CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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October 31, 2023

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to El-Draco-Bizarro for reading our booklet Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts as a sheet ghost!
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An ad for Swiss embroidered handkerchiefs (no kidding).  From Dry Goods Review, 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 #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #ad
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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#maze #vintage illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #witch #black cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #hallowe'en #japan #puppet #puppet show #cat puppet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan Christian College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spider
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#mask #horror #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"May it be a lucky date that you now will celebrate."  Via Up North Memories.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #hallowe'en #oct. 31
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Elmhurt College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #halloween party #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #carved pumpkin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There are so many ways to observe Hallowe'en.  From Tufts University's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#occult #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rainbow String by Algernon Tassin and illustrated by Anna Richards Brewster, 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 #elf #fairy tale #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From St. Andrews' 1975 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Superstitions: manifestions of darkness."  From The Instructor, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #superstition #idol #idolatry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ward-Belmont College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
She went to Hallowe'en parties and ate green peaches, against her parents' caution.  From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The dead alumni look perhaps wrathful or aggrieved.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in memoriam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #warrior #mustache #mastiff
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Mr. and Mrs. Haddock in Paris, France, by Donald Ogden Stewart:

[The scene that follows the attached snippet precurses The Elephant Is White, as the protagonist meets a Russian preparing to jump off a bridge, who resents being interrupted, and with whom a comical conversation ensues.]
Haddock

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#moon
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Old News (permalink)
"Rather tame observance of Halloween not as hilarious as usual."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#halloween #hallowe'en #vintage headline #headline
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"I walked right in but you — in the downpour holding the door — came in after, wetter."  From Eastern Mennonite College's 1973 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Beware the witch's cat!  From Spellbound, 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #black cat #vintage magazine #comics #vintage comics #magazine #comic
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October 30, 2023

Old News (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#witch #dancing #vintage headline
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Strange Dreams (permalink)

"By a route obscure and lonely, / Haunted by ill angels only, / Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, / On a black throne reigns upright, / I have reached these lands but newly / From an ultimate dim Thule— / From a wild clime that lieth, sublime, / Out of SPACE— out of TIME." —Edgar Allan Poe, "Dream-land"

From Beyond Reality, No. 27.

If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #eye #dreamland #edgar allan poe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The frog going ratback."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #rat
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Old News (permalink)
Gathered in a transformed chapel was a mad conglomeration of mummies, ghosts, witches, trolls, and hoodlums.  From Michigan Christian College's 1973 yearbook.
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#hallowe'en #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
I guess the frog costume didn't impress the judges.  That lobster outfit is amazing.  From The Tangent, 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 #frog #hallowe'en #costume #frog costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Jackson Junior College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1960s
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #lobster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Holy Cross College's 1930 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 #hydra #hercules #man headed
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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 #broomstick #night sky #starry night #hallowe'en #flying broom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mop wigs and sheet ghosts -- a classic combination.  From Elmhurt College's 1952 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1950s #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Back in 1965, the simplicity of Halloween hadn't yet been destroyed by commercialism.  From Birmingham-Southern College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkin carving
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Old News (permalink)
From All I Want Is Everything by Marion Mill Preminger.
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#vintage headline #headline #i want it all
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Boston College's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#pumpkin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"On their way to a women's rites meeting."  From Oedipus the Wreck by Owen Seaman, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#three graces #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina University's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #shotgun wedding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #witch #rabbit #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 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 #cemetery #graveyard #open grave #treasure #lantern
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October 29, 2023

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"His eyes seem like those of a 'demon dreaming.'"  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1961.
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#cat #vintage photo #smiling cat #smiling animal #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Have you ever tried to scare anyone at Halloween?"  From Sharing Experiences by McKee & McCowen and illustrated by Corinne Malvern & Sylvia Haggander, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #practical joke #hallowe'en #costume #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Fate of a thousand million fishes.  How they were turned to stone."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#fish #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Black rat versus brown rat: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 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 #rat #animal fight #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A front page witch, from The Gateway, 1980.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#witch #halloween #cauldron
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#scarecrow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #pumpkin head #1960s
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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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22018
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#vintage illustration #cow #russia #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #vintage yearbook #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #buddhism #tibetan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peru State College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #cape
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Old News (permalink)
"Assailant bites and kisses feet."  From The Gateway, 1967.
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#black cat #vintage photo #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State Normal School's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #medusa #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #halloween #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #mascot #1970s #bear costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #reflection #faun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1978 yearbook.

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#scarecrow #pumpkin #vintage photo #autumn #hallowe'en #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
An ad in two newspaper issues, each distorted in its scan.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1888.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McMaster University's 1954 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skeleton #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #witch #cat #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hood College's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #flying machine #canoe
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October 28, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #boot #rat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #cave #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rowena's Happy Summer by Celia Myrover Robinson and illustrated by Hope Dunlap, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #palm reader #hallowe'en
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery, 1928.
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#cat #gray cat #grey cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Picture Show Annual, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #well #hiding
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Old News (permalink)
Reblog if your brilliant future is behind you, too.  From The Gateway, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #future #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #demon #balancing act #alcohol #moonshine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Great Pumpkin is a hippie."  From Kent State's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s #window #hippie #great pumpkin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hahnemann Medical College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #owl #cauldron #prophecy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #eye in the pyramid #psychic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State University of New York Institute of Applied Arts and Sciences at Binghamton's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #turtle #aesop #tortoise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter #bending over backwards #rubberneck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #boat #river
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
To the stars.  From William and Mary's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spear #ad astra #to the stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Seasons of the Witch by Patricia Monaghan, 1992.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dodo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dwarfs & giants only."  From String Puller Philosophy by Peter Schumann, 2009.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio College of Dental Surgery's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #1900s #organ grinder #illustration #band
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Old News (permalink)
"Stars that have never been seen.  Dark bodies that send out messengers."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#astronomy #star #vintage headline #headline
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October 27, 2023

Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to hold postcard to the light. Via UpNorthMemories (with our own color correction).

