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October 31, 2022

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 #devil #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #illustration #postcard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Veepar, who wrote: "How are there comments from a month ago, when this video says it was published yesterday? Huh.. Either way, not entirely sure who you are. Discovered this channel through your blog a little while back, where I was enjoying digging through your long list of 'precursors.' Not entirely sure how I even discovered that blog. In any case, these oddball videos have been a treat. I'm officially tuned in."
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#voodoo #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #baron samedi #vodou
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It was fear itself that he was wiping out."  From The King of the Mamozekel by Charles G. D. Roberts and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 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 #moose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #flying broom #wildcat #poem #flying broomstick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
From the [DuPage] Courier, 1978.  
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#jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Picket, 1994.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #sheet ghost #hallowe'en
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Together, 1960.
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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 #precipice #ocean #lightning #cliff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I can't get this outfit together."  From St. Nicholas, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost cat may stalk lighthouse."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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#ghost #cat #lighthouse #vintage headline #ghost cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May witches stir up no trouble for you today.  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 #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institue's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #october #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #hallowe'en #carved pumpkins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Witch's Cat Book by Linda Glovach.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's weird but true -- all meetings go better when presided over by a giant jack-o'-lantern.  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #jack-o-lantern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghosts and Goblins by Wilhelmina Harper.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The spirit of Halloween."  From American University's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#pumpkin #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #hallowe'en #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ottawa's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #halloween #october #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Find Out by Gerald Craig and Agnes Burke, and illustrated by Robert Lambdin and Revere Wistehuff, 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The paralyzing glare of a pumpkin's burned expression appals the darkness.  From Eastern Michigan University's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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October 30, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Excellent advice for Halloween: "Walk down the lane and back again, and then stand still, and listen!"  From St. Nicholas, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #halloween #hallowe'en #advice
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #practical joke #jack-o'-lantern #cow #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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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)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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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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#magick #wizard #occult #coffin
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Old News (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovni Presence No. 42, 1989.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #mask #cat #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #diamond #bling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1987. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hallowe'en #costume #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A combination sword/marotte.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #jester #sword #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Helps and Hints for Hallowe'en by Laura Rountree Smith, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Time and Tigers by D. R. Amato.  (Our restoration.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #haunted house #spooky #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1936 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Phantom Foe."  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#monster #horror #bigfoot #vintage hollywood #hollywood #apeman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Texas Wesleyan's 1970 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #passed out #asleep #1970s #vintage man #collapsed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 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 #turkey #gingerbread man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1920s #costume
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Picket, 1994.
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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #hallowe'en #poem #flying broomstick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Institut des textiles du Cegep de Saint-Hyacinthe's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack
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October 29, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiger #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #mesmerism #hypnotist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 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 #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Screamer, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #smiling cat #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
Aliens love to party and smell of cheese.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #ogre #making faces
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's the form the epigraph takes in Positive Magic by Marion Weinstein. 
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #pentagram #pentacle #author's note #epigraph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin #hallowe'en #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The problem with gifts from goblins is the exchange and return policy.  From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #goblin #gift
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Boston College's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you hereby be protected from nightstalkers.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #horror #nightstalker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Helps and Hints for Hallowe'en by Laura Rountree Smith, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #witch #vintage book #book #hallowe'en #candles with faces #candle face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Wesleyan's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #costume #sheep #horns #mascot #1970s #vintage men #cosplay #cheerleader #sheep costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Bacchanies."  From Psyche by Louis Couperus and illustrated by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #bacchic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's tornado in the wake of bees is from SUNY Broome's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #tornado #vintage yearbook #bee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #leopard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Machine World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #witch #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #phonograph #hallowe'en #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Dentistry's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #1960s #dentist #dracula #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1910, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #witch #halloween #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkin head #vintage postcard #postcard
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October 28, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Screamer, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The valley of the shadow of death here looks uncannily like the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs.  From Together, 1960.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Arrow Book of Ghost Stories by Nora Kramer.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Night moths.  From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #night #moth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puppetry Today by Helen Binyon.
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #puppetry #hand puppet #cat puppet
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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 #pig #smiling animal #prosecutor #laughing pig
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #close encounters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The demon of coal shortages falls to the winged wheel as a stoker battles the spirit of electricity.  From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #coal #electricity #illustration
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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 #eagle #crab #native american #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #trash can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We wouldn't leave the house without a disguise tie.  From Current Sauce, 1987. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #hallowe'en #necktie #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #possum
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "As You Dislike It," by Denis Mackail"

***
[Someone is trying to get someone else's attention.]

"Oy!" he shouted. "Yow-oo!  Hi-yi!"[....]
"Whoops!" he added, rather more loudly. "Hoy-oy! I say!"[....]
"Loo-loo-loo!" be bellowed this time. "Hi-hi-hi! Worry-worry-worry! Yoy!!"

***
The main point was that Icelandic Steam Laundries Preferred had gone up seven points this afternoon.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #wishing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas State College for Women's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #corn #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cannibal carved pumpkin, from Germany, date unknown, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkin head #vintage postcard #cannibal #pumpkin pie #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Guilford College's 1986 yearbook.

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#weird #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chair #bizarre #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#rat #vintage illustration
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October 27, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Athletes rake it in while teachers are underpaid, in 1920 as today.  Looking at vintage news, you'll be forgiven for hearing Bruce Hornsby singing, "That's just the way it is; some things will never change."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #spacetime
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #cannon #day and night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A snake staff."  From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake
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Old News (permalink)
"I could not sleep, the energy was so great."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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#insomnia #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #mental health #neurosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #fraternity #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any greater demons in your way be crippled by an inferiority complex.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Florida's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alligator #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This signer of a yearbook fashioned his comment so that the adjacent photo would seem to illustrate it.  "You can be a little black sheep in my pasture any ole time. —Durwood."  From Texas Wesleyan's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #sheep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State's 1962 yearbook.

