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, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 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 #modern art #hooded figure #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You’ve no idea how many deliciously warped and twisted memories I have of this holiday."  From Passions episode 85.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#hallowe'en #passions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic Seasons Toolkit by Allinson & McInnes, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin #hallowe'en #1970s #illustration #vegetable people #carved pumpkin
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Old News (permalink)
"I love old October so, I cannot bear to see her go."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#october #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Stroudsburg State College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #1970s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Javanese maskers.  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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#costume #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The way you feel when facing an audience."  From Elon College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #public speaking
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Old News (permalink)
"Haunted chairs go cheap."  From Fate Magazine, 1973.
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#haunted #chair #haunted chair #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her official yearbook portrait.  From Lebanon Valley College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Leap of the Lion by Curtis Norris, 1988.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #yes or no
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not everyone will see a ghost captured in this photograph.  From Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 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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#ghost #spirit photography
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkinhead #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Australian Women's Weekly, 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 ad #1940s #tooth #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bay Path College's 1986 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
Evidence against soul survival is inferential, and direct evidence could only be furnished by the dead.  But there are accounts of ghosts denying an afterlife or "other world."  From Light, 1934.
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#ghost #life after death #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Holidays collide.  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1938 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #christmas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fireplace #hallowe'en #1930s #illustration #holidays combined
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #crossword puzzle
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Life, July-December 1922:

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[from a spoof horoscope]
A slight shimmying motion of Venus and Mercury has the effect of doubling Barnum's law of one sucker per minute.

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the Drivoli Theatre

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a woman at odds with the Sphinx-riddle of education

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At first we thought that the title ["Millions"] referred to the number of times the author was going to say the same obvious thing.

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Mr. Hooker...confuses rhyming long words ending in "-ation" and names of cities ending in "-tucket" with uplift in lyric writing. [Benchley]
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[Bonus: A film-review column reminded me that when Felix the Cat is startled or perplexed, his tail turns into a question mark.]

Notes on some of the attachments:
1. As you will gather, these slightly bizarre "Intimate Glimpses" cartoons are a series (we had one earlier, labeled by me simply as "what is going on here?" or the like).
2. As you will probably also gather, the "Hubbard" bits are from a piece retelling the Old Mother H. tale à la various playwrights.
3. The bonus Pep-O-Mint ad is actually not from Life 1922, but from Cosmopolitan 1920, but I decided to pair it up with its cousin.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poetry in Modern Ireland by Austin Clarke.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #face
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October 30, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #owl #drawing #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lollipop witch, peanut witch, and marshmallow spook.  From Youth's Companion, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Japanese lion dance.  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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #japanese #lion
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Old News (permalink)
From Nobody Meets Bigfoot by Marian Place, 1976.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst College's 1916 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1970 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#mask #vintage yearbook #1970s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"And the evening promises no peace for those trapped between the darkness and the light, where even the limits that separate the living from the dead have become obscured."  From Dark Shadows episode 494.
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#dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"The demon that comes in the night."  From Fate Magazine, 1973.
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#demon #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania State University's ROTC yearbook of 1984.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #angel #mirror #reflection #narcissism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham 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 #illustration #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Horizon, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #physiognomy #drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A haunting we will go."  From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1975 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #vintage headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost trains keep rails open."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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#ghost #train #vintage headline #ghost train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #illustration #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kentucky State University's 1910 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 #yearbook #hallowe'en #illustration #1910s
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #ghost #witch #hallowe'en #1960s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Davidson County Community College's 1979 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkinhead #pumpkin head #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #masquerade #hallowe'en #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1910, via UpNorthMemories.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #illustration #1910s #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #1930s #illustration
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October 29, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #spooked #hallowe'en #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #hallowe'en #1940s #illustration #party #halloween party #surprise party
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
116
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Science Monthly, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #cat #hallowe'en #illustration #1910s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Our Dumb Animals, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #1960s #illustration #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #elves #autumn #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Animals that lie like dust for years."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.
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Old News (permalink)
From Reality of the Cavern World by Riley Hansard Crabb, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #hollow earth #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1908.  Via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #jack-o'-lantern #faces in things #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem Normal School's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lakehead Teachers' College's 1967 yearbook.

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#witch #vintage yearbook #teacher #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We had found our father only to lose him again."  From Chatterbox, 1913.
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#vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Exact center of the world."  From Lebanon Valley College's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #geography #boot #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"Become a 'witch!'"  From Fate Magazine, 1973.
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#vintage ad #witch #witchcraft #vintage headline #headline #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Football should be settled by arbitration."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Meat-Eaters by Lucy Guernsey, 1858.
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#vintage illustration #lynx
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychic Science, 1927.
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#spirit photography #ghost
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The house was alive, possessed by the undead ... hollow children of the past, invisible cats, malevolent spirits and the woman who would not die ... a woman who would mesmerize and inspire her husband to paint the masterpiece which would destroy him."  From The Woman Who Would Not Die by Carolyn Busey Bauman, 1969.
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#horror #vintage headline #headline
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October 28, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #pumpkin #hallowe'en #1940s #illustration #pumpkin house
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage photo #dancing #autumn #leaves #1930s #fall #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #occult #spiritualism #seance #spirit instruments #illustration #spirit violin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1913, via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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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 #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic World, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #pyramid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon 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 #melting architecture
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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.
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#vintage illustration #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Dartmouth College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot #queen of cups
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vanity Fair, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #farmer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Come into our parlor."  From Indiana University's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #spider web #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
"Death's door ajar."  From Light, 1934.
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#death #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animals #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley & Judy Crabb, 1968.
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#reality #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #donkey #crying animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse by Arthur Scott Bailey and illustrated by Harry L. Smith, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #corn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma State University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#occult #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #hallowe'en #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Secret Service, Old and Young King Brady, Detectives, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #mesmerism #hypnotist #1900s #vintage magazine #magazine
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death on the Down Beat, by Sebastian Farr:

