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November 30, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #volcano #faces in things #hot air #mountain spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #in chains #1913
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #masquerade
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #insect #faces in things #flower #bee #rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Quiet hours.  From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #piano #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pianist #musician #band
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The three learned professions surely need our sympathy, since they so many things that are not so."  From The Doctors, A Satire in Four Seizures by Elbert Hubbard, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She put her taxidermied cat where it longed to be in life.  From Ric et Rac, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #birdcage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The spirit wields a spear.  From Saint Leo's 1972 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Genealogical tree of Lamaic sects, from The Gazetteer of Sikhim, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#buddhism #vintage diagram #genealogy #diagram #family tree #tibetan bon #lamas
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Naturally, we are non-luminous, and we only shine as we become luminous ourselves." —W. Walters, "Lessons of the Light," 1882
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bells #lantern #cycling #penny farthing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #boxing kangaroo #kangaroo #people who look like animals #kangaroo woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #anthropomorphism #dog #top hat #monocle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #mood
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #rainy day #melting building #enough already #collapsing
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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)
"Blew things over the earth."  From Judge's Library, 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 #demon #wizard #genie #occult #djinn #evil spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #giantess #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #death #spirit #astral body #out of body
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November 29, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We tend to forget:

  • that even standing upright is a learned skill
  • how much we are connected
  • the middle items
  • the sublime
  • the liberating power of fantasies
  • even those hardwon lessons that could help us solve recurring problems
  • that a longheld assumption does not thereby become a fact
  • things that do not fit our own personal expectations
  • that the brain is not the mind
  • how big an order of magnitude really is
  • a great deal of what is said almost as soon as we hear it
  • disagreeable experiences
  • negative feedback about ourselvess
  • how real the imaginary is to children
  • about “us”
  • that dogs are not people
  • what we want to forget
  • ourselves, forget we are in a theatre
  • that the body understands the world in unique ways
  • that it hasn't always been like this
  • about those people that we do not know
  • many things we knew when we were in the spirit world
  • who we are
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]
> read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .
#forgotten #list
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Unmasking a hitherto unexamined yet deeply complex theme in a classic sitcom, so that fans, old and new, may see the series in an entirely different and more intriguing light.  It's our 19-minute documentary entitled Marooned Gray Areas of Identity on Gilligan's Island.
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> read more from This May Surprise You . . .
#gilligan's island #video
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not that anyone needed further evidence that the Michelan Man has always been a space alien.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #alien #bibendum #michelin man #spacemen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #umbrella #weightless #teddy bear
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1913 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
> read more from Strange Dreams . . .
#vintage illustration #nightmare #snake #insomnia #vintage yearbook #yearbook #phobia #bugs #illustration #creepy crawlies
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
The sound of mayhem.  From Der Guckkasten, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #mayhem
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see if she's camera shy. From Tulane's 1973 yearbook.

From Tulane's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #camera shy #gif #new orleans
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #elephant #crying animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ric et Rac, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #night sky #stars #starry night #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Down the moonpath, softly creeping."  From The Quiver, 1867.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #spooky #forest #moon #vintage #moonlight #woods #moonpath
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #haunted tree #anthropomorphism #tree spirit #faces in things #tree face #spooky tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant bird #vulture #vulture monster #monster bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #gun #faces in things #grenade
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #occult #big hair #long fingernails
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #doctor #operation #surgeon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Barnard's yearbook of 1929.
> read more from Images Moving Through Time . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #winter #barrel #sledding #bobsled
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #men #running
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Mr. Cork's Secret," by MacDonald Hastings:

[I believe we've had something like this before, from another author.]

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The dance floor was crowded with sad-looking people in tinsel hats. Clouds of balloons floated down from the ceiling, and the diners who were left behind at their tables solemnly amused themselves blowing out paper tubes with feathers on the end and making shrill blasts with wooden whistles. The English, in their way, were having a Gala Night.

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November 28, 2019

Unicorns (permalink)
"... and the anger wells up inside because finally someone had the guts to say — I'm different!"
From Catawba's 1973 yearbook.
> read more from Unicorns . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #unicorn man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #rabbit #bunny #pet walker #walking the rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caveman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The face of influenza.  From Life, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #doctor #disease #influenza #the flu
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If we told you this was the Headless Horseman at a Thanksgiving dinner, it might not help much.  From Suffolk's 1996 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #headless horseman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dry Goods Economist, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bear #thermometer #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #toys #strange toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Merry Measure by Thomas Masson, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #bellows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #halloween #october #hallowe'en #horned man
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #father time #hybrid #human headed #prisoner #giant snail #human snail #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #tiny dog #dog foot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat man #goat #human headed #vintage magazine #man goat #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the UC Southern Branch yearbook of 1959.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fear of paper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #despair #depression #darkness #1906 #dark forces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Everything we ever learned at educational institutions was technically from "outside reading."  From Tulane's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chalkboard #self education
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #pipe smoker #bear
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November 27, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #devil #satan #hell #skulls #throne #illustration
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
In the golden age, the presentation of a skerered banana could trigger tears of laughter.  From the 1929 Ole Miss yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #humor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #laughter #1920s #banana
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see the sphinx in flight.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The best trumpet horns are animal shaped.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #animal shaped #trumpet horn #vintage speakers
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Things done in violence have to be done over again."  From Little Journeys to Homes of Reformers: Bradlaugh by Elbert Hubbard, 1907.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #syrup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snail #giant snail
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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 #green man #flower hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satira, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #architecture #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Waking the seal.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #pet walker #seal #sea lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #angel #gold #his majesty the baby #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You don't have to share everything.  From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcohol #all mine #not sharing #don't share #ad
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #dog #magic #people who look like their dogs #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wings #fallen angel #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiny people #tiny men
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Old News (permalink)
"Remember Thanksgiving with a Christmas present."  It's a precursor to holidays colliding in The Nightmare Before Christmas.  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #christmas #thanksgiving #turkey #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's yearbook of 1911.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #necromancy #spirit #seance #1920s
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November 26, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The phrase "the moon is an oil lamp" is a Googlewhack.  From Lasell's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #oil lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's teddy bear riding a chameleon is from Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #teddy bear #chameleon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The pseudo-3-D effect of this photo may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Wesleyan College's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #giant snake #giant serpent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #gambling #under the sea
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This procession of ghosts haunts the Western Ontario yearbook of 1961.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly net
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #cherries #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Top Comes Off," by Erle Stanley Gardner:

[This is one of those proto-Mason stories about lawyer Ken Corning and his assistant, Helen Vail.]

