CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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November 30, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Millikin's 1940 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"Invisible elves in the sky."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#ufo #elves #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"WIll locate extraterrestrials."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Atlantic Christian's 1974 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1962.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From UNC Asheville's 1970 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A lame duck.  From The Film Daily, 1930. 
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1945 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Closeup magazine #1.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You know how globes are invariably tilted?  Well, there's a reason for that.  From Anderson's 1960 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'You will come,' the messenger mumbled in his brain.  'Your master has called.'"  From Unknown, 1940.
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Year of the Monkey, by Carole Berry:

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Had he sold out for one lousy promotion in a company that had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel?

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1910 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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Old News (permalink)
"A year in which everyone looked backward."  From Indiana State University's 1976 yearbook.
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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November 29, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old and New Japan by Clive Holland, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to pray."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.  Weird prayers are collected in Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Presto, the change was made!"  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #rabbit #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1957 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #faces in things #night
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Saint Michael.  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #saint #saint michael #st. michael #church art
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Old News (permalink)
Never let them catch you, giant cat on the run living wild.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#cat #giant cat #vintage headline #wild cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #war dead #decapitated #illustration #talking skull
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
A book dedicated to the memory of all good giants, dwarfs, and fairies.  From Ting-A-Ling by Frank R. Stockton and illustrated by E. B. Bensell, 1891.
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#fairy tale #book dedication
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"More speak of 'that kind' of encounter."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1988.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #war #ammunition
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein'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 #candles #ex libris
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #devil #anthropomorphism #satyr #folly #cat o' nine tails #goat legged #rat trap #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #red moon
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Rain fails to dampen."  From Anderson's 1960 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #parade
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #demon #devil #ad
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November 28, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #spear #tarzan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Chronic emotional fatigue.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #nervous prostration #fatigue #emotional #exhaustion #zipper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #severed head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Screen Guilds' Magazine, July 1934.
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#vintage illustration #cat #alice in wonderland #cheshire cat
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Old News (permalink)
"Golden cigars in the sky."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#ufo #cigar #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Judson's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #hermit #light and darkness #1960s #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fountain #up a tree
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #youth and age
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #king #sleeping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A yearbook dedicated to the not-pictured.  From Assumption College's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #faceless #no face #not pictured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rat
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The Right Word (permalink)
A rare spelling of "wig," usually found only in dramatic arts organizations like The Wigue and Masque.  From Lebanon Valley's 1950 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1930.
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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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#centaur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's what a noun looks like.  From Oneonta's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #noun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #potato
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Tunnel of Love, by Peter De Vries:

***
"Tell him your story about Helmholz," the hostess said, after the presentation, and was off in a gasp of taffeta.

***
I hung on her words, which her pretty mouth fashioned with a somewhat overprecise diction, like shapes turned out by a cookie-cutter.

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I had her recite to me in pear-shaped tones. Later we went to town and bought tone-shaped pears.

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Friends have noticed--or at least I have noticed--a resemblance between my diction and that of George Sanders.

***
"We'll go where we can hear the larks again."
"Larks, my dear, should be had, not heard."

***
At one end was a drawing board on which was a captionless sketch of a goat in a vacant lot eating a copy of Duncan Hines's restaurant guide.

***
"Oh, the joke business!" I groaned. Augie chose that moment to drop all the papers he was holding to the floor with a smack, and didn't hear what I said, so I had to regroan it.

***
"Are you of two minds about them?"
"Yes and no."

***
"Now then," she said, settling into a pull-up chair. Now then indeed.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #owl
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November 27, 2021

Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background by Wayne Koestenbaum (coincidentally reflected in Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, 2019).
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #poem #paul newman
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)

Painstakingly transporting our haunted grandfather clock into the wider world to be thrilled by the season's first snowfall, it was our delight to engender two slowed-time remixes of Ken Clinger's magical "First Snow," and our honor that Ken has released them in this EP (free download at Bandcamp):
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#ken clinger #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #dog #cliff #animal rescue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #winter #stranded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #iron man #golem #iron golem
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1964.
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#sphinx #egypt
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to all the people you know with a knack for staying out of touch.  From Mystery of the Silent Friends by Robin Gottlieb.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of hitchhiking a ride on a snowplow.  From Gannon's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #hitchhiker #snowplow #hitchhiking
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Old News (permalink)
"Oppressed hamsters in need."  From The Getaway, 1982.
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#vintage headline #oppression #headline #hamster
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Bigfoot walked through The Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage photo #bigfoot #footprint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The importance of black backdrop sides when silhouetting your skeleton.  From High Contrast by J. Seeley.
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#skeleton #silhouette #photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ting-A-Ling by Frank R. Stockton and illustrated by E. B. Bensell, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Panzer College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustation by Herbert Jopke.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #horse #castle #knight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #giant #mars #war and peace #peace angel #god of war
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If your name is Michael, here's the congratulatory owl.  From Coastal Carolina's 1996 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #michael #congratulations
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 photo #vintage yearbook #cheshire cat #smiling cat #gargoyle
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November 26, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #john dee #scrying #video #penetralia #black mirror #dr. dee #doctor dee #speculum
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Haunted by the ghosts of murdered turkeys, post-Thanksgiving.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #thanksgiving #meat is murder #turkey #animal rights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fable #cat #rooster #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sphinx figure."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #sphinx #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"At the big lake when the moon is full."  From How It Came About Stories by Frank Linderman and illustrated by Carle Michel Boog, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #coffin #living dead #undead #good morning
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scandinavian Legends and Folk Tales by Gwyn Jones, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #fishing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #silhouette #fairy tale #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jack and the beanstalk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Cute way to depict Pegasus.  From Washington College's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse
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Old News (permalink)
"Astronaut wants aliens to get him."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.
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#ufo #astronaut #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Face to face with the shadow self.  From Gannon's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #negative #shadow self
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage ad #giant #eaten alive #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Withdrawing Room, by Charlotte MacLeod:

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a thinnish face that was neither attractive nor ugly but merely present in the usual place

***
["The Whatever-You-Call-Him Is Mutual" dept.]
"I didn't, but apparently our mutual whatever-you-call-him did."

***
"Dolph should be home by now, unless he's gone to a banquet at the Home for Retired Woolgatherers or some other...."

***
[A snatch of breakfast-table conversation, illustrating the comedic value of marmalade.]
"Hartler was an old food. Quiffen was a worse fool. Trouble you for the marmalade."
[And of course the name "Quiffen" is no slouch as a funny word, either.]