***
"The Police Surgeon...gave me the facts...in the usual rather aggrieved and 'needless-to-say' manner."

***
[A literal month of Sundays!]
"Beatrice says I must come every Sunday as long as I'm here....Perhaps she thinks that standing invitation is quite safe because I'm bound to catch the culprit in less than a month of Sundays."

***
[Giving sailors and old-time Middle Tennesseans a run for their pan-superstitious money!]
"As I write down the date, I reflect that the 13th is indeed an unlucky day. No, this does not mean that I have become superstitious...it simply means that any day is unlucky."

***
[One-upping "anyhow"]
"It ought to be interesting, every-how, as they say here."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #fox #hallowe'en #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #illustration #hairy man
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October 27, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #cat #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #locker room
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hallowe'en #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #hand #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
The Committe on Haunted Houses, Etc.  From the Society for Psychical Research, 1884.
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#haunted house #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1908.  Via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #hallowe'en #vintage postcard
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Old News (permalink)
"'It's your duty to spend!' says Carole Lombard."  From Movie Classic, 1933.
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#money #vintage headline #headline
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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 #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #expletive #cursing
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Old News (permalink)
"Watch out — her earrings explode!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline #earring
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Yes, even mummies can have their pants fall down.  From Kansas State University's 1964 yearbook.

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#mummy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #pants falling down
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's "just out of bed" look is from Wheaton College's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #gas mask #bicyclist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #public speaking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic World, 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 #vintage ad #occult #halo #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Happiness is passing religion."  From Lebanon Valley College's 1972 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Numerous hauntings occur on conducting soil which reflects cosmic waves."  From Fate Magazine, no. 52.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
"It is cute if it is red."  From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #redhead #hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit doll captured during a seance.  From Light, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #seance #illustration #doll
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Old News (permalink)
"Fight with boulders."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #snake #python #hunter
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October 26, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From People and Places by Horn, McBroom & Bishop and illustrated by Sperry, Stein & Paus, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #1940s #illustration #exkimo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Life, A First Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan & Vernon L. Kellogg, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #map #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #1910s
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Mrs. Snow's Practical Cook Book by Mary Snow, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #table setting #diagram #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Spook up your club's civic activities?"  From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1902.  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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#vintage illustration #monster #sea serpent #sea monster #animal attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #masonic #candle #1920s #symbolism
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Old News (permalink)
You've heard of the "colors of the wind," but "There's no one left to paint the sky."  From Amazing Stories, 1972.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic World, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #spiritualism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#bottle imp #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #faces in things #chemistry #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"Spirit bride ... mortal groom.  It was a strange wedding ceremony.  A living man exchanged vows with a woman who had been dead for two years."  From Fate Magazine, 1956.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #wedding #vintage headline #ghost bride #headline
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Old News (permalink)
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#book title #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Savannah State College's 1985 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's lesson in drawing six-eyed people is from Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1988 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1908, via UpNorthMemories
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Life, January-June 1922:

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Madame Petrovka...throw[s] the letter "r" about like so much listerine. [Benchley]

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Actors do not feel that they have to dance while they recite their lines. Why should dancers have to act? [Benchley, re. ballet]

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The trouble [with this play] comes first at the start, which is a bad place for trouble to come. [Benchley]

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Unlike many workshop plays, it has practically no shavings sticking to it and it does not smell of varnish. [Benchley]
***

[Bonuses (names of real shows): Make It Snappy; Some Party!]

[Many snippets attached. That Benchley opera silliness is so proto-Woody Allen!]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whitney's Choice of Emblemes by Henry Green, 1866.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"'He wouldn't invest in a flying saucer,' he says tartly."  From Vanity Fair, 1991.
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October 25, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Edgar B. Thurstan, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #ornate frame #illustration #1910s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage photo #lion #1930s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Little Green Story Book by Ousley & Russell, 1957.
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Old News (permalink)
"I'm sick of being glamorous."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucers and the Coming Space Probes by Riley Hansard Crabb, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Walking the peacock, owl, eagle, and goose.  From Swarthmore College's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #eagle #owl #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #1900s #pet walker #animal wrangler
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #bird #rattlesnake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1958 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Karmenia, or, What the Spirit Told Me by Lyman E. Stowe, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #frog #spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #crow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Galaxy Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #picnic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern State Teachers College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling when you're pushed off a lighthouse into the hell fog.  From Detective Book Magazine, vol. 3, no. 9.
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#vintage illustration #lighthouse #fog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem Female Academy's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giantess #vintage yearbook #magnifying glass #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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Old News (permalink)
"Divine ideal not being met."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #idealism #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #gunpowder
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October 24, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's surprised sheet ghost is from Back Pack by Basic Educational Skills Materials, 1980.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Oct. 1993.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #pumpkinhead #illustration #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #bat #vintage diagram #hallowe'en #diagram #1940s #illustration #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #magician #oz #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hallowe'en #1920s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #grinding stone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #devil #levitation #weightless #1920s #illustration #Mephistopheles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English Activities 2 by Hatfield, Lewis, Thomas & Woody, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #hallowe'en #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1908.  Via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #gluttony #advice #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Out of the Silence, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #anubis
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Sundials (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1941 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir-Rhyne College' s 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #animal fight
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Old News (permalink)
From The Innocence of Roast Chicken by Jo-Anne Richards, 1996.
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#chicken #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem Female Academy's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Thinker, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #solar system #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Monsieur d'En Brochette, by Taylor, Folwell, and Bangs