Via UpNorthMemories (with our own color correction)
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#animated gif #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We, too, get a little thrill when Egyptian posters breathe down our neck.  From Coker College's 1955 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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#egyptian #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woman #vintage woman #1950s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Og—Son of Fire by Irving Crump and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 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 #wolf #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #hallowe'en #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #sheet ghost #fake news #fake crisis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Foreshortening her final end."  From Mental Disease by Peter Michaels.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drinking #alcoholism #alcohol #slow suicide
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Saint Joseph's College's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #fog
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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 #constellation #dog #canis major #canis minor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medusa #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The whitches they used to beat em with the broom switches that they had."  From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oregon State College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A scissors bird brings cigarettes to the baby scissors in the nest.  From The Bombay Chronicle, 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 #vintage ad #nest #scissors #bird #1920s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Voodoo rites and bonfire."  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1962 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#silhouette #fire #voodoo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonfire #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Estherian and Lanier Literary Societies of Anderson College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spider web
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Goblins."  From Dark Shadows, episode 9.  There was also that time that Liz Stoddard said the single word "Ghosts," here.
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#goblin #dark shadows
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

A fake monocle from Henry Brinsley's book column in the March 1915 Vanity Fair:

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#monocle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Bewitched" by J. T. C. (1972).
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #seance #ectoplasm
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Old News (permalink)
"Take back the night."  From Susquehanna University's 1992 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon
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October 26, 2023

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to GajoobZine for spotlighting our new collaboration with Sigfus of Sweden.
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#neons gone mad #sigfus #gajoob
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Little Green Story Book by Ousley & Russell, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #hallowe'en #costume #illustration #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"Will they cry the crack of doom?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #native american #castle in the air
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Meet a couple of our best teachers."  From Potrero View, 2004.
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#vintage photo #sheep #teacher
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Delta College's 1963 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Night Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by C. M. Burd & Violet Moore 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 #october #pumpkin
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Old News (permalink)
"Getting married and unmarried!"  From Motion Picture Classic, 1923.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline #divorce #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Plenty of witches, ghosts, and goblins helped [secretaries in the library basement to] work better."  From Charleston Southern University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
From Somniquest by Alice Kuhn Schwartz, 1980.
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#insomnia #sleepless #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #horror #severed head #tiny people #decapitated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gloom #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lamb #dark cloud #sad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1963.  
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkin head #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Duluth Evening Herald, May, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #owl #silhouette #moon #ad
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.
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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #dancing #vintage men #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #hare #hunter
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Old News (permalink)
"Back from the dead."  From Santa Clara College's 1989 yearbook.
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#living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #resurrection #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fantastic Adventures vol. 10, no. 08.  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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#vintage illustration #sea serpent #sea monster #loch ness monster #nessie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Christian University'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 #yearbook #cowboy #endpapers
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Old News (permalink)
"On a day without a name."  From Nebula no. 41.
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#vintage headline #headline
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October 25, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
With today's inflation, Tom would be worth about $5,500 a year.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1922.
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#cat #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"He missed all the fun."  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"That's how I feel!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #headache #vintage headline #illustration #headline #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 #astrolabe
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Old News (permalink)
"Insanity -- enough to last a lifetime."  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#insanity #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1951 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mascot #lion man #lion headed
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
A century later, weather forecasting is done in exactly the same way.  From Purple Parrot, 1923.
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#weather #meteorology #weather forecast
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Belmont Abbey College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #making faces #1950s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Never no never eat onions.  This is a large world but remember you are not the only one in it."  From Happy Thoughts Birthday Book by Rosie Burnand, 1887.
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#onion #handwriting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From I Didn't Plan To Be A Witch by Linda Eyre. 
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#witch #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Delta College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #pan pipes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The wizard's ink that turns the world dark at night.  From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #darkness #night #ink
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1892 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #world #imp #good and evil #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Thrower of intellectual handsprings."  From Shadowland, 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 #caricature #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina University's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #cross dressing #mop hair #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #wolves
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Jerome's College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage diagram #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #hat #making faces
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Old News (permalink)
"'Girls are now mass produced.'  There is no longer any mystery about them, says Baroness Orczy."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage headline
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October 24, 2023

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Mickey Mouse, from 3 years before the debut of the more famous iteration.  From Children's Paper, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #mouse #1920s #mickey mouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A lurikeen.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #leprechaun #illustration #irish #lurikeen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Everyone goes 'helter-skelter' for me!"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #1930s #illustration #candy man #licorice #ad #allsorts
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1979 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There it is, mister, right in front of you."  From Purple Parrot, 1930.
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#billiards #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 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 #giant #ogre
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Holy Cross College's 1930 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 #deity #janus #two-faced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fantastic Adventures vol. 10, no. 08.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #candle #cult #voodoo doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebula no. 41.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrews Presbyterian College's 1967 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #psychology #cannibal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Tales 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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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light bulb #yellow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #horse #knight #queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1905 yearbook. 

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #toy #crafts
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Love Insurance, by Earl Derr Biggers:

***
Mr. Thacker was cold and matter-of-fact, like a card index.

***
He continued to crank with agonized face. In the course of a few minutes, sounds of a terrific disturbance came from inside the car. Still, like a hurdy-gurdy musician, the man cranked.
"I say," Minot inquired, "has your machine got the Sextette from Lucia?"
"Well, there's been a lot of things wrong with it," the man replied, "but I don't think it's had that yet."
[Cf. Cranking a Metz engine as as musical effect, seen recently in another snippet from this same era (ca. 1914).]