***

"What name are you registered under?"

"Bess and Edna Seaton," she said. "The room's five-thirty-six."

"Which is Bess and which Edna?" asked Corning.

"Be your age!" she said, and hung up.

[A little later.]

Helen Vail grinned at him. "I came to tell you," she said, "that I'm going to be Bess. We tossed up for it."

[And is it just me, or does the "Be your age!" reaction raise more questions than it answers? (It certainly doesn't answer "Which is Bess and which Edna?"--which I guess, prior to the coin toss, is an unanswerable Schrodingerian question.) Now, to me, "Which is Bess and which Edna?" seems not only like a reasonable question but one to which the answer might be important for Corning to know. However, we're told that Corning grins after Helen hangs up on him, so I feel there's a joke I'm not in on. Tangentially, I'd like to note that Edna is a funny name; as supporting evidence I offer Woody Allen's "The Cartesian dictum might better be expressed, 'Hey, there goes Edna with a saxophone!'"]

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #zebra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The most doleful figure of them all."  From The Secret of the Marionettes by Ernest De Lancey, 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 #doleful #sorrow #vintage man #man #mournful #grieving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two ways to find a cosmic charioteer holding a goat.  From Star Lore of All Ages by William Tyler Olcott, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #auriga
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He says everything's pretty good, though he's worried about Europe.  From Life, 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 #europe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Beauty, truth, art.  From Tulane's 1917 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #truth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #beauty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satiricheskoe Obozrenie, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giant #tiny men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Given the "olive" in the college's name, didn't expect pickles.  But we did find a single Google result for olives being mistaken for pickles, in Punch, 1948:
Gentleman from Philadelphia: That cider we had at dinner was tarnation good, but d— your pickles, Colonel.  Why the stones on 'em's fit to choke a body.
Colonel: Cider!  Pickles!  The cider was champagne, and the pickles are olives, Mr. Yankee.  [Aside.]  What an ignorant son of a gun it is!
Table of contents from Mount Olive's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #pickle #olive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #let there be light #creation #god #biblical
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November 25, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Seven causes of bad handwriting (dysgraphia) are typically identified.  Here are five of them.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #handwriting #tiny men #illustration #ink pen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard that yearbooks are full of people, and here's proof.  From Peace College's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Russian bear embraces religion.  From Life, 1923.
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#religion #vintage illustration #political cartoon #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We sensed something disquieting about this photo and analyzed it with our custom Uncanny Detector app.  Note the enlargement of the face on the figure at the right.  There is a long snout protruding from a dark face with shaggy blond bangs (or some sort of jagged hood?), the right eye (on our left) gleaming.  But also -- protruding from the side of the figure's head (on our left) there is a second face in profile, looking downward, with a very sharp nose and the hint of a smile.  Do you see these details like our app did?  Blurred as it may be, this is clearly an entity from the Otherworld.
From East Carolina's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#otherworld #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #teeth #mustache #swami
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #harlequin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's yearbook of 1910.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #creature #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #teeth #mouth #tongue #mustache #open mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #dog #lantern #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion #fur coat #big coat #big clothes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #mercury #vintage car #car #winged feet
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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 Jugend, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #illustration #ink #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #kissing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Salem's 1930 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #giant #oz #emerald city #illustration
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November 24, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Still the easiest way to ride a non-existent penny-farthing is to keep removing parts until you're pedalling in the air.  The old ways endure for a reason.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #penny-farthing #teddy bear #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are characterized by violent fits.  From Peace College's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #women #vintage women #violent fits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #in circles #exercise wheel #going nowhere
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.

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#grotesque #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #modern art #cubism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's yearbook of 1927.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anvil #forging #ironmonger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #horses #tables turned #streetcar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #piano #pianist #strong man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #mercury
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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 #harpy #butterfly #bird costume #flying people #tiny man #tables turned #giant butterfly #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#religion #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #giant lightbulb #light worship
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Precursors (permalink)
Exotic weddings go way back.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #lion #exotic wedding #big cats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #physiognomy #hybrid #human faced #man dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teeth #dentist #giant tooth #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Technically, it's the sun's monocle that burns us.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #sun #monocle
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November 23, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phrase "Hitler's pitchfork" delivers just a single Google result: "at the point of Hitler's pitchfork."  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #pitchfork #hitler #pitchform
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Old News (permalink)
It's a question that some of us are still asking: "Will you be alivein 1982?"
From UFO Review, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ufo #end of the world #apocalypse #vintage headline #illustration #headline #1982 #fear mongering #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #giant #hand of god #deity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"'Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.' —Lewis Mumford." 
From Colorado College's yearbook of 1986.

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#beard #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #starry night #astronomy #telescope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sleepy King by Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cat
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #house of cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rainy day #umbrella #frog #mushroom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satiricheskoe Obozrenie, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #cable car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Merry Measure by Thomas Masson, 1904.