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What the World Eats by Hanson Hart Webster, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #faces in things #hallowe'en #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Rat's dance of death."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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#dance of death #rat #vintage headline #headline
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October 23, 2025

Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Where Our Ways of Living Come From by Howard Wilson, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #map #1940s #illustration #baltic sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #paper craft #tree #1930s #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
100829 126911
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Old News (permalink)
Millions of dollars and perhaps thousands of deaths every year are due to the antics of ... practical jokers?  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#practical joke #vintage headline
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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 #smart animal #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #dog #well #animal rescue #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #falling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #heart #knife #1900s #stabbed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Eventually, after man has mocked them up and ensouled them with life, these gods destroy their creators."  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#deity #god #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #scissors #yearbook #faces in things #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #flower people #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #torch
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Old News (permalink)
From Galaxy Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #rose #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1941 yearbook.

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
"Automatic writing is a curse!"  From Fate Magazine, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #occult #automatic writing #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trombone #musician
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Old News (permalink)
From When Things Were Doing by C. A. Steere, 1908.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Azoth, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #pyramid #sacred geometry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #jackass
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Old News (permalink)
"A number may be the clue to solve your greatest problem in life."  From True Mystic Science, 1938.
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#vintage headline #math #headline #number
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October 22, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Playing with your food is only as fun as you make it.  From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #potato #diagram #1930s #illustration #fork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1981.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #buddhist
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy #scott baker graham
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bluebird.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #dove #statue #1920s #noah's ark #illustration #houseboat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Friends and New Fables by Alice Talwin Morris and illustrated by Carton Moorpark, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fox #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"How to get tired.  The unideal home."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1908.  Via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #witch #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #advice #living toy #yarn doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #processional #burma
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Old News (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1936 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #goat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf
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Old News (permalink)
From When We Began There Were Witchmen by Jeffrey Fadiman, 1993.
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#witch #book title #headline #witchdoctor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit guide from The Medium and Daybreak, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #spirit guide
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem Female Academy's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #faces in things #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The first of these depictions by A. G. Learned, being a very distressed scan, is accidentally akin to the Shroud of Turin.  (Distressed scan from The Psychic Observer, 1938.)
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#vintage illustration #jesus
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Old News (permalink)
"Ashes of age rekindled by the magic touch of love."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Back Brain Recluse No. 11.
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#vintage illustration #occult #bird #eyes #illustration
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October 21, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #animal attack #under the sea #shark #illustration #diver #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From An American Crusoe by A. Hyatt Verrill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #robinson crusoe #pelican
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley & Judy Crabb, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #kabbalah #tree of life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Star-Haunted by Gordon LeClaire, 1937.
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#star #book title
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #1900s #pet walker
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield State Teachers College's 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #faceless #no face #cheerleader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #magician #smoke #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #guillotine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #bird #sparrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ball State University's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Unfair to my right to be happy."  From Horizon Magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #sign #protest
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"What grandma saw in the graveyard."  From Fate Magazine, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #graveyard #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Members of good standing in the Bowlegged Club.  From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #faceless #no face #bowlegged
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Old News (permalink)
From The Occult Digest, 1929.
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#question mark #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #caterpillar #illustration #sailor
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast, by PJ Fitzsimmons:

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"Great Guildenstern's garters!"

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"Oh my giddy aunt's guinea stamp," I rued.

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"Excellent venue for infiltrating panto dressed as a horse, the Richmond."

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[Bonus: my favorite malapropism, from a character who habitually malaprops: "a figtree of my imagination"]


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration #paper doll
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October 20, 2025