***
The dimple, in repose now, became the champion dimple of the world.

***
And, every few feet, Mr. Minot came upon "The Oldest House in San Marco."
[Btw, this fictional town of San Marco, Florida, seems from various clues to probably be based on St. Augustine.]

***
Miss Meyrick presented her father and her aunt, and that did not tend to lighten the formality. Icicles, both of them, though stocky puffing icicles.

***
"Ever hear of Cotrell's Ink Eraser? Nothing ever written Cotrell can't erase. Will not soil or scratch the paper. If the words Cotrell has erased were put side by side—"

[later]

"I rigged up a big electric sign in Times Square and all night long I had an electric Cotrell's erasing indiscreet sentences."

***
"Her lines are good, but somehow—it's really a great problem to me—she doesn't sound human and natural when she gets them off. I looked up her beauty doctor and asked him if he couldn't put a witty gleam in her eye, but he told me he didn't care to go that far in correcting Mrs. Bruce's Maker."
[Btw, the speaker is a hired wit who "ghostwrites" repartee for a society lady. Then--precursing my short story "Get It in Writing," in which the protag finds himself concurrently ghostwriting memoirs for two rival artists--the hired wit takes on another client, who is the chief social rival of the first. (Then, on the evening they're going head-to-head [SPOILER], he accidently gives them both the same script!)]

***
Minot hesitated. Ought he to leave the scene of action? Of action? He glanced about him. There was less action here than in a Henry James novel.

***
"I can talk as we walk along," said Trimmer, and proved it.

***
"One condition I attach. Ask no questions. Let us go out into the night unburdened with your interrogation points."

***
"What is this—a comic opera or a town? You are managing editor, Harry. I shall be city editor. Is there a city to edit? No matter."

***
"Don't look a gift bill in the treasury number."

***
He wore an orange and purple dressing-gown with a floral design no botanist could have sanctioned—the sort of dressing-gown that Arnold Bennett, had he seen it, would have made a leading character in a novel.

***
A deathly silence fell. Only a little traveling clock on the mantel was articulate.
***
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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 #oz
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You will be consumed by the eternal fires of hell."  From Dark Shadows episode 601.
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#hell #curse #dark shadows
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October 23, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #wizard #fairy tale #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He laughed until laughing became an agony and he could hardly draw his breath."  From Scoops, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horror #laughter
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #snake charmer #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Camosun, 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 #jester #marotte #theatre #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Oedipus the Wreck by Owen Seaman, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Old News (permalink)
"The unexplained: A month later, town starts to settle down."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2008.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sad Fate of Poor Robin, 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 #robin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #harlequin #1930s #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Blackstone College's 1927 yearbook. 

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #cauldron #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A surprisingly poor rotatable face.  From Black and White Budget, 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 #face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 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 #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1953 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #pajamas #alcohol #vintage men #bottle #giant bottle #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #tabby
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson College's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Weddings that never happened!"  From Movie Classic, 1931.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#wedding #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camel #palm tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #ram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wink #shhh
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Old News (permalink)
"Ever have it?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 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 #severed head #decapitated
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October 22, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #cat #nursery rhyme #crossword puzzle
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Old News (permalink)
"Today's teenagers, yesterday's flappers: there's not much difference!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#vintage headline #flapper #headline #teenager
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cathedral #moscow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #aesop
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Old News (permalink)
"So much to think about."  From The Gateway, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1913 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)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #rabbit
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Old News (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 1923.
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#religion #vintage illustration #money #money bag #worship #1920s #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Most Wonderful House in the World by Mary Haviland, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #before and after #hairy style
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware."  From the College of William and Mary's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Own Readers, Book Four by Mary Pennell and Alice Cusack, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin #hallowe'en #pumpkin carving
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #emu
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Compare this monster from Galaxy vol. 20, no. 4 to Grandville's from Un Autre Monde.
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#vintage illustration #monster #grandville
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

More snippets from The Idler (1892-1893):

***
Now, to be thoroughly up to date, the worthy Blackpoolers are actually erecting two Eiffel Towers. The holiday-maker who can't be happy with a choice of two Eiffel Towers must be hard to please indeed. [G. R. Sims]

***
A running refrain of "bosh!"--"pooh!"--"fiddle-de-dee!" occupy the remainder of the evening.
***

Francis Gribble [a real author name]
Richard D'Oyly Carte [a real impresario name--as you may already know]

[Attached: Israel Zangwill's recommendation of Somewhere Else as a travel destination; and a bonus illustration (which can also be seen in context at https://archive.org/details/sim_idler-an-illustrated-monthly-magazine_1892-1893_2/page/696/mode/2up?view=theater).}
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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 #cheshire cat
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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 #illustration #sea lion #sea-lion
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October 21, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The woodchuck saw his [shadow / shining]."  From Workbook to Accompany Enchanting Stories by Gertrude Hildreth, 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 #shadow #illustration #woodchuck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #illustration #pillow fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 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 #illustration #bill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #scarecrow #oz #1890s
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Old News (permalink)
"No one hurt.  Crazy woman escapes but is captured before doing harm."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
Here's a great example of how calligraphy and peacock feathers can make the horror of life easier to look at.  From The Horror of Life by Roger Lawrence Williams.
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#vintage illustration #horror #peacock #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
I see two facial profiles in the nearest cliffs.  From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #mountain #mountain spirit
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alice in wonderland #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 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 #crown of thorns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cigar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 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 #monk #death #sir lancelot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana 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 #poet #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hazing #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #costume #vintage magazine #woman #vintage woman #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emory University's 1940 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wooden horse on the battlemets of Thionville."  From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #toy horse #wooden horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #cowboy #branding
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Old News (permalink)
"Almost strangled to death by a ghost."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#ghost #vintage headline
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October 20, 2023