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#horror #vintage yearbook #long hair #1960s #faceless #cursed #no face
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"What nasturtium leaves are for."  From St. Nicholas, 1916.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#umbrella #rainy day #anthropomorphism #mouse #nasturtium #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1936 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Stag versus hounds.  From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #aesop #stag #animal fight #hound
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's masked candle is from Ohio State University's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #hand #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed: the real reason some have an aversion to fruitcake.  From 1910, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #fruitcake #postcard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Revealed: fashion models look so good because they paste glamor photos atop themselves.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage photo #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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October 26, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Hey, if casting things aside, nerves being on edge, having advice ignored, being in bed but not sleeping, and going into hiding is headline-worthy, why ain't my life a banner headline?  Reblog if you, too, are the real news.  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Sun by C. A. Young, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #sun #sunspot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #artist #modern art #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The pledges of good faith."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #cat and mouse #rat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's hoping that that thing up there, whatever it is, has been appeased.  From Dark Shadows episode 1214.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ice-Breakers and the Ice-Breaker Herself by Edna Geister, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A steamship's dolphin newel.  From The Century, 1889.
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Old News (permalink)
Q: "Is answer to UFO riddle on our own doorstep?" 
A: "Well, it all depends upon what it says on your novelty doormat.  Those things can be incredibly insightful."
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #overweight #aging #buddha #fat #arteries
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblogging is restricted to "midnight mortals."  From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Wesleyan's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #costumes #elephant costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #king #throne
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Old News (permalink)
You may have wondered whether the beautiful people are grown in vats by demons.  This headline confirms that "Demonland grows beauties" and that it's cheaper that way.  From The Current Sauce, 1956.
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#demon #vintage headline #beauty #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The wolf-charmer.  From Scribner's 1880.
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#vintage illustration #wolf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world
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Old News (permalink)
"A thousand times no!"  From Together, 1961.
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#no means no #no #vintage headline #headline #absolutely not
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #seaside #dancing #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #burned alive
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Old News (permalink)
Of course now they tell us the very opposite, not to pile all our meals atop bread.  It's hard to know what to believe anymore.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#diet #vintage headline #bread #cooking #headline
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October 25, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Tight shoes cause death."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#shoe #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #yarn ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #occult #astral body #spirit self
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Old News (permalink)
"The shadow of your life is influencing others for evil or for good."  From The Lighted Pathway, 1962.
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#good and evil #shadow #vintage headline #headline
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Not now; wait yet awhile."  From The King's Coming by William De Carrick, with frontispiece by J. E. Brown, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #dove
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Still experimenting when a deep growl sounded."  It has happened to the best of us.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #bear #bear cub
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A cute gift pairing idea: To Be a Cat by Matt Haig and How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#cat people #shapeshifting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At the New Orleans Exposition, "a corner in Japan."  From The Century, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We all know someone like this.  (Er ... don't we?)  From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #owl #genie #djinn #arabian nights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The most mysterious forest on earth -- the glowing trees within old yearbooks.  From Catawba's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #forest #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing trees
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The [Thornton] Courier, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #bulldog #hallowe'en #frankenstein's monster
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1996 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Positive Magic by Marion Weinstein.
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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #broomstick #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tulane's 1912 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #eek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #devil #witch #broomstick #hag #poem
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From What Next? by Denis Mackail:

***
[Mr. Cash is a solicitor]
The thought of this for some reason caused him to smile, which was so unheard-of a thing to occur in Mr. Cash's room that that gentleman stopped abruptly in the middle of the word "backwardisation" and said, "I beg your pardon, perhaps I am not quite clear?"

***
[Mis-finished Sentences dept.!]
"Besides I should miss all your--"
"Proposals," suggested Jim hopefully....
"Nonsense. 'Racing tips' was what I was going to say."

***
Ergo, what the dickens and everything else am I to say?
[I guess "and everything else" is a sort of blank map of maledicta, eh?]

***
[Parenthetical!]
"Let the explanatory and parenthetical Muse descend and address the reader."
[See full passage attached. And then the sequel attachment, in which the narrator really sells the idea that his story is happening in real time.]

***
This "but------" was the curse of Jim's existence. The riddle of the sphinx and the problem of squaring the circle left him cold.

***
At about ten o'clock Mr. Cash, in illustrating a mannerism of the female mandrill, knocked over a bottle of brandy.

***
[On the Port Club's "magic" port wine, which can be deeply indulged with nary a hangover.]
Oh unsurpassable and unequalled Port Club Port, two bottles of which will be but a pleasant memory to Messrs. Cash and Grant in the morning! Oh rare grape! Oh skilled bottler! Oh peerless vintage!--how I wish I had ever met you in real life!

***
He bent still further forward, and his eyeglasses fell off his nose and spun wildly on the end of the curly cord. [Wildly!]

***
"I was a professor of never mind what at a university in the North of England."

***
It is well known that once a reader starts skipping he never stops, but takes longer and wilder leaps each time.

***
One leg of his trousers had formed itself into a kind of spiral knickerbocker and barely descended below his knee. [The rare singular "knickerbocker."]

***
[Laughing in Turkish Baths dept.]
He might, for instance, have a Turkish bath; that wouldn't cost much; but then he hated Turkish baths really. It was so difficult not to laugh in them.

***
...before you, or anyone else for that matter, could say "Robinson and Cleaver."
[I had to look up "Robinson and Cleaver," which turns out to be a once-famous Victorian-era Belfast department store. And of course I appreciate the narrator's thoroughness in specifying that you or anyone else couldn't say it fast enough.]

***
"I've got to meet Father at half-past three at platform something-or-other."
[It's none of my business, but I think this may be taking genericization too far for comfort!]

***
Jim had at all times the gift of the sort of sleep that no outward physical disturbance could arouse. From his earliest youth cold sponges had, so to speak, left him cold.

***
[See attached. In which the narrator defends his depiction of the protagonist to a hypothetical, indignant reader.]

***
[When you can't be bothered to do your own cussing.]
"Damn!" said Lush.
"Ditto," said Jim.

***
"Damn and blast!" roared Jim....
"Blast and damn!" he repeated, and was on the point of adding further words of a similar nature....

***
A torrent of quite unspeakable though silent oaths was radiating from Jim as from some raging high-powered wireless station. [Oh, if only this book were illustrated!]