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#vintage illustration #death #war
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull #pen and ink #quill pen #memento mori #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #boots #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The peace angel is dead but appears to rise via a Pepper's Ghost illusion.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #optical illusion #war and peace #pepper's ghost #peace angel
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Lehigh's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #urbex
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We can now confirm that this is, indeed, what a scarecrow thinks of the moon.  From General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, and Other Poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A low-tech way to be reverently backlit.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#religion #vintage illustration #aura #candle
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November 22, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Revealed -- a bookworm is the larval stage of a dragon.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #bookworm #1940s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The White Rabbit in a dress, from an all-female retelling of Alice in Wonderland from Agnes Scott College's 1914 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #illustration #hot tub
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the University of Nebraska's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #dracula
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Return of Lord Kingwood," by Ivans (trans. Josh Pachter):

***

Mr. Monk then ferreted a number of newspaper clippings and other papers out from an assortment of nooks and crannies.... How the little man managed to locate them so quickly, after they had spent years tucked away and forgotten, was impossible to explain. But it was generally acknowledged that there were certain secret passages through the wilderness of documents strewn both within and without the office's many cabinets, passages that were known only to Mr. Monk, passages that invariably led him directly to whatever information he sought.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
As good a portrait of a journalist as we've encountered.  From Le Grelot, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #eight arms #octopus #journalism #tentacles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Whether this is a shattering of reality or a confluence of parallel universes, our custom Uncanny Detector App was indecisive.  From East Carolina's 1973 yearbook.

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#bicycle #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #parallel universe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #sea creatures #fish #under the sea #radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The fight between the bear and the skrattel. From A Book of Fairy-Tale Bears by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bear #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The obligatory defensive disclaimer.  A restoration of an image from The Entheogen Review Complete.
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#vintage illustration #monster #hyrbid #disclaimer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zhalo, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #graveyard #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #arbor day #big hat #forest hat #tree hat #big hands
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Is Death wearing Peter's mask?  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirits #pipe #1900s #hallucination #opium #long pipe #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skulls #cat o' nine tails #war and peace #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gun #jealousy #gunfire #suddenly a shot rang out
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We assumed this was an underwater photo of a swimmer.  It turns out to be a realistic theatrical recreation of someone drowning.  From Fairmont's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #photography #drowning #vintage yearbook #yearbook #swimming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #flood
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November 21, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)

The phrase "Humpty Dumpty's beard" is a Googlewhack.
Illustration from The Lewis Carroll Society of North America's Knight Letter, 2008.
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#alice in wonderland #humpty dumpty #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 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 #cloud #shut up #skywriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 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 #imp #fairy tale #illustration #prince
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Old News (permalink)
"Facing the future without fear."  From Awake magazine, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #fear #fearless #optimism #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #laurels
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #serpent #garden of eden #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale #elves #cave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The eccentric, critical, changeful, intelligent hand."  We like how the caption doesn't say this is the hand of a person who is eccentric, critical, changeful, and intelligent, but rather that the hand itself is all of those things.  Therefore, the illustration is transformed into a talisman, akin to the Hand of Fatima.  From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 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 #hand #palmistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #open grave #burial #dummy #mannequin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #circus #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #antlers #horned man #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #monster #giant
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Book of Whispers (permalink)

No doubt you've heard of Ireland, too.  It really is such an open secret.  From The Open Secret of Ireland by Tom Kettle, 1912.

But even as recently as 1981, Ireland was under wraps, as it were.  "There isn't anything beyond Wales — only a lot of sea" (the "Roots" Christmas special of Are You Being Served?)

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#are you being served #ireland #open secret
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #weird fashion #gag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 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 #fairy tale #frog #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #winged man #bad smell #stinky
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Someone should write a book on Boundary Setting for Open Secrets.
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November 20, 2019

The Right Word (permalink)
You've noticed the phenomenon: stage magic so often has an undertone of seriousness, and ritual magic[k] is so often theatrical.  Our friend Clint Marsh has dedicated his life to the misfits of magic, collecting and spearheading subtle yet wondrous wizardry for enchanting everyday life.  In honor of his remarkable Fiddler's Green zine, we rolled our alphabet dice on a haunted mirror to see what mysterious messages might come through.
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#magician #magic #clint marsh #letter dice #alphabet dice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Contrary to what titillating artists would have you believe, most mermaids have only human heads on otherwise fishy bodies.  From Littleton's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mermaid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northern UFO News, 1986.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #extraterrestrial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #bear #gas mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They are taken to places beyond the sky, and there they are dusted and swept."  From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horn #biblical #musician #jericho
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washburn's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camel #flying camel #winged camel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"So they followed the rose past the pretty houses of the flowers."  From The Wonderful Land of Up by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by Neely McCoy, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #flowers #illustration #rose
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click for an unexpected finale to the chess game. From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.

From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #chess #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Orion as the Archangel Michael.  From The Word, 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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#serpent #constellation #occult #esoteric #stars #archangel michael #orion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Glue on their fingers … fingers in their hair.  From Bradley's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This method of sausage-making is now generally frowned upon.  From Lustige Blätter, 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 #lion #tiger #sausage #vegetarian nightmare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #rockets
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Merry Measure by Thomas Masson, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #human butterfly #butterfly woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #men's fashion #big hat #vintage men #hat #vintage hat #fancy hat #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #world #electricity #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 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 #vintage ad #happy and sad #vintage men #men #shaving cream #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #bat #anthropomorphism #matchstick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #prediction #blindfolded #mentalist
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November 19, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #blindfold #vintage magic #magic #seance #table tipping #spirit trumpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Further proof that the Michelin Man is an extraterrestrial.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1978.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman #bibendum #michelin man #extraterrestrial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you, like Little Bear, find some lucky money today.  From The Bunny and Bear Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 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 #money #bear #lucky coin #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Murder in the Movies," by Karl Detzer:

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I'm telling it now, just the way it happened, so that there needn't be any more pictures surrounded by question marks.

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[I like the "intersport" imagery in this sentence.]

Gatski was a little man, about forty years old, with a bay window like a basketball and a voice like a baseball umpire's.

***

"Turn 'em," Sam said in a peculiar tone, like a sound track that's picked up an echo.

***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Critics.  From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #faces #critic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #full moon #shadow #cats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by W. W. Denslow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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 #wizard of oz #flying monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 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 #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #mythology #centaur #machine gun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales of the Punjab Told by the People by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #saint #folktale #punjab #world tree #family tree #holiness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #giant snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The night."  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #otherworld #night
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Old News (permalink)
Will your conscience let you marry?  From The Judge, 1922.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #conscience #vintage headline #don't get married #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snail #power lines
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Ulk, 1927.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #nightmare #death #faces in things #1920s #crushed #vintage magazine #illustration #urn #magazine #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pipe smoker #mouse #cat and mouse #mousetrap #white cat #cat in a hat #pipe smoking cat #caught in a trap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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#vintage illustration #devil #falling down
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #money #anthropomorphism #coin
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November 18, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #cauldron #hell #piano #damned #torment #boiled alive #piano stove
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)

We noted an air of timlessness at Aldridge Gardens in Birmingham, Alabama.  As chronologicians, we investigated the area for the cause, and (as per usual) it was virtually staring us in the face — a giant frozen pendulum.  Say what you will about modern art, this piece sure does the trick in terms of manifesting and maintining a temporal anomaly.