***
It was not so easy to enjoy an innocent glass of preprandial sherry with Miss Hartler recoiling from the tray as from a striking cobra every time Charles passed within recoiling distance.

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[Dolph] waxed as genial as Dolph knew how to wax.

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Mr. Porter-Smith...preferred to go someplace where he could show off his new cummerbund.

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G. Thackford Bodkin was not the sort of name one got wrong.

***
[Who Needs Context? dept.]
One couldn't go on ladling cranberry juice over a wet blanket forever.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #electricity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #ornamental design
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Old News (permalink)
"Tearful thanks for the underworld."  From The Getaway, 1982.
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#underworld #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Beloit's 1889 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #vintage yearbook #yearbook #after the party
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The author's name is the title, and it's not an autobiography.  The explanatory text says, "Is this a title?  It is not."  From E. K. Means by Eldred Kurtz Means.
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#vintage book #book
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November 25, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #illness #sickbed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #words
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is what we, too, say when "invited" to modify our writing -- "I'm afraid it's impossible.  I just can't revise the manuscript."  From Fantastic Adventures, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #writing #revision #rewrite
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mothers News, 2010.
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#vintage illustration #witchcraft
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh Gosh!  Another day!  I LOVE my alarm clock!"  From Processed World, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #alarm clock #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #1940s #dizzy #personal demons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #father time #cupid #heart #illustration #watering can
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"You told me your secret ... Now I'll tell you mine."  Bette Davis in Winter Meeting.  From The Film Daily, 1948.
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#vintage ad #secret #bette davis #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Chariot of Death."  From Fantastic Adventures, 1943. 
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #chariot
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird man #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"'Alien infiltrator' Jesus and his UFO.  Christ was a visitor from another place" (1996).
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#ufo #jesus #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1985 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #buried in books #scholar
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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 #blindfold #magician #vintage magic #mind reading #mentalism #magic #thought reading #mind reader #alien #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #practical joke
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx by Kathryn Heisenfelt and illustrated by Henry E. Vallely.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #dog #pie #hidden picture #jack horner
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November 24, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"It won't do to have that trouble go on.  It means ruin."  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #ruination #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #elf #pixie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #living toy #toy dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you would dance, dance until both the water has boiled away and the music has stopped.  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #dancing animal #dancing pig
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's been said that "art should never be about the tools or materials" (Fabian Bürgy).  From Coraddi, 1979.
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#vintage photo #modern art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1845.
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#vintage illustration #quill pen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sororities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wordeater, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #alligator
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ocean #lighthouse #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We're often asked where we get our bright ideas.  Here's one of the tools we use, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #light bulb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #strange light #orb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Old ghosts are dancing wildly, wildly" (R. Tirrell Leonard Jr., In the Murmuring Trees, 2012).
From Santa Clara's 1972 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #dancing
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Old News (permalink)
"Encounters with the unknown."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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#ufo #vintage headline #aliens #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Kansas State's 1988 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trombone #musician #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is a question we, too, ask every night - "Who says the stars are too many light-years away to reach?"  From Startling Stories, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #space travel #outer space #stars #rocket
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #graveyard #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #the end #gravestone #life and death
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ufo #pipe smoker #vintage headline #smoke inhalation #smoke sickness #dissection #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #animal headed #vintage yearbook #antlers #deer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That awkward moment when bottled magic sticks to your hand.  From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #pelican
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November 23, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cave #cavern #luray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Angora.  From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat #angora cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry 2 Handbook.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Circa 1910, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#night #vintage postcard #milwaukee #wisconsin #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Circles by Villamaria, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale #elves
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Old News (permalink)
UFOs spark new religion.  From The Martlet, 1975.
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#religion #vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #tattoo #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A jolly good book where-in to look is better to me than gold."  An Old English song quoted in Mansfield's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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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 #fable #reflection #aesop #stag #antlers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #church art #beak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We too-rarely encounter a candle on a witch's broom.  From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starwind, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #outer space #astronaut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from A Little Book of Language by David Crystal.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dice #mice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sororities
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 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 #dancing #lamp
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Two Week Book, by Chris Gentes:

[This snippet is the book's epigraph.]

A quote that might seem more relevant than it actually is.
--Someone

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We will drink champagne and we will ignore him!"  A bit harsh, but Barnabas doesn't always remember to turn on his charm.  From Dark Shadows episode 815.

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#champagne #dark shadows
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November 22, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A portrait of folks on Tumblr who withhold clicking the heart icon on our posts.  The caption reads, "She stuck out her tongue at the photograph."  From Chatterbox, 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 #sticking out tongue #contempt
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1938.  See Why Magicians Pull Coins From Ears.
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#vintage magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Kalkydri.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster
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Old News (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1953.
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#demon #swimming #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard of Oz, adapted by Oscar Weigle and illustrated by Robert Patterson.
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#vintage illustration #mask #wizard of oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 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 #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1925 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #death #monster #grim reaper #horror #blood #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Each arrow overshot his head."  From Myths From Many Lands by Eva March Tappan, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #bow and arrow #halo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Cowley yearbook of 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #demon #magick #conjuration #occult
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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.
56850 28285
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #merfolk #merman #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We've done that, too -- arrived at the party in a mask, when costumes weren't called for.  From Tuft's 1978 yearbook.

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#halloween #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
Ah, the smugness of the media!  "All mysteries solved."  From The Gateway, 1981.
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#mystery #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #tree costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maoriland Fairy Tales by Edith Howes, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1936 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #astrology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #centaur #archer #sagittarius #man horse
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Old News (permalink)
Great news!  "You can bypass wit's end."  From Together, 1959.
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#vintage headline #wit's end #headline
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November 21, 2021

Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #ruins #symbol #urbex
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #alcoholism #alcohol #tiny woman #bottle #giant bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fever Grass by John Morris, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Medium."  Is this design an occult "engine" for channeling psychic energy?  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
From St. Procopius' 1965 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage yearbook #spirit medium #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage ad #1940s #woman #vintage woman #must see #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Our restoration of Virgil Finlay's piece in Worlds of IF, March 1968.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #faces in things #virgil finlay
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustrated by Caspari.  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #pan #faun #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The nearest exit may be all around you.  From Rockingham's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blurred #exit #photo
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #positive and negative
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #occult #fortune teller #cat #inner eye #spirit medium #inner vision
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Sir Benjamin, Earl of Somerville, graduated from Tuft's in 1978.