***
the first night of the fifth edition of "Muffins and Crumpets"

***
[Wait for the epilogue! (attached)]
***

Bonus: A passing reference in this book to the delightful surname Snelgrove was my first encounter with it. Eager to make up for lost time, I visited Wikipedia to become Snelgrove-aware. There I discovered (Missed Opportunity Dept.) that the Canadian coffee chain Timothy's could have been called Snelgrove's! Goodness gracious, I have done business at Timothy's on, I think, multiple occasions, never knowing there was an implicit Snelgrove lurking!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%27s_World_Coffee#Origin_and_background




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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Every day he went out and brought me in a hare or a rabbit."  From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mississippi Valley State University's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1962.
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October 24, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A crock of gold is traditionally understood to be at the end of a rainbow, but we've also encountered mention of these things at the ends of rainbows:
  • a sacrificial altar
  • a mermaid
  • one's heart's desire
  • the city of San Francisco
  • a conundrum
  • a unicorn
  • a road paved with diamonds
  • a kiss
  • a turquoise
  • a story
  • a pot of oats
  • a legion of angels of hope
  • a bridge
  • a phantom
  • the Pierian Spring
  • nothing
  • an answer
  • a pot of honey
  • Glasgow, Kentucky
  • a wishing well
  • Elysium
  • a long-lost friend
  • a bucket of blood
  • the Serene Sewing Angel
  • a green prairie
  • refreshing punch
  • cheap fertilizer
  • a heap of trash
  • a lewd leprechaun
  • a glass city
  • the shining sweet star of the sea
  • a fountain that never goes dry
  • an enchanted kingdom
  • an empty pot
  • a stack of words
  • the letter W
[Snippets gathered through the course of our research.  See Bullet Lists.]
Here's an account of someone who stood at the end of a rainbow, from The Mayans #164, 1958:
Most people think that at the end of the rainbow is a pot of gold, but that no one ever found the end of the rainbow or ever can.  Speaking of experiences usually considered impossible, here is the personal account given by a man who learned better.
"Twice I have stood at the end of a rainbow as literally and actually as one might stand by a rosebush or a tree.  This is an account of the first time it happened.  I did not exactly find it. It sought me out and came to me.
"I was driving on a country road when a summer shower came up. The thunder and lightning shook the rain loose in torrents.  Then came hail, which fell in large, pounding ice-stones, beating a tattoo on the top and sides of my car.  Then it stopped as suddenly as it had begun, and the sun's rays began struggling through the cloud rifts.
"At the top of a hill, I pulled out and left the car to look at the rain-washed landscape.  That was when I saw a large and brilliant rainbow reaching far across a valley and seeming to come down behind some hills several miles away.
"I stood there thinking how far away the end of that rainbow must be.  If one started out to reach it he would only find it farther away each time he arrived where it had appeared to be. He could not even find that place, because the great arc of color would have faded from the sky before he could reach it.
"All at once it occurred to me that a rainbow has two ends.  When I turned to find out where the other end came down, I did not see it at first, for the reason that it came down at my feet, and the trees and ground ahead of me were in it.  Its vari-colored light was flooding around them like colored lights upon a stage.
"I thrust one hand into it to be sure it was not a dream or hallucination.  Sure enough it was there, and I could see my hand bathed in its transparent colors.  On the ground I could see my feet in the same tinted mist.  I know they were mine, for I moved them to make sure.
"Did I find a pot of gold?  No, not in the ordinary sense of the words, but in their truer sense I feel that I found treasure worth a great deal more.  I found it in the things the experience had taught me.
"First, I learned that the end of the rainbow is not inaccessible, and though we may not reach it by searching for it, if we live in the spirit of hope it may some day seek us out.  Its glorious symbol of promise is a phase of the goodness and mercy of God which follow us all the days of our lives.
"Second, I learned that we may often miss the end of the rainbow because we look at the one farthest away across the hills when the nearer end may come down at our very feet.  We do it the hard way when doing it the easy way would bring results.
"Third, I was reminded that nothing beautiful and good is really out of reach, that many seemingly impossible things would be possible if we would only let them be, and that much to which we cannot go will come to us if we keep within its reach.
"Yes, one thing more.  Fourth, I realized the half-pondered fact that we never have a rainbow unless we have a cloud."
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Old News (permalink)
The unisex fashion movement in the United States came and went in 1968 (according to The Atlantic), but it hit Australia eight years earlier.  "His or hers — it's all the same."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #vintage headline #unisex #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to R.H., who commented on this video, "How many YouTube channels can be this surreal, humorous, thoughtful and inspiring? Perhaps only one. Long live & stream, Penetralia!"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 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 #alice in wonderland #rowboat #golden afternoon
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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 #imp #bat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #dog
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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 #brain #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales by Marion Florence Lansing, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #devil #fairy tale #ogre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Runaway Equator by Lilian Bell and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #meteor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Most likely to succeed.  From the Ohio State College of Veterinary Medicine's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #gorilla #smart animal
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #sculpture #blurred #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any liches you meet be called away on more important business.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #horror #illustration #liches
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Wesleyan's 1942 yearbook.

