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November 30, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #fire spirit #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1850.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #severed head #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #animal headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#spirits #spectre #ghosts #spiritualism #vintage book #book
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #divination #sphere #occult #fortune teller #crystal ball #illustration #red orb #glowing ball #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Mocca, 1937.
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#vintage photo #headstand #vintage men #men #the people could fly #gymnastics
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925.
[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #night sky #starry night #telescope #1920s #stargazing #illustration #astronomer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 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 #skeleton #ornate capital #illustration #letter r #capital r
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #seahorse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The devil playing at spinning-top with a French lawyer."  From Legends and Miracles and Other Curious and Marvellous Stories of Human Nature by James Elimalet Smith, 1837.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #weightless #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A bull and an umbrella."  From In the Sky-Garden by Lizzie W. Champney and illustrated by J. Wells Champney, 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #bull #illustration #taurus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A picture of Svengali used to induce hypnotic trance, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 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 photo #mesmerism #1900s #hypnosis #svengali #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #toys #tiny men #illustration #extendable
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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 #witch #broomstick #mother goose #art
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
"A night for wide-awake dreaming," from The Index, 1908.
[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #egg #giant egg #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Behind an oaken table sat three hooded shadows."  From Torn From Its Foundations by David Ker and illustrated by A. Pearse, 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 #spooky #hooded #hooded figure #illustration
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November 29, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 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 #monkey #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cat #smiling cat #winking cat #illustration #one-eyed cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #monster #illustration #caught
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ginger ale induces some morbid hallucinations.  From Life, 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 #execution #ginger ale #hallucination #illustration #morbid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 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 #1890s #illustration #siamese twins #conjoined #circus freak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 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 #upside down #handstand #illustration #stay off your feet #art
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Old News (permalink)
"The most dangerous hour."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #angel of death #clock #vintage headline #illustration #5 o'clock #dangerous hour #five pm #headline #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #devil #jack-in-the-box #bell #illustration #art
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925. 
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#vintage illustration #illustration #games
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 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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#gay innuendo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #tin man #illustration #robot dog #robo dog #metal dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Heaven [from all creatures], hides the book of fate."  From A Brief English Grammar with Illustrations and Diagrams by Stephen Watkins Clark, 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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#destiny #sentence diagram #book of fate
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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 #arabian nights #hermit #illustration #tarot hermit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 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 #bird headed #bird man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #cape #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hypnotizing one another, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage photo #mesmerism #hypnotism #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #world #fairy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #infestation #human headed #illustration #insect people
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November 28, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've seen the famous image of the dog Nipper listening to "his master's voice" in the gramophone.  Twenty-five years later, Nipper's master finally extracted himself.  From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #his master's voice #illustration #gramophone #record player
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He's either carrying the universe on his back or is trying to remove a medicinal plaster … or both.  From Judge's Library, 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 #vintage ad #universe #void #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Allingham:

***

"Any time after six o'clock the Crescent is so quiet you could hear a pin drop...."

"The Crescent?" said the Coroner inquiringly.

The faint colour flowed into Mrs. Tripper's pale face.

***

"Well then, the Yard," she said defiantly. "Horsecollar Yard. It's really a crescent."

***

[Here she is again having, I presume, a grand old time creating the contents of a fictitious work within her work. This time it's a rare manuscript of an especially bawdy Restoration comedy]

Gagewell: O Sir, since Lady Frippet hath a bee in her bonnet, you must allow if the bee's not a queen the bonnet is at least à la mode.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #house face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #harp #fish #musician #illustration #fig leaf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #father time #1921 #new year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cartoons Magazine, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #spiritualism #ouija #spirit board #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of "less than one percent."  Here's what it looks like.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#vintage diagram #diagram #math #one percent #percentages
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #coffin #bell #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double #double vision #drunk #illustration #astigmatism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #spirits #spooky #ghosts #sheet ghost #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The barrel of pease."  From The Cunning Woman's Grandson by Charlotte M. Yonge, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #barrel of peas #peas
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pinned him to the wall like a butterfly on a cork," from Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others by John Kendrick Bangs, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #good and evil #hell #god #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an 1862 issue of Fun magazine.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #fairies #little people #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #automaton #robot #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The knight in the dance of death."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #dance of death #mortality #knight #illustration
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November 27, 2017

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Gordon spotted our book on How to Be Your Own Cat and our Young Wizard's Hexopedia at Chicago's Quimby's Bookstore.
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#magic spell #occult #book lover #quimby's #independent bookstore #cat books
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Precursors (permalink)
A quarter century before the octopus-like deity Cthulhu, there was Saint Crustaceon.  From Pearson's, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #saint #cthulhu #crustacean
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"It may surprise you, but our financial system was not designed to make life simple." —Richard Walker, It's All About Money
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #music #trombone #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #prisoner #illustration #locked away
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two tearful moments from Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #crying #tears #illustration #crying at the movies
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
"Here is pianist who practices and plays concert music while wearing heavy woolen mittens."  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.
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#vintage photo #piano #pianist #mittens #piano player
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #picture book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1891. 

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #ornate capital #capital t #cycling #illustration #penny farthing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage photo #1930s #vintage man #four arms #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922. 
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#vintage illustration #faun #head butting #illustration #fairy tail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hypnosis by imaginary fumes, from Suggestive Therapeutics and Hypnotism by Herbert A. Parkyn, 1900.
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#vintage photo #mesmerism #hypnosis #vintage men #men #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #piano #pianist #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #father time #clock #vulture #injured bird #pennyfarthing #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #illustration #psychoanalysis #psychiatry
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Old News (permalink)
"Man's form made by waterfall."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.
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#waterfall #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #death #eye #cavern #illustration #giant eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1930.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cats #illustration
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November 26, 2017