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1916.
Answers: 1. M on goo's = mongoose.  2. Fly in G + S + quire + L = flying squirrel.  3. I becks = ibex.
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#vintage illustration #picture puzzle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Guidebook to Accompany The New People and Progress by Gray, Monroe, Artley, et al., 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #fairy #squirrel #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #hat #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #the end #signpost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #angel #pilot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A sword of cotton and a sword of wool.  From Lowell Textile School's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #apple #golden apple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare We Married An Englishman by Ruth and Helen Hoffman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Putting on airs."  From Indiana State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #phonograph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Graphology for Everyman by Eric Singer.
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#vintage illustration #handwriting analysis #graphology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #grotesque #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Why Leo was called home."  From The Instructor, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #rabbit #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ghost hands.  From the College of William and Mary's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#despair #vintage photo #depression #vintage yearbook #1970s #ghost hand #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1970s #ape costume #monkey costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Even the cat was smiling."  From The Wonderful Land of Up by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by Neely McCoy, 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 #smiling cat #smiling animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From a Benchley column in Vanity Fair, Feb. 1915:

That's the trouble with having a play in which there are no characters, there is no one to answer the telephone.

***


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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 #cauldron #hypnotism #somnambulism #witches
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October 19, 2023

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"He wears the years well, looking more self-assured than age-weary" (Craig Faustus Buck).  Photo from The Current Sauce, 1955.
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#father time #vintage men #men #1950s #years and years
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's tiny cows are from Trampolines by Thorn & Irwin, 1978.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #illustration #tiny cow
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Jordan Green shares a Before & After of an anomalous clock tower whose statue lost a sword.  "On April 3, 2013 the statute on top of the Blue Earth County Courthouse [Mankato, Minnesota] turned to the north by about a 1/4 turn and dropped its sword into the courthouse lawn."  
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#sword #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Beast of Apocalypse."  From KPFA Folio, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#mask #apocalpyse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cat Out of Hell by Lynn Truss.
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#silhouette #cat #hell cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 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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#airplane #vintage illustration
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
"Conformity to a stereotyped image?"  From Montana State University's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #conformity #peace sign
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Old News (permalink)
From Just Because I'm Latin Doesn't Mean I Mambo by Juan Roberto Job, 1998.
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#vintage headline #headline #mambo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #1920s #giant skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Many of the cup-like craters of the moon have walls that rise two miles high."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 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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#moon #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #autumn #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Of things I speak or things I write, I care not what you say."  From Switch Lights by Ed. W. Sheasgreen, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #torch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana Technical College's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #faces in things
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Old News (permalink)
"Thought he was dead."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#living dead #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #greek
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I had a doctor who wanted me to show him my liver."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #1940s #down the throat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stick figure #illustration #mop
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Old News (permalink)
"The brave heart of pussy-by-the-fire."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts' 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #organ grinder #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #polecat
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October 18, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
$20 in 1941 is about $420 in today's inflation.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1941.
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#cat #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #knight #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lowell Textile School's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Delightful and rare: The Unicorn with Silver Shoes by Ella Young and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Old News (permalink)
"Where is goodness?"  From The Instructor, 1962.
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#vintage headline #headline #goodness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Intersecting rainbows.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #rainbow #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Memphis State University's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #tiger
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Old News (permalink)
"The stompers say it's terrific fun to do."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves #faces in things #brownies #cup and saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #goat man #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #1890s #horned man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #palm reader #gypsy #vintage hollywood #hollywood #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #scissors #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's tiny trousers are from Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiny pants #tiny clothing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"SIN: Sound Is Nothing (without Craig)."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#vintage ad #sin #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #hourglass #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #corn #illustration #raccoon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield State Teachers College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #parrot #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Down Our Street by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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October 17, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Ancient Times by McClure, Scheck & Wright, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#mummy #sarcophagus #vintage illustration #egyptian #egypt #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Looking alive."  From The Game of Healthy Living by Winslow & Hahn, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #living dead #zombie #radio #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Have some courage, gentlemen!"  From The New York State Exhibitor, 1933.
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#courage #vintage headline #headline
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From the University of Detroit's 1963 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #king #umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #queen #costume #royalty #entourage
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to put the illustration onto the book cover. From Horses I've Known by Will James.

From Horses I've Known by Will James
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#horse #vintage book #book #cowboy #gif
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Old News (permalink)
"Some things shouldn't change."  From Missouri Southern State University's 1983 yearbook.
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#change #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dry Goods Review, 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 #cat #vintage fashion
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From East Texas State's 1940 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #typewriter #kitten
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Old News (permalink)
"Lost hours on a weird car journey."  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 2007.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #lost time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Labyrinthine Life, A Tale of the Arizona Desert by George Alexander Fischer, 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 #piano #arizona #pianist #desert
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Father Bunny and His Birds by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Penny Ross, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #faces in things #flower #flower fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery's 1933 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #altered book #1930s #vintage man #moustache
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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 #demon
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "At Isham's," by Edward C. Venable:

[Twinkle, Twinkle...]Twinkle02Twinkle01



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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 #pen and ink #pumpkinhead #oz
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Old News (permalink)
"The man who slows down, goes down."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ladder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 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 #throne
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #up a tree
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October 16, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Avoid purchases that bring forth exclamations of horror from members of your family."  From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #advice #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times, written and illustrated by Marjorie & C. H. B. Quennell, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #standing stones #illustration #stonehenge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Vocabulary First Reader Workbook for Round About by Mabel O'Donnell, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't understand any of it.  I don't think I want to understand it."  From Dark Shadows episode 488.
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#dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"Can a person really change?"  From The Instructor, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Most Wonderful House in the World by Mary Haviland, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #fig #fruit people #fruit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 Moving Picture World, 1919. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #grandfather clock #vintage hollywood #hollywood #12:10 #ad
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not dream of an automaton 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 #automaton #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Druidism: The Ancient Faith of Britain by Dudley Wright, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #map #monolith #stone circle #1920s #stonehenge
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astrology #lion #leo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Old News (permalink)
"Life shouldn't be more like the movies."  From The Purple Parrot, 1947.
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#vintage headline #hollywood #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Weber's 1918 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #dead end #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1900.
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#vintage photo #candle #1900s #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mood
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Old News (permalink)
"Headaches, lassitude and debility can only be cured by removing the cause."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage ad #headache #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan 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 #pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hydra #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #illustration #beaver
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October 15, 2023

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Here's our remix with vocals of Hawaii's rare and wonderful Wunderfish (hit him up on Spotify):
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#neons gone mad #haunted clockwork #wunderfish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The lament of a forsaken cat."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1890s #illustration
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
"Nonsense older than the name of a planet."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The candy dog.  From Easy Growth In Reading Workbook to Accompany I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Roy, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #candy #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"They gave me freedom — to be a nothing."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #nothing #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Can man survive?"  From East Carolina University's 1971 yearbook.
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#end of the world #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #survival #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hahnemann Medical College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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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 #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College'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 #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #fighting #men fighting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #buddhism #occult #magic charm #garuda
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Roberts Junior College's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #sign #vocabulary
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pawed by a kitten for his official yearbook portrait.  From Tufts University's 1976 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook #mustache #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #tree #thorns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Milwaukee Downer College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fish #oct. 15
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant
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Old News (permalink)
"He offended vicariously."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #headline #offensive #vicarious
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1892 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 #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I was on top of a tornado."  From Improvement Era, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #cowboy
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October 14, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 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 #illustration #box
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Old News (permalink)
"Would-be hermit."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#hermit #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Texas State's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #dandy #mustache #1940s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 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 #japan #shrine #shinto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Rhode Island's 1922 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 #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Porto Bello Gold by Arthur Smith, 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 #skull and crossbones #vintage book #book #pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #viking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #reality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #peacock
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"On edge."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#vintage photo #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #myrna loy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson College's 1906 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #seagull #cormorant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#mad scientist #vintage yearbook #mouse #giant mouse #1960s
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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 #lion #manticore #heraldry #man lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Louis University's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant #end of the world #apocalypse #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #lion #oz #1890s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Hark!  The wind is in the chimney!  Let us hear what he has to say."  From Where the Wind Blows by Katharine Pyle and illustrated by Bertha Corson Day, 1902.
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#wind #chimney
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knowledge #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #illustration #watering can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fairy #frog #illustration #ad #stencil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #graduation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Discovering Our World by Beauchamp, Melrose & Blough, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #question mark #1930s #illustration
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October 13, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The weirdest thing in Pigeon Forge?  It's Prof. Oddfellow at large.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #pigeon forge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 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 #vintage ad #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #bebe daniels #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weber's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess Belle-Etoile by Walter Crane, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #boat
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Old News (permalink)
"'The average egg' ... it turned out to be an alligator."  From The Instructor, 1964.

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#vintage illustration #egg #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #tiger #tied to a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Calvin College's 1953 yearbook

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #spider web #fly #vintage women #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Charles Edwards' The History and Poetry of Finger-Rings (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 #ring #jewelry #trojan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate
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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 #bear #native american
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Pierre Vintonwitherspoon02witherspoon01, by Edward C. Venable



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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#occult #stars #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"How I hate to tackle this."  From Winthrop University's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat #steak
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Old News (permalink)
"I couldn't get on with my Mother-in-Law.  I felt she was trying to break up my marriage."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #vintage headline #headline #in-law
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #twins #vintage yearbook #seeing double #1920s #jumping rope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #knitting #yarn ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #1930s #laboratory
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Old News (permalink)
"Six husbands claim woman.  Disguised in overalls and sweater, gives all the slip."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.  
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #1960s #caveman #vintage man #man #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #dad
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October 12, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"One fine day."  From Language and How to Use It, Book 1, Teacher's Edition, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #illustration #elevator
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a sentence diagram that's a precursor to Lars Von Trier's Kingdom series.  From Grammar for Composition by C. H. Ward, 1933.
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#sentence diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Big Book of Needlecraft by Annie Paterson, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The courage of two cats facing death for others."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#cat #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elementary Science by Grades Book Three by Ellis Persing and Elizabeth Peeples, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #dandelion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Down Bayberry Lane by Helen Girvan, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #horse headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #mood #making faces #dial
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The caption explains that he's accusing himself.  From Presbyterian College's 1980 yearbook.
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#twins #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #double exposure #vintage man #man #doubled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 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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#sculpture #1920s #speed #aerodynamic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Saskatchewan's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
As without, so within.  From Dark Shadows episode 10.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana Technical College's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 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 #money #gold #vintage magazine #hollow tree #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion University's 1989 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #horse costume #1980s #equus
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Old News (permalink)
"Eat foods you crave."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#diet #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Those scampering, life-shortening days, and contrasty op-art hours rest easy and now heavy on our minds."  From Walla Walla College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 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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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Man Woman Child Infinity God ?"  From the North Carolina Baptist Hospital School of Nursing's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Caterpillars waked up into butterlies."  From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #caterpillar #illustration
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October 11, 2023