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#pendulum #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
All memes predate the coinage.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #saint #postage stamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From From Nowhere to the North Pole by Tom Hood, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #fairies #fairy tale #chased #creatures
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tormented by the Crying Cats" by Elizabeth Wilkes in The Tangent, 1933.  (Via Nemfrog.)
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#vintage illustration #cats #torment
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #howling #yearbook #howler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pan's Garden by Algernon Blackwood, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #ocean #sea #tidal wave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #artist #painter #body painting #black paint
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's yearbook of 1910.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Considering what had been yesterday and what he had before him for the day."  From Cosmopolitan (1898).
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#vintage illustration #contemplation #vintage man #the day ahead #planning #yesterday and today #man in bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It is never safe to be wiser than one's friends."  From Tales of the Punjab Told by the People by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #folktale #wisdom #punjab
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #tiny dog #play date
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #disease #catarrh #flying house #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #lion #giant cup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #faces in things #tree face #tree people #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #totem pole
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November 17, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The Three Giants" by Mrs. Marcet, in Eyes and No Eyes by M. V. O'Shea, 1900. 
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#vintage illustration #angel #giant #illustration #winged giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #horse #hot air balloon #equestrian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #king #dog #tramp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of "a fifth" of whiskey or other liquor.  Here's an easy way to picture it.  From Atlantic Christian's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glassware #water goblet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #dreaming #water spirit #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's Hullabaloo yearbook of 1892.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grindstone #nose to the grindstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #mannequin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales of the Punjab Told by the People by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #folktale #punjab
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #rocket car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #sea serpent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mask #pope #throne #skull mask #money bags #anti religion #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#prayer #boredom #saint anne
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1914. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demons #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #death #skull #horror #giant skull #skull island
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #political cartoon #death #skeleton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Unicorns (permalink)
Here's a nearly-lost gardening tip: never plant any test seeds within cryptozoological migration paths.  As Edith Sitwell put it, "And the gardener plants his seedsman's samples / Where no unicorn-herd tramples" ("Green Geese," in the poetry magazine Wheels, 1921).
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#unicorn
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November 16, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Kleptomania of time" remains a Googlewhack.
Jonathan wonders: "If procrastination is the thief of time, but time itself is guilty of kleptomania, then does that mean procrastination is one of those honorable thieves who steal only from other thieves?"
From Lenoir Rhyne's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #kleptomania
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This says that people who promptly answer correspondence are "stunted and queer."  We, too, strive to answer promptly and are unabashedly stunted and queer.  (Not proudly, mind you, for the opposite of "shame" is not "pride" but "shameless.")  From Mince Pie by Christopher Morley, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #correspondence #queer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #jesus #illustration #hammer and nail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Link, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #ghost writer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #stars #faces in things #rooftop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Indianapolis College of Pharmacy's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brains and How to Get Them by Christian D. Larson, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #brain #diagram #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
Adam wonders: "I wonder what the thread count is on the average sheet ghost... Sheet ghosts are lucky to be made of bedding. That means they can sleep anywhere... I wonder what time of the moaning the average sheet ghost gets up... Hmmm,,, I suppose they'd need a shapely ectoplasm to pull off wearing a fitted sheet... And why do sheet ghosts only wear white sheets? ... I wonder if sheet ghosts are treated like a minority.  What about hygiene?  Do they throw themselves in the wash or just stand out in the rain?"
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#occult #vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #dandy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1917 Snitcher Yearbook of the State Normal & Industrial School, Ellendale ND.

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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Playing leapfrog with a goat and a squirrel.  From Wide Awake, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #goat #squirrel #leapfrog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#religion #vintage illustration #hand of god #marionette #1900s #puppet master
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales of the Punjab Told by the People by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #woodcutter #folktale #bear #punjab
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #winged man #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #yoga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #dog #crescent moon #on the moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #globe #earth #north pole #illustration #south pole #dog sled #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #monster #dragon #castle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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November 15, 2019

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to rotate and reveal the other face.  From Nebelspalter, 1891.

From Nebelspalter, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #faces #gif #smile and frown #f
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Waving a flag to engage a giant (a practice that endures in pride parades).  From Hampden-Sydney's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Typical alien."  From UFO Review, 1987.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 1916.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1931 yearbook.

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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The President's Mystery Plot [a round robin novel]; chapter by Anthony Abbot:

***

[And illustration by Arnold Roth.]

The two partners, Messrs. Noble and Scarp, stood side by side in their little office over a bank and looked solemnly at Jim. They couldn't look at him other than solemnly for they were a very solemn pair.

[...]

They had been partners for so long that they looked like brothers. And both talked in the same hushed and defeated tone; if Jim closed his eyes, it was hard to tell which one was speaking. And whatever Scarp said, Noble repeated in slightly different words.

[Note: Some quick research tells me that Dupond et Dupont debuted a couple of years before Abbot wrote this ca. 1935; but since Tintin wasn't translated into English until two decades later, and the man who wrote as Anthony Abbot had no obvious connection to French-language culture, my guess would be that he came up with the gag independently.]