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#black cat #cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"A quiet night, then something strange happened."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #faceless #no face
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It sounds ungrateful: "Nobody thanks you for your kind applause," except for the fact that Nobody is a character in the play.  From Little Nobody, 1875.
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#nobody
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Maroon Tales, by Will Cuppy:

***

It was enough to make anybody draw full, deep breaths and feel strong; anybody, of course, who goes in for those things.

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This May Surprise You (permalink)
From The Couple Who Became Each Other by David L. Calof.
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#marriage #individuality #couples
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1874.  
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November 20, 2021

Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "the bulletproof crime smasher" Atomic Tommy, of 1947.  "Her husband is world's first atomic policeman."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
It may, indeed, feel like the crisis hour, but keep in mind that elves are tampering with the clock ten times a day, as we discovered here.  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#vintage headline #panic #headline #crisis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #ankh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1912.
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#religion #vintage illustration #mythology
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
A front page sheet ghost.  From The Gateway, 1981.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#sheet ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elves and Ellefolk by Natalia Balting and illustrated by Gordon Laite.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1923.
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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 #poseidon #king neptune #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #temperature #sauna #too hot #sweat bath #heat bath
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Old News (permalink)
"Aliens secret held by -- Bob's trousers!"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #daydreaming #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we no longer carry a pocket mirror.  From Unknown Worlds, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #mirror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily's Adventures by Howard Garis and illustrated by Louis Wisa.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #rabbit #spinning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Spellbound. 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
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#vintage illustration #omen #fortune teller #crystal ball #gypsy #beetle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Charlotte's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Knock on Wood by Carole Potter.
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#black cat #silhouette #superstition #knock on wood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The ignorant man is in danger of following the instructions of his ghostly teacher" (William Garner, The Good Old Way, 1851).
From Santa Clara's 1972 yearbook.
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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #teacher #faceless #no face #1850s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They began to blame one another."  From Woodland Elf by Florence Adèle Evans, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #elf #giant #fairy tale
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November 19, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My other self had disappeared in the flash."  From The End of Dreams by Wood Levette Wilson and illustrated by A. G. Learned, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #occult #lightning #astral body #spirit double #out of body #spirit body #spirit self #astral self
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot
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Old News (permalink)
"I'd rather be alone in snow."  From Ethos, 1963.
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#snow #vintage headline #solitude #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"When does a man start slipping?"  From Startling Stories, 1948.
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#vintage ad #vintage photo #vintage man #man #slipping #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ghost #invisible man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How It Came About Stories by Frank Linderman and illustrated by Carle Michel Boog, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fire #bear #forest fire
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Montana State's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #fog #foggy #blue
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Old News (permalink)
"Unidentified flying banana."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1978.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #banana
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#religion #vintage illustration #weathervane
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #wine #faces in things #vintage magazine #grapes #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #angels #cherub #caged angel #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wesleyan College (Macon GA) yearbook of 1932.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caveman #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1972 yearbook.
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#rainy day #umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling when the story you're telling is so well-known that you're obliged to add the word "famous" to every major plot point.  From Mother Goose Secrets by Barbara Webb Bourjaily, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #sleeping #little boy blue
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Twelfth Hour, by Ada Leverson:

[I learned that Leverson was a friend of Oscar Wilde. Funny, you'd never know it from her writing style! (;v>]

"He was a good-looking, amiable, and wealthy young man, who was as lavish as if he had not had a penny."

"For under all her outward sentimentality, Felicity was full of tenderness."

"Isn't it fun, Savile, being the only stupid person in a crowd of clever people? They make such a fuss about one."

[All those bon mots are from the first chapter!]

More snippets...

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"And who will be the great card this time, Savile?"
"Of course, Roy Beaumont, the inventor."
"What on earth's he invented?"
"Himself, I should think. He's only about twenty-one."

***
Sir James sat down slowly on a depressed leather uneasy chair.

***
Woodville found Mervyn neither studying a part, reading his notices, nor looking in the glass.

***
"By Jove!" said Woodville, looking at the photograph.
"Why do you say 'By Jove!'?" asked Mervyn suspiciously.
"Why? Well! I must say something! You always show me things on which no other comment is possible but an exclamation, or you tell me things so unanswerable that there's nothing to say at all."

***
"I want to talk about Lady Chetwode. I'm awfully in love with her."
"Didn't know you knew her."
"I don't. That's nothing to do with it. You can be awfully in love with a person you don't know. In fact, I believe I can be far more seriously devoted to a perfect stranger than to a woman I know personally."

***
"I'm certain I met you in a previous existence," continued the young man.
"What a good memory you must have, Mr. Wilton! It's as much as I can do to remember the people I meet in this existence."

***
...a certain widow, whom his friends said he spoke of as "Agatha, Mrs. Wilkinson," to give the effect of a non-existent title

***
"'Lady Virginia Creeper at home. Five to seven.' Well, I can't help it. Let her stop at home. It's the best place for her."

