lomax explained the cushion situation in detail, and threw in a few dark hints about the antimacassars for good measure.

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"The organ may be gone, but the music remains. That's what my great-aunt Mabel used to say after they took out her whatevers."
"Never you mind your great-aunt's whatevers."

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He'd only just got nicely launched into a dream of cruising down the great, gray-green, greasy Limpopo River in a sternwheeler, searching for the perfect alligator pear and weeping crocodile tears because he couldn't find any.

***
"Peter! Peter, wait. Is it true?"
"I can't wait. I have a class. It probably isn't."
***

[Bonus: A character named Ruth Smuth]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ugh!  Too soon for wolf here."  From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 1903.
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Old News (permalink)
"Boy hunts pedagogues.  Refused right to seek game, youth fires on teachers."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#hunter #vintage headline #headline
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October 4, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Neons Gone Mad risked their fingers to bring you this haunted clockwork remix of Tea Are Sea's "Unstuck (In Time)."  (Hear Neons Gone Mad on Bandcamp.)
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#music video #video #neons gone mad #haunted clockwork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"His face melted away."  From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #faceless #no face #1910s #knitting needle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Thought Too Much by Robin D. Gill.
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#japanese #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A displacer robe can make all the difference.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #hooded figure #robe
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I think I shall feel quite at home in the unknown."  From Dark Shadows episode 840.
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#occult #unknown #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's the difference between butter and margarine blends.  Did you know that the word “margarine” comes from the Greek for “pearl”?  We’d show you the mechanical oyster that makes fake butter pearls for the robot cow, but it’s a thing of nightmares.  Art by Ton van Tast a.k.a. Anton van der Valk, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #cow #robot #margarine #butter #dairy
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't get carried away, Harvard warns."  (Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.)
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#carried away #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #cryogenics
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Lessons in English by Arthur Lee, 1917.
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#october #sentence diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The fifth labor of Hercules.  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #snake charmer #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #lantern #light in darkness #night balloon #art
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
One of those books that answers a question you weren't even asking at that moment.  From No, Not Dead; They Live! by Wilson Gill Bailey, 1923.
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#life after death #immortality #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #world #gas mask
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1984 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college. 
Looks like the unholy symbol consists of an exclamation point sharing a dot with an upside down question mark (which we initially mistook for a semicolon), and an em-dash on each side.  The Blue Oyster Cult symbol?
From Greensboro's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #clock face #1900s
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October 3, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The lion fairy.  From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #temple #sri lanka #anuradhapura
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A capriole leap from Goats by Frank Wright Noxon, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #leaping #goat #capriole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sooty by Ambrosina Hurcum and illustrated by Eleanor Mussey Young, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We."  From St. Procopius' 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She Couldn't Take It!"  From The Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #sawing a lady in half
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An inversion of a crayon-colored illustration from The Counterpane Fairy, written and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drawbridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Loosley [sic] surprised by a hologram of himself."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #illustration #spirit double #hologram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera #trick photography #decapitated #photographer #1970s
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #devil #saint #bellows
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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 Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not only are we invited to scream in the dark, but a bit of darkness has been provided for our convenience.  From the 1986 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#darkness #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scream
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
When young men don't find your jokes funny, there's always forced convulsions of laughter via hypnotism, apparently.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #laughter #hypnosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's Engineering Yearbook, 1973.

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#mad scientist #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At least Mr. 'Possum apologized for being being rude.  From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #possum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #giant #giant foot #tiny man #crushed #bigfoot #trampled #paranoia
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Robinson Crusoe's Return, by Barry Pain:

***
We got into a carriage...which he told me was in the vulgar parlance called a four-wheeler; and when I asked him what the reason for that might be, he answered that it was because the Emperor of Timbuctoo's aunt rode once in one.

***
For sheer intelligence I doubt if there is anything which can compete with a good tide.
***


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Wonderland, A Dramatization by Alice Gerstenberg, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #cat #alice in wonderland #cat costume
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October 2, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mothers News, 2011.
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#vintage illustration #witch #faceless #illustration #shut up #no face #poof
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rich Man and the Singer, Folktales From Ethiopia, illustrated by Christine Price.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mice #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is our wish to keep the werewolf from your door.  From Wizardry Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #werewolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The boy who had the moon on his forehead and a star on his chin."  From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #horse #puss in boots
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Old News (permalink)
"And I think, 'Shut up ... just shut up.'"  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage headline #shut up #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Making satirical remarks on the photographs."  From The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #vintage #lantern #oscar wilde #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Third Golden Rule Book, 1917.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #broom
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
From What Time Is It? by M. Ilin and illustrated by N. Lapshin, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #skull #timepiece #temporal anomaly
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Old News (permalink)
"Autumn in a goblin."  From Westwords, Sept. 1967.
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#goblin #autumn #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #skeleton #graveyard #living dead #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Framed by a mystic flame."  From Wabash's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#fire #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonfire #mystic flame
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A photorealistic depiction of autumn fog.  From Nebelspalter, 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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#autumn #fog #not pictured
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Methodist College's 1984 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 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 #tiny men #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Though the context is extraterrestrials, this sounds like some parties we've been to here on earth.  "They were nice; they said relax ... Later, one particular being was not so nice."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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#aliens
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photo may be used as a tool to facilitate time travel.  From Guilford's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tree #foggy
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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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#esoteric
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's only the two-eyed people that we're socially uncomfortable with.  "The visit of a two-eyed child," from the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #two-eyed
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October 1, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's playing card royalty riding rocking horses are from The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 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 #playing cards #rocking horse
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the lost kitten.  From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hidden pictures
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #george bernard shaw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #werewolf #statue #gargoyle #1870s #lycanthrope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #druid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #king #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #esoteric #creation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #october #autumn #vintage magazine #magazine
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Ethos, 1960.
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#autumn #poem
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
Humpty Dumpty cries over hearing a nonsense song.  Imagine how unbearably miserable, how out of place he must have felt in Wonderland, what a stranger he was in a strange land.  From The Roly-Poly Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #crying #humpty dumpty #nonsense #egg people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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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 Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 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 #fairies #clouds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
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 #open grave #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #resurrection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Deviant."  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 #demon #devil #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 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 #fairy tale #fairy queen #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Amendment of Life, by Catherine Aird:

***
"What's wrong with [my dressing gown]?"
"Old age," she said crisply.
"People live longer these days," he said. "Why shouldn't dressing gowns?"

***
"The rest of all this paperwork you can take away and go through while I sit and think about object waves meeting reference waves and cabbages and kings."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #conductor #musician #men's room
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 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 #fairy #insect
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