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#fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Walking the crocodile.  From Nebelspalter, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egypt #crocodile #alligator #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Cats of Henriette Ronner."  From The Century, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Going and coming by night."  From Scribner's 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 #silhouette #japanese #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal'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 #marotte
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Old News (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't put me out to pasture."  From Together, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippis 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #serpent #anthropomorphism #snake #vintage yearbook
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October 23, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Too easy!  A better word than "delicious" is "scrumpdiddlyumptious."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #spinning wheel #Rumpelstiltskin
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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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 #animal attack #tentacles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #egypt #statue #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Find Out by Gerald Craig and Agnes Burke, and illustrated by Robert Lambdin and Revere Wistehuff, 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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Old News (permalink)
From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.
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#shadow #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myths and Legends of Australia by A. W. Reed and illustrated by Roger Hart.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #frog #aboriginal #giant frog #frog monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #three bears
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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 photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #ancient mariner #rime of the ancient mariner #albatross
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #fireplace #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #spider #hybrid #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed -- pine cones are fairy telephone receivers.  From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #telephone #pinecone #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
That uncomfortable realization while signing a yearbook that you'll likely never see or speak to that person again, that what you presumed was a good friendship is fleeting before your eyes.  It makes this yearbook comment quite poignant: "Dear Slugger: We talk each other's language thus we should continue and not necessitate writing in such an insignificant spot as this.  You know how much I think of you, cherish you?  If not, a hell of a lot.  We have more fun than any body, right?  Jesus, this crap makes me think you are going or something --.  Joe Wills."  From Texas Wesleyan's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #automaton #mechanical man #robot #mannequin #manikin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They are my own flower [sic]."  From The Century, 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 #flower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #jackass #donkey headed
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Old News (permalink)
Q: "Is anybody out there?"
A: If our own viewership stats are indicative, nope: there's nobody out there.  That's why we had to resort to a Spirit Applause-O-Meter.
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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#vintage headline #aliens #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dentist
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A memory which stores up old grief, injury, and disappointment has no room for the joy and triumph of today and tomorrow."  From Together, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #memory
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling #smile #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
Illustration by Dick Siebert.  From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #power #vintage headline #headline
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October 22, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
At first glance, we assumed this was a diagram for determing the optimal span for a propeller beanie.  (Disappointed.)  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #fashion #vintage fashion #diagram #illustration #proportions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When I stepped out on to the moon's surface this time it was no dream."  From Animal Spirits by David McFadden and illustrated by Greg Curnoe.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astronaut #spaceman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Worlds, 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 illustration #plant people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Remarking on the wind is considered polite when addressing a hare for the first time.  From St. Nicholas, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#hare #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #witch #insomnia #sleepless #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A six-legged cat from 1750.  From The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #six legs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May your day be free of fire giants.  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 #giant #fire giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The hopes men set their hearts upon turn to ashes."  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 #smoke #pipe smoker #illustration #ashes #hope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flying machine #ornithopter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat and mouse #mousetrap #catamount
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #elephant #pig
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Century, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #eclipse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Yellowstone geyser map.  From Scribner's, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #map #geyser #1870s #yellowstone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #athlete
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #astral body #spirit double #spirit body #spirit self
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippis 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey #bellows
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Old News (permalink)
From Ask the Cards a Question by Marcia Muller, 1982.
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#devil #tarot #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Being fitted for his halo.  From Nyack College's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #pumpkinhead #oz #illustration
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October 21, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Dark Shadows' Barnabas Collins holding a haunted painting.  "The shades will not vanish," from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #vintage headline #headline #dark shadows #barnabas collins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we're cautious around monkeys.  From Blue Book, 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 #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #mice #cat and mouse #tibet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American University's 1984 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eye in the sky #surveillance society #big brother #1984
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Skyward and Back Again by Lucy Robinson, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ice #castle #ice palace
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1914 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Old News (permalink)
"Demons continue to fool experts."  From The Current Sauce, 1973.
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#demon #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bat #skull #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An intelligent countenance."  From Scribner's, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #camel #animal intelligence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Save wear and tear on your fingernails!"  From The Film Daily, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #nervous #fingernails #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #subject to change
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #chalkboard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #isolation #stranded at sea #island #social withdrawl #bad advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #bird man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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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#darkness #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Story of a Laugh," by Denis Mackail:

***
Professor Gumm has done this. So has Dr. McOstrich. So has Herr Doktor-Professor Rumpelbach."
***

Bonus (not that one necessarily needs a bonus, after "Dr. McOstrich"): "wisecracks or nifties"
[I think "nifty" as a term for a bon mot is new to me]
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #elephant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monster #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #dog #rat #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mad tea party #mad hatter #hare #mouse #tea
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October 20, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is part of the Dr. Robert Duncan-Enzmann Archive.  (The pioneering Enzmann Starship was blueprinted in 1947.)
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#cemetery #graveyard #sphinx #occult #statue #music video #new orleans #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #cat
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Unicorns (permalink)
Two ways to find a cosmic unicorn.  From Star Lore of All Ages by William Tyler Olcott, 1911.  See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #unicorn #stars #monoceros
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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 #dog #rabbit #bunny #hare #turtle #aesop's fables #tortoise and the hare #pet walker #silhou #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #horse #scythe #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #ghost #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times on Our Street by Gates, Huber, Peardon and Salisbury, 1945.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbit
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
When a friend has a green bean problem.  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #addiction #green beans
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Listening to the Nightingale."  From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1870.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #pumpkin #faces in things #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tulane's 1912 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Brigantia, 1989.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mothman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1970s
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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 #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #facial expressions #1920s #cartooning #making faces #falling asleep
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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 #monk #jester
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vulture
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Old News (permalink)
"Holidays are too numerous."  From The Duluth Herald, 1915.  
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#vintage headline #holiday #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's jump-roping eagle is from Ashland College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #eagle #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jumprope #1960s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#cat #vintage book #cornell woolrich
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October 19, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1873.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #masquerade #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #salt and pepper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #zoo #vintage magazine #panther #tables turned #human zoo #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Please don't get soap into my eyes,' begged Robin Redbreast."  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #talking bird #bird #faces in things #robin #spring cleaning #bath
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A skeleton walking the dog.  From Colorado College's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May no unwelcome fuzzballs distract you today.  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 #dust bunny #fuzzball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of the larger marottes we've encountered.  From William and Mary's 1926 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 #marotte #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The charm that lies in a furry face."  From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1870s #if you had wings #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Trying to temp a lion with veggies.  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 #lion #caged animal #vegetable
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #escape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #hunter
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not see yourself in "the bad place" when you fall asleep 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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#nightmare #dream #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairies #pumpkin #elves #fairy queen #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japan #kicked
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Loving unlovely people."  From Lighted Pathway1960.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #unlovely
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's dancing pumpkinheads are from California State College (Pennsylvania)'s 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkinhead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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October 18, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hyena
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our definition of a Buddhist mantra in Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in "The Calming Effect of Imee Ooi’s Buddhist Music: from Mantra to Music and Meditation" by Loo Fung Ying, Loo Fung Chiat, and Tee Xiao Hao in the Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"If this picture seems totally irrelevant to you..."  From Current Sauce, 1988.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astronaut
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Old News (permalink)
"As darkness slowly crept upon us, I could sense a real feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment."  From Taylor Magazine, 1972.
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1913 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sororities #blindfolded #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Past Eight O'Clock by Joan Aiken and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chris Turner, Magician by James Brady and illustrated by Lloyd Coe.
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#vintage illustration #magician #escape artist #magic trick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It looks good on paper."  From Hanover's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #aura #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
That's our own face of blurred panic when there's a knock at the door.  She's reassurred that ghosts don't knock, but of course they very famously do knock on doors and rap on tables.  From Dark Shadows episode 1174.
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#ghost #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #divination #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #beard #skull #memento mori
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Right Word for It," by Denis Mackail:

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If thoughts are radiations, as some say they are, the entire expanding universe, I should imagine, is crammed with the ends of these [unfinished] sentences. Perhaps this accounts for the weather that we have been having lately....Unfinished sentences, I should say, have formed part of the dream for hundreds and thousands of years.
***
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1912 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 #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #shrouded #secret society #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"The town the 'Dirty Devil' took."  From Improvement Era, 1951.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you ever wondered about the academic's mortarboard cap, it's a map.  From Elizabethtown College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #1940s #hat #mortarboard
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Two Sides / Same Coin (permalink)
Tag yourself: are you Devout Dorothy, Free-spirit Dorothy, or combination Shy/Wild Dorothy?  From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's pyramid reflected in a mirage and with a face is from from Illinois Holiness University's 1915 yearbok.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #pyramid #mirage #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #bird #morning after #hangover #after the party
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October 17, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Self-loathing For Beginners by Lynn Phillips.
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#self-loathing #name tag #self esteem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Even if you prefer taking a train to flying, you can still get to the moon.  "A projectile train to the moon."  From The Century, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #space travel #moon #rocket #space train
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Old News (permalink)
"Saucers 'Dad' thinks they're living forces.  He's ready for them."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #devil #skull #grim reaper #war #scythe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario 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 #angel #seraphim
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hand #wishbone #wishing #bone #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grasshopper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #positive and negative
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #giant bird #carried away #1870s #taken by animals
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Sun is nothing / believe in candles" -- a transposition of two phrases from a poem by G. Jake Bordeaux, 1978.
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#sun #candle #poem
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From McGill's 1925 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dreaming #vintage yearbook #finis #vintage illustration #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 #jester #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Erskine College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #occult #cauldron #prophecy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #all wet #hose #fireman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king neptune
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bronco
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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 #mouse #painting #artistic animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The phrase "diploma for the dead" is a Googlewhack to this day.  From Duke University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diploma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Talk to the hand.  From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #hooded figure
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October 16, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Hangman by Paul Geddes, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #map #1970s #pink sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #cartomancy #card reader #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sastrel'shchik, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #medusa #gorgon #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Walk across the floor."  From The Century, 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 #hypnosis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rod and Gun in Canada, 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 #vintage ad #toupee #wig #before and after #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #salem #pointing #accusation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A better scan of this one.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of 38 Playboy bunny mascots in Thornton Junior College's 1959 yearbook (a phenomenon that goes unexplained).

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny #bowling
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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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#mask #torture #vintage #executioner #beetle #entomophobia #illustration #death by brick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Pembroke's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #fire #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fire ceremony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pearson's, 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 #barrel #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An ad for a portrait studio in which not a man is depicted.  From McGill's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage ad #not pictured #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Forward into the future -- backwards."  From The Gateway, 1968.
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#time travel #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Other Day," by Donald Ogden Stewart:

"He was an inventor," he replied, "and his name was legion in inventing circles."
"How can you invent circles?"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dog #pipe smoker #illustration #nursery rhyme
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Old News (permalink)
Why do restaurant servers so often wear black today?  In 1904, they switched from white to black in protest of laundry prices.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As there's no comma after "somebody," at first glance we took it as a phrase, "Somebody God."  Let's see ...
Somebody God: polytheism or impersonal deity?
Anybody God: interfaith or religion of desperation?
Nobody God: atheism?
Everybody God: Hinduism, Unitarianism?
From Judson College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly in Barberville, Florida.  All four faces of the clock agreed on the wrong time.  Yet, via the gift of numerology, 1:44 does resolve to 9, so there's a coherence in the digits of the clock and phone.
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#temporal anomaly
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the dog-pulled sleigh in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  The question mark over the dog's head recalls the single antler in Grinch.  The whip master even holds a mask-like hat, just as the Grinch of course impersonates Santa.  From Duke University's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #grinch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dr. seuss
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon
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October 15, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #anthropomorphism #explosion #dynamite #mouse #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 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 #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The composer."  From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #musician #singer #composer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"All anxious to get away."  From the Duluth Herald, 1913.
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#escape #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#levitation #vintage yearbook #weightless #dancer #1960s #vintage man #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Four by William H. Elson & Edna R. Kelly and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 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 #uncle sam #flying carpet #flag
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#shakespeare #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just in case either of these rings might come in handy today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #ring
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #procession #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #magick #necromancy #skull #skull face #genie #occult #djinn #fraternity #vintage yearbook #black magic #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1887 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #teapot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #tea #steam
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Old News (permalink)
"Sin is a skinny word."  From Together, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #sin #serpent #snake #garden of eden #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mythology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity #jupiter
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Old News (permalink)
From There's a Lot of It About by Geoffrey Dickinson.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #statue #lion #oz
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October 14, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A journey of 1000 missteps begins with the first stumble." —FoxP2
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's like a "gut feeling," only it's a "goat feeling."  "A feeling in your bones."  From The New Friendly Village by Mabel O'Donnell and illustrated by Florence and Margaret Hoopes, 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 #goat
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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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77349
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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage photo #north wind #starry night #weightless #wind god #carried away #the people could fly #ghost horse #wind spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This rhino's motto is, "Firm but fair."  From College of the Albemarle's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #rhino #motto #firm but fair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #armor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity #applause
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #skeleton #dance of death #grim reaper #jester
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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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 #waterspout
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Moline's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #electrical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The interior of the projectile.  From The Century, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #spaceship #rocket
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill's 1925 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage illustration #angel #christianity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus #theology
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Nothing to be afraid of, if you push the proper buttons and trust the equipment.  From Dark Shadows episode 591.
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#dark shadows
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Answers to Correspondents," by Denis Mackail:

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You even sent a telegram, after returning [the proofs], to point out that on p. 178, in the big scene at the inquest, the word should be "coroner" and not "crooner."
***

Bonuses:
Nonexistent book dept.: The Eternal Hat-Stand
Silly names dept.: Homer Q. Klawhammer (an American, of course)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1933.
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#fish #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The chief glory of every people arises from its authors" (Samuel Johnson).  From Franklin College's 1972 yearbook. 