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the sandworms of Frank Herbert's Dune.  From Number Stories Book 2 by Studebaker, Findley, Knight & Gray, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration #sand sculpture #sandworm #sand worm #sand snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brownie and His Friends by Gates & Karabin, 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 #underwater #fish #illustration #sail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mouse #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Dark world in a cold grey light."  From The Gateway, 1966.
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 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 #cat #shoes #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #hollywood #bebe daniels
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown College's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I hate taking the car to be greased!"  From Improvement Era, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #lightning #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1928 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Parson Beecher and His Horse by Bricktop, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1963 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
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Old News (permalink)
"The dear monster: portrait of Germany."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#monster #germany #1930s #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Diversions no longer mean anything, life itself is disgusting, the struggle of existence meaningless."  From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#despair #vintage yearbook #yearbook #existentialism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I — fell.  My hip, I guess —."   From The Ghost of Melody Lane by Lilian Garis, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring, 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 #china
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people #cat headed #illustration #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Literature & Theology in Colonial New England by Kenneth Ballard Murdock, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #church #vintage book #book
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October 10, 2023

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
These places are all within a few miles of each other in Western Massachusetts.  [Via temporal anomaly investigator Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
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#clock #temporal anomaly
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Old News (permalink)
"Everybody suffering."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#vintage headline #suffering #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #check box
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Old News (permalink)
"An uneasy feeling."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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 #oz #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weber's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bookmark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was a little monkey person."  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 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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#monkey #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1927 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 #football
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Old News (permalink)
"I had an alien's baby."  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 1997.
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#dog #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Georgia's 1934 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 #native american #cloud #wild horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The pool of tears.  From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #crying #crying animal #tears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #long neck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae College's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vampire #dracula
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Old News (permalink)
"Why am I here?"  From The Instructor, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cherub #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #picture puzzle
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Old News (permalink)
From Missouri Southern State University's 1992 yearbook.
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#vintage headline #headline #free
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #duck #moose
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Our Mr. Wrenn, by Sinclair Lewis:

***
The April skies glowed with benevolence this Saturday morning. The Metropolitan Tower was singing, bright ivory tipped with gold, uplifted and intensely glad of the morning. The buildings walling in Madison Square were jubilant; the honest red-brick fronts, radiant; the new marble, witty. The sparrows in the middle of Fifth Avenue were all talking at once, scandalously but cleverly.

***
“You’re the brother-in-law to a wise one,” commented the Brass-button Man.
[This seems to be a compliment, meaning "you're smart to do that." But the only Google Books results for the phrase come from this very line in this very novel.]

***
A day of furtive darts out from his room to do London, which glumly declined to be done.

***
[Punctuation Marks Bearing the Full Burden dept.]
“And how do you place Nietzsche?” she gravely desired to know.
“?”
“Nietzsche. You know—the German humorist.”

***
"I think I’ll go back to Paris. There even the Interesting People are—why, they’re interesting."

***
"There’s tea at five dollars a cup that they advertise is grown on ‘cloud-covered mountain-tops.’ I suppose when the tops aren’t cloud-covered they only charge three dollars a cup."

***
[Culteranismo dept.]
"That’s playing. With words. My aged parent calls it ‘talking too much and not saying anything.’ Note that last—not saying anything! It’s one of the rules in playing that mustn’t be broken.”
He understood that better than most of the things she said. “Why,” he exclaimed, “it’s kind of talking sideways.”

***
“And eat them without buttering your nose. For if you butter your nose they’ll think you’re a Greek professor. And you wouldn’t like that, would you, honey?”

***
He ate his dinner with a grave courtesy toward the food and the waiter. He was positively courtly to his fork.

***
Yet when dear Carson had jauntily departed, leaving the room still loud with the smack of his grin, Istra seemed to have forgotten that Mr. Wrenn was alive.

***
The Aengusmere Caravanserai is so unyieldingly cheerful and artistic that it makes the ordinary person long for a dingy old-fashioned room in which he can play solitaire and chew gum without being rebuked with exasperating patience by the wall stencils and clever etchings and polished brasses. It is adjectiferous. The common room (which is uncommon for [a] hotel parlor) is all in superlatives and chintzes.

***
"Now do tell us all about it, Mr. Wrenn. First, I want you to meet Miss Saxonby and Mr. Gutch and dear Yilyena Dourschetsky and Mr. Howard Bancock Binch—of course you know his poetry.”
And then she drew a breath and flopped back into the wing-chair’s muffling depths.

***
“Gee! I talked to that omelet Berg’ rac like I’d known it all my life!”

***
Mrs. Arty—Mrs. R. T. Ferrard is her name, but we always call her Mrs. Arty.

***
The profusion of furniture was like a tumult; the redness and oakness and polishedness of furniture was a dizzying activity.

***
A general grunt that might be spelled “Hmmmmhm” assented.

***
"I’m getting sick of Paris and some day I’m going to stop an absinthe on the boulevard and slap its face to show I’m a sturdy moving-picture Western Amurrican."

***
Setting up his box stage, he glued a pill-box and a match-box on the floor—the side of the box it had always been till now—and there he had the mahogany desks. He thrust three matches into the corks, and behold three graceful actors—graceful for corks, at least.

