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November 30, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1890s #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king neptune #trident
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 1967.
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#mask #vintage photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pictures of the Chinese, Drawn by Themselves, by Robert Henry Cobbold, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #calligraphy #chinese
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #posture #woman #vintage woman
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The extreme perspective here may be used as a tool to facilitate time travel.  From Millsaps College's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tower of babel #biblical
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #snow sculpture
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
Before television, fireplaces offered the best entertainment.  From Moving Picture World, 1923.
[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fireplace #1920s
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Georgia Military College's 1921 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Father Bunny and His Birds by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Penny Ross, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #animal attack #bear #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ward-Belmont College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #hairdresser
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Today is almost over.  That calls for some champagne."  From Through the Seashell I Heard the Radios of the Moon by Brian Edwards, 2019.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Muskingum College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #page
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Working to beat the devil."  From Wake Forest College's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#religion #vintage illustration #preacher #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's the chimpanzee-painted cover of the Mad Magazine they're reading.  From Glenville State College's 1972 yearbook.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1921.
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November 29, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You knew some books are for the birds, but here's one that's dedicated to hens, ducks, and geese.  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #duck #book dedication #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's pocket watch-stealing rat is from St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #rat #illustration #watch
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Old News (permalink)
"Bees welcome the sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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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 #constellations
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
How high is up? How far forward is back? How fast is speed? How long is time? How far east is west?  From Moving Picture World, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sun #earth #relativity #einstein #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sandman's Forest by Louis Dodge and illustrated by Paul Bransom, 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 #endpapers #animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #eagle #nest #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telescope #1920s #birdwatching
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chinese #parasol #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tin foil hats may complement many looks.  From Tulane's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #tin foil hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dancing #michael jackson
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ward-Belmont College's 1920 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tatooed Mouse, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #tattoo #mouse #vintage magazine #1970s #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #hooded figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 126.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #clown #fairy door #oz #hollow tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilson College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#swimming pool #vintage yearbook #flooded #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #potted plant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #view
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November 28, 2023

The Right Word (permalink)
"'Orthodox' is a grandiloquent word."  From The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith & Weedon Grossmith, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #1890s #illustration #moustache #orthodox
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Old News (permalink)
"Does your cake need frosting?  Some people might go so far as to say, 'The frosting makes the cake.'"  From The Instructor, 1956.
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#vintage headline #cake #headline #icing #frosting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"They don't speak.  Who's to blame?"  From Bucknell University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The headline says that David takes a swim, but the caption reveals that David couldn't swim.  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1939
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#vintage illustration #swimming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sometimes it seems as if it must be fairyland all around, only I'm deaf."  From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #butterfly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1927 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #dervish
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1967 yearbook.
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#scarecrow #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fiddling Cowboy by Adolph Regli.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bull #cowboy #steer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #greek #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#airplane #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1905 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog to bring back turrets.  From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Underwater radio.  From Radiorario, 1926.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ward-Belmont College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All by Edgar Dubs Shimer and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1920.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dragonfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Typical fog bow."  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #rainbow #fog #diagram
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Angel in the House, by Eden Phillpotts and Basil Macdonald Hastings:

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"His poor, dead mother always sent her luggage in advance. He takes after her."

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"This [painting] is called 'Thoughts on passing a doubtful cheque for two pounds.'"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Serapina by Anne White and illustrated by Tony Palazzo.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #mice #cat and mouse
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November 27, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #illustration #racoon
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Old News (permalink)
"Hole in the street and what is happening down there."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#hole #vintage headline #headline #pothole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1890s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Father Bunny and His Birds by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Penny Ross, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #boat #arctic #iceberg #polar
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Old News (permalink)
"Let's live with reality."  From The Gateway, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline
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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 #sphere #fantastical #vulture #glowing #godlike
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #laughter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Somewhat spookily, the dark side of the earth reads transparent books.  From Our Global Village by Angela Labarca.
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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #reading #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the National College of Education's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Egypt of the Past by Erasmus Wilson, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #fox #fennec
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #walking the dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #dream #candle #1940s #goodnight #pleasant dream
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford College's 1978 yearbook.