***
"Just fancy making such a horrible proposition! At Willis's, too!"
"Well, what's the matter with Willis's? Would it have been all right at the 'Cheshire Cheese'?"
"What's the 'Cheshire Cheese'?"
"Never mind," said Savile mysteriously. (He didn't know.)
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.
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November 18, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #cat #peacock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's the reason why.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #procrastination #sleeping #reason why
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The damned.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #hell #damned
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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 #faces in things #candle #soap bubble #mother goose #burned out #astral travel #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivert Nazarene's 1985 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #atypical #untypical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #brainstorm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #guillotine #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We whistle for a priest."  From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.
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#religion #vintage illustration #monk #giant hand #priest
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Another mysteriously glowing tree in the uncanny forest that spreads through old college yearbooks.  From Clarion's 1976 yearbook.
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#strange light #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #eek
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We agree that at those times one asks oneself what the hell one is doing here, further reading offers the hope of an answer.  From The Gateway, 1981.
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#reading #vintage photo #brick wall
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Leap twelve inches into the air and you actually travel a distance of four miles!"  From The Film Daily, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #relativity #einstein
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Yeshiva's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #1960s #vintage men #men #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Third Golden Rule Book, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #st. george #saint george
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #rabbit #bear
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#cat #sleeping #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fantastic Adventures, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #crystal ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #dance of death #living dead #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hypnotic indignation.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #indignation #woman #vintage woman
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November 17, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We would have used not an exclamation point to symbolize "risky" but rather an asterisk, which has "risk" in its very name.  From Right, Wrong, and Risky by Mark Davidson.
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#symbolism #ampersand
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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#evolution #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tongue of Time by William Harrison, 1857.
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#timepiece #clock #four o'clock #1850s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #pagoda #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 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 #full moon #lantern #tree
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Old News (permalink)
"Goldfish skin can be tanned for shoemaking."  A diabolical headline from Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#shoe #vintage headline #goldfish #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #energy fields #esoteric #psychic energy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #finger pointing #who me #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Voodoo?  Hex, no!  But girls keep fainting."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1976.
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#voodoo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mount Saint Joseph Yearbook 1956.

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

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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #musical animal #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that the best teaching addresses multiple learning styles.  From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #puppet
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #migraine #angst
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #demon #skull #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we assumed that this was a hyper-realistic art installation, the faces left unfinished perhaps as an artistic statement on how every man is a work in progress.  From Kent State's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #c.s. lewis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose Secrets by Barbara Webb Bourjaily, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cow jumped over the moon #musical animal #nursery rhyme #cat and the fiddle #flying cow
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November 16, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You knew that the Bible is the best-selling book in history, but did you know that the No Bible is the least sold book in history?  (Negative five billion No Bible sales to date, and subtracting by the day.)  From Bible or No Bible, 1904.
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#vintage book #book #bible
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Old News (permalink)
"Insane giant runs amuck."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#giant #vintage headline #headline #amok #amuck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #yarn ball
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Midway through this book, the reader must make a choice: believe in fairies or stop reading and leave the characters to seek their fortunes alone.  From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#fairy #note to reader #ultimatum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.  See One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #alphabet #letters #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Richmond Professional Institute's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mexico
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Old News (permalink)
That alien looks lika a black cat.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #cat #vintage headline #flying saucer #alien cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What a frightening copyright notice!  From The Haunters of the Silences by Charles George Douglas Roberts, 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 #wolf
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Love's Shadow, by Ada Leverson:

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With a rather wooden face, high cheek-bones, a tall, thin figure, and no expression, Anne might have been any age; but she was not.
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From Murder Comes Back, by Harriette Ashbroo:
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"a hat that looked like a piece of spinach on toast"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Soviet Sputniks, 1958.  (Our restoration.)
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#vintage illustration #rocket #sputnik #satellite
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Ghosts from Pfeiffer's 1975 yearbook.
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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crane #fox #folk tale
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You'll have noticed the gem-like lens flares hovering in the street.  These are the treasures that night people seek but rarely find due to night blindness.  It takes a camera lens to see them.  From Salve Regina's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night #lens flare #streetlight
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #gas mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Rapid transit in ye olden times."  From Plain Talk, Oct. 25, 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 #witch #broomstick #orange moon #rapid transit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
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#vintage illustration #insect #fly
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's an enduring rhetorical question.  Materialized Apparitions: If Not Beings From Another Life, What Are They by Edward Augustus Brackett, 1908.
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#ghost #apparition #spiritualism #seance
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #darkness #night #window #staring into the depths
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November 15, 2021

Old News (permalink)
You knew that Mormonism documents Jesus' visit to North America ... but apparently Shakespeare visited, too, as we see in this headline from The Improvement Era, 1960.  There's ample precedent for making great personages locals, as in the ubiquitous "George Washington slept here" and "Abraham Lincoln slept here" signs all over the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.
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#shakespeare #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #sheep #frost giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You deserve a nice little nest egg so you can treat yourself soon.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
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#vintage illustration #gem #garnet
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Why sunshine follows rain."  From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #sun #iroquois #native america
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Barnes Readers by Herman Dressel, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #goat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Great news: "It is never too late to do justice to history."  From Dark Shadows episode 464.

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#history #dark shadows
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Pfeiffer's 1975 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #flying horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The House of Mystery.  From Wesleyan College (Macon GA)'s 1916 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sororities #house of mystery
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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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Old News (permalink)
"UFOs leave a trail of aftershave."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1979.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She's lying atop her blanket statement.  From The Film Daily, 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 #sexism #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rend Lake's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #carousel #merry-go-round #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There might be a good reason for that -- "I have memories as though I were a thousand years old."  From Salve Regina's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reincarnation #memory #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio College of Dental Surgery's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A clown arrives for tea.  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #clown
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November 14, 2021

The Right Word (permalink)
The hidden meanings of words, revealed by the "Mantong" key rediscovered in 1943 by Richard Shaver.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #mantong
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #leaf #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Then too Father Galosh was fond of strawberries."  From Mother Goose Secrets by Barbara Webb Bourjaily, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #strawberries
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Evansville's 1938 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #flowers #vintage man #man #stood up
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Old News (permalink)
"Close your eyes and stare at your memories."  From Amazing Science Fiction, 1973.
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#memory #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tag yourself.  We invariably hide behind umbrellas, but we're ready to try an oatsack.  From the University of Montana's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #1920s #faceless #no face #hiding #timid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Doesn't a good host make you even forget you're yourself?"  From Weird Tales, 1948.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #crow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fantastic Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories, 1972 (courtesy of Archive.org; our restoration, as per usual).
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #science fiction #outer space
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Surely you can see it, too -- that swing is a time travel device in itself.  From Wesleyan College (Macon GA)'s 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #swing #yearbook #tree
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Old News (permalink)
We love it when additional eeriness is imparted by poor scanning methods.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #alien abduction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #earth #war #lightning #card game #on top of the world
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1982.
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#disgusting #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Is this one of the "engines" behind the occult power of old yearbooks?  Explanations: How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
From Mount Wachusett's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arrows #gyroscope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some folks already know that scythes aren't sharpened by grinding but rather by hammering.  It makes for a jagged cutting edge and hardens the metal.  From an undated Marugg tool catalog.
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#vintage illustration #scythe #blade
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger's Moll, by Simon Brett:

***
"Next time you see him, you might suddenly realize you'd just got your mitten-strings tangled, and the flipmadoodles might drop off your eyes and you might realize that you love the old pongler after all."