***
"Where’s N? Oh, how clever of it, it’s right by M."

***
Besides, it wasn’t as if he were engaged to Nelly, or anything like that. Besides, of course Istra would never care for him. There were several other besideses with which he harrowed himself while trying to appear picnically agreeable.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #cat #magician
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October 9, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 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 #public speaking #before and after #illustration #hook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #cat #illustration #beaver
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Medieval Days and Ways by Gertrude Hartman, 1937.
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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 #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Vision of the unseen shore."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#vision #afterlife #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Disciplinary masks of New Guinea, from Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #costume #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From More Fables of Aesop.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #hare #turtle #aesop #tortoise and the hare
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Old News (permalink)
"Postman, pass me by!"  From Lighted Pathway, 1948.
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#vintage headline #postman #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Here is my sister's looking-glass."  From Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls by Lina & Adelia Beard, 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 #hands
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Old News (permalink)
"Oh, that's a joke, son!"  From Simmons College's 1947 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #joke #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 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 magazine #tiny woman #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weber's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #barrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls by Charlotte Gulick, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #symbolism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Old News (permalink)
"Anything can happen."  From Purple Parrot, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #garden of the gods #colorado
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"To hide his long ears his hatter advised him to wear large lats."  From Chatterbox, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #donkey #long ears #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bear #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ther she goes."  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 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
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Old News (permalink)
"I miss the simple things."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#vintage headline #headline #simplicity
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October 8, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alarm bell #bell #rude awakening #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dormouse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 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 #cat #mouse #cat and mouse #symbolism
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Dartmouth's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #serpent #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 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 #egyptian #solar deity #sun god #scarab #dung beetle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #ape
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's monkey listening to the radio within a leaf is from Elmhurt College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #leaf #radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sled #bell #walking stick #sleigh #cain and abel #cane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #forked tongue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 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 #devil #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mississippi State University's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage man #1980s #washing machine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling of being pulled backwards through a hedge.  From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Boney boy, boney boy, won't you be my boney boy?"  From Saint Francis College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goose #pet walker #walking the goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #finis #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Compliments of the Season by Eleanor Donnelly, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #shoe #kitten
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Old News (permalink)
"Animals, superstitions, and toothaches."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1947.
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#cat #superstition #vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Personal Pleasures, by Rose Macaulay:

We tire the stars with talking and send them down the sky; the stars, and the moon, and all the celestial bodies, for they have no arm-chairs.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Why drag through life wearing worthless trusses?  90% of the suffering and trouble ruptured people go through is caused by spring and leg-strap trusses."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #in chains #truss
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October 7, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hand over hand, in the darkness."  From Bob's "Breaking In" by Eleanor Putnam, 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 #darkness #rope #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #window #illustration #road
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Old News (permalink)
"There's only one of you."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#vintage headline #headline #outnumbered
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 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 #cow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #falling #tiger #oz #1890s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kaleidoscope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The valley of dreamy silence became the threshing-floor of shrieking death."  From Lighted Pathway, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #war #fighting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Seeing triple.  From Wittenberg's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #double vision
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration from an 1895 issue of Harper's magazine.  The caption reads: "The fairy tree."
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #fairy #illustration #fairy tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bubbles #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #long neck #wollerperleck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #saint #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #st. joseph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dr. Johnson and his cat."  From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dr. johnson
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institute's 1906 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 #flies #whiskers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tom thumb #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ball State University'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 #conductor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Emotionally induced illness."  From The Instructor, 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 #mental illness #emotions
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Newton Junior College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cheese
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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 #dragon #wyvern #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton College's 1878 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #musical animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Hold your money."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #money #vintage headline #headline #ad
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October 6, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This adage is a Googlewhack to this day: "The early cock takes the bun."  From The Centaur Almanac and Cook Book, 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 #rooster #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myself and I by Helen Van Valkenburgh and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Little Kittens Who Lost Their 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 #winter #fox #mitten
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage ad #occult #spiritualism #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artgum, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #turtle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You see ... it's really all very simple."  From Purple Parrot, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #chemistry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Queen's University's 1962 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage yearbook #pipe smoker #1960s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #mermaid
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The faux 3D effect of this photograph may facilitate a time travel experience.  From Wittenberg's 1930 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"They couldn't stop the Lord's potatoes."  From The Instructor, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #potato #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salinas Junior College's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Horse-faced people."  From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse mask #animal mask #animal headed #bow and arrow #horse head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkin head
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click twice to cartoon the circles. From the Duluth Herald, 1910.

From the Duluth Herald, 1910
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#drawing #animated gif #geometry #cartooning #circles
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

A few bits from George Jean Nathan:

[Most of these are from a theater column called "The Pantaloon Parnassus"! I would say "Puppy-Cow" raises more questions than it answers. (Can we connect the dots to little do[g]ies? Or to the Mac Classic dogcow?)]

It may be described as a Fokine ballet without dancing.