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#wolfman #werewolf #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"Enough has been said; enough has been heard."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1934.
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#enough is enough #vintage headline #enough already #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duck #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #drinking #alcohol #teetotalism #1960s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Estherian and Lanier Literary Societies of Anderson College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Enveloped by a ghostly secret."  From Dark Shadows episode 1085.
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#haunted house #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilson College's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horns #antlers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #skull face #pirate #vintage magazine #magazine
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November 26, 2023

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

We're honored to have been featured on Eli Ro's podcast:

I have a book on Astragalomancy that I really like, Astragalomancy: A Loaded Guide: Intriguing Readings of 21 Discrete Dice Throws by Craig Conley and it’s a whole lot of history and some filler, to be honest, but it’s well-written and easy to follow and it is a straightforward guide to dice reading or bone reading. But there’s a bit in there that gives a really good overview ...

There is perhaps no better way to conjure up the spirit of great antiquity than to roll dice. The very ancient game of throwing knucklebones dates back to the Trojan War, if we are to take Sophocles’ word. The original knucklebone was technically a bone in a sheep’s ankle, the astragalus, hence divination by astragalomancy. The great Greek philosopher Plato traced dice even farther back, to the ibis-headed Egyptian god Thoth, inventor of magic and writing and science, divine arbitrator, judge of the dead, and maintainer of the universe. Plato himself played dice not only with cubes but also tetrahedrons, octahedrons, dodecahedrons, and icosahedrons-the famous “Platonic solids” of geometry. 

Plato said, “God geometrizes,” and that’s a key to why dice have always been associated with divination--the geometric solids, as building blocks of the universe, embody truths on higher planes. Over the centuries, several rules have been associated with throwing dice for divination. However, it is entirely a matter of personal choice whether these are followed or ignored. Many of these rules are arbitrary and were probably developed to add mystery and significance to divination by dice. Do not be afraid to develop your own guidelines, nor to be completely spontaneous, using the dice in different ways according to your instincts at the time. Trusting your instincts is the best way to get a good reading.

In other words, we can go through some common interpretations for certain dice throws and formations, but the more we do it, the more we can and should begin to interpret things using our own intuition and experiences. And that’s the truth for absolutely every kind of divination that we will ever do. The guidelines are just that; they’re guides. They are not the law. Our own sixth sense is always the authority, we should always trust our instincts when it conflicts with the so-called rules. 

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#divination #dice #fortune telling #astragalomancy #dice divination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #antelope #oryx
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Old News (permalink)
"'Human ostrich' wedded.  Wife fell in love when she saw him eat tacks."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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#vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A Lost Shadow.  Eric and his little Shadow went out walking in the Meadow.  Little Shadow got away—haven't seen him since that day."  From Eric's Book of Beasts by David Starr Jordan, 1912.
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#shadow #poem
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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 #snake #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Minerva, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
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#vintage illustration #deity #minerva
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #dog #snow #winter #lantern
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #facial hair #mustache #men's hair
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"He was a lover of excitement."  From The Photo-Play Journal, 1917.
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#vintage hollywood #vintage men #men #curtains #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State University's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #alcohol #1970s #bottle #giant bottle #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #music #music lover #record album #record collector
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1984 yearbook.

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#fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Asking a clown to tea (but will the man in his bed feel left out?)  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#clown #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fireplace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #knitting #living toy #yarn doll #yarn ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Milwaukee Downer College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ice cream #materialism #nov. 26
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Old News (permalink)
"What is 'eating' on him?"  From The Instructor, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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November 25, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's a lucky horseshoe, if it might come in handy.  From Hizzoner the Mayor by Joel Sayre, 1933.
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#horseshoe #vintage book #book #lucky horseshoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #bees #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #crow #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A pink and mauve bedroom that is a honey."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #interior design #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Me?  Afraid of offending?  Not any more."  From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #no offense #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Take it easy with some "easy listening."  From Take It Easy.
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#vintage illustration #take it easy #radio #rocking chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The House That Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #chicken
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sorceress of Rome by Nathan Gallizier and illustrated by The Kinneys, 1907.
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#bat #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Our eye went to the lamp genie first thing (and stayed there).  From The Gateway, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #genie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #hand #thumb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Simmons College's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny woman #hat box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wind Wagon by David Cory and illustrated by P. H. Webb, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #boar #tusks
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Old News (permalink)
"From the sublime to the ridiculous."  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.
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#hand lettering #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The cat that guided her life with a psychic understanding.  From Picture Show, 1920.
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#cat #1920s #psychic #vintage hollywood #psychic cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1984 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #dancing #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #statue #japan #buddha
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower
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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 #skull #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The frivolous you."  From Wheaton College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #beauty salon
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"You see, every day is Sunday.  The calendar has stopped."  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 2, episode 2.
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#i dream of jeannie #time stopped #temporal anomaly #time warp #sunday
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November 24, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiger #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#haunted #prof. oddfellow #haunted toy #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1968.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hyena
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #musician #cymbals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #priestess #vintage yearbook #dancing #pagan #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Spiritual time change."  From the rare Strange Journey: The Vision Life of a Psychic Indian Woman by Louise Lone Dog.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #psychic #time change #visionary
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #skull #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #1960s #faceless #no face #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #bird man #rooster man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Pictures should be seen -- not felt [in the eyes]."  From Moving Picture World, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #eyes #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford College's 1978 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #horoscope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Quiet proof ink."  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ink
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"What a dream!  The worst yet!"  From The End of Dreams by Wood Levette Wilson and illustrated by A. G. Learned, 1909.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #dream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My Laughing Philosopher, by Eden Phillpotts:

[I didn't stay the course with this book from 1896, though it began promisingly with a bronze bust that, Darrin-and-Larry-style, surprises the protagonist when it suddenly begins speaking. Because the bust's first utterance (not counting a sneeze) is a criticism of the protag, the latter's first reaction is to peevishly snap at the bust--so that his realizing the colossal uncanniness of the fact that the bust has spoken at all comes as a delayed double-take. Then the bust goes on at length about his own venerable history, to which the protag replies, "Don't make so much noise...or you'll wake my wife." (:v>]
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Evil thoughts lead only ... One Way; Do Not Enter[tain]."  From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#sign #one way
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I dreaded to sit down.  Yet standing or reclining gave me no relief!"  From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #pain #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"O-o-o-o-h what a deep hole."  From David Lipscomb College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hole #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 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 #fairy #1920s #illustration
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November 23, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"The creeping plague that may cover a house."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"On this night, a kind of madness prevails."  From Dark Shadows episiode 364.
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#night #madness #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"The five r's of repentance."  From The Instructor, 1961.  [Spoiler: the five r's are: recognition, remorse, resolution, restitution, reformation.]
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#vintage headline #letter r #repentance #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A Thanksgiving ghost."  From St. Nicholas, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #turkey #turkey ghost #ghost turkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #ornate capital #vintage yearbook #yearbook #letter o
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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 #serpent #constellation #ophiuchus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Picture Show Annual, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #boxing kangaroo #boxing #kangaroo #comic panel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends by Marshall Saunders and illustrated by Diantha Horne Marlowe, 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 #cat #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bryson's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #clouds #yearbook #tree #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #waterspout #rowboat #end of the rainbow
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Old News (permalink)
"My face leads a double life."  From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#two faces #two-faced #vintage headline #headline #double life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#mouse #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Why is a what?  If so, which?"  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #alice in wonderland
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Charity Hospital's School of Nursing's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"To-night governs to-morrow."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1938.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sleep #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #harp #greek #lyre #musician
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bookworm #illustration
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November 22, 2023

Old News (permalink)
We're here for the headline, but the whole story is interesting.  "Fascinated by the snakes.  Little girl had to be taken from a circus tent."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#snake charmer #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egypt #crocodile #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #pipe smoker #dandy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Don't be fat!  I will help you!"  From Picture Show, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #weight loss #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chatham College's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #statue #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"A face at the window."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #horror #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #living toy #toy #jock horner #jack horner
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage ad #pain #1930s #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Jerome's College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rude awakening
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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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 #vintage diagram #diagram #light wheel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wabash College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #panther #pet walker
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #processional #oz
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Old News (permalink)
"Happiness is so good."  From Goshen College's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #happiness #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's rocking horse painter 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 #painter #rocking horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #illustration #leg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ruins #1930s #endpapers #illustration #columns
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pig #vintage magazine #magazine
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November 21, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #bird #illustration #ink pen #pen #1950s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How Charlie made Topsy love him."  From Charlie and His Kitten Topsy, written and illustrated by Helen Hill and Violet Maxwell, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #illustration #kitten
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Alys-All-Alone by Una Macdonald, 1911.
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#list #good cheer
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Old News (permalink)
The word "flopperooee" appears to be exclusive to this newspaper, and it even made the banner headline.  From The Gateway, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click 7 times to see more views through the magic window.
From Lasell Junior College's 1934 yearbook.