[I believe Blotto uses "flipmadoodles" at least one other time in this book, and if I'm not mistaken he seems to use it indiscriminately in place of whatever word he can't come up with. However, I note that in this instance, it's possibly rather apt, because I imagine the scales that fall from one's eyes might sort of "flip" down, sort of how I imagine blinders being flippable.]

***
Her much-vaunted brainbox wasn't living up to its vaunts.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Years of Forgetting by Lindsay Russell, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #murder #gun #priest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1874.  
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#vintage illustration #hot air balloon
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November 13, 2021

The Right Word (permalink)
If you detect sequins over your eyebrows, it's likely the "kreptactic light sequentials" combined with atmospheric conditions.  Isn't science wonderful?  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 3, episode 9. 
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#science #i dream of jeannie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage magazine
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not dream of academicians tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We've had uneasy nights' sleep in beds like these.  From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 house #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #mushroom people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Fortune Teller."  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#fortune teller #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ace of spaces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From For Men Only, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #chair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #daydream
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Old News (permalink)
Tale as old as time: "The quest ends amid danger and bafflement."  The context is Bigfoot.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline #bafflement
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You knew it was unlucky to walk under ladders, but if you're a sheet ghost then it's actually lucky.  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1969 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #ladder #unlucky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bay Path's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ocean #cliff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 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 #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #castle #stairway
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1911 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #damned
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Old News (permalink)
Finally, a headline with integrity, even if it (as per usual) has nothing to do with its article.  From The Gateway, 1971.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A sign in the window: "Baby wanted."  That's much more concise than the famous six-word story popularly attributed to Hemingway, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."  From There Really Is a Father Christmas by Douglas Flintan, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #window #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death—seem ever to hover on the horizon.  Surely it does not look like a world that is a protégé of a loving, powerful God."  From Together, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #end of the world #apocalypse #end of days #four horsemen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #lamb
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Old News (permalink)
"Please, may we enjoy ourselves?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage headline #headline #enjoy
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November 12, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Muttering cautiously, 'All right.'"  From The Girl's Own Paper, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woman #vintage woman
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Always Remember (permalink)
"And don't run round the fairy ring in the wrong direction -- Wid[d]ershins -- the opposte way to the sun.  It is ever so dangerous!  Don't forget this."  From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#fairies #fairy ring #advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Frost Giant.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #giant #jack frost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Why waters laugh and shout when winds blow."  From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #wind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #jester
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Old News (permalink)
"I thought I might have gone to heaven."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #aliens #headline #alien abduction
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Peace College's 1984 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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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 #dragon #sea monster
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We used to drive an Ouch.  It was an uncomfortable ride, but the trunk space!  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #1960s #vintage car #vintage automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A voodoo doll from Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #occult #horror #voodoo doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #makeup
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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.
58724 57076
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#vintage illustration #demon #birdcage #rooftop #gargoyle #caged #spades #don't jump #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An illustration by Malcolm Aaron for North Carolina Agricultural and Technical's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rabbit man #rabbit headed
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Old News (permalink)
"Author finds women difficult."  From The Gateway, 1976.
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#vintage headline #headline
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
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#vintage illustration #shackles #break the chain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pfeiffer's 1985 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #coat hanger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Tarot Tower in the wild.  From The Riddle of the Mysterious Light by Mary & Thomas Hanshew, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tarot #tower
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From All Is Vanity, by Josephine Bell:

***
"Scientists over thirty-five are allowed to develop eccentricities."
"Not unless they are bald or at least have grey hairs."

***
"I've just remembered that May 6th is my great-aunt Clemency's birthday."

[That snippet turned out to be a disappointment. You see, originally the protagonist sees the date May 6 on an old photograph, and it rings a bell--we might infer it has significance for the mystery. Here, later on, he realizes why the date was familiar, and I hoped that the birthday of a great-aunt with a slightly silly name was just a comical red herring. I hoped it was a one-off, and we'd hear no more about the birthday or Great-Aunt C. Alas, it turns out in the end that Aunt Clemency and her birthday do have relevance to the plot, and the protagonist even has a conversation with her (though at least it's on the phone, so we don't actually see or hear her; thank goodness someone called Great-Aunt Clemency remains an offstage character!).]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Walking the lamb.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #lamb #peace angel #pet walker
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November 11, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
A musically gifted lobster from Radio Guide, 1937.  (The "Rock Lobster" that the B52's sang about?)
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#vintage illustration #musical animal #lobster #1930s #vintage magazine #magazine #rock lobster
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How to tighten your belly while eating.  From Chatterbox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #yoga #eating #berries
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.
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#polar bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #bird #bamboo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fire #fireplace #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cat Walk by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Owlglass, written and illustrated by Will Nickless.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #goat #scissors #1920s #running with scissors
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The ghost glided more swiftly."  From The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, 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 #ghost
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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 #anthropomorphism #mouse #eek #tiny lion #art
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A firing squad from UNC's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #firing squad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #walking through walls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cyclops #illustration #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Strength, determination ... chickens?"  From Northeastern's 1976 yearbook.  See Secrets of Chicken Whispering.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #chicken #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #hallowe'en #costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #antlers #horned man
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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 #devil #faces in things #red pepper
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November 10, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cowboy #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary.  Can you guess which entry this illustration is from?
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#rabbit #bunny #carrot #vegetable people #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy Chums in the Forest by Wilmer M. Ely, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #wild animals #up a tree #boar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From St. Procopius' 1963 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #political cartoon #politician
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Old News (permalink)
A great affirmation that anecdotal evidence counts as evidence: "If the lady says she saw a flying saucer, then she saw a flying saucer."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Land of Up by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by Neely McCoy, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #celestial #stars #star goddess #juggling #on top of the world #cosmic
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window
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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 #serpent #snake #poison #illustration #venom #poisonous #snake venom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 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 #wizard #fairy tale #murder #knife
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Memphis State's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sleeping #asleep #mascot #vintage man #man sleeping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A yearbook dedicated to Mickey Mouse.  From the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock tower #1960s #mickey mouse
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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 #gondola #banana
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We can attest: "It's not easy."  From Western Carolina's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #passed out #vintage man #sleeping man #collapsed #not easy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1985.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #books #crushed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #bow and arrow #japan #archer
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Bimbos of the Death Sun, by Sharyn McCrumb:

In a green turtleneck sweater and medallion, Richard Faber looked like a champagne bottle.