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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"While you are seated at the Table, arrange to have several Human Reptiles in glistening Frock Coats come up and furtively submit for your approval the kind of Photographs that no man who expected to drop dead would care to have on his Person."  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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #pet walker #scarf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #making faces #rectangle
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October 5, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"The sea that can drown nobody.  Great plan to get something out of it."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #badminton #battledore
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Say, is that the moon rising over there?"
"I'm sure I don't know.  I'm a stranger here myself."
Purple Parrot, 1923.
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#moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"& this too shall pass away."  From Wisconsin State College at Eau Claire's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #whale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#demon #hell #hooded figure #hades
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An usual twist on Baby New Year and Father Time, making them a Freshman and Senior, with graduation likened to death.  From Millsaps College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #earth #father time #vintage yearbook #baby new year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There's no present like the time!"  From The Goblin, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #clock #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An official portrait from Susquehanna University's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #costume #bear headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spiral #ram #horns #vintage magazine #magazine #back to normal
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #grave #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tombstone #gravestone
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Meet my friend -- the Night."  From The Instructor, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #night
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Plbmak spotted this time warp at the Majestic cinema in Kings Lynn, England.  The anomaly, of course, is courtesy of the timelessness of film.  As film critic Vertigo's Psycho has said, "due to the timelessness of film, I can still pass many hours transfixed."
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#timepiece #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horns #bovine #cattle #ox
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"If you're asleep, awake!"  From Dark Shadows episode 481.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#wake up #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"Morning is tolerant of the gray brick."  From Northeastern University's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #jester
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1964 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #comedy and tragedy
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #musical animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Grim fate trails luckless family.  Five members killed in auto crash and rescue car is wrecked later."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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#fate #vintage headline
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October 4, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Somebody Goofed" (1972) by J. T. C.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #mask #hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't ever marry."  From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage headline #unmarried #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #ant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 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 #astrology #symbolism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #coat rack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Broome Technical Community 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 #costume #disguises #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wonder Tales from Russia by Jeremiah Curtin, 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 #fairy tale #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1932 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 #mouse #eek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From House Scraps by G. Duckworth Atkin and illustrated by Geo. Cruickshank, F. C. Gould, and Lucien Davis, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #uncle sam #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Threatening Fog by Leon Ware.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #fog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern College's 1979 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #donkey #costume #1970s #vintage man #donkey mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1892. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1911 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 #lighthouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #monster #anthropomorphism #hippo #giant animal #giant hippo #hippo monster #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 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 #circle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goblin #fairy tale #gold
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Old News (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#love triangle #marriage #wedlock #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #warrior #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I know now honeymoons don't last forever."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1938.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage ad #1930s #ad
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October 3, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mary and Bill by Gertrude Hildreth and illustrated by Marguerite Scott, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #boat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Just mental balance,' he observes.  'The balance of my perfect nerves.'"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #balancing act #illustration #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Some people don't believe in Ouija Boards.  But then, there are many people, even in this enlightened age, who don't believe in Santa Claus."  From Originality by William Henry McMasters, 1967.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#ouija
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture News, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #eyes #audience #vintage hollywood #hollywood #spectator #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gad!  Another sleepless night."  From Purple Parrot, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #insomnia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It is with feelings not unmixed with sadness."  From Butler's 1891 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #ornate capital #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #sadness
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 1910.
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#vintage photo #standing stones #monolith #stone circle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Song of Sixpence Picture Book by Walter Crane, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bottle #men fighting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes by Harrison Adams and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern College's 1979 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"All having troubles."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#trouble #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #devil #satan #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lovely archetypal characters like these, from old theatrical books, can be used to create your own divination deck.  We explain the easy process in this article.  This particular set of characters is from Let's Pretend: A Book of Children's Plays by Lindsey Barbee, 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 #personification #archetypes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mouse's Tail by Helen Pettes and illustrated by Julia Greene, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Fifth Avenue," by Edgar Saltus (Dress & Vanity Fair, Sept. 1913)

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#potato
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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 #natural bridge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Dude, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #october
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October 2, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 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 #illustration #living toy #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tower of babel #cactus
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Old News (permalink)
"To be fashionable, women this fall must look old-fashioned.  The wide skirt has returned at last, along with billows, frills, and flares."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage fashion #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

The only way out is:

  • through dreams of flying
  • to develop a ‘whatever’ mentality
  • to always ask why
  • to roll a 1 on another turn
  • to lie in it
  • back the way you came
  • to surrender
  • a long, hard climb
  • to pick up the pieces and move on
  • inside a bottle
  • through the valve of the cocoon
  • to fine-tune the corrections
  • a total and complete disclosure of who we are and what we’ve done
  • in or within or down or up or through
  • to run
  • to train the mind to take refuge in the present
  • a small hole
  • through the killer ants
  • to buckle down this storm
  • to be transferred
  • to come undone
  • to go back and restore the old order
  • to get out of the way
  • to impose appropriate constraints
  • to watch it pass through
  • to take the demon's tower challenge
  • on a stretcher
  • saying rhymes
  • rebirth
  • to crawl up the other side and through a small opening under the stigma
  • to grin and giggle and repeat the same old jokes over and over again
  • to discard the doctrine
  • to forgive and keep forgiving until there is nothing left in that place but compassion and understanding
  • a gift from the gods
  • being made plainer every day
  • either to declare ourselves in crisis, go crazy, or diligently dedicate ourselves to the task of finding our own emancipation
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our search.  See Bullet Lists.]
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#list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Just going for a magazine, dear."  From Purple Parrot, 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 #upside down #surreal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This is a cigarette smoking machine.  Disease doesn't affect it."  From Queen's University's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#smoking #vintage yearbook #1960s #machine
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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 #ornate capital #letter m #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is why it's difficult to see stars in big cities.  From the University of Arkansas' 1936 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #night sky #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big city
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 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 #cat #rooftop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #keg #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Deathman, Do Not Follow Me by Jay Bennett. 
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#grim reaper #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1931 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Old News (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #lion #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #hairpiece #scalped
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Snickerty Nick by Julia Ellsworth Ford and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #elves #sandman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Isolation Peek."  From Toike Oike, 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 #mountain #isolation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Men[']s vigilance committee."  From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #binoculars #vigilance
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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 #little bo peep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #elephant #animals #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Why we must watch the black rat."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#rat #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #illustration #tree kangaroo #tree-kangaroo #marsupial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1962.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #cat #hallowe'en #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #duck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A hallucination flower so real-looking that even flies are fooled by a photograph of it.  From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower #fly #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bow and arrow #hunter #deer #mountain #burma
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 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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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Wind Wagon by David Cory and illustrated by P. H. Webb, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #sun #solar deity #anthropomorphism #sun god #sun king
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1918 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 #bear #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Momus, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #mask #jester #deity #momus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1950 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #halloween #october #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #clown #circus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy #october
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #native american #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1907 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #october #vintage yearbook #yearbook #calendar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fishing
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #october #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1919 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #pumpkin head
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Old News (permalink)
"Is cosmic travel possible?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#space travel #vintage headline
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