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #writer #samuel johnson #author
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal #illustration #singing cat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Grammar of the English Sentence by Jonathan Rigdon, 1903.
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#serpent #sentence diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
True a century later -- the undertaker follows close behind Doctor Death.  From Medical College of Virginia's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #death #coffin #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #undertaker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #gryphon
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October 13, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A viewer requested a Penetralia spoof of the Electric Company's "Silent E" song.  Watch for trickster homonyms and rival silent letters.
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#prof. oddfellow #silent e #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #specimen jar #test tube
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fox #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Day after day he wondered."  From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Body Snatchers by Susan Reed.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long neck #dentist #illustration #dental work #pulling teeth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They sat in the sun and talked together."  From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbit #bunny #duck #animal friends
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans La Nuit, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Old News (permalink)
"Why are happy people happy?"  From Together, 1957.
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#happiness #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern Illinois' 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #phrenology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kids and The Apple by Edward Carlson, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #robot #lawn mower #1980s #mowing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A jackass sings, "Gloriana frangipanna Indiana!"  From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jackass #talking animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Georgia's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity #god #zeus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Town Clock by Reba Mahan Stevens and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #duck #talking animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From Tarleton State' 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The rat retired from the world."  From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #rat #cheese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 1865.  See Strange Talismans for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #horseshoe #fashion #vintage fashion #lucky horseshoe #1860s
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October 12, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Inspired by Grumpy Andrew, who traveled to Las Vegas asking, "What Would Prof. Oddfellow Do?"  Speaking of Bigfoot, this actually exists: the Bigfoot Bible.
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#crystal ball #prof. oddfellow #bigfoot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Is your hair full of 'sunshine'?"  From Picture Show, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #aura #halo #long hair #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strangely Enough! by C. B. Colby.
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#vintage illustration #castle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad for The Strange Case of Mary Page.  From Colliers, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hand #ad
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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 #spirit #future
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fog #japan
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Old News (permalink)
"Absence of proof does not constitute proof of absence."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2000.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey ears #pinocchio #jackass #puppet boy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #on fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle gate #gate #burning castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs) and illustrated by W. Fletcher White, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #native american #iroquois #tiny men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #spider #octopus #tentacles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #imp #devil #exorcism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A clock-eyed owl can't be hypnotized with a standard pendulum.  From Together, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #owl #clock #1950s
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
It's a noble profession: halo holder.  From Chatham College's 1967 yearbook.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #halo #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A stork peeks through a portal into another universe.  From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #portal #fable #frog #stork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Benedictine's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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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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#fish #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #pig #apple
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October 11, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rainbow Cat by Rose Fyleman and illustrated by Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Flowers above the surface of ice and snow."  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #sleepless #can't sleep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Note the little microscope-like circles that focus on tiny details.  From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #map #penny-farthing #cycling
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Harry Sweet and goose.  From Wid's Daily, 1921.
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#goose #vintage man #man
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #owl #full moon #lyre #reading animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witch's Cat by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1933 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull #occult #vintage yearbook #grimoire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #tiny women
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I don't feel oppressed."  From Illinois Benedictine's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mustache #1970s #oppression #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Golden Argosy, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #log
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's a prayer for a mighy cat's protection.  From the delightful and rare The Unicorn with Silver Shoes by Ella Young and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
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#magic spell #cat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From House Party, by Virginia Rowan:

***
["Rabadab" is an ultra-"modern" New York architectural firm.]
All Rabadab buildings looked like banks of file cabinets with the doors open.

***
[A series of off-stage character names. We've seen better, but I feel there's a certain humorous strength in numbers.]
Mrs. Laura Romeyne Gray Richardson Anderson
Mrs. Mary Arnold Sykes Cahan
Mrs. Louise Frith Stickney Tanner
Mrs. Barbara Fargo Clayton Hooton

***
Elly's secret was that she didn't have a secret.

***
[This refers to an antique car.]
The oddest thing of all was that the roof--no, there were *two* roofs--seemed to flap up and down and back and forth and an invisible dog was barking wildly.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #living toy #yarn doll #yarn ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #skull #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Good news: you are not second class.  From Lighted Pathway, 1977.
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#vintage headline #headline #second class
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #rabbit #kite
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State College's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#sarcophagus #coffin #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mr. Cotton Mouse had taken his pipe from his mouth and was sitting on a pebble."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pipe smoker #mouse
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October 10, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #spider
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I've always known the truth; it's the certainty that makes it so unbearable."  From Dark Shadows episode 1157.
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#truth #dark shadows
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #black cat #creature of the night #night vision #ad
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Northeastern Illinois' yearbook of 1971.
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#sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #birthday cake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Combining a Cousin Itt look with the classic mop wig remains a viable option.  From Tufts' 1990 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #cousin itt #1990s #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #flying horse #windmill #don quixote #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #piano #vintage yearbook #1940s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #wolf #shepherd
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From What To Do When Everyone's Doing It by Harold Warlick.
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#everybody's doing it
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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 #insects #daddy longlegs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teepee #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Benedictine's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #horse #cow #cowboy #lasso
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #brass instrument
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #dissidia #final fantasy
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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 #elephant
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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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#constellation #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Folded hats inspire many emotions in us, too.  From St. Vincent's Hospital's School of Nursing's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #hat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"No one, but no one, can capture the wistful expression of a hyena like you, dear."  From The Addams Family, ep. 14.
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#painting #addams family #hyena
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October 9, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)
Courtesy of the winsome Jonathan Caws-Elwitt:
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#wizard of oz
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rainy day #umbrella #rabbit #bunny #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#picture puzzle #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Of course I played the game no more."  From Biltmore Oswald by J. Thorne Smith and illustrated by Richard Dorgan, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sports
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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 #frog #frog king #blue frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Crowling kelp.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn 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 #kelp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #figurehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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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 #fairies #flashlight #light and darkness #hollow tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #caged #animal experimentation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's true -- though we speak of the "spine" of a book, the front and back covers actually constitute the face.  From Good Reading Guide by Kenneth McLeish.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #book #faces in things
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #twins #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 bear #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #ex libris #illustration #bookplate
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Electro-magnet lifting a 'skull-cracker' weighing 13,000 pounds."  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage photo #magnet
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Chatham College's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #street light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pussy Meow: The Autobiography of a Cat by S. Louise Patteson.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One must never allow a prop to upstage one's ensemble, as we previously learned in this very important post involving drag queen Maddelynn Hatter.  From Illinois Benedictine's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage man #celestial globe
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  "Are you boring others?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #boring
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October 8, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

Thanks to Elephant Bitterhead for saying, "I LOVE these lists.  They are poetic, profound, funny, sad, everything at once.  They remind of tarot or the I Ching.  Whatever you need, it's in there somewhere."