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 #japanese #longevity #deity #deer #1900s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #pig #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #bird #violin #musical animal #fiddle #1860s #musician #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Approaching ever on a winged horse like yours. —Witter Bynner."  From Laughing Horse, 1924.
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#flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #chinese #illustration #sedan chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #horse #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Occult Review, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #sacred geometry #numbers #seven #four
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mercury Magazine, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #mercury #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Seeing-eye rats and talking dogs."  From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #rat #vintage headline #illustration #smart animal #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Circa 1908, via UpNorthMemories
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #hallowe'en #vintage postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir-Rhyne College' s 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #weathervane #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #balcony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #eye
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ashland College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"'Bimbo' fire fighter."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1955.
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#vintage headline #headline #fire fighter #bimbo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #october #balancing act #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #tightrope #oct. 20 #october 20
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #boat #alcohol #1920s #illustration #houseboat
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Old News (permalink)
"Insist turtles are reptiles.  Cubans do not want them classified as animals."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#turtle #vintage headline #headline
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October 19, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #sea horse #boat #seahorse #1930s #illustration #houseboat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trails in the Woods by Gates, Liveright & Esterline, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #possum #flashlight #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #leaping #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, 1923.  
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#vintage illustration #robin hood #1920s #illustration #arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #chicken #rooster #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's heraldic lion of Persia is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #lion #human headed #illustration #persian
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Old News (permalink)
"The palace of the fairy queen.  Titania invites us all.  The most wonderful little house in the world."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#fairy queen #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #illustration #red squirrel
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Old News (permalink)
"Culture -- is it a conspiracy?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline #conspiracy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"French renaissance carved oak bed (15th century)."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 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 #caveman #mammoth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"You don't have to go to the circus to see queer things."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He that hath the key of David."  From Modern Mystic, 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 #esoteric #mysticism #key
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#spirit photography #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Perhaps the proper area for applying rouge.  From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansass 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 #donkey
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Old News (permalink)
"'Murdered' man very much alive."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#living dead #vintage headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Vidiots that have known me."  From 73 Magazine, 1969.
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#vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The News-boy," by Joseph C. Neal:

Character names: St. Sebastian Sockdolager, Esq. and Mr. Sappington Sapid (whom Sockdolager addresses as "Mr. Whatcheecallem")
"Tickletoby!" (evidently an oath)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 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 #horse #illustration #1910s
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October 18, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #flower #1920s #bee #illustration #honey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1928.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goblin #mask #hallowe'en #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 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 #cow #faces in things #1930s #illustration #johnny cake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 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 #drawing #stick figure #1920s #illustration #proportions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 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 #bird #1920s #illustration #wren #bluebird #house wren
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Old News (permalink)
"It is never too late to believe."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Test of Time (Ostermoor Mattress), 1904.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #angel #sleep #cupid #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Pair from fruit town climbs singing tree."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flying carpet #magic carpet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill College'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 #the end
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Old News (permalink)
"We are presently living in the very best of times ... but the best of times is also the worst of times."  What the Dickens?!  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#good and evil #vintage headline #headline #best of times #worst of times
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Conjurers' Monthly Magazine, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #magic #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The local cat, who visits the library when he can sneak in."  From [the Barton] Spoke 1987-1988.
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#cat #vintage photo #library #1980s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #star #deity #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Galaxy Magazine, 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 #goddess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1929 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #spirit drawing #hieroglyphs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blindfolded
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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 #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy'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 #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Second Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 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 #nest #mouse #illustration
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October 17, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #starry night #illustration #pillow #poem #1910s #flying pillow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's bees pulling off a toupee are from the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #political cartoon #bee #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 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 #fish #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #1920s #old woman who lived in a shoe #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 #egyptian #illustration #cosmograph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Following New Trails by Horn, Moscrip & Porter, 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 #bird #hand #illustration #hummingbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The magical powder of life.  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 #hobby horse #oz #pumpkin head #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Weirdness by Jeremy Bushnell.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 #weirdness
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The Right Word (permalink)
A very rare word: "panthygatric." From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook #fireworks #firecracker #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso University's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pharmacist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic World, 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 #observatory
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown's 1925 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 #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The years become ears (of corn) when we lose the Y of it all.  From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 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 #corn #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #seeing stars #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"How lost was my father?"  From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage headline #headline #disappearance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrucian Digest, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #strange light #deity #god
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #biology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley and Judy Crabb, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #exercise #diagram #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Seeing Things at Night, by Heywood Broun:

[The one about whooping it up for buildings is from a piece questioning the practice of applauding only for human performers, and not for impressive inanimate things.]