***

From All Other Things, by Charlotte Stein:

She tried to roll her eyes and missed.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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November 9, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One cat against two dogs chained together.  Which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #animal fight
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Old News (permalink)
"New Orleans a dirty hole."  From the Duluth Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline #headline #new orleans
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy-Folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bellerophon on the flying horse."  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 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 #mythology #pegasus #flying horse
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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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 #spirits #fairies #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing tree #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #top hat #tiny man #hat #the people could fly #winged hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
New math and old math, presumably.  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #mathematics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1965 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magnifying glass #eyes #1960s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Are you easily kidded!"  From The Film Daily, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #giant #giant foot #tiny man #kicked #kidded #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blue Planet Project: Alien Technical Research - 25 (undated).
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do wake up, you heavy things!"  From Alice in Wonderland, A Dramatization by Alice Gerstenberg, 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 #alice in wonderland #queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #rooster
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Hypnptic catalepsy.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis #catalepsy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sewing
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Old News (permalink)
"Less hell and more beans."  From Hearst's, 1921.
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#hell #vintage headline #headline #beans
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Miss Hargreaves, by Frank Baker:

[This book boasts a postscript from the future! The body of the first-person narrator's chronicle is dated 1939-1940, and it recounts experiences that took place in 1939.  Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker was indeed published in 1940; but it included a postscript by the narrator written later in life, which is dated "1965."]


***
No doubt about it. I was precariously poised on the Spur of the Moment.

***
"What are trousers compared to truth?"

***
"The way she looked me up and down through those what-d'you-call-'ems."

***
"Remember you have to live up to a nine-foot hat and be brave."

***
Wadge, the other tenor, a pleasant fellow who has a habit of putting in aspirates in unlikely places (he has a favourite solo in which he sings "Thou crownest the h-year!") turned and patted me on the back. "A faithful female friend is very nice for a h-young man," he said.

***
"It has often occurred to me," she said a little breathlessly, "that since there exists a beetle who resembles a stag, there may possibly exist a stag who resembles a beetle."

***
"We're here to-day gone to-morrow and some say to-morrow never comes, so perhaps we don't go."

***
"Janus lost the three-thirty," he said. "Backed him both ways, my boy. Had to with a name like that. What did Janus have--two ears or two elbows, something."

***
"A ghost couldn't play a harp as well as she does," he said.

***
Uncle Grosvenor! I'll Uncle Grosvenor you!"

***
"You and I couldn't write like that, not even if we kept ten white owls in our bathrooms."
***

We saw an avaricious-looking brass fowl with one eye cocked sideways as though it feared somebody were going to bag the Bible—or perhaps as though it hoped somebody were going to.

***
I read it a dozen more times, held it up to the light, shook it, smelt it, and finally spilt some tea over it.

***
"Parrots are intelligent birds," said father. "Knew one once that could recite a Shakespeare sonnet. All except the last line."
"Oh well," said mother, "I certainly don't want a harp and a parrot in the house."

***
Nothing ever surprises father. He can’t even surprise himself.

***
Sir Hugh Allan, who once attended Evensong, mistook him for a bassoon.

***
“Wait till we’re through the lock.”
If you’ve got anything to say, it might as well be said in a lock as out of it, I thought.

***
I reckon that if I could really bring myself to believe she didn’t exist—well, she wouldn’t exist. But that’s damned hard when you see her sitting in the Bishop’s Throne with a fifteen-inch hat.”

***
“Swans are funny creatures. I wouldn’t trust a swan with a five-pound note. No, I wouldn’t.”

***
She doesn’t understand the sort of things father and I talk about. Not that we understand them ourselves, as a matter of fact.

***
It wasn’t at all an easy question to answer. If I had it in an examination, I don’t suppose I should be able to fill up both sides of the paper.

***
She was asked to open a Conservative bazaar and she opened it damn well; I wandered in there after she had left and I had the strongest feeling that it was the best-opened bazaar I had ever been to. Not a bit of it was closed, you could see that.

***
Another matter brought her bang into the middle of Cornford, between the “n” and the “f” as you might say.

***
“Here, old boy, don’t go on like this.”
“I will go on like this.”
But instead of going on like that, I turned suddenly and went out of the bar.

***
"/Atalanta in Calydon/ was written entirely with arrows, Miss Hargreaves. He'd take the manuscript, pin it to the board, and fire at it. Any words that the arrows pierced, he'd take out."

***
Canon Auty, it was said, had first met his wife on a mountain in Switzerland, where he found her presiding over an impending avalanche.

***
Canon Auty... stroked his beard reflectively as though there, and only there, could a good time be found.
***
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We're fairly certain that a song without words is called music.  Previously, we saw seven cats in a tree singing a song without words.  From The Song Without Words, 1856.
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#music #no words #no lyrics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #aesop
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November 8, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Don't argue; eat pineapple."  From Cavalcade, 1943.
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#vintage ad #advice #pineapple #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #remote viewing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's levitating bottle seen from a hot air balloon is from Chatterbox, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless #hot air balloon #bottle
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Unicorns (permalink)
From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1947 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #cat people #cat man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #coffin #living dead #buried alive #let me out
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"No one pays attention."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#unconscious #vintage headline #headline #inattentive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The unseen witness."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 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 #grotesque #angel #church art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From American University's 1971 yearbook.
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#owl #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #robot #chess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #cloud
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Washington's 2000 yearbook.