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Why most writers have lived in haunted houses and dreamed the wrong dreams.  From What Do Women Want? by Erica Jong, 2007.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #ghosts #writers #wrong dreams
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed -- how we furniture shop.  From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #mental picture #esoteric #mentalism #chair #illustration #furniture #mind power #mental powers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #bird costume #giant bird #illustration
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage book cover #sun #book cover #book #old book #illustration #setting sun #invisible world #hour of death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #jester #harp #marotte #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here we have collaged some of the strange creatures and things that Robert Deverell saw in the craters of the moon.  From his illustrations for Hudibras, 1816.
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #illustration #moon inhabitants #lunar inspiration #lunar beings
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Sentinel of the night."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #insomnia #sleeping #1930s #illustration #sentinal #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #secretary
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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 #devil #serpents #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Binding an evil spirit," from The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism by L. W. de Laurance, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #evil spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #red dress #red light district
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Luck versus brains in our better-known games," from The Sketch, 1911.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #luck #gambling #games of chance #card game #roulette #chess #illustration #baccarat #games of skill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a legal liquor bottle's cork as Mephistopheles, from a cartoon in The Index, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #liquor #anthropomorphism #illustration #Mephistopheles #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #angels #peacock feathers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #good luck #four leaf clover #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Insect weather prophets."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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#weather #meteorology #insect #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic hat #tiny people #vintage magician #magic trick #illustration #hat trick #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The world often looks this way to us.  That's why we wear prismatic glasses (as in the video linked here).
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #double vision #candle #drunk #hallucination
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November 25, 2017

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
[For Abigail McBride.]
Through a tissue and beyond the veil: the ghosts of a cat caretaker and a cat, as conjured through "necromancy by proxy" (explained below).  From Concerning Cats, My Own and Some Others by Helen Maria Winslow, 1900.
This recalls our repository of ghostly images that were never meant to be, entitled The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.  The specters were conjured unwittingly, through a mechanical process of book scanning.  Their portraits technically do not exist, except within this context.  To explain: in old books, frontispieces were typically protected by a sheet of translucent tissue paper.  So thorough is the Google Books scanning process that even this page of tissue paper is scanned.  The figure in the plate beneath the tissue—"beyond the veil,” as it were—emerges as from a foggy otherworld.  The frontispieces were never meant to be seen this way.  Their wraithlike manifestations have been artificially "fixed" in time by the scanning process. In essence, timeless phantasms of dead writers have been captured and bound into a new age.  And so we call this phenomenon "unforeseen art," as it constitutes an aesthetic expression without original intent.  Just as artists often credit their inspiration to a Muse, the accidental art herein is in the domain of real ghosts; every author here has departed to the Other Side.  We call it "necromancy by proxy," as the scanning machine serves as our "spirit medium" or shaman.

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#vintage photo #vintage cat #cat ghost
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Blurred on the sidelines of suffragette demonstrations (1909-12).  These are details that caught our eye, from photos courtesy of the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science.  
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#blurred #old photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's like looking at our own bed canopy, only ours also blocks electromagnetic fields.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #illustration #bed canopy #canopy bed
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #spit take
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #exclamation point #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The University Magazine, 1892.   See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #occult #college yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Still no cancer cure, but "Milk not soured by thunder."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#milk #vintage headline #sour milk #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #human snail #human bull
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What's In a Name (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Scarlet Letter yearbook (Rutgers, 1882).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #human headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The birds of all the world came flying up to her, and each deposited a tear in the cup."  From Tales of Enchantment, illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #birds #illustration #cup of tears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Burning secret Hindu drugs for invoking magical powers," from The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism by L. W. de Laurance, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #cauldron #hindu magic #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The "part-of-you-left-behind" feeling when the lift starts, from The Sketch, 1911.  Here's a similar image from seven years later.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #elevator #bending over backwards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Birmingham by moonlight."  From a postcard by A. E. P., date unknown.
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#black cat #full moon #night #rooftop #vintage postcard #birmingham #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Cat's eyes' see in the dark."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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November 24, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From J. I. M. Stewart's A Palace of Art:

***

"If not a palazzo, a palazzina. Or, say, a palazzotto." Dictionary patter of this sort was also characteristic of Domberg.

***

"I've forgotten if you smoke?"

For a moment Chevalley appeared to have forgotten too. Then he shook his head.

***

[Domberg disapproves of his own joke.]

"Mrs. Montacute master-minded the thing. Or mistress-minded it." Domberg paused on this joke, and appeared not to approve of it.

***

The way the French treat their wine! Without ceremony, you might call it. But the same stuff is better there than here, all the same. A living relationship is what's involved. It might be the same with art. Finer if handled more freely. Not made a thing of, you might say.

***

"Do I begin to make myself clear?"

The philosophic Domberg paused for a moment on this note of serious interrogation, and was rewarded by Thurkle with at least the ghost of a nod.

***

Perhaps she'd glimpsed him on television, talking about polyphonic music or the pound sterling. It could only have been a glimpse, since she always turned that sort of programme off.

***

Gloria felt she must by no means counter or abridge this small enclave of adolescent Sehnsucht in her almost undeviatingly rational friend. (Gloria didn't, indeed, employ this sort of language to herself. But chroniclers have their occasional privileges.)

***

They paused outside for a few moments to assure one another that it had all been great fun--just as if they were forty-year-olds at the end of a party that hadn't quite come off.

***

Gloria was alone, and in front of her on the table stood an espresso. To Octavius's eye the minute cup, not quite filled with the blackest of black coffee, bore an austere and even forbidding appearance. He realized that he was going to be very easily unnerved.

***

You played [rugby] for England on the strength of a certain radical masculinity which wasn't a bit relevant when deciding whether a Sacred Conversation, or a Madonna with Donors, or a Saint Somebody in his Study, was by this artist or that.

***

Gloria applied herself to sorting out this and that. But neither this nor that was among her more intimate affairs.

***

Drop your job-satisfaction-quotient too far and it was mathematically--or was it psychologically?--impossible to do the job well.

***

It had been what a psychologist (or was it an economist?) would have called counterproductive.

***

She had come to think of the world as consisting of small equivocal queues.

***

Jake chucked the packet in the air as if it was a tennis-ball and smacked it with an open hand. It flew across the bar and landed in the lap of a stout lady drinking Guinness. Nobody seemed annoyed, least of all the stout lady. It was a friendly sort of bar.