The only solution is to:

  • sprout a pair of wings
  • phase out the signal
  • make the bucket bigger
  • turn the machine off and leave it alone
  • sedate them
  • involve the community
  • be disconnected and re-dial
  • destroy the system and start all over again
  • lighten the load
  • make your home appear to be untenanted
  • replace the damaged piece
  • overthrow it and then poof...that's it
  • abandon the dogmatic idea
  • re-write the subroutine with higher precision
  • grin and bear it
  • prove them wrong
  • drop the notion of total divine inspiration
  • invent something different
  • make the best of the material at hand
  • limit the amount of information available
  • accept the defeat and wait quietly for the positive forces to lead you
  • reboot the system
  • stop talking altogether and uses sign language
  • do a backup for yourself
  • travel off somewhere away from everyone

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]

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#only solution #list
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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 #canoe #vintage automobile #automobile
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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 ad #death #skull #vintage photo #insect #bug #disease #fly #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mop hair with a floppy witch's hat -- a classic look!  From Angelo State's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage yearbook #mop hair #mop wig
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Old News (permalink)
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#devil #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1940s #devil costume
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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 #grim reaper #addiction #drug abuse #narcotics
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Sundials (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #sundial
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #soup can #warhol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's why writing a play can be so daunting.  "The dramatis personae," from The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #dramatis personae #playwright
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chatham College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon On The One Hand by Bill Crofut.
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#vintage illustration #balloon
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
The neatest thing about this is a detail in the caption.  The presence of a broken clock is offered as evidence of human habitation.  It's as if not having a grasp of time is what distinguishes humanity.  That, and a leaf collection.  From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Butterfly Plague by Timothy Findley.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly
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Telescopic Em Dashes (permalink)
From Oklahoma A&M's 1927 yearbook.
*These em dashes are from Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.  Some of our magnifications appear in Forgotten Wisdom Vol. II.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cannon #1920s #puppeteer #puppet #marionette
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #faces in things #oz #rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
"Probably it's your legs."  From Improvement Era, 1935.
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#vintage headline #legs #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #moose #up a tree
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October 7, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Whether her part called for a self-effacing interpretation we must, of course, leave to the judgment of others" (Robert G. Berkleman, Bates Student, 1930).
This self-effacing interpreter is from the International Spiritualist Federation's Yours Fraternally, 2004.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#faceless #no face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Female Seminary's 1893 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #fatigue #rowboat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales, edited by Jean Cothran and illustrated by Clifford Geary.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #rabbit #whale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#blank page #poem
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Emerson's 1984 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you hereby be protected from Minor Dimyos and other dim yo-yos.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #dimyo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #red moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #bat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Max Linder in "Seven Years Bad Luck."  From Wid's Daily, 1921.
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#1920s #vintage hollywood #slapstick #vintage man #hollywood #man #bad luck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't use it -- throw it away."  From Lighted Pathway, 1949.
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#vintage headline #recycling #headline #bad advice #waste
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Photos like this (and most every yearbook has one) are like living installations of modern art.  Heck, anything that gives the least bit of life to modern art is possibly better than modern art as it otherwise is.  From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #modern art
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Old News (permalink)
"Night gives illusory facade."  From the University of Detroit's 1965 yearbook.
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: "Do your studies haunt you?"
A: Yes, quite literally!  But we exorcise them into books like Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
From Northwest Christian College's 1952 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #beetle #sewing #nursery rhyme
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From a collection of Round the Horne scripts:
***
[From the commentary]
[RTH]...invited listeners almost to provide their own joke.

***
The compere...went through his routine to howls of hysterical apathy from the audience.

[Trivia: In that sketch, presumably co-written by Marty Feldman, the corny comedian uses the "walk this way" talcum-powder joke.]

***
"I'm afraid I haven't got any silver on me--"
"Oh, don't worry. You can cross me hand with a Diners Club card."
[Diners Club!]

***
[A meta-gag re. bandleader Edwin Braden, any mention of whose name usually resulted in Kenneth Williams saying "great hairy fool."]
WILLIAMS: Great hairy catchphrase.

***
But if you want your party to go with a swing, here are some dos and don'ts--Do do do--don't don't don't.

***
WILLIAMS: We are at your command, me and my trusty paloyourno.
HORNE: Palomino.
WILLIAMS: Well, any paloyourno is a palomino.

***
"Ah, my old friend Alistair Chitwitherington-Ponsonby-Fitzpasture-Macmurdoch."
"No, I'm Jones, actually."

***
PADDICK: What ad are you doing?...It could be...you know, Before and After.
WILLIAMS: Before and after? He looks more like "Instead."
***

Bonus: I think I neglected to mention, after reading RTH writer Barry Took's memoir some months ago, how his earlier writer partner (on Beyond Our Ken), Eric Merriman, was a sourpuss--making "Merriman" an inaptonym.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird
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October 6, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #faceless #ping pong #no face
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
To the tune of "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?"  From Taylor Magazine, 1977.
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#hourglass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Cham.  From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #starry night
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Old News (permalink)
From The Daily Tar Heel, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #1930s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#vintage ad #1930s #belt tightening #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If only there were some slight chance for just one moment of happiness in our lives!"  From Dark Shadows episode 1205.
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#gloom #unhappy #doomed #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #letter n
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #dog #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We, too, can relax only while wearing Bigfoot slippers.  From the University of Toledo's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #lotus #tibetan #dice board
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I am a ham sandwich."  From Franklin and Marshall College's 1940 yearbook.
Plus three "I am a ham sandwich" snippets from The Development of Language Consciousness in American Secondary School Pupils by Bereneice Reardon (1928), I Crawl Through It by A. S. King (2015), and The University Today by Thomas Kelly (1941). 
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#vintage yearbook #meat #1940s #sign #ham sandwich
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.
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#lemur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #confucius
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Promote higher values."  From Franklin College's 1976 yearbook.  It actually exists: the Bigfoot Bible.
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#mask #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #bigfoot #1970s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #strange light #emptiness #pyramid #strange glow #no face #glowing head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #goya #art
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October 5, 2022