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#angel #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #bird
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Old News (permalink)
"More space, more books."  From Memphis State's 1969 yearbook.
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#books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johnson C. Smith's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Giant rock head gets offended if you wear a hard hat, and I'm like, "Really?"  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #rock monster #rock face
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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 #science fiction #space travel #interstellar travel #bubble
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November 7, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #living toy #yarn doll
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"You may find it hard to believe that a yellow-billed cuckoo and a giant crop of red onions are part of [the] great plan."
McBroom the Rainmaker by Sid Fleischman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack and the Bean-Stalk by Hallam Tennyson and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #giant #jack and the beanstalk
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Old News (permalink)
"Woman makes use of 'advanced intuition.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#intuition #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Wonderland, A Dramatization by Alice Gerstenberg, 1915.
(We keep noticing that women who write books based upon Alice in Wonderland are often named "Alice.")
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #humpty dumpty #egg people
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Old News (permalink)
"They can't make me behave."  From Modern Screen, 1952.
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#misbehavior #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #vintage yearbook #underworld #yearbook #fraternities #secret society #1920s #charon #styx #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Grimace, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration #ogre #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Brevard's 1975 yearbook.

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#silhouette #full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #ship #lobster
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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 #world #emblem #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #eye of god #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky #holy book #eye in triangle #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rice's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dungeon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #torture chamber #the rack
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mystery #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Precursors (permalink)
Eleven years before Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall."  From Assumption College's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #shadow #vintage yearbook #brick wall #another brick in the wall #pink floyd
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)






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#time #dark shadows
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Playthings and Parodies, by Barry Pain:

***
One of them was a young woman; she wore a green hat. It has nothing to do with the story or anything else, and that is why I mention it. I am a Russian realist, and in a fair way of business. Admire, and pass on.

***
It elevates the soul. That is why music is so dangerous and acts at times in so peculiar a manner. If one's soul is elevated too far...if one's soul passes out of one's reach, one has to get along without it until it comes down again.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #snow #elk #skiing
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Precursors (permalink)
With the checker-pattern and lapels, we'd like to call this a precursor to an album by the band The Specials.  From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.the specials
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #the specials
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Trying to escape wolves by ice skates.  From Chatterbox, 1874.  
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack #ice skating
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November 6, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#clockwork music #neons gone mad #michael ash sharbaugh
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Three Men and a Baby, from nearly 70 years earlier in Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #baby #crib
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The state bed of George IV, designed by Hepplewaite.  Carved mahogany, brass inlay and applied ornaments."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Phantasie handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A "splitting chicken headache."  From Fantastic Adventures, 1945.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #transformation #mirror #rooster #headache #poultry #chicken people #rooster man #chicken man
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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 #mannequin #husband
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1980.
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#evil #vintage headline #headline #teaching
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ya-Hoo, 1954.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake charmer #gas station
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We explode."  From Hearst's, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #explosion #cornucopia #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brains and How to Get Them by Christian D. Larson, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #brain #diagram
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This mildly warped photograph may trigger an altered state of consciousness.  From Lehigh's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #distortion #warped
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The robot's psychiatrist is telling him he has a screw loose.  From Nebelspalter, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #automaton #robot #psychiatrist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Do not throw rocks at this sign."  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #sign
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
We initially assumed this was a "Which one doesn't belong with the others?" puzzle, and we got it wrong.  Then we realized it wasn't a puzzle at all.  From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #faces #alien
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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 #peace #porcupine #world peace #world strife #peace process #astral projection #astral travel #out of body #peace angel #spirit body #spirit self #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockingham Community College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #eyeglasses #costume #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #gun #vintage hollywood #illustration #hollywood #ad
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November 5, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#gambling #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
'How long will winter hang around."  Early 1960s postcard.  Via UpNorthMemories.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#snowman #vintage photo #gallows #winter #hanged man #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #angel #halo #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Camera catches 'glimpse' of flying saucerman."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ufo #spaceman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Will we keep our place in the world?"  From Duke's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand of god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #elephant #big and small #fear of bugs
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Piedmont's 1933 yearbook.
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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 #pirate ship #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirates #jolly roger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imps #vintage magic #magic
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Today's glamour shot of a telephone is from Atlantic Christian's 1985 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telephone #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1975.
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#stupidity #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun with Monsters by Richard Cummings.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #halloween #faces #before and after #horned man #making faces
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dover One, by Joyce Porter:

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She groped behind her for a chair and collapsed into it, still staring at Dover like a person anxious not to miss whatever's going to happen next on TV.

***
"I love people," she had declared in one of her books, "people are my meat and drink!" It was to be hoped that Dover wouldn't give her indigestion.

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"It's no good going round with an open mind like a vacuum cleaner because all you'll finish up with is..." Dover paused to work this one out "...is fluff!" he concluded triumphantly.

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"I don't think we'd better discuss it on the phone, sir, the local exchange is bound to be listening in."
"Well, of all the blooming cheek!" crackled an outraged female voice, and there was a loud click.