***

The suiting didn't suit him.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1850.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.  See also Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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Old News (permalink)
"I'll give you magnetic power."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Mocca, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1890.
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
"The ideal and the actual."  Source uncertain.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A woodcut of two witches, 1720, courtesy of the Wellcome library.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Now, here I lie peacefully all day long and watch my geese, and it is much nicer than being King."  From The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan, 1880.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad in The Sketch, 1911.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1876.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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November 23, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Every turkey's last words are a curse of indigestion.  From Judge's Library, 1907.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
A brutal truth revealed: a crystal ball doesn't care what you want to know.  From The Crystal Ball by Jeremy Powell, 2016.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1900.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Squirrels can actually see your sensual appetites.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1891. 
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Two bright forms met him."  From Allegories by Frederic W. Farrar, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Evil spirits often appear in the above form," from The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism by L. W. de Laurance, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Intro-vision," from The Illustrated Practical Mesmerist by William Davey, 1854.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #gallows #hanged man #hanging #1900s #illustration #death'
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Work while others play," from The Sketch, 1911.   Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sir Galahad receiveth the Sword of Strange Girdles."  From English Illustrated, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#black cat #cauldron #thanksgiving #vintage postcard #vintage thanksgiving #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wiener Revue, 1946.
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November 22, 2017

Puzzles and Games :: Letter Grids (permalink)
This puzzle grid, which reads "No upcoming notices or alerts," contains several big words. Can you find them?

• 7-letter words: 50
• 8-letter words: 20
• 9-letter words: 6

All letters in the word must touch (in any direction), and no square may be reused.

Click to display solutions
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1892.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #processional #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A critic.  From Life, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Elf Maiden and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #eclipse #solar eclipse #photographer #illustration #total eclipse #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Comet yearbook (Vanderbilt, 1887).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The taller and larger the men who make the framework, the more 'stunning' the elephant will be."  From What Shall We Do To-Night? by Leger D. Mayne, 1873.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #astrologer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The connoisseur connoising: Mr. H. M. Bateman's ideal visitor to his exhibition of humorous drawings," from The Sketch, 1911.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Index, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #long beard #elements #illustration #kosmos
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Mocca, 1939.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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November 21, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A library built to represent a white elephant.  From Judge's Library, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #war in heaven #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Were you aware of Jupiter's other (if not better) half?  "A dying planet.  Half of Jupiter."  From Siderial Evolution, Or A New Cosmology, Being an Explanation of the Principles that Pertain to Universal Life Force and Its Expressions in Form by Thomas Cushman Buddington, 1889.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Simon Said, by Sarah R. Shaber:

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Alex Andrus was pacing in front of the windows, carefully balancing a well-worn chip on his shoulder.

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From Charlotte Stein:

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She wasn’t even sure how serious he was. Twenty percent seemed like a lot, but one eyebrow was lower than the other and his eyes seemed kind of big. Thirty percent concerned didn’t look out of the question.

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From Michael Innes's Hamlet, Revenge!

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[Professor Bunney is doing field work for his linguistics studies, using a "black box" that records people saying test phrases like "bunchy cushiony" and analyzes the accents.]

"It was Bunney, was it? Has he black-boxed you?"

"Yes. Bunchy cushiony Bunney. How did he get here?"

"Mother picked him up at a party. He black-boxed her and she was thrilled."

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"How morbidly Edwardian-Clever Mother is! Don't you think?"

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The Duchess gave a commanding nod at the ugly publisher, who instantly entered on a subject about which he knew nothing at all.... "And what," asked Tucker gravely, "do you think of this younger German school?" The question was ninety-nine per cent safe.

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"Often," replied Gott, unwarily stepping into the position of a fellow-author, "I get a new start from brandy and muffins."

"Really...and muffins? I never heard of that." Piper eyed Gott as one might eye a suddenly perceived object of minor but authentic interest in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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But at Question Fifteen, although Noel considered it particularly adroitly introduced, Mrs. Terborg halted.

"Mind your own business," said Mrs. Terborg.

Noel was overwhelmed. "Oh, I say, I'm most frightfully--"

But Mrs. Terborg had stooped down to the border. "This one with the tiny flat leaves," she said. "Such a quaint name: mind your own business!"

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #meanwhile in france #feet in the air
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
Here are collected the best lions I've encountered in my research to date.
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#vintage illustration #lion #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A Letter from the Ghost of Mr. S----t, To His Friends: Dispatched to Them After His Arrival at the Invisible World, 1757.  We'll take a s---tty letter any day, considering that most of our friends seem to exist in an invisible world and only communicate in return for sacrifices.
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#ghost #spirit writing #spiritualism #seance #afterlife #spirit communication
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#dancing #math #by the numbers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1911.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #tightrope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Jakob Steinhardt and Franziska Baruch, 1923.

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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #lightning #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Scarlet Letter yearbook (Rutgers, 1882).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1895.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flying Burgermaster by Frances Parker, 1832.
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November 20, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #marotte #illustration #snake goddess #serpent goddess #serpent worship #censer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We suspect the joke is in the very first panel, that the poet not only had a poem accepted but that he was paid for it, and paid in advance.  Hilarious!  From Judge's Library, 1895.
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Precursors (permalink)

Here's a precursor to The Prisoner, from Judge's Library, 1907.  A "man without a number" suddenly finds himself in a strange place, not remembering how he got there but under the impression that he came from another sort of world.  His mind flashes to events that happened previously.  He is greeted by a woman who informs him that in this place, "we are all numbered," and that strangers are welcome if they are likely to become good citizens.  (Bad citizens are referred to the "committee of three hundred.")  Residents display their numbers on the hems of their garments so that they can be seen.  She points out Number One walking down the street, "a very important personage."  The man without a number is told that his own number would be (not the Prisoneresque Number Six) but Twenty-three.  He then wakes up from what turned out to be a pipe dream.  Note that the character's name, "Lyomelph Cospatrick," could be read as containing an unlikely prediction of Patrick McGoohan.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's more proof that everything is fake.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #mountain goat #alps #tourist trap
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The Right Word (permalink)
The "oldest inhabitant," not the "quietest" — a correction from Harper's Bazaar, 1911.  This recalls a scene in Fawlty Towers, in which a dead man is assumed to merely be quiet.
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#erratum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A vintage critique of modern art, from Pick Me Up magazine, 1890.  "To paint like Raphael was easy enough, but who would pay for such work now-a-days?"
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#vintage illustration #modern art #illustration #raphael
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Shall We Do To-Night? by Leger D. Mayne, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #party trick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage men #illustration #men #lap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The shadow-catcher."  The little sign on the wall says, "Heaven, round the next turning."  From The Sketch, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #devil #shadows #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #alcoholism #monsters #vintage postcard #hallucination #art #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Twice the light flashed livid, smoking, terrible."  From Pearson's, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #strange light #illustration #terrible light #strange glow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #emblem #merman #sea creature #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #weird ad #illustration #head medicine #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #horse #decapitated #illustration #lost his head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #innuendo #illustration #logger #forestry #art
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #illustration #art
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November 19, 2017