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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Wait till he confuses you with some picture he's seen."  From Dark Shadows episode 474. 
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#dark shadows
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October 16, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #capital o #letter o #deer #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Ancient and Medieval World by Lester Burton Rogers, 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 #egyptian #sphinx #egypt #vintage photo #illustration #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #animal attack #octopus #1890s #tentacles #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #falling #boat #1920s #illustration #canal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Which skirts should not be worn by a stout woman?"  From Textile Fabrics by Elizabeth Dyer, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Essentials of Design by De Garmo & Winslow, 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 diagram #balancing act #color theory #1920s #scales #color #diagram #illustration #chroma
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Old News (permalink)
"Star disappears for nearly an hour."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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#star #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Joseph's College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #panther
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Old News (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #cat #vintage headline #ghost cat
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The Right Word (permalink)
When words fail to do the subject justice.  From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 1879.
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#asterisk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The three angles of the line of incident.  From Horizon, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A long, long, long good-bye, and a desire to lie down and just die!"  From Chowan College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #women #vintage women #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ten Steps to Self-Fulfillment, Step One by Robert Chaney amd illustrated by Teodors Liliensteins, 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 #esoteric #eyes #illustration #lotus #unfoldment
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Old News (permalink)
"Cupid gets black eye."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#cupid #vintage headline #black eye #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life Science by Benedict, Knox & Stone, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #frog #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hood College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stars #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 #baboon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And Kipling called it a rag, a bone, and a hank of hair."  From East Carolina Teacher's College's 1931 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 #1930s
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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.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Massillon City Hospital School of Nursing's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #illustration #lamp #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mrs. Tubbs, written and illustrated by Hugh Lofting, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #1920s #bee #swarm #illustration
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October 15, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Blowing out a candle through a milk bottle is only as interesting as we make it.  From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 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 diagram #candle #diagram #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The Last Generation" (1972) by J. T. C.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #doctor #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #pumpkin #hallowe'en #pumpkin carving #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 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 #buddhism #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 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 #fable #fox #native american #cliff #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 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 #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #plague #health #1900s #illustration #bubonic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 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 #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #frog #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Max help up his hands in terror, crying 'Oh, he's mine!  He's all I've got!"  From "The Professional Umpire and Mascot-Keeper" by Lee McCrae, in The Children's Book, 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 #cat #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Popocatepetl wakes.  400 years of sleep broken.  Angry mountain shakes the earth."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#volcano #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 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 #barrel #apple #pie #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ironing
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Old News (permalink)
"I turned off the light and fell asleep, little dreaming what daylight would bring forth."  From Reality Magazine, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #dog #sleeping #vintage headline #headline
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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 #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Seattle Pacific 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 #native american #the end #illustration #tepee
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Old News (permalink)
"Your own blood relatives won't know you!"  From Vanity Fair, 1916.  (Hat tip - the winsome Jonathan.)
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 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 #faces in things #mushroom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As we noted previously, we've seen figures cut out of photographs, but too often we forget that the cutout reveals the figures "light body" that continues to thoughtfully dwell in the scene.  From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #cutout
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Modern English Writing by Douglas Bement, 1937.
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#abraham lincoln #sentence diagram
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October 14, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#1900s #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #lamb #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Why, there's more variety in Hell than what heaven can offer you. There are film stars, lawyers, politicians ..."  From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hell #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic trick #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #beard #wizard #telescope #astrologer #1920s #illustration #astronomer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 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 #seeing stars
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
From St. Andrews Presbyterian College's 1990 yearbook.  This recalls the bizarre audiobook version of the crayon-optional  Minimalist Coloring Book.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #not pictured #anti-coloring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #wolf #animal attack #pony
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Be a live one if it kills you."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's dancing lighthouse is from (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 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 #lighthouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern 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 #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 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 #political cartoon #money #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hartnell College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #autumn #fall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Safe from wolves while up a geyser.  From Hairbreadth Escapes of Major Mendax by Francis Blake Crofton, 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 #wolf #animal attack #geyser
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crab #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Horizon, 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 #fog #in the clouds #1940s #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1930s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Playhouse Impressions, by A. B. Walkley:

[Three snippets attached. I can't imagine the ad hoc playhouse in a dormitory was really unusual, even in the late 19th century, but the bon mot about dormitory in a playhouse amused me.]



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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #october #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #musician #illustration #oct. 14 #october 14
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There a trumpet call for you!"  From Punch, 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 #1920s #telephone #illustration
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October 13, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1900s #suffering #illustration #ad #backache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Conscripted by the dead."  From Ghost Stories, 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 #mirror #horror #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)




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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Eskimo Twins, written and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 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 #twins #dog #seeing double #eskimo #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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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 #illustration #african
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley & Judy Crabb, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #kabbalah #tree of life
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Old News (permalink)
He sat up at his own funeral and commented on the rain, but they kept the shroud on him and buried him anyway.  From The Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#living dead #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Are nude Tibetan lamas abominable snowmen?"  From Fate Magazine, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #yeti #bigfoot #vintage headline #tibet #buddhist #headline #abominable snowman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She had only a pumpkin and some rats and mice."  From Elementary Science by Grades Book Three by Ellis Persing and Elizabeth Peeples, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fairy tale #pumpkin #cinderella #mouse #rat #broom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Society for the Prevention of Early Rising.  From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 1880.

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

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#vintage illustration #sleep #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bed #men in bed #late sleeper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Playing the cave crystals.  From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cave #cavern #crystal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern 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 #coffee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From For Sale with Corpse by J. M. Gregson, 1991.
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#coffin #book title #sign
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hartnell College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #mascot #1960s #cat mask #cat costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #finis #monkey #the end
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1924 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 #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #reading
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand of god #hand #puppeteer #puppetmaster
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Old News (permalink)
"Our misuses of Mars."  From Wynn's Astrology, 1936.
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#mars #vintage headline #headline
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October 12, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monk #horse #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 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 #cat #dog #autumn #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 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 #illustration #prehistoric #weapon #stone age
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Old News (permalink)
"The train that was lost and the balloon that ran away.  The odd things that sometimes happen.  Nobody a penny the worse."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#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 #illustration #yah
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Computer chess gets all the press, but let's not forget ham radio chess.  From 73 Magazine, 1970.
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#vintage headline #chess #ham radio
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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 #heraldry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State University's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hand painted postcard from 1908, via UpNorthMemories (with our own color correction).
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#vintage illustration #hand colored #1900s #vintage postcard #michigan #river #hand painted #postcard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You spend your first three years getting into things; your last, in getting out."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 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 #books #crushed #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1896 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 #book #1890s #book head
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #george washington #hidden pictures
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wingate Junior College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From CEFANC Boletin Informativo, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansass 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 #quill pen
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It turns out that every wrong number is actually for you.  From Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage ad #telephone #vintage hollywood #Barbara Stanwyck #hollywood #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"All-Ohio Burlesque.  Continuous performace, twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty-five days in the year, on the campus."  From Ohio University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #burlesque #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #duck #hunter #1970s #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Nuts About Squirrels: The Rodents That Conquered Popular Culture, by Don H. Corrigan:

[The context here--should you need any--is the assertion that ancient squirrel lore has persisted even in the most modern entertainment technology.]