From Lasell Junior College's 1934 yearbook

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #window #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alchemy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #pen
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not gaze upon a mummy in your dreams 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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#mummy #dream #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #chicken #cat in the hat #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #migration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage ad #1930s #blemishes #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marriage #wedlock #funeral #matrimony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #native american #will-o'-the-wisp
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Snippets from The Idler, May 1892:

***
[Israel Zangwill, in the midst of parodying Oscar Wilde with a string of paradoxical assertions, culminates thus:]
"Vice is the only perfect form of virtue, and virtue——Easy there! Steady! Avast! Belay! Which!"
[Note the double em dash he used, btw.]

***
I have heard much concerning the tuneful cry of the gondolier....My gondolier was extremely taciturn, however.
***

[As for the attachments...it's parrots all the way down.]
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Old News (permalink)
Our memories are warnings.
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#memory #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Timidity is to vanish."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilson College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.
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#vintage illustration #mice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bird #illustration
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November 20, 2023

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #decapitated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Missouri Southern State University'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 #tree #mountain #path
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #timepiece #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #knife #watch #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #night sky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State Teachers College's 1934 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #carousel #merry-go-round #carnival
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends by Marshall Saunders and illustrated by Diantha Horne Marlowe, 1913.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #humor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #slapstick #pie in the face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #bear #ursa minor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We were surprised to encounter aura photograhy in Kansas State's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#aura #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aura photography #auric field
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Old News (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage headline #headline #chivalry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #up a tree
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 658.
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#dark shadows #madness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying
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Old News (permalink)
"Mink-covered telephones were the last straw."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#telephone #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilson College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #turkey #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #illustration #vegetable people #vegetable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #money #treasure #cave #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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#vintage illustration #satyr #pan #1920s #faun #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles.  From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times, written and illustrated by Marjorie & C. H. B. Quennell, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #boar
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November 19, 2023

Precursors (permalink)
Forty years before The Partridge Family (1970 sitcom) there was *a* partridge family in Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #bird #partridge #illustration #partridge family
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Precursors (permalink)

A year before How to Live Like Your Cat, there was our own How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lehigh Review, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #8 ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #aesop
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Old News (permalink)
Q: "Remember when you used to wear your hair short?"
A: Yep, it seems like only yesterday.
From The Gateway, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose In Silhouettes by Katherine Gough Buffum, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #spider web #mother goose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Three Margarets by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Ethelred B. Barry, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #cuban
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spiral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #map #bridge #1920s #island
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1951 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Music's debt to cats."  From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #musical animal #singing animal #singing cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State University of New York College at Oneonta's 1975 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#uncle sam #vintage illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
A middle finger to a sun dial.  From Ball State University's 1937 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #vintage men #men #middle finger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ominous cloud faces.  From The Instructor, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #ominous #faces in things #fishing #cloud #dark clouds
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Prude's Progress, by Jerome K. Jerome and Eden Phillpotts

[All I found here was a character called Mrs. Wheedles and a skull (think Yorick) called Mr. Tapley.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Irish Fairy Book by Alfred Perceval Graves and illustrated by George Denham, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dancing #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Is a peace prize an insult?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mosquito #yearbook #insect #bug #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #whale #dolphin #illustration #grampus #orca
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November 18, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English Activities Book Three by Hatfield, Lewis, Besig & Borchers (undated, c. 1938).
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #pickle #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #chased #rooster #illustration #dog and cat
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Old News (permalink)
"Alone in the storm.  Cries that received no answer."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #grammar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Emily Climbs by L. M. Montgomery, 1928.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She drags the coyote under the tree."  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #coyote
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #necromancy #buddhism #occult #sorcerer #tibetan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #knight #jousting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Denny and the Indian Magic by Lester Rountree.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #coyote #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #knight #sword #excalibur #king arthur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1988 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #escape #perspective #cage #tunnel
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A pound of butter, a dozen eggs, and oh yes ... send another coffin."  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #coffin #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Too much politics."  From Lebanon Valley College's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #politics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories of Big Animals by Lenore Elizabeth Mulets, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Watch your pulse!"  From The Film Daily, 1940.
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#vintage ad #pulse #heartbeat #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1970s
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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 #falling #wind #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We spotted this drawing on the last page of Concordia College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pyramids, Opposing Viewpoints by Michael O'Neal.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egypt #pyramid
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November 17, 2023