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1868.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #skeleton #graveyard #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
People who look like their dogs.  From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 2004 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
As they say, it's not what you wear; it's how you wear it.  From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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Precursors (permalink)
Jonathan notes: "I can't help feeling that 'retroactively Kafkaesque' applies both to the appearance of the writer depicted in the illustration, and to his human-insect colleague. I see from Wikipedia that the date of the illustration, 1908, happens to be when Kafka's first stories were published; but it doesn't seem like he was well-known yet, and 'The Metamorphosis' was yet to come."
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grannie's Wardrobe by Mrs. Marshall, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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Old News (permalink)
"Let's all go crazy!"  From The Judge, 1921.
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#weird headline #vintage headline #go crazy #headline
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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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 #drowning #submarine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's where salad is buried.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #coffin #tombstone
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Our custom Uncanny Detector app positively identified the shadowy figure as a ghost.  From Lehigh's 1974 yearbook.
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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A restoration of an image from The Entheogen Review Complete.
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#statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sir Bevis of Hampton, illustrated by Frederick Tayler for The Old Story Books of England.
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November 14, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"But the peak that is nearer the storm cloud is nearer the the [sic] stars of light" (Frances Ridley Havergal).  From Union College's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gnome #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great instruction on how to use a book!  This one must be read in bed and must not be borrowed.  For a double bed, buy two.  From Mince Pie by Christopher Morley, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #reading #reading in bed #preface #bed #author's note #instructions #1910s
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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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 #piano #ocean #pianist #piano boat
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Precursors (permalink)
Today we have "typo glitch bug" gremlins, descendants of the printing press hobgoblins.  From Hampden-Sydney's 1914 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #imp #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hobgoblin #illustration #printing press
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "ram-raiding," or driving a car through a shop window for looting purposes, as popularized in the 1994 Jude Law film Shopping.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #teddy bear #mannequin #ram-raiding
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
A rare double-sharped and double-flatted note.  From Nebelspalter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #piano #high note #singing #pianist #double sharp #double flat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss Junior and the Man in the Moon by David Cory, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1937 yearbook.
Pegasus figures into the next panel.
Poseidon's sea serpent figures into the previous panel.

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#vintage illustration #full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in chains #andromeda
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #pig #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sleepy King by Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cyclops #one eye #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #animal attack #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From the 1972 State College at Boston yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lens flare #perspective #train tracks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #witchcraft #witches #broomsticks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #horse #antlers #horned man #cuckold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #kicked #self inflicted #self abuse #self harm #ass kicking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #unisex
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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November 13, 2019

Do-Re-Midi (permalink)

A friend told us about the time in 2012 that he caught a Bananarama concert at Seattle's Hard Rock Cafe, attended by the gayest audience he'd ever seen at any show.  As he put it, "No chairs, no women."  Though the singers lip-synched their songs and forgot their own lyrics, my friend said that the casual and friendly environment they created made for a very entertaining evening (the band even let fans come on stage to propose marriage and do other shenanigans).  That pair of phrases, "no chairs, no women" stuck with us ... to the tune of a Bob Marley song.  We revised Marley's lyrics to make them about our friend's experience, all the while poking affectionate fun at Bananarama (who have been laughing all the way to the bank for decades).  Here's a recording of our altered version, as well as the side-by-side lyrics.  How many homages to Bananarama song titles can you catch?
Bananarama Version:
No women, no chairs.
No women, no chairs.
No women, no chairs.
No women, no chairs.

'Cause I remember when we used to sit
In the Hard Rock Cafe, Seattle.
Ob—observing sophisticates
As the ushers led them to their reserved seats.
Yeah!

Good shows we saw.
Oh good bands we've lost along the way. Yeah!
In this great venue you can hear any flaw.
So plug your ears, I say.
Yeah.

No women, no chairs.
No women, no chairs.
Now Bananarama lures no one but queers.
No women, no chairs.

Said—said—said I remember when lip-sync was gauche
and the music was played not played back.
One cruel summer, singers with unplugged mikes,
fanning flamers, but no dykes.
Yeah!

"Na na hey hey, kiss him goodbye,”
this bitch forgets the lines.
Although my feet don’t have no twinkle toes,
I’m gay as in happiness … while this goes on.

Karaoke can be all right!
Hope this set’s gonna last all night!
Though my loafers are not that light!
No pretense and no one’s contrite!
That De Niro can just sit tight!
Heard a rumour they’ll reunite!
Every shy boy an acolyte!
Taking bows, now they’re off stage right!

No women, no chairs.
No women, no chairs.
Bananarama ain’t no Britney Spears.
No women, no chairs.
Original version:
No, woman, no cry.
No, woman, no cry.
No, woman, no cry.
No, woman, no cry.

'Cause I remember when we used to sit
In a government yard in Trenchtown,
Ob—observing the hypocrites.
Mingle with the good people we meet.
Yeah!

Good friends we have.
Oh, good friends we have lost along the way. Yeah!
In this great future you can't forget your past.
So dry your tears, I say.
Yeah.

No, woman, no cry.
No, woman, no cry.
A little darlin', don't shed no tears.
No, woman, no cry.

Said—said—said I remember when we used to sit
In the government yard in Trenchtown.
And then Georgie would make the fire lights,
I say, log wood burnin' through the nights.
Yeah!

Then we would cook cornmeal porridge,
I say, of which I'll share with you.
My feet is my only carriage
And so I've got to push on through. But while I'm gone,

Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!
Everything's gonna be all right!

So, no, woman, no cry.
No, woman, no cry.
I say, oh, little—oh, little darlin', don't shed no tears.
No, woman, no cry. Eh.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An accurate portrait of November.  From Hampden-Sydney's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook #november #poked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #rabbit #big ears #illustration #rabbit hole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see the back of a frog's tailcoat.  From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1917.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1966 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonfire
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Old News (permalink)
"The cat, 'I am.'"  To say this yourself in a truly confident tone, see the instant, non-surgical techniques in How to Be Your Own Cat.
From Supernatural Cats, edited by Claire Necker, 1972.
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#cat #cat people #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hear no evil #yearbook #secret societies #fraternities #hooded figure #see no evil
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Why Cats Paint.  From Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, Written Principally By a Lady of Ninety, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #artist #artistic animal #cat artist #artistic cat #clever animal #cat painter
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The Right Word (permalink)
"We moved through dark and desert ways."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.
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#sentence diagram #desert
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's so hard to find bellows with a head these days.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #human headed #bellows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Layers of reality.  From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #the beyond
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The prince wants his lunch."  From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Richard Doyle.  From Fairy Tales, Narratives and Poems, 1906.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale #wee folk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Merry Measure by Thomas Masson, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #devil costume
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #exercise #yoga #illustration #tangled
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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 Colorado College's Nugget yearbook of 1954.
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November 12, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964).  From Hampden-Sydney's 1914 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Before electronic communication, getting mail was much more dramatic.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #postman #mail #postal carrier
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The UFO is alive and well and living in Fairyland!"  From the Merseyside UFO Bulletin, 1970.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Denver's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull face #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

It's 1972, Wodehouse is in his nineties, and he's no longer standing on ceremony:

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"The intelligent reader will recall, though the vapid and unreflective reader may have forgotten..."