Rhetorical Answers, Questioned (permalink)
How long is a jiffy?  "A little longer than it takes to define it, but just long enough to prepare [instant cocoa]."  This ad lies just as all ads do -- it says that the hot cocoa requires "no boiling," yet the chocolate is added to boiling water.  So there's no boiling, except for the boiling.  It's despicable, but such is the world of advertising.  From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage ad #hot chocolate #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Devil's discomforture."  From Fairy Tales from the Harz Mountains by Alfred Cooper Fryer, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #illustration #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #merman #alcohol #king neptune #illustration #ad
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Beauty arisses from chaos, order from discord, and truth may be gathered from the visions of fiction!"  From The Ghost of J. Robson, 1819.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #golf #illustration #men's underwear #vintage underwear #underwear #art #ad
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
It's actually true that cheeses can be hypnotized.  "No man, unless he be a mesmerist, can cope, unaided, with that fiery, untamed Gorgonzola."  From Pick Me Up, 1890. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Charming the conger in the Sea of Azov," from The Sketch, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fishing #hot air balloon #illustration #conger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I want you to come home with me.  We'll manage to whoop things up there."  From Hearst's Magazine, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage gay #illustration #gay innuendo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #illustration #in the gravy #gravy boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #shedding skin #if the shoe fits #new shoes
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"'Do you mean'—the rest was whispered in my ear."  From The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green, 1905.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #futurism #architecture #illustration #city of the future #skyscraper #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #sunrise #illustration #ripples
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Crimson Cryptogram by Fergus Hume, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The youth, the coffin, and the phantom."  From Fallacy of Ghosts, Dreams, and Omens by Charles Ollier, 1848.
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November 18, 2017

Strange Dreams (permalink)
"And, sad to relate, he woke up."  From Judge's Library, 1903.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #rude awakening #woke up #sad to say
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Who wants a free coffin?  From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #coffin #living dead #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #night sky #starry night #night #illustration #night horse
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Riverside Readers, Book 3, 1911.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Use hypnotism."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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#vintage ad #mesmerism #hypnotism #hypnotist #hypnosis #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #frog prince #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The cymbals which sound the motive of death."  From Pick Me Up, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #death #foreboding #power of music #illustration #cymbals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #hand #illustration #shadow puppet
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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 #chariot #arabian nights #illustration #white horses #shell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"One medium conjured up, with marvelous exactness, the games and processions of ancient Greece."  From Hearst's Magazine, 1914.  This should be of interest: Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #mediumship #psychic #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #father time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Illustrated, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #serpents #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The missing link.  At Birmingham."  Date unknown.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #boat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#life after death #spirit writing #spiritualism #spirit medium #beyond the grave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #giraffe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wiener Revue, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #mask #comedy mask #comedy tragedy #spider web #illustration
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November 17, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The potato with the fierce hypnotic eyes."  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #faces in things #potato #potato eyes #hypnotist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A carnivorous plant.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Lawrence Block:

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A man with a clipboard never looks out of place.

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"Can you tell me what in the hell a thirty percent chance of rain means? What do I do, carry a third of an umbrella?"

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"I swear, if jumping weren't allowed she'd never get to a conclusion."

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From Margery Allingham:

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She was a sharp, vivid entity, and when one first saw her the immediate thing one realised was that it had not happened before.

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"There's someone around here to whom I take off my hat--all my hats."

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He was barely on speaking terms with himself, let alone anyone else.

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"It's no use me sitting around dressed like a parcel if company's not expected."

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He... bustled out of the room, taking an atmosphere of nervous excitement which was somehow backless and ephemeral, like a methylated spirit flame, with him.

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"That's plain speaking, isn't it?"

"Almost homely," agreed Mr Campion absently.

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"There's a word for you, Georgia my pet. You're a proper cough drop, aren't you?"

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Precursors (permalink)
This mask is a precursor to Groucho glasses.  From Le Rire, 1897.
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#groucho
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #rabbit #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"How high can man fly?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#weird science #vintage headline #the people could fly #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #bulls #cowboy #lasso #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wiener Revue, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #dizzy #illustration #head spinning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #long arm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Yankee Enchantments by Charles Battell Loomis and illustrated by F. Y. Cory, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #fissure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How to live long," from Hearst's Magazine, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #longevity #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #imp #devil #magick #conjuration #abraham lincoln #black magic #human headed #evocation #art
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #snow #winter #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales From All Nations by Anthony Montalba and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #horned one #heart #flaming heart #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #illustration #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #hand #illustration
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November 16, 2017

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the fake news phenomenon.  "The next thing the daily papers will have will be the sea-serpent on the ice, skating for dear life."  From Judge's Library, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #sea serpent #ice skating #illustration #fake news
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How to Write a Blank Book (permalink)
From our unpublished guide on How to Write a Blank Book:

"It is sometimes necessary to leave a page blank in order that the preface, contents, introduction, first page of the text, appendix, and index may begin on a recto page."

—United States Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1954.
Meanwhile, here's our twist (two twists, in fact) on blank books: Let's Do and Say We Didn't and What Happened in Vegas.  Why is one more expensive than the other?  Is the more expensive one better?  You'll be able to judge for yourself.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #paris #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #star flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #demon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cork imp from The Harvard Lampoon, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #imp #corkscrew #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"I was fired twice before I woke up."  Photo and headlines from Popular Mechanics.
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#vintage headline #tiredness #sleeping on the job #sleeping at work #fatique #headline
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #harp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Slowly the spell began to work upon Inex' brain.  She was no longer in the present—she was a woman of Italy of four centuries back."  From The Spell by William Dana Orcutt, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #time travel #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #good news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #winged #flying animal #illustration #okapi
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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 #temptation #woodcut #skull #serpent #snake #human headed #eden #forbidden fruit #knowledge of good and evil #garden of eden #world tree #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1935.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#vintage illustration #devil #demons #hell #satanic music #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 1916.