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's today's eye in the sky gazing upon the jam of the just.  From David Lipscomb College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #all-seeing eye #eye #eye in the sky #1930s #illustration #jam
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The totem animal of sentence diagrams would seem to be the dog.  Rex Barks by Phyllis Davenport and Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey.
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#dog #sentence diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Slosh—slosh—sluzzle—sluzzle-slap! came some soft wet object right into his face."  From "Slowboy and the Blue Goblins" by W. H. and S. W. Wallace, in The Children's Book, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #surreal #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magic fails."  From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894, reproduced in The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature by Boria Sax.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magic #mouse #hands #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bucknell University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare We Married An Englishman by Ruth and Helen Hoffman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #twins #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ape #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #human headed #bee #insect people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The floor disappeared."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #falling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Outlines of General History by Frank Moore Colby, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From More Bunkum, by Frank Richardson:






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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Grimace maker."  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 #making faces #church art #grimace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #closet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #birdcage #cat in a cage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ironing
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Brian detected this time warp in Solvang, California.
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#clock tower #temporal anomaly #solvang
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Awesome and terrible judgments that meant nothing a month later."  From Walla Walla College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rainbow String by Algernon Tassin and illustrated by Anna Richards Brewster, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage book #book
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November 16, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sachem, 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 #anthropomorphism #question mark #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #native american #elk #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Instructions For the Netherworld, The Orphic Gold Tablets by Alberto Bernabé Pajares, 2008. 
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#mystery #mysterious #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We don't know what to believe anymore: "Life begins at 8:30 a.m." and "Life begins at 8:30 p.m."  From the University of Toledo's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Missile, 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 #cloud #mountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Put a penny in the slot and hear me talk."  From Lebanon Valley College's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #automaton #penny #coin operated
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Sandman: His Kittycat Stories by Harry Whittier Frees, 1917.
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#anthropomorphism #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1948 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 #fireplace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #typewriter art #candle holder
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Milo Winter, 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 #crane #elves #bird #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long neck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #drunk #lamp post #inebriated
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I have lived so long expecting everyone to be able to do everything."  From Dark Shadows episode 495.
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#dark shadows #lowered expectations
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Devour time."  From North Texas State University's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonfire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #bear #balloon #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Nine millions with nothing to do."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1919.
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#cat #vintage photo #1910s #photo
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November 15, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Villa of an Egyptian nobleman."  From Ancient Times, A History of the Early World, Second Edition by James Henry Breasted, 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 #egyptian #architecture #illustration #floorplan
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #ghost #spooky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Alfred University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #starry night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winking owl #winking animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #doll #living toy #toy #living doll
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #piano #mouse #diagram #hummingbird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
See you at the freak party.  From Purdue University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #november #1910s #freak party #nov. 15
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 24.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dinosaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mirror #anthropomorphism #goose #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Want a butterfly on your ...?"  From Indiana University's 1977 yearbook.
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#butterfly #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tattoo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Easy Growth In Reading Workbook to Accompany I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Roy, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #squirrel #illustration #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #umbrella #vintage yearbook #yearbook #midnight #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Skyways by Charles Gilbert Hall, 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 #hot air balloon #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1900 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #1900s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #newspaper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of the many tools we use while preparing our posts.  From Assumption University's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage man #1950s #dial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustration by William Hart, for Stone Walls, History and Folklore, vol 19, no. 2.
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#vintage illustration #battlefield #standing stone #stone marker
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November 14, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Avoid making your escort look so disapprovingly at you."  From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #1940s #advice #illustration #escort
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book C by Donalda Dickie, 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 #king neptune #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Life in the silent pits.  While the cats are away the mice will play."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#mice #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Right Use of Will by Ceanne De Rohan.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #star #heart #symbol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Perhaps Uri Geller was in the room.  From Michigan Christian College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #nail #bent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 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 #fortune teller #crystal ball
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Spell of Egypt by Archie Bell, 1916.
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#sphinx #egypt #vintage photo #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bee #bumblebee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill Universty's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #law
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mad tea party #mad hatter #dormouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the  University of Tennessee, Knoxville's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #jewelry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #vintage man #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 #wolf
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Bunkum, by Frank Richardson:

[from the blurbs]
"The Whisker King" --/Vanity Fair/

***
[from the preface]
I have tried--and obviously with success--to induce you to believe that "Bunkum" is a society novel (with a strong whisker interest). [It's actually a collection of short pieces.]