[This from The Plot That Thickened, which also gives us the following]:

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"[She was] always insisting that their position demanded that they entertain as dinner guests people whom, if left to himself, he would not have asked to dinner with a ten-foot pole."

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[And ... a nightclub orchestra called Herman Zilch and His Twelve What-Nots!]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #snowman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The jesters of the cardinal directions.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1848.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Love, the King."  From Pall Mall (1899)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #furnace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #owl #book #mouse #hedgehog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #death #anthropomorphism #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.

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#vintage illustration #mother and child #illustration #short and tall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #weird fashion #gag #restraint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hippo #toothbrush
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
These ghosts haunt Lehigh's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#ghosts #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #silhouette #dragon #hell
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From a typed message on the back of a 1908 postcard of Johnson Bible College.
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#prayer #harvest
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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November 11, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Without pioneers such as these, the secrets of How to Be Your Own Cat could never have been perfected.  From Littleton's 1907 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #cat people
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to those fun bendable toy animals.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #bear #bendable
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drunk #lamp post
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)

We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in the mountain town of Trinidad, Colorado.  A clock on a funeral parlor displays an incorrect time (four hours early, plus the shadows of the clock's hands depict a bonus time five minutes later).  As constant investigators of such phenomena, we saw the source of the problem with a mere turn of the head.  Directly across the street is an historic gothic house, the Bloom Mansion.  That haunted relic from 1882 is the cause of the funerary clock's error, the effect compounded by the existence of a mini version of the mansion in the form of a Little Free Library (boosting the disruptive signal, as it were, from the macrocosm into the microcosm).  Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for does a fourth-story widow's walk have the power to disrupt the flow of time?  By the way, as we walked toward the Bloom Mansion on the day of our investigation, our progress was delayed by an improbably long funeral procession that passed in front of us.  As plutocrats of the supernatural, we expected nothing less.

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#time #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 
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#vintage illustration #constellation #night sky #vintage book #book #bear #old book #star queen #star people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #cow #top hat #hat tip
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Union College's 1979 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #trees #orange
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The invisible world.  From The Fairy Tales of Science by John Cargill Brough and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1859.
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#vintage illustration #microbes #invisible world #microorganism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1920 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook
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#vintage illustration #demon #death #skull #pitchfork #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant skull #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #devil #silhouette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a haunted room from Nebelspalter, 1884.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted #haunted house #haunted mansion #faces in things #chair #haunted chair #haunted piano #haunted room #cursed furniture #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #suffragette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #graveyard #skull #open grave #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #organ grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fire #flame #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant bird #tiny people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cats for flotation.  From Lustige Blätter, 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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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
Focusing on the snowflake-like sun behind the tower may facilitate time travel.  From Lehigh's 1974 yearbook.
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#sun #silhouette #vintage photo #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 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 #bird #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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November 10, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Desperate times do not call for milquetoast measures.  Messrs. Meow and Miaow (no relation) enter an old wizard's manor to set up a strange ritual.  See also this unusual collection of Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#video
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Thomas McFarland has written of an "interpenetration of livingness and dyingness as contained in the very nature of autumn."  Here's what it looks like.  From Salem's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #winged man #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Six feet from tip to tip."  From The American Magazine, 1889. 
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#vintage illustration #skull #horns #trophy
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Snuggie blanket.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #public displays of affection #sleeping bag #snuggie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #throwing up
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Old News (permalink)
Meet your devils.  From Stoutiana, 1916.
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#devil #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #swing #faun
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Taylor University's Gem yearbrook, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #sun #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #monster #thumbing nose #dust devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by J. D. Watson.  From The Quiver, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #dungeon #prisoner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #guillotine #long tongue
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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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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
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#elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #goose #geese #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
All mustaches are connected to form a worldwide network fostering fellowship and communicating helpful tips.  From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #mustache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #tiny man #giant tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #glowing #show and tell #strange object #look at this
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November 9, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged man #archer #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A curious being standing with majesty and composure in the center of the magnificent radience.  From The Master Key by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by F. Y. Cory, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #angel #radiant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We can vouch for the authenticity of this drawing.  As obsessive stoopers for lucky coins, we can't count the times lightning has knocked our hat off.  From Colorado College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lightning #illustration #hat #lucky penny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #end of the world #apocalypse #four horsemen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #tunnel #puppet master #human puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #sword fight #airplane #stunt pilot #vintage airplane #fencing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #hell #cerberus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out" —Tolkein.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #candle #1870s #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Merry Measure by Thomas Masson, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse
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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 Cosmopolitan, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #father time #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration #death on wheels
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #peacock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #transportation #pigs #elevated train #cable car
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1974 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and shadow #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #wee folk #grasshopper
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November 8, 2019

Old News (permalink)
We've been saying this for decades: "It takes the spittle of toad to live with electronic appliances."
From The Times News (Idaho), 1986.
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#toad #vintage headline #headline
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Precursors (permalink)
Decades before the platform shoe craze of the 1970s and the floppy hat craze of the 1960s.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #shoe #platform shoes
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Old News (permalink)
"Fighting with spaghetti."  From The Link, 1951.
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#vintage headline #spaghetti #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1845.
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#vintage illustration #gallows #hanged man #musical score #scaffold #1840s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #monster #beer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rowan's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #multiple exposure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hayagriva: The Horse Headed Deity in Indian Culture by Narinder Sharma, 1990.
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#horse #deity #hinduism #Hayagriva
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facillitate time travel.  From the Western Ontario yearbook of 1961.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #fog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mimnermus said that hideous old age looms over us hatefully.  Here's what it looks like.  From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #youth and age #ravages of time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #piano #musical instruments
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand (1894).
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #pincers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #illustration #muzzle #sphnix
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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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 #seasick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
City dwellers have seen this bizarre phenomeon, in which advertisment posters seem to "feed" off each other, especially in the presence of a wizard-themed poster.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #hunger artist #Hungerkünstler #Hungerkünstler
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From The Bookman, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #silhouette #horse #music #wagner #conductor #composer
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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 La Lune Rousse, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #history #caesar
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Wodehouse's Uncle Dynamite:

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Constable Potter, who had momentarily removed the glazed look from his eyes, put it back again.