"There's a squirrel in the digital machine."
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#squirrel
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1917.
Answers: grackles, nightingale, woodpecker.  
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#vintage illustration #illustration #word puzzle #1910s
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October 11, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 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 #1900s #farmer #illustration #rice #caribou #philippines
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #goose #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The nervously fussy bridegroom."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nervous #illustration #moustache #bridegroom #fussy
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Old News (permalink)
"Week-end for better health."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline #headline #weekend
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Old News (permalink)
"I aim to please."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1947.  
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#vintage illustration #1940s #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Guide for Drawing the Acanthus by James Page, 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 #cathedral
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed: modern art looks like that because the models don't still still.  From Punch, 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 #modern art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiger #football #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New York State Exhibitor, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #lion #vintage hollywood #hollywood #cakewalk #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg University's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s #invisible woman
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Old News (permalink)
"A nightmare and its startling aftermath."  From Fate Magazine, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #bat #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Queen's University's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Journal Of Borderland Research, vol. XLVI.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage diagram #diagram #radae
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Whistling has solved more great problems than philosophy."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #whistling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #watering can
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Old News (permalink)
"Will do nothing but spend money."  From The Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#money #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork #goat #fraternity #vintage yearbook #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 #rooftop #gargoyle #1880s
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October 10, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, April 1994.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #alice in wonderland #white rabbit #illustration #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #drawing #pig #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 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 #death #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #patchwork girl #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Meet you in Goobertown!  From Youth's Companion, 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 #anthropomorphism #illustration #peanut #1880s #goober
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #bear #dancing bear
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Old News (permalink)
"Modern popery is ancient paganism."  From Progressive Thinker, 1906.
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#vintage headline #paganism #catholicism #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1900s #illustration #flying broomstick
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Old News (permalink)
"Two men and a hat: a little gaiety."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#vintage headline #hat #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Magnificent Milo, written and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne (1958).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #centaur #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

The Pinkled Frinft, and other snippets from The Smart Set, 1917:

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[Shaw's play Getting Married] reminds one of a Wilde epigram rewritten by Dostoievsky. [Nathan]

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Anyone can write a play but...it takes genius to sit through one. [Nathan; not sure if this quip is original to him]

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all its winsome et ceteras [Nathan]

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Miss Cather and Mrs. Watts have yet to strike twelve. [Mencken]

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ideas rolled out like noodles [Mencken]

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the grave and literal-minded critical whisker [Nathan]
***

Bonuses:

Nathan uses "jabberwock" as a transitive verb (something a playwright does to the audience by entertaining them with playful nonsense).

He also uses the adverb "Johnsonianly" (i.e., in the manner of Dr. Johnson).
[And the same day I encountered that, I subsequently encountered the assertion, in an unrelated book from 1921, that Fanny Burney wrote "a kind of debased Johnsonese."]

He describes a play called /The Basker/ as a "monocled dawdle"

Notes on a couple of the attachments:
1. Re. "more this anon": This sentence, article, and entire *issue* appear to break off in the middle of a word! Mencken is both the author and co-editor, so in a way he's self-empting. (And I note that I saw no evidence of the sentence or article picking up again in the subsequent issue.)
2. I've included the tobacco ad simply because of its over-the-top off-topicness in confusing itself with a coffee ad. (I subsequently saw another one in the series, with some other fragrant non-tobacco substance featured.)
3. Apparently The Pinkled Frinft's title has a subtitle that reads, "Don't Wrinkle Your Nose When You Pronounce It."
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Ten Steps to Self-Fulfillment, Step Six by Robert Chaney amd illustrated by Teodors Liliensteins, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #sun #outer space #constellation #zodiac #esoteric
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #nurse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #grave #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy #crying puppet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
""In the vain pursuit of this and that endeavor and dispute" (Omar Khayyam).  From Oberlin College's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #calligraphy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #omar khayyam
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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#king
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of life giving you lemons, and here's who tosses them.  From James Millikin University's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lemon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #world #earth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From Mount Union College's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From (Stevens Institute of Technology's) Eccentric, 1874.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
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#vintage illustration #insect #1890s #illustration
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October 9, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany More Friends and Neighbours, 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 #bee #1940s #illustration #beehive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #anthropomorphism #horse #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858. 
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#vintage illustration #tiny people #illustration #fat and thin #plate #1850s #jack sprat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #native american #hunter #elk #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The demon Tuculcha on an Etruscan tomb.  From Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
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#vintage illustration #demon #mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #costume party #masquerade #costume
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Old News (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #fire #on fire #vintage headline #fireproof #headline
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
A talisman rose from Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1953 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rose #talisman rose
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
A mock sun to the left of the true sun.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage diagram #two suns #diagram #false sun #mock sun #twin suns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #chalkboard #teacher #1960s #middle finger
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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 #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Can sun spots affect our thoughts?"  From Rosicrucian Digest, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sun #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #faceless #no face #1910s #hash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Moving through the air in a most remarkable manner."  From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #levitation #weightless #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's tiny bear hammering upon a typewriter is from Lenoir Rhyne College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #typewriter
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #ship #gold #viking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We're some pumpkins."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #jack-o'-lantern #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Juniata College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Art thou a fairy?"  From The Jewish Fairy Book, translated by Gerald Friedlander and illustrated by George Hood, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #jewish
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October 8, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not being able to lift a stool is only as difficult as we make it.  From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #stool
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1981.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #buddhist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #1920s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Le Vocabulaire par la Méthode Naturelle Séri 1 by Les Frères du Sacre-Coeur, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #french #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland by Howard Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #rabbit #well #animal rescue #illustration #1910s #uncle wiggily
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life in Ancient Athens by T. G. Tucker, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #temple #architecture #greece #greek #illustration #zeus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #kite #1930s #illustration #clothesline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's barking cat hatching from an egg is from Life Magazine, 1924.  "You'd be surprised."  Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hatchling #bird #chicken #1920s #hatching #egg #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Circa 1908, via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #hallowe'en #palette #vintage postcard #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania State University's ROTC yearbook of 1984.