***
the alleged end of the so-called last century

***
[from "The Inspector of Private Nuisances" (Doing the Math dept.)]
"It's sadder than Hamlet, fifty per cent sadder than Hamlet."
[The three attachments called "farce" are also from this story.]

***
[from "The Great Parrot Story"]
Mrs. Kirkby Wiske's parrot story was quite the leading parrot story of the week.
[Additional snippet from this story attached--and note how it leads us straight back to that other Richardson, Sir Ralph, and the parrot/palette business! (In the titular parrot story, it was the parrot who was credited with having the infallible palate for wine vintages.)]
***

[Bonus story titles]
"A Gamble in Whiskers"
"The Man with One Whisker"

 

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Old News (permalink)
From Boarding the Ship of Death by Samuel A. Eisenstein, 1974.
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#death #death ship #vintage headline #headline #ship of death
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago State University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"Mystery men from another world terrorize earth with yet another manifestation of their astounding powers."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage headline #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilson College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Never heard of God."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#atheism #vintage headline
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November 13, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A fox has no teeth."  From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's resting sand elephants.  From Number Stories Book 2 by Studebaker, Findley, Knight & Gray, 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 #elephant #1940s #illustration #sand sculpture #sand elephant
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Devils, be humbled."  From Dark Shadows episode 519.
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#dark shadows #exorcist
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Old News (permalink)
"The boy who could see nothing but flowers."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#flowers #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #page of swords
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
So unusual to encounter a double author’s inscription.  I doubt it’s a mistake, in that the author had to go to a section page for the second inscription.  Is it like a renewal of marriage vows?  Was there a second book signing exclusive to folks with previously signed copies who still liked the book?  (Might be similar to getting one’s horoscope “progressed” — what will the author say this time?)  Or is doing a second inscription a “thing” that I somehow missed along the way?  If a friend owns a poet’s chapbook, and the poet pays a visit, does the chapbook serve as the home’s guestbook, with the poet “signing in” each time (presumably until the pages of that particular chapbook run out)?  I’m unduly perplexed, especially since the first inscription is undated.  If I had a range to work with, perhaps the cloud of unknowing would begin to dissipate.  Could both of these inscriptions have occurred somehow at the same book signing?  Maybe Reynold Boden was so excited after the first signing that he got back in line, and Erickson indulged him with a second inscription.  Maybe they’re not true, unfailing friends after all; maybe Erickson says that to everybody.  (In all fairness, a buyer of one’s book can seem like a hero and savior.)
By the way, the first piece in this book has 14 lines, 7 of which are a quotation of Keats.  Seems like a pretty good insurance policy, to play it safe with half of one’s content already hailed as genius.  You might still fail with a 50%, but it won’t be a zero. 
Maybe Erickson was ambidextrous, and he wrote both inscriptions simultaneously.  Blindfolded.  Maybe there were two Reynold Bodens, twins with the same name but only one wallet and bookshelf.  Maybe one of the twins pronounced his name with a silent y, so as to distinguish himself while reading Erickson & Keats simultaneously over his brother’s shoulder.  Maybe Reynold with a pronounced y read only the Erickson lines, and his twin with a silent y read only the Keats, and neither twin ever experienced the sublime combination (the chocolate and peanut butter of Erickson + Keats).
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#book inscription
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Pyramid Jeezeh by Louis Philippe McCarty, 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 #cross #sacred geometry #symbolism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of Pandora's box, but here is one of Pandora's books.  From the University of Wisconsin's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #Pandora #bookplate
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Old News (permalink)
"Let's have more 'blasphemy'!"  From The Gateway, 1964.
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#vintage headline #blasphemy #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Before and after.  From Oklahoma State University's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #before and after #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#mummy #vintage illustration #cat #egypt #cat mummy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She played to lose!"  From Motion Picture Classic, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #gambling #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Texas State College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #falling #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #bronco #rodeo
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"A special occasion provides the perfect excuse to wear a hat or headpiece, but how do you get it right?" (The Bridesmaid's Handbook).
Photo from Dry Goods Review, 1914.
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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #tea #hat #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 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 #woodcutter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today Bel is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 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 #mesopotamian #hybrid #deity #illustration #bel
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November 12, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Shutting the window.  Strange experience at a party."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bucknell University's 1908 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rampart Street by Everett Webber.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #illness #man in bed #sick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Radio Guide, 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 #fortune teller #crystal ball #turban #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #lion #1970s #lion costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 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 #anthropomorphism #crow #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill Universty's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
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#vintage photo #1920s #vaudeville
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A&M's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #1920s #puppeteer #puppet #marionette #illustration #dishwashing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The guinea hen as an alarm clock."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #alarm clock #rude awakening #guinea hen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae College's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #paint
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Old News (permalink)
"Help wanted and obtained."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1953.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #two-faced #diagram #happy and sad #1970s #illustration #mood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#mourning #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dummy #crying #1930s #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dandy #vintage men #illustration #men #1910s
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November 11, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #shoes
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Old News (permalink)
"There is always a way to get on."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#vintage headline #headline
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(
`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"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 #ocean #boat #japan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Adams State College's 1968 yearbook.