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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #big nose #big hand #big foot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cesare Ripa, 1669.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #emblem #star #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Trojan bicycle.  From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #illustration #giant bicycle #trojan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #robot #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Where time begins and how it is sent to you."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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#time #vintage headline #headline
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November 15, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's goose the size of a skyscraper.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #giant goose #goose monster
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
The first shall be last and the last shall be second, apparently.  A correction from the American Journal of Roentgenology, 1917.
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#erratum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #portrait painter #tropical island
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Here lies everything."  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #tombstone #illustration #1920
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Spectacular jim-jams," from Grip, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From On a Pincushion by Mary de Morgan and illustrated by William de Morgan, 1877.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A daydreamer from Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #marionette #1900s #illustration #puppetmaster #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Are things as good as they used to be?"  (In full disclosure, we reoriented the question mark.)  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
Answer: No.
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#hand lettering #vintage headline #good old days #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of spinning yarns about ghosts, but some such yarns come directly "from the loom of the dead," as we learn in The Shape of Fear, and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Shall We Do To-Night? by Leger D. Mayne, 1873.
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
Here's the pianomobile from Die Muskete, 1908.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here is announced the arrival of an invisible Sphinx propounding unheard of riddles.  From The Widow's Mite by Isaac Kaufman Funk, 1911.
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November 14, 2017

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the "photobomb" phenomenon, in which a third party unexpectedly steps in and ruins a photo.  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here is revealed how our own sleep is induced.  From Cosmopolitan, 1904.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Lawrence Block:

"Did you ever read a book called Talk? A girl wrote it, Linda, her last name was either Rosenkrantz or Guildenstern and I’ll never know which."

***

"Do we have any English muffins left?”

“No.”

“Funny, we didn’t have any at breakfast time either. Or yesterday. It’s fucking amazing how long a lack of English muffins can continue around here."

***

“I’ll tell you something, most people are a pain in the ass.”

“An unqualified pain in the ass.”

“How do you qualify one?”

“You have to pass an examination."

***

I had thought of calling but had deliberately decided not to, and for no rational reason, but as if covering every bit of the distance under my own power was somehow necessary, would somehow prove something which somehow had to be proved.

***

“You know who you just sounded exactly like? Dr. Joyce Brothers.”

“That’s been my lifelong ambition. An inarticulate Dr. Joyce Brothers, that’s me.”

***

Healthily impulsive sex is one thing and waking an habitual late riser at four-thirty in the ayem is another thing entirely.

["Ayem" for a.m.!!]

***

I don’t know what I was waiting for. I waited for it a long time, whatever it was,

***

“I guess we’re not going to wait until Wednesday.”

“It’s always Wednesday. In the hot pants of the soul it is always three o’clock in the Wednesday.”

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #pitchfork #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #king #fishing #illustration #fisher king #diver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Shall We Do To-Night? by Leger D. Mayne, 1873.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #bell #bell ringer #rome #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #cigar #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #devil #monster #robert louis stevenson #lion #carbon footprint #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1934.
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#vintage photo #musician #contrabass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The incantation."  From The Wild Witch of the Heath, or the Demon of the Glen by Wizard, 1841.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The magic wand symbolic of the Devil's tail.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
Speaking of magic, check out our very own Magic Words: A Dictionary and The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.
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November 13, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Her boxing ring follows her everywhere.  The "universal challenger."  From Judge's Library, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #boxer #engagement ring #boxing ring #female boxer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #fairy tale #tom thumb #tiny man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Astral travel in Modern Psychical Phenomena: Recent Researches and Speculations by Hereward Carrington, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #monster #mythology #harpy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #birds #illustration #bird cage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lost its attraction."  From The Comic Magazine, 1832.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #weightless #anti-gravity #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Yes, this headline promises that the transparent wings of houseflies measure the temperature of distant stars.  "Fly wings gauge star heat."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wiener Revue, 1946. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"King Beder was immediately changed into a bird of that description."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a double dragon frame from Die Muskete, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #ornate frame #crown #illustration #two dragons #double dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house #spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Where millions of microbes dance: on the pin's summit.  This illustration shows the point of an ordinary pin (much magnified), which, though it appears to be very sharp, is in fact full of inequalties.  It has been said millions of microbes can dance on the point of a pin.  Lilliputian man would not find it easy to get into a position to perform the same feat."  From The Sketch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #microscope #illustration #point of a pin #microbes #pin point
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1887.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #rabbits #bunnies #musical animals #thread #illustration #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1934.
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#vintage photo #crystal ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"At peep of day, the old crone went out and sounded her horn."  From Old Norse Fairy Tales Gathered From the Swedish Folk by George Stephens and H. Cavallius, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #death #life after death #rebirth #skull #flower #dandelion #illustration #seeds #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #cats #ruins #illustration #pillar
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November 12, 2017

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Given the gluten-free craze, it's easy to forget that folks used to insert gluten suppositories to "save the babies!"  From Judge's Library, 1892.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts #monsters #yokai
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #sunrise #harp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bicycle #illustration #the people could fly #glider #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wiener Revue, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #flower #illustration
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
A diagram by Homer B. Sprague for Milton's Paradise Lost (1886).  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#chaos #vintage diagram #hell #milton #diagram #vacuum of space #paradise lost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The comet of 1861."  From Among the Stars, Or, Wonderful Things in the Sky by Agnes Giberne, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The valley where Mr. Sinister L. Optick lives is already in shadow, but the setting sun still shines upon Mr. Dexter R. Optick's valley on the West side of Nose Hill."  From The Sky Movies by Gaylord Johnson, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #weird #illustration #doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites by John Netten Radcliffe, 1854.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #lantern #night #hooded figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bibendum materializes from the top down, as we see in this ad from The Sketch, 1910.
See our surprising revelation about the origin of the Michelin Man.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #merman #mermen #illustration #king triton #submarines
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #spooky #ghosts #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #birds #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Guardians of the ghost camps."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #goblin #ruins #illustration #art
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November 11, 2017

Precursors (permalink)
Nearly six decades before the invention of "fusion cuisine," here's Irish stew Hungarian style.  From Judge's Library, 1908.  See Nostradamus Predicted Your Next Diet.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #animal attack #lion #stag #illustration #jewish legend
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #ghosts #seance #illustration #stranded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #monster #serpent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The gorilla was always saying aggravating things to the skeleton."  From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 1896.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"The ways of a waterspout."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #illustration #waterspout #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #hell #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1891. 
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#vintage illustration #skull #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The cave of the dead."  From The Aztec Treasure-house by Thomas Allibone Janvier, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #cave #illustration #aztec #cave of the dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cupid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In the Sky-Garden by Lizzie W. Champney and illustrated by J. Wells Champney, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #illustration #gemini #ravens
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ghosts: A Message From the Illuminati, 1906.
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#ghost #book cover #illuminati #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The yawning-hall for sufferers from insomnia," from The Sketch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #sleep disorder #insomnia #illustration #yawning #sleep clinic
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
Here's the dining-billiard-grand-piano-combination-table, from Grip, 1890.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Here's a typical scene near Fort Peck Dam, Montana.
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#vintage photo #insect #grasshopper #montana #locust #before photoshop #fort peck #giant insect #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There's baith meat and music here, quo' the dog, when he ate the piper's bag."  From Scottish Proverbs, collected and arranged by A. Henderson, 1832.
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#vintage illustration #scottish #bagpipes #dogs #proverb #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #mural
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #writing #illustration
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November 10, 2017