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

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#vintage yearbook #statue #lion
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Old News (permalink)
Dropped dead before he could gather his winnings.  From The Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Selection From the Works of Frederick Locker, illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1865.
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#vintage illustration #jester #soap bubbles #blowing bubbles #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1940.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #women #vintage women #vintage hair #hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A day in the country."  From Mr. Punch’s Prehistoric Peeps by E. T. Reed, 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 #dinosaur #caveman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #faces in things #pipe smoker #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Don Quixote still rides in Spain's countryside."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #don quixote #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #illustration #glee club #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #pied piper #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Moral: The fruit is all in the orchard, but—you need a ladder."  From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Faust by Goethe and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #occult #dungeon #Faust #illustration
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October 7, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #target practice #rifle #illustration #bullet trick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #1920s #illustration #hay
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Bold peef catties."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat #illustration #1950s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #elves #little people #wee folk #illustration #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Northern University's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1907, via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #bear #vintage postcard #postcard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The medic is ever careful that ye shall know him by his smell."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.
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#doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zina's Awakening by Mrs. J. Kent Spender and illustrated by Warren B. Davis, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, in Essay de Papillonneries Humaines (1756).  Via LifeTakesLemons.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #turtle #butterfly people
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #snowflake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"How nice your hair is Marcelled."  From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big hair #1900s #hair style
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #flying fish #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley & Judy Crabb, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #lightning #triangle #diagram #creative energy
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Old News (permalink)
"You can sit down and view what surrounds you with calmness."  From Oberlin College's 1911 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Until a better scan, there's a gryphon, flying horse, dragon, bats, and all sorts of stuff going on here.  From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hit on the head #ceiling
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Old News (permalink)
"Hoodoo hunter will stay home."  From the Duluth Herlad, 1913.  
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#vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1916:

***
I read it on a train, and a hundred miles seemed as the leap of a frog, the gesture of a bartender. [Mencken]

***
a paperstore jammed between two buildings, a veritable architectural sandwich
[Now I'm hungry!]

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You would have seen artist and artiste act the play almost entirely without the eyebrows. [Nathan]
***

Bonuses:
"zither salad" [apparently a nonsensical Nathan one-off]
"an air of genuine fiddlededee" [Nathan--who means it as a compliment]
the Buxton Murfrees
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Not particularly attracted by the poultry."  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #1900s #poultry #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #hunter #1960s #illustration
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October 6, 2025

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 #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #mammoth #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#occult #prof. oddfellow #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's frog riding a lizard.  From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #frog #lizard #1860s #illustration #animal friends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #airplane #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #eyes #mouth #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brownie and His Friends by Gates & Karabin, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #brownie #fishbowl #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
Ice crystals avoid one another while growing (middle photo).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #ice #illustration #snowflake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1928 yearbook

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banana peel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #knitting #yarn doll #yarn ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #mannequin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From India, A Country Study, edited by Heitzman and Worden, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #peacock #bird #india
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Old News (permalink)
"He called her 'Pretty Monkey.'"  From Snappy Stories, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #money bag #vintage yearbook #yearbook #keys
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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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#radionics #psychotronic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #elves #dishes
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #bachelor #vintage headline #vintage man #moustache #man #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Selection From the Works of Frederick Locker, illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1865.
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#vintage illustration #muff
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October 5, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #weightless #oz #illustration #patchwork girl #1910s
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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 #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #cat #puss in boots #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"The earth pulls down its polar cap."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage headline #polar #icecap #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hero #tied up #villain
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #cougar #word puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #ostrich
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Old News (permalink)
"Will-o-the-wisp sounds fire alarm.  A dancing point of light led Earl to the smell of smoke and a shrouded black figure without a face."  From Fate Magazine, 1973.