***

"Nobody but a practised writer could have told that story so superbly. [...] You publish your stuff secretly under another name. I believe you're one, if not more, of the Sitwells."

***

[From The Purloined Paperweight, aka Company for Henry]:

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“You see, when I recommended Deadly Ernest to him as required reading, he snubbed me in no uncertain manner.”

“What’s he like when snubbing?”

“Pretty formidable. The beard helps a lot, of course. He waggled it at me and said, ‘Dear lady, does one read books called Deadly Ernest?’ And when I said yes, one did, mentioning myself as a case in point, he sighed like a patronizing escape of steam and said he was afraid my taste was very crude.”

***

“We particularly liked its austerity.”

Bill blinked.

“Its what?”

“Or restraint, if you prefer it. No second corpse.”

“I thought of putting in a second corpse, and then I thought I’d fool my public by not having one.”

“You were quite right. I’m sick of second corpses.”

***

“I had various jobs.”

“Such as?”

“Well, there quite a number of them. Picking lemons, for one.”

“I knew it! The moment I saw you, I said to myself, ‘That man has been picking lemons.’ Where was this?”

“Chula Vista, California.”

“Are there lemons out there?”

“Several.”

***

The last thing he would have wished to do, had circumstances been other than they were, was to reveal his business secrets to anyone like Algy, in whose discretion he had little or no confidence, but as so often happens, circumstances were not other than they were.

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November 7, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
“Possibly—just possibly—he might derive comfort from the liturgy, and even strength.  The gods whom he had worshiped might be unworthy of his worship, or of anyone’s; but the worship itself must have counted for something, weighed in some scales somewhere, surely.  It had to be, or else the Whorl was mad.” —Gene Wolfe, Caldé of the Long Sun (and though we’re Wolfe fans, this particular series of novels pales unforgivably next to the Book of the New Sun)
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#religion #gene wolfe
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
As a plutocrat of the supernatural, I awakened my coffin-shaped belt buckle today.
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#cemetery #graveyard #prof. oddfellow #belt buckle #paranormal investigator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Commentary, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #occult #stars #sacred geometry #1970s #mystical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #hybrid #donkey headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #tiny men
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal another moment. From Washington College's 1976 yearbook..

From Washington College's 1976 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #rain #cherub #camel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you have stood amongst the broken statuary while the sphinx-like eyes of the night looked on.  From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #statue #night #in pieces #rubble #broken
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Burned at the stake by a giant cigarette.  From Zanoza, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #burned alive #burned at the stake #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Summer by Walter Crane, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #alcohol #bottles #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh! For a book from the library!"  From Associated Advertising, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #flat tire #library #library book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #headache #mustache #splitting headache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #faun #bacchus #illustration #grapes #dionysus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #two-faced #lanterns #pierced nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #rooster #egg #chickens
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A strange trend in old yearbooks: men with unexpected lower halves.  Top photo: Maryland's 1989 yearbook.  Bottom photo: Virginia Commonwealth University's 1990 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #1990s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bradley's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #father time #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #grandfather clock #1940s
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November 6, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Werewolves and Vampires (1962).
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#vintage illustration #horror #wolfman #werewolf #1960s #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the eerie atomic bomb test with mannequins in the Nevada desert in the 1950s.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #mannequin #atomic bomb test
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He brought you a lemon soda but you ordered ice water."  From The Goblin, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #waiter #lemon soda
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Realities collide.  From Swarthmore's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #tower #parallel universe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1884.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #politician #head in the clouds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #human headed #snails #snail people #human snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #bones #dogs #dog and bone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #iceberg #radio waves #illustration #polar #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This image may be used to trigger an altered state of consciousness. From the Niles West yearbook of 1980.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bradley's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #parade float #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Trier.  From Lustige Blätter, 1918.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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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)
Paranoia, hallucinations, deterioration, seizures, and cerebral hemmorages from The Justice newspaper (Brandeis), 1992.
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#vintage ad #statue #hallucination #paranoia #ad
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November 5, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fox versus wolf: which would you wager to win?  From A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 1914.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits (1981).    From Fantastic magazine, 1968.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
In our photo of chronologician Michael, he is not actually looking at his invisible watch but rather consulting the living map that he's wearing.  (A living map never gets outdated but rather, remaining mysterious to its core, is a provocation to experience, casting as it does the luminosity of presence.  A living map is full of latencies, providing criteria by which a competent discoverer may test his projected conjectures.)
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#fashion #vintage fashion #map #strange map #photographers on tumblr #map costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #monster #alligator #giant alligator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nice horns and bat wings.  Reblog if you could wear it well.  From Le Charivari, 1889.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Episode of the Codex' Curse," by C. Daly King:

***

[Palpable Silences dept.]

The silence, which to begin with had been complete, seemed somehow to have gotten steadily more and more profound. Imperceptibly but steadily. Oppressive was the word probably, for by two a.m. I had the distinct feeling that it would have been possible to cut off a chunk of it and weigh it on a scale.