Precursors (permalink)
A decade before the debut of Variety magazine, this was this cover of Judge's Library, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #devil #clown #circus #vintage magazine #variety #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #nervous system
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Social Departure by Sara Jeannette Duncan:

Orthodocia nearly went into a convulsion at the discovery that as a mark of special consideration he had given the moustache-cup to the aunt.

***

From Anthony Berkeley:

"I don't suppose Mr. Ennisomething Smith will." [The character's name is Ennismore Smith, but the police inspector is obviously having trouble remembering it.]

***

She doesn't look like a secretary at all; more like a . . . A what? Roger was not sure. Fish-wife sounded rude. Besides, she did not look in the least like a fish-wife.

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She said nothing, but her eyebrows were voluble.

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Mr. Weller would make it his business to have a word to-morrow with old So-and-so, sound old This, drop a hint to old That, talk seriously to old Thing, and even penetrate to the sanctum of the great old Sir Isaac Whatnot himself.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #long legs #illustration #put your feet up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #spirit #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
As his hand passed over the magic sphere, a steel mill 300 miles away was set in operation.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cold day in Hell.  From Jugend, 1903.   Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #artist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The witch and the demon."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A coin flip from The Bachelor's Christmas by Robert Grant, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magical Man of Mirth by Elbridge H. Sabin and illustrated by Abbott & Knipe, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #mermaid #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Laughing Prince by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jay Van Everen, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #rooster #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage book cover #divination #fortune teller #book cover #book #fortune telling #gypsy witch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Shall We Do To-Night? by Leger D. Mayne, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #costume #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #skull face #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's Bibendum in fancy dress, from The Sketch, 1910.
See our surprising revelation about the origin of the Michelin Man.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bibendum #michelin man #ad
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #idol #hand puppets #cock fight #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration #kobold
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November 9, 2017

Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to tabloid headlines about model/actress Twiggy heading to the altar.  From Judge's Library, 1908.
Coincidentally,there were newer "Twiggy Engaged?" headlines.
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#vintage headline #twiggy
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
Here's a marvelous explanation of the Irish "seven devils" as speculative superstition refracted by a mental prism into differently colored devils across the nations of the earth.  From Holland-Tide or Irish Popular Tales by Gerald Griffin, 1927.  Favorite phrases: "If one were disposed to be fancifully metaphysical upon the subject ..." -- yes, one would be so disposed!  Ireland as a "step-daughter" island.  And the zinger: "But what has this to do with the story?  In order to answer that question, the story must be told."
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#irish folklore #supernatural #blue devil #seven devils #green devil #mental prism
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #orchestra #conductor #illustration #too many
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There thou art, thou pretty buck.  Thou seest me, but I see thee not."  From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #celtic #goat costume #illustration #goatskin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #full moon #occult #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #frog #lizard #crying animal #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #skull #skull face #pipe smoker #illustration #novelty pipe #skull pipe #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's the pace of progress from Wiener Revue, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #snail #snail's pace #illustration #progress
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #sun #sunshine #illustration #sunny day
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The obsession of the invalid," from The Sketch, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #triple face #medicine #illustration #three faced #invalid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #headache #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #spirits #ghosts #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Drest in a little brief authority' — and then!"  From The Sketch, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The demon of the esplanade," from Grip, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #tickling #twisted #illustration #self tickling
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Old News (permalink)
"Flames from Liberty torch only chemical smoke."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #eden #adam and eve #illustration #art
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November 8, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #dog #fashion #vintage fashion #people who look like their dogs #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #spirit #evocation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #stand in the corner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #owl #full moon #winking #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The horny hand of toil."  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #jewelry #illustration #bling #rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mindreading.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #mind reading #mentalism #mind reader #stage magic #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #devil #cello #carnival #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fortune-teller."  From Pick Me Up, 1893.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Iceland, collected by Jon Arnason, 1864.
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#vintage illustration #folklore #giant #giantess #iceland #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #illustration #palm frond
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Prince Constant touched her forehead with the dwarf's beard."  From Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #devil #cloven hoof #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Curing fits by suggestion," from The Sketch, 1910.
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
"Piano, allegro, andante, fortissimo, con expressione, finale," from Grip, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's where the fun begins.  From Fun magazine, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #jester #fun machine #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #vegetative #vegetable
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted mansion #spirit #remorse #haunted organ #ghoul #profiteer #art
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November 7, 2017

Old News (permalink)
Can climate change be linked to pasta manufacturers reproducing the Italian climate in America just so that kid gourmands can enjoy "authentic" macaroni?  The inconvenient truth is, yes.  From Illustrated World, 1920.
Here's what the voices in my Spirit Radio said about climate change: youtube link.
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#vintage headline #macaroni #italian climate #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tag yourself (we're dangling scissors over a bowl of water).
Learning at home -- observing the water's surface for movement, slowly pulling up the other leg, honking the horn at a blind intersection, and giving a swift left punch.  From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Michael Innes's One Man Show:

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The [art dealer's] hand gestured in a manner that decidely patronised the patrons indicated.

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"The Duchess has a thing about holding things in trust?"

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Had the later nineteenth century achieved the idea of [a nightclub], its appearance--the proposition seemed to run--would have been like /this/. But /this/ had been somewhat uncertainly conceived.

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From Innes's Stop Press:

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There was no evidence whatever that primitive man had been healthier than his civilized descendant. It was a different matter, now, with the apes. There was considerable scientific backing for the view that when man first stood upright he gave his physical frame a jar from which it never recovered. In this business of posture and the tummy the motto should be not back to primitive man but back to the lemurs, apes and opossums. It would look well on the stage; if a modern-dress /Hamlet/ why not a simian one?
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From another by Innes:
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The Applebys, had they been the sort of people provided with eyebrows for such occasions, would no doubt have raised them.
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From Lawrence Block:
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This didn't butter no parsnips, as my grandmother would never have dreamed of saying.