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fire spirit #cat #fire
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost tradition a mystery to all."  From Missouri Southern State University's 1992 yearbook.
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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fox #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baby new year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ten Years a Cowboy by Charles Clement Post, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #cowboy #bucking bronco
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Dartmouth's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #severed head #vintage yearbook #decapitated #football #injured
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Old News (permalink)
"Time to remember -- something, anything."  From The Gateway, 1967.
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#memory #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Mnetal meddlers."  From Elon University's 1949 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1916.
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#vintage photo #lion #vintage hollywood #vintage woman #1910s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Fields of clover invariably attract shafts of light in the shapes of genie bottles.  From Birmingham-Southern's 1989 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lens flare #clover
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From How to Win by L. H. Anderson, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #mustache #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's College's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #body building #vintage woman #muscle
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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 #crow #moth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #camera #photographer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #coal shed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior College's 1945 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #horseshoe #lucky horseshoe
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November 10, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #hybrid #1900s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's our adaptation of an eerie and bizarre Miracle Jones story. 
Thanks to Vegas headliner Jeff McBride for saying of this video that our film noir lighting, dirge music counterpoint, and standup karmic approach is unique in the world.
Thanks to Ms. A. B. for saying, "This is SO good! I'm always protecting my third eye from umbrellas. I also love the phrase 'ignites your arteries like bone-fires at martyries'. I love the whole thing! Now I have to find work by Miracle Jones and I really appreciate being awakened to that fact. It's all so darkly smooth, black without being heavy-handed (rather like Tom Waits). Your old timey song is a perfect end! You must publish it! I will be enjoying it again with a glass of Scapegrace wine."
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#magician #magic #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #miracle jones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #happy and sad #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Taylor's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big hair #musician #fine arts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"If Mars is inhabited, its people can comfortably support bodies fourteen feet tall."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #life on mars #giant #martian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's legally-minded cactus is from the University of Arizona's 1953 yearbook.  See This Book is a Cactus.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cactus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #cat #chinese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #lovebirds
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Old News (permalink)
"Always acquaintances but never friends."  From The Gateway, 1965.
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#vintage headline #acquaintance #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

rom The Mayfair Mystery, by Frank Richardson:

[This so-called mystery novel, first published in 1907 as 2835 Mayfair, might be better described as a steampunk-horror paranormal transgender romance. (I'm not trying to be funny; it seems to be a quite remarkable--and largely forgotten--book for its time.) Most of the comic relief pertains to whiskers, which I've learned was Richardson's claim to fame. (You'll recall "Mainly about Whiskers" as a chapter title in the previous Richardson book I read.) Among the attachments here, the one called "face-fungus" comes from the 2015 preface to a reprinted edition (and the OED does show Richardson as the first citation for the term); the others are from the body of the book, and only the vast majority of them involve whiskers. Incidentally, the supporting character who is obsessed with whiskers, "Frank Robinson," is presumably the author's self-parody--and Robinson is disliked by his club acquaintances, so Richardson obviously has a sense of humor about himself.]