Old News (permalink)
This may explain the scarcity of shortcuts.  "There's only one road."  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1952.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We, too, can't play a clarinet without wearing our special antenna-festooned helmet.  From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #musician #hat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Harry Sweet.  From Wid's Daily, 1921.
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#vintage photo #vintage man #bomb #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cross dressing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1915.  
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #eagle #heart #peace dove #animal friends #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #pony #shetland pony
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May no eyebrows haunt your dreams 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 #symbol #eyebrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #goat #capricornus
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The glowing trees in old yearbooks deepen the darkness.  From Berea's 1960 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
I, too, look somewhat better when I upgrade my wardrobe.  From Tulane's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #ape mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #cat #match
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania State's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #crab #sea life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #bell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #history
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy's Own Paper, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In the Forest of Arden by Hamilton Wright Mabie, 1891.
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#vintage illustration
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October 4, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An unpictured entity.  From Pembroke's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #unseen #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #1970s #not pictured #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Mesmerise: A Manual of Instruction in the History, Mysteries, Modes of Procedure, and Arts of Mesmerism, or, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Clairvoyance, Thought Reading, and Mesmeric Entertainment by Hames Coates, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #egypt #mesmerism #hypnotism #thebes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you hereby be free of chimeric encounters today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #chimera
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Out of bondage."  From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #face #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Busy Folk by Mary E. Laing & Andrew W. Edson and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #lobster
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Time to burn.  From Lenoir's 1911 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #time to burn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If your eye immediately went to the guy wearing his eyeglasses upside down, you most likely have a somewhat kooky nature and are fun to be around.  From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aurora, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #outer space #bee #space bee
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Jump Cut! by Arthur Schneider:
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One day, Gary Owens wanted to visit the editing room....I explained to Gary the basics of what we were doing. After the explanation, he looked at me and exclaimed, "This show gives me such a headache, I need an Excedrin credit card!"

[By the way, those of us who know that "schneider" means "tailor" get a bonus chuckle out of the fact that the author's career essentially involved cutting film footage to size, making snips and stitches here and there, and so on.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #church #rooftop #vintage magazine #spire #magazine #steeple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Grumbolumbo, the great and terrible giant."  From Nurse Dandlem's Little Repository of Great Instruction, 1807.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #ogre #three headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hope College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1955.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #face #paint #1950s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Surprising that more folks don't get their portraits done as coins.  From the University of Toledo's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #1960s #profile #coin
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Old News (permalink)
"No drastic change in the immediate future."  From The Journal of Borderland Research, 1972.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The phrase "Sphinx's moustache" delivers zero Gogol results.  From Ohio University's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #moustache
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The Right Word (permalink)
The best of our words haven't yet gotten into dictionaries ... that was indeed true until this remarkable thing came out: Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.  From Harpers, 1932.
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#dictionary
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October 3, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #carriage
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Old News (permalink)
It's heartbreaking when an artist has so little confidence in his portrayals that he must label the obvious.  From the [DuPage] Courier, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #hot dog #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A sort of rubber stamp approach to the cover of Spenser's Shepheardes Calender by Paul McLane.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1976.
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#cat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
George Arliss in "The Devil."  From Wid's Daily, 1921.
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#devil #vintage man #man #george arliss
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Animals that most teachers would like, compared to animals that few teachers would like.  From Mothers News, 2013.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #cartooning
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1962 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gold
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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.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghosts and Goblins by Wilhelmina Harper.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #beware #yearbook #skull and bones #note to reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Lawyer said everything would be quite Legal. A little roundabout and more or less in the Twilight, but Legal."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lawyer #legal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's cherries of temperance are from Eastern Pilgrim Colleges 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #temperance #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #cherry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #angel #education
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#occult #magic #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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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 #bees #bagpipes #swarm
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October 2, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Feel like an ancient king in his palace."  From the Lucky Heart Curio Catalog, 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 #vintage ad #king #incense #smoke #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly to the town clock of Marianna, Florida.  "It makes it appear as if time were a mysterious something the measure of which is determined by man-made instruments, clocks" (Norbert Elias, Time).
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#temporal anomaly
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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 #tiger
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Should more horoscopes be like this?  From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 2.
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#vintage illustration #horoscope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Painless Vocabulary by Michael Greenberg.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #animal experimentation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Spiderland by R. A. Ellis, 1912.
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#spider web #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Outline of Everything by Hector B. Toogood, 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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#art history #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #cigarette #smoker #ashtray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Say it with flowers, even if you're "Old enough to know better."  From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century by Graham Everitt, 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 #bouquet #goat #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 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 #cannon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The season is backward.  From Wid's Daily, 1921.
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#vintage ad #plum #fruit #ad
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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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#fear #halloween #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #disgust #contempt #facial expression
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adventures in Child Land by Frances Lilian Taylor, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #rabbit #briars
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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 #money
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Governor's Academy yearbook of 1953.

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

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#snow #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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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 #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #rabbit #hare #turtle #tortoise #tortoise and the hare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kenyon College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 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 tale #tower
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October 1, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Things."  From St. Procopius' 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bottled ghost #specimen bottle #specimen jar #hamster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Assumption College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #swinging #1970s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't take my fur, Daddy, dear.  Let me go and I'll bring you cabbage and cauliflower—all you wish."  From Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #knife
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Proud to be square.  From Pittsburg State's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #square
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #toad #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"[In a] very real sense ... we are all penguins in a piscine pie of our own making" (Patrick over at Goodreads, commenting on Penguin Pie by Pierce Gleeson and Helene Pertl).
They sure are all penguins in National-Louis' 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #penguin #penguin costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The craftsman in cheese splicing for histologicals."  From Saint Francis College's 1939 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reuben Swinburne Clymer's Grand Grimore, 1910.
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#occult #talisman #october
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #voting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All by Edgar Dubs Shimer and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #turkey #peacock #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Roll me like a hoop!' said the snake."  From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #snake #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #pony #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1909.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #boat #rowboat #men fighting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull face #vintage yearbook #cave #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mustache #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the North Carolina College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 1921.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Billboards weren't such eyesores when they were giant books.  From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The witch's black cat came flying through the air."  From St. Nicholas, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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