 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #anthropomorphism #elephant #illustration
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Someone should write another book called The City of Living Soul, Discovered in a Dream.  It's been since 1887 that James E. Ellison wrote his.
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#book title
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #ducks #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"His tail between his legs.  Most men are being whipped every day in the battle of life.  Many have already reached the stage where they have their tails between their legs."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #bird people #harpies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #costume #illustration #tree costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack Sheppard by William Harrison Ainsworth, 1839.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #moth to the flame #illustration #torch #red sky
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The Right Word (permalink)
And how true those words are, even today.  From A Work on English Grammar & Composition by Clark & Maynard, 1877.
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#how true
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Shall We Do To-Night? by Leger D. Mayne, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #giraffe #costume #illustration #party trick #animal costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The mechanical mesmeriser for liver and lumbago," from The Sketch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #illustration #medical invention
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1890. 
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #insects #illustration #dragon fly #insect hat #spring fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1938.
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#hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's the sun sitting on a capital V.  From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #sun #ornate capital #anthropomorphism #sunflower #capital v #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #illustration #art
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November 6, 2017

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Maxell's "Blown Away Guy" advertisement.  From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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Old News (permalink)
And how true those words are, even today: "They're still at it in Berlin."  From Illustrated World, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fear #staircase #night #stairway #afraid #illustration #steps #stairs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Fool There Was by Porter Emerson Browne, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #hooded
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Old News (permalink)
"How hard do you sleep?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#insomnia #sleeping #vintage headline #sleep study #sleep science #headline
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1902.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #merman #sea creature #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #tarot #illustration #knight of swords
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #bug #giant insect #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Comet yearbook (Vanderbilt, 1887).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #singing #conductor #illustration #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mountain-Sprite's Kingdom by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Le Domino Rouge in The Sketch, 1906.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Notice!  Promise to stop writing poetry and you can loaf around here undisturbed."  From Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt by Art Young, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #hell #poetry #poets #illustration #bad poetry #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was hardly able to stand."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #fatigue #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #ruins #illustration #ruined tower #vantage point
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #food
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The Right Word (permalink)
Some good news via spirit writing -- "You were troubled once with evil spirits; but now they are no more.  They have bid adieu, and good spirits have come and are with you all the time."  From Modern Spiritualism by Eliab Wilkinson Capron, 1855.
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#spirit writing #spiritualism #ghost message
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Old News (permalink)
You've no doubt read a true story, but how often do you dare to read one that's too true?  From Love and Madness by Herbert Croft, 1780.
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#vintage headline #true story #mad love #too true #vintage lettering #love and madness #headline
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November 5, 2017

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Orson Welles' wine commercials for Paul Masson.  From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #orson welles #wine #illustration #paul masson #bordeaux
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The Right Word (permalink)
Sometimes a magazine, like Absolutely Fabulous' Eddie Monsoon, wishes to be all the types of things.  The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette, 1837.
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#absolutely fabulous
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This May Surprise You (permalink)

"The number one thing is that there isn't one thing, but a series of things." —Jeff De Luca, qtd. in Agile Software Development Ecosystems by James A. Highsmith

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#things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The power of live music.  From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #orchestra #conductor #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's how to identify the face of a spectre.  From "The Hall Spectre" in The Ladies' Companion, 1861.
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#ghost
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Here's Milwaukee as a giant candle taller than Chicago.  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #candle #giant candle #chicago #milwaukee #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tale Plays and How to Act Them by Mrs. Hugh Bell, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #little red riding hood #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #hunting #moose #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #alcoholism #faces in things #candle #drunk #hallucination #snuffed #intoxicated #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Fairerthanafairy summons the rainbow," from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #fair folk #rainbow #summoning #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #house of cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We distinctly perceived the black mountain."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #candle #moth to the flame #1920s #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #sleepwalking #illustration #sleep walker
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Old News (permalink)
"Games you can't beat."  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #illustration #vintage man #man #shell game #headline #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1891. 
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bit of port and a bit of sport.  From The Scarlet Letter yearbook (Rutgers, 1887).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #illustration #port #sport
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #fairies #illustration #art
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November 4, 2017

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in the thesis The Necromantic Magic Circle by Mamon de Beijer (2017).
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The Right Word (permalink)
This is the final line of The Female Freemasons, 1840.  One recalls what Warren Mars said: "The final line should have read: 'and they watched the young dragons fly up and up into the azure sky until they became just dots, and then disappeared.  "Let’s go home," said Reyne.'"  Granted, Mars was referring to a different book, but we find that his suggestion has universality.
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#vintage illustration #the end #illustration #last line #closing line #final line
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A writing tip: if you can't think of a good monkish-sounding name for a monks' hall, don't let that slow you down.  By George Lippard, 1845.
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#vintage illustration #monk #lantern #hermit #illustration #1840s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #comet #night #shooting star
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Insomnia turns us into ghosts.  From Poems by B. D., 1880.
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#haunted #ghosts #poe #insomnia #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage telephone #1920s #telephone #illustration #giant telephone #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #ghost story #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cats on the hunt, by Louis Wain for The Sketch, 1901.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #cats #illustration
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.  (Individual cards are available from Zazzle, and deep discount bulk orders of 10 or more are available from Vistaprint.)
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#vintage illustration #cat #spiral #fibonacci #illustration #library book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1890. 
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#vintage illustration #punctuation #anthropomorphism #question mark #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A postcard by Arthur Thiele, World War I-era.
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#toadstool #frog #gnomes #dwarves #seesaw #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #hands #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Skeleton collectors."  From The Scarlet Letter yearbook (Rutgers, 1882).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #necromancy #open grave #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grave robber #illustration #skeleton collector #bone collector
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #well #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #giant snake #illustration #snake handler #big snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Washing a dragon.  From Jugend, 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 #dragon #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The mystery of the linking smoke rings.  From Die Muskete, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #linking rings #illustration #smoke rings #chain smoking #chain smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An old grave man appeared to me."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 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 #arabian nights #long beard #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"With hair decked with the phantasms of cathedrals" -- an illustraton by S. H. Sime for Lord Dunsany's "A Dreamer's Tales," in The Sketch, 1910.
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November 3, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was caught beneath the cover of the book."  From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #book #crushed #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Wilhelm Kaulbach.  From Der Orchideengarten, 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 #nature spirit #tree spirit #tree people #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
You may march to a different drummer, but have you danced to unheard music?  From Illustrated World, 1920.
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#deafness #dancing #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop, by Gladys Mitchell:

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Rupert Sethleigh was five feet seven and a quarter in his socks, the wrong height for such impetuous behavior.