[Bonus: an offstage character called the Hon. Otho Trigg]
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Old News (permalink)
From Do You Think That's Wise? by Graham McCann.
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#vintage headline #headline
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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 #goat #aesop #well
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #elves #brownies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hahnemann Medical College's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat #egypt
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Old News (permalink)
"Curbing 'blasphemy' by aliens."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #greek #archery
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #bull #taurus
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November 9, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's giant doughnut is from Appleton's Third Reader by Harris, Rickoff & Bailey, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #doughnut #donut #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From P's and Q's: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement by Sallie B. Tannahill, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #ornate letter #illustration #letter r
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Old News (permalink)
"Why that alien just could be your granny!"  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 1995.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the owl on another book cover. From The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter by Marion Woodman.

From The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter by Marion Woodman
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#owl #vintage book #book #gif
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hahnemann Medical College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The All-Seeing Eye, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #beetle #vintage magazine #scarab #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Spider Phaeton by William John Pickard, 1924.
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#vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 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 #camel #caravan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"As shadows come and go."  From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fairy #butterfly woman #silk #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Michigan University's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #test tube baby
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #totem pole
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Old News (permalink)
"Looky!  Kooky cookie is a spooky bookie."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ashland College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eight arms #handshake #illustration #shaking hands
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Old News (permalink)
"Is land no more than dirt?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#dirt #vintage headline #headline
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November 8, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Do not color the birds on the right-hand side.  From Addison-Wesley Biology, Laboratory Manual by George Zahrobsky, 1984.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #bird #illustration #anti-coloring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The bride and bridegroom, standing in a hollow cheese."  From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #mouse #cheese #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air by Jane Andrews and illustrated by Louisa Parsons Hopkins, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #goat #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dare, do, keep silent."  From The Voice of Isis, By the Teacher of the Order of the 15 by Harriette Curtuss and F. Hormer Curtiss, 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 #occult #esoteric #triangle #all-seeing eye #eye #eye in the pyramid #symbolism #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A hall of arches as an hourglass.  From Wilmington 's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #aesop #fish #fishing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The face of despair."  From Lees-McRae's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#despair #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Pentecostal Bible College's 1955 yearbook.

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#owl #vintage yearbook #vintage man #smiling man #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"I want you to be my eyes!"  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 1995.
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#eyes #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Lipstick by Cupid.  From McGill Universty's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #makeup #lipstick
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Old News (permalink)
From the sheet music for "The Better Day Coming Tomorrow" by Will L. Thompson, 1888.
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#tomorrow #optimism #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"We are forever 'doing something.'"  From North Carolina Agricultural and Technical's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This little old woman setting fire to her house."  From Chatterbox, 1887.
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#fire #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #card game #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #shadow #diagram
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Old News (permalink)
"Life can be dull."  From Missouri Southern State University's 1992 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paper Doll Poems by Pauline King, 1896.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiger
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Old News (permalink)
Even the book about the queer art of failure failed to stay in the library.  From The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam, 2011.
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#vintage headline #failure #headline
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November 7, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"On the trail of the abominable snowman."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1955.
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#yeti #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline #abominable snowman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1950.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #bling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Though it's obvious that the dragon is getting its nails clipped, when we saw the "Scissors and claws" caption we assumed it was the pub's name.  From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #scissors #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Holy Cross College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You seem to be gazing into a mattress with the cover off."  From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #curly hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooftop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From House Scraps by G. Duckworth Atkin and illustrated by Geo. Cruickshank, F. C. Gould, and Lucien Davis, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #camel #lion #human headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stick figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the cyclops on your path be taking forty winks.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #cyclops
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #knife #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #crying #living toy
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the film Dark City.  From McGill Universty's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #drawing #painter #ad
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #nest #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #musical animal
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Old News (permalink)
From Content With Flies by Mary & Jane Findlater, 1916.
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#flies #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Stone Mather College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #jester #animal attack #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Suiting the deed to the thought."  From Luda, the Occult Girl by Julia Webb Mays, 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 #occult #candle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #laurels
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From a 1915 Vanity Fair piece by Charles Macomb Flandrau:Flandrau02Flandrau01



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November 6, 2023

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #asterisk #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #living toy #toy
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #sun #airplane #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Pretty but poor."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1936.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Strange events.  Weird tale of wonderful hypnotic power is related."