***
At Christmas-time some children have the distressing habit of blowing up toy balloons to their fullest extent and then releasing them so that the air rushes out of the mouthpiece and the rapidly deflating balloon shoots around dementedly all over the place. This is how Dover habitually rose to a crisis, with the same undignified lack of control and pretty much the same kind of noise.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #leaping #levitation #the people could fly #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goats by Frank Wright Noxon, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #goat #mountain goat
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Old News (permalink)
That horrible feeling of choking on a doughnut and nobody helping because they assume you're a maniac.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#doughnut #donut #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Virginia Polytechnic Institute's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #discus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Well--speak of the devil--!"  From Purple Parrot, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #magick #occult #cauldron
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monster #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #cat
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November 4, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #freezepop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's cat washing a jackdaw is from Chatterbox, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #crow #jackdaw #vintage magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #moose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if your brush is big but your canvas is tiny.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #artist #paintbrush
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #administration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pilot Bails Out, written and illustrated by Don Blanding, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #aurora borealis #1940s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #turkey #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fantastic Adventures, 1943.  You may recall the heartbreaking message we received from the T-Rex in the California desert.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Sunrise: by the mountain way, an old man musing sat; a life well spent, the years --."  From the Carthage yearbook of 1916.
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#vintage illustration #beard #sunrise #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, July 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 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 #serpent #occult #snake #eye of god #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Brevard's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #face mask #faceless #no face #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #alien #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Trinity Christian's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #levitation #vintage yearbook #weightless
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage ad #woman #vintage woman #despondent #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards
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Old News (permalink)
From Weird Trips, 1974.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbit #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil
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November 3, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 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 #witch #fairy tale #goat #rowboat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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This episode's monologue is rooted in Carol A. Newsom's "Selective Recall and Ghost Memories: Two Aspects of Cultural Memory in the Hebrew Bible," from Memory and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (2014).
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #picture puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #house #home
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad from If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #beard #hair dye #indigo #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's crying sausage is from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #crying #sausage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It all came true."  From The Film Daily, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fairy #money #make a wish #1940s #wishing spell #wishing fairy #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The transparent apple is pictured, but one sees right through it.  From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome, 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A simulated photo of the shining silver man who stalks the Forest Acres area.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 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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#ufo #alien #spaceman #tin foil hat #silver man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A job interview from Nebelspalter, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #yoga #job interview
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Anderson's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two ways to find a cosmic crab.  From Star Lore of All Ages by William Tyler Olcott, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #crab #cancer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #chariot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 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 #grotesque #gargoyle #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Surrounded by danger, and a monkey is catching the action on film.  From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #wild animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
While not as glamorous as a mop wig, we do applaud the wearing of pom-poms.  [You may recall that our very own mop wig has been ranked in the top 5 of mop wig looks through history, but we're too modest to quote that; no one dons a mop wig to put on airs].  From Trinity 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 #wig #vintage men #pom-pom #smiling men #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Presences by Peter Taylor.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that sometimes what's holding us back isn't a lack of courage but a lack of information.  That doesn't really apply to this photo from Wesleyan College’s 1978 yearbook.

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

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#monster #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The bull rushed at the mountain with all his force."  From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 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 #buffalo #mountain
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat
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November 2, 2021

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The looming temptation to lead a checkered life.  From the University of Chicago's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #vintage men #men #check pattern #checkered
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Old News (permalink)
Still such an important cause: "Baths for woodsmen."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#woodsman #lumberjack #vintage headline #bathing #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Many thanks for your advice, dear lion."  From The Fables of Aesop, 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 #fable #goat #lion #aesop #advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here are a couple of saintly relics, just in case.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #lucky charm #relic #saunt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goose #smart animal #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #echo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prediction Machines (2018).
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#prediction #eyes #artificial intelligence
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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 Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #goddess #celestial #star goddess #worship #offerings #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human faced #rooster costume #rooster man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A halo of knowledge and wisdom, a ruler of rules.  From Henderson-Brown'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 #halo #yearbook #teacher
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that without administrators, little would happen.  From Mitchell's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Film buffs will already have recognized this as being an ad for Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby.  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #leopard #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 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 #vintage men #men #men holding hands
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Going Concern, by Catherine Aird:

***
[Vis-a-vis this book's firm of solicitors: "Messrs Puckle, Puckle, and Nunnery"]
Amelia's mind had gone off at a complete tangent, trying to work out however many Puckles there must be in the firm. The old saw about thrift came into her mind: "Many a mickle makes a muckle..." Could it be a case of many a client making a Puckle?

***
She struggled for the right words. She must say something that had no connection at all with Cock Robin.

***
Detective Inspector Sloan said nothing at all rather loudly.

***
Amelia used to describe her father as absentminded until Phoebe Plantin had explained that he wasn't absentminded at all, but single-minded, which was quite different but had the same effect.

***
"Shouldn't be surprised," said Phoebe Plantin, who had ceased to be surprised long ago.

***
Miller...was...thin as a yard of rainwater.
[I guess a yard of rainwater is even thinner than a yard of ale, because ale is thicker than water. Btw, "thin as a yard of rainwater" appears to have no currency outside of this book.]

***
She was either too young or too old for the works of Evelyn Waugh.

***
"I dare say both companies are pretty big fish in your neck of the woods..."
"It's a small pond," conceded Sloan, who could mix a metaphor as well as the next man.

***
Mr Henryson looked up with the mild uninterest of the secondhand bookseller as Amelia entered.

***
"I think that they--whoever they might have been--can't have found what they were searching for at the Grange..."
"Whatever that might have been," said Leeyes, whose highly idiosyncratic approach to algebra had never--without argument--got past the point of letting a equal one thing and b another. He was a little better at allowing the letter x stand for the unknown quantity: but not much.

***
"Ah!"
Sloan couldn't remember the name of the man who had said "But me no buts" but he felt a considerable fellow-feeling towards him, and would have liked himself to have said "Ah me no ahs" to the superintendent but didn't think he should.
[Tangent: Back in the mid-1980s, I wrote a short story called "The 'Ah' Sound."]
***

[Bonus: An offstage character named Perpetua. She's long deceased, but I guess a name like that has indefinite staying power!]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From [Laurentian] Lambda, 1996.
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#insect #bug #bug off
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The animals refused to move before the approaching train."  From Chatterbox, 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 #train #locomotive #moose
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November 1, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #michael ash sharbaugh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's taming of a wild rocking horse is from The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 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 #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hot air balloon #bullhorn
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#vintage headline #headline #giving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #cliff dwellers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is what happens when characters haven't read The Tibetan Book of the Dead.  "How is it possible to die and then live again?"  From Dark Shadows episode 1096.
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#reincarnation #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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The Right Word (permalink)
"That books are friends has been often proved."  From Lessons in English by Arthur Lee, 1917.
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#books #sentence diagram
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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 #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #chronos #pursued
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's the fifth candle we always watch out for, too.  From Weird Tales, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #candle #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis' 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #wolfman #werewolf #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales from Story-Town by Mina Pearl Ashton and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #silhouette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan of the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #ape #tarzan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An old school posture tip: keep a folding chair behind you at all times.  From Wake Forest College's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chair #1900s #posture #woman #vintage woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm seeing three different analysts, three times a week.  Makes life rather difficult."  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 2, episode 9.
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#i dream of jeannie #psychiatrist
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