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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A pensioner and a billionaire.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #flowers
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
This is merely to confirm that castles in the air may form indoors, too.  From Toronto's 1926 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #when pigs fly #flying pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh!  See the waste-bask-ets!  Why do they laugh?"  From The Needle, 1916
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #trashcan #waste basket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #grim reaper #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #bear #national animals #dancing bear
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Jugend, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #sun
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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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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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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 #war #king neptune #trident #battleship
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
These ghosts appear in the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1967.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook
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November 4, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #jack in the box #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you take night walks at the beach (highly recommended and highly spooky!), this sort of mysteriousness is not at all uncommon.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #beach #night walk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Beautiful Black: A Bibliography About the Night, For Young Readers (1994).
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#darkness #night #black #black is beautiful
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
News of the black widow's poison, from back when journalists had integrity.  From Awake magazine, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #artist #artistic animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Outrunning death, right to the precipice.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #stagecoach
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that the tunnel of light seen by the dying is something of a trick, a trap door back into material existence.  In a yearbook, it leads to a second degree program.  From Elizabethtown's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light #glowing #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Four possible combinations of six elements.  From Nebelspalter, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #combinations
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #horse #artist #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #pain #headache #migraine #brain surgery
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #sun #giant #top hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #coffin
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #flasher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #elves
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Washington & Lee's 1970 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Someone needs to tell the peace angel that cannons aren't good as pots because they don't drain well and the roots will rot.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
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November 3, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Nearly two decades before Philip K. Dick's VALIS, there was a book called VAIS, on similar themes.  From Flying Saucer News, 1963.
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#unknown
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mermaids of the radio waves.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #radio #radio waves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We, too, pray that the swords won't target you.  From Der Bildermann, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #swords
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #pollution #smokestack #environment
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's all too easy to cry "Fake!"  We ran this through our custom Uncanny Detector app, and it is indeed a confluence of two universes in which a man meets a taller version of himself.  From Washington College's 1976 yearbook.

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#multiple universes #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit double #parallel universe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bear #talking animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Spellbound, 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
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#vintage illustration #swan #horror #black swan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The first page of the Washington & Lee yearbook of 1977.

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#gothic #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's International, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #scissors #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #angel #goat legged #archangel michael #st. michael #archangel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #parrot #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #ominous #looming #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From New Outlook, 1957.  But before you can discover your real self, first you must learn How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#self discovery #real self
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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 Jugend, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #magician #jester #vintage magic #magic trick #illustration #hocus pocus #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #whale #laughing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #writing #nature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1960 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #bird
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November 2, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
I'm not sure what he's smoking.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #beer #anthropomorphism #faces in things #pipe smoker #alcohol #smiling man #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #oz #stuffing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Punchinello" by George Bellows, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sledding #snow sled #vintage magazine #winter sports #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #revenge #hunter #tables turned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #coffin #piano #the day the music died
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #vulture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #1920s #melting building #hallucination #dizzy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pest control #extermination #bug zapper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #lantern
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)
We noticed an unusual set of ESP cards in the extrasensory newsletter L'Insolite, 1980.  Instead of the classic Zener symbols of hollow circle, plus sign, three vertical wavy lines, hollow square, and hollow pentagram, here we find a checkerboard, a circle with eight rays, three overlapping rings, two V's forming an X, and a hollow rectangle.  We attempted to restore these alternative symbols in a print-resolution file for you to download.
Our own alternative telepathy test (free online and app versions) was commissioned by our friends at the Official Prisoner Appreciation Society, dedicated to the cult 1967 TV series The Prisoner.  In the episode entitled "The Schizoid Man," actor Patrick McGoohan uses a special deck of symbol cards to test Extra Sensory Perception, slightly different from the Zener set.  Exercise your own inner eye.
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#symbols #esp #extra sensory perception
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #weightless #in the clouds #airplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #anthropomorphism #pigs
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to faciliate time travel.  From Lehigh's 1974 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The dog above it all.  From Nebelspalter, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #mountain #above it all #rising above it
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Speaking Likenesses by Christina Rossetti and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #medusa #gorgon #snake hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #phoenix #vulture #illustration #golden wings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers of Lehigh's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #tower #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vampir, 1906.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #hybrid #big ears
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November 1, 2019

Old News (permalink)
"UFOs — the Loch Ness connection."  From UFO Review, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #loch ness monster #illustration #nessie #headline
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
All the world's great towers are actually part of an elaborate amusement park that can be seen only macroscopically.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #amusement park #eiffel tower #ferris wheel #towers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'I understand now,' said the little mouse, quite gently."  From Kitty-Cat Tales by Alice Van Leer Carrick, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mayans, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #occult #esoteric #pyramid #sacred geometry #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Already stratified as dummies in school, condemned as unfit for the worlds of learning art, imagination, invention" (Tillie Olsen, Yonnondio).
From Clarion's 1993 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dummies #crash test dummies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A swimming cat from The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fish #swimming #swimming cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Six months later."  From Concordia's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #classroom #teacher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Underwater umbrella.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #underwater #umbrella #diver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Things that might have been if I had wiser eyes."  Use your now-wiser eyes, in conjunction with the orb of the streetlight in the middle distance, to travel through time or the astral plane.  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #streetlight #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nation's Health, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #exercise #foot rotation
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Our custom Uncanny Detector app positively identified the shadowy figure as a ghost.  From Lehigh's 1974 yearbook.
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#ghost #silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An angel and demon both help to stoke the fire of a cauldron.  From Nebelspalter, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #angel #cherub #fire #good and evil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
April or November.  From The Child's Picture Grammar, written and illustrated by Sophia Rosamond Praeger, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #april #november #conjunction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by M. E. Edwards.  From The Quiver, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #angels #prayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #devil #o
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #horse #knives #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #kitty #yowl #meow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washburn's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #comet #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shooting star #falling star
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Brothers Sackville, by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole:

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[To ensure a gay (in the old sense) party, there's nothing like bringing someone named Gay. And that Minnie! She's always girling.]

There was quite a gay little party in progress at Summerdene. Hal Kipson was there, and he had brought Peter Gay with him.... Minnie Girling was there, full of laughter as usual; and Hester Longsight....

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She led him firmly across to where the film actor was holding forth, with Minnie Girling putting him questions all of a giggle.

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