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"It seems that James has told Various Lies"--the bishop's smile broke bounds at the sound of the capital letters in her voice--"and that Rupert never had any intention of going to America."

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[A surprising image in the mouth of a character who has probably never left the British Isles:]

"You'd sooner stop up the great cave of Kentucky with little apples than you would be filling the bishop's stomach when there's scones to his tea!"

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"Good old gaiters!" remarked the young man, with a glance at his own bare legs.

[In case it's not clear without more context, "Good old gaiters!" is strictly an expletive here.]

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[And speaking of expletives...]

"Hoots toots!" cried Mrs. Bradley, who professed an enormous admiration for the Scots people and occasionally expressed herself in what she fondly believed to be their native tongue.

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[Cousin to the walking encyclopedia?]

"He looks such a worm in his clothes. But take them away, and, damn it, the chap's a pocket Hercules."

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"She goes off cackling to herself as though she'd made a joke or laid an egg or something!"

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[Cocoa??]

"Wright--an artist. That is, in the popular conception, a man without morals, personal decency, or legal obligations. A pariah, an outcast, an unscrupulous dodger of debts. A promiscuous sitter on other people's unmade beds, a habitant of yet other people's made ones. A sipper of absinthe and imbiber of cocoa. A creature long-haired, filthy, depraved, and mentally unbalanced. A cocaine fiend, a dram drinker, an apostle of obscenity, lust, and freedom."

[And a teen listener responds:]

"Thanks," said Aubrey gratefully. "I've got all that down in shorthand. Stafford Major called me a bug-hunting stinker last term!"

[And now the payoff, in our favorite plural form:]

"How do you mean?" asked Aubrey, who had finished transcribing Mrs. Bradley's remarks about artists into longhand and now felt that he possessed sufficient verbal ammunition to account for three or four Staffords Major at the beginning of the next school term.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He put the head upon the shoulders."  From North American Indian Fairy Tales, Folklore and Legends, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #severed head #native american #first nation #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1937.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #drunk #hallucination #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1918.
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#weird pet #flatland
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Playing games with the ghost of himself."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit photography #illustration #ghost of himself
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A dark light that falls from no star and emanates such sadness." —Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, 1987.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lord Vampyr," from Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #vampire #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I led this wearisome life for a whole month."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #arabian nights #weary #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #porpoise
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 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 #animal headed #illustration #public house #bar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The last of the three trees."  From English Illustrated, 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 #arbor day #deforestation #tree #giant tree #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #zipper #zip your mouth
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
The 8 of Diamonds: "Night is Might."  From Jugend, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #vintage cards #playing cards #car #illustration #cards #eight of diamonds #art #card
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How to Write a Blank Book (permalink)
From our unpublished guide on How to Write a Blank Book:

"To set up better opportunities for [page] turns, it is perfectly acceptable to leave a page blank."

Russ Girsberger, A Manual for the Performance Library, 2006.
Meanwhile, here's our twist (two twists, in fact) on blank books: Let's Do and Say We Didn't and What Happened in Vegas.  Why is one more expensive than the other?  Is the more expensive one better?  You'll be able to judge for yourself.
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November 2, 2017

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #astrology #astronomy #telescope #1930s #illustration #astronomer
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Old News (permalink)
The End of the World Not Yet by Luther Fraseur Dimmick, 1842.
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#armageddon #end of the world #apocalypse #vintage headline #world's end #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Beyond" by Joseph Plank.  From Der Orchideengarten, 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 #otherworld #life after death #heaven #soul #afterlife #bridge #illustration #beyond
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #demon #devil #satan #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #magician #vintage magic #masks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Snake charming by priestess of the Ovyte order."  From The Word, 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 #priestess #snake charmer #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"An astral arm and hand."  From Spiritism and Common Sense by Carlos María de Heredia, 1922.  The ghost hand is adjusting the table according to the principles of Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage photo #ghost hand #spirit hand #spirit photograph
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#anthropomorphism #vintage photo #weird photo #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Death and the Peace Angel are ice-skating buddies.  From Jugend, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #1900s #ice skating #illustration #peace angel #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #theatre #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Giants, written and engraved by William Strang, 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 #giant #illustration #torpedo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I have said so much that I must say more."  From The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #death #illustration #blood
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #lost at sea #arabian nights #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #gambling #alcoholism #alcohol #one for the road #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #human faced #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From El Mundo Físico by A. Guillemin, 1882.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the other version of the same scene.

Memorial Church, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California
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#church #vintage postcard #stanford #gif #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1896.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Traversing the dark sea."  From Allegories by Frederic W. Farrar, 1898.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #dark night of the soul #afterlife #boat #ferryman #styx #1890s #illustration #dark sea
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November 1, 2017

Old News (permalink)
The revolution will not be televised, and the circus will not be motorized.  From Illustrated World, 1920.
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#circus #vintage headline #headline
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #circle dance #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's difficult to manage incompatible pets.  A mischievous imp will sacrifice your lamb of peace, even when you're carefully monitoring them.  From Kladderadatsch, 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 #political cartoon #demon #imp #lamb
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"A few moments of rest from pain."  From Every Where magazine, 1905.
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#vintage photo #haven't got time for the pain #moments of rest #pain free #chronic pain #pain management #fitful sleep #fitful rest #recovery
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #two faces #two-faced #face painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #dove of peace #war and peace #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to people wearing underwear and pajamas in public.  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #pajamas #men's fashion #vintage men #illustration #men
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here is revealed how to talk back to a loud speaker.  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#talking back
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1931.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #elephant #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 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 #vintage japan #old japan #japan #walking the dog #illustration #tall hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #camera #shark #illustration #underwater photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The feather," from Round Games for All Parties, 1854.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #feathers #illustration #party game #feather game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1883. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage magic #mentalism #magic #mind reader #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #imp #king of cups #satyr #goat-legged #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goddess #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #angel #mask #harp #illustration
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Mocca, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #fashion #vintage fashion #weightless #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
It's not just squirrels who save walnuts.  From Popular Mechanics, 1927.
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#butterflies #vintage headline #walnuts #headline
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