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#will-o'-the-wisp #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1975 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook #kitten
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Heads Up, 1919.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Light of Truth, 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 #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan College's 1914 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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Old News (permalink)
"Gay chairs."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.
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#chair #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #fire #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The doctor prescribes for the lady dolly."  From St. Nicholas, 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 #doctor #living toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Belmont Abbey College's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology'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 #anvil #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you really ready for the next emergency?"  From 73 Magazine, 1968.
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#vintage headline #fear mongering
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death in the Tunnel, by Miles Burton:

Wigland and Bunthorne [firm name]
Mrs. Clutsam
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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 #reindeer #antlers #illustration
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October 4, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Veil and 'kerchief case and pincushion combined"... in the form of a moth.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #1890s #illustration #moth #three in one #gift #3-in-1
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #dog #gingerbread man #1920s #illustration #eaten alive
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#prof. oddfellow #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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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 #1920s #illustration #nursery rhyme #crooked man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's fox chasing a drum.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 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 #fox #drum #1930s #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 #fish #1900s #illustration #mackerel #garfish #horse mackerel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 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 #drawing #fish #1920s #fishbowl #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 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 #bird #1920s #illustration #plover #golden plover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Why not compile your own anthology?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #scarecrow
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"To fuss is one of life's sternest duties."  From Indiana University's 1934 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #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 #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"When light appears, gloom perforce goes.  Let us cheer ourselves with sunshine psychology."  From The Occult Digest, 1929.
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#sun #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 #mirror #makeup #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #wink #poker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A young Father Time burns old letters.  From A Selection From the Works of Frederick Locker, illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1865.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #father time #scythe #1860s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From David the Giant Killer, and Other Tales of Grandma Lopez by Emily Solis-Cohen and illustrated by Alfred Feinberg, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #giant #biblical
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1904 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #urchin #illustration #sea-urchin
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October 3, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #elf #anthropomorphism #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1914.  Compare to this one from 3 years earlier.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #winter #mustache #advice #illustration #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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#religion #vintage illustration #monk #ornate capital #capital a #medieval #letter a #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stage and the School by Katharine Anne Ommanney, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #theatre #1930s #illustration #stage set
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Old News (permalink)
"The best kind of dictator.  How they do it in the USA."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Grammar of the English Sentence by Jonathan Rigdon, 1903.
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#sentence diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"Hitting wife with cheese, 'contempt.'"  From The Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#cheese #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It was not always easy to get the right light."  From Mrs. Raffles by John Kendrick Bangs and illustrated by Albert Levering, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #artist
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Old News (permalink)
At first we assumed that they never made it through Hamlet to the final scene, but the headline actually refers to the play opening on Friday the 13th.  From Hartnell College's 1964 yearbook.
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#shakespeare #hamlet #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elfie's Visit to Cloudland and the Moon by Frances Austen, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #living toys
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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 #scarecrow #crow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Pittsburgh's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A subject is hynotized to believe a mouse is present.  From The Master Course in Hypnotism by Harry Arons, 1948.
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#vintage photo #mouse #hypnotist #hypnosis #eek
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From South Western Normal School's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Practice for Up and Away by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 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 #cat #rabbit #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Buffoon, by Louis Marlow:


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A doll's hair as nesting material.  From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird #illustration #doll #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #1920s #eskimo #illustration #husky
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October 2, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 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 #cat #1890s #illustration #blue cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1890s #illustration #living toy
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The Right Word (permalink)
"The Brachycephalic Bohunkus."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fort Wayne Sentinel, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #circus #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 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 #tree #1890s #apple tree #illustration #apple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #lobster #illustration #1880s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The principal trouble with the easy-going fellow is that it's so hard to get him started."  From Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#easygoing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's true that 90s fashion is anyone's guess.  By Erica Scholly for Fisher Junior College's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Old News (permalink)
"Voices of the silences."  From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#occult #vintage headline #clairaudience #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Northern University's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Collier's, 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 #skull #railroad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Near the mystic hour of five."  From Ontario Agricultural College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #microscope #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Old News (permalink)
This is sports coverage we can relate to.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#sports #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Castle in the Air by Hugh Ewing, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #spider web #castle in the air
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Old News (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1968 yearbook.
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#october #vintage yearbook #autumn #vintage headline #fall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rat #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It all began in 1856 and ended in 1914.  From Queens College's 1914 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 #before and after #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #astronaut #spaceman #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Investigating School Mathematics by O'Daffer & Eicholz, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1970s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University (Saint Louis)'s 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #1910s
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Today — October 1, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cemetery #money #can't take it with you #1900s #illustration #plutocrat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #computer #illustration #vintage computer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #autumn #1920s #illustration #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #illustration #1880s #william the fourth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 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 #elf #autumn leaves #brownie #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 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 #through the looking glass #alice in wonderland #humpty dumpty #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From By the Roadside by Dunn & Troxell and illustrated by Nell E. Hukle, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #toad #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #furniture #floorplan #interior design #homemaking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For time traveler stargazing in October of 1947.  From A Teacher's Manual and Science Handbook To Accompany How and Why Discoveries Book VI by Helen MacCracken, 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 #constellation #night sky #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #imaginary animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Long-tailed monkey-jackets.  From Drawings by John Leech, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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#maze
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #autumn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 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 #anthropomorphism #cat #mouse #cat and mouse #corn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Say cheese!"  From Shaw University's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There's nothing for us here but despair and death."  From Dark Shadows episode 818.
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#dark shadows #despair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #october #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A back-bay whale."  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 #sea monster #sea creature #whale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mandala #buddhism #deity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Experiences with Inexpensive Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 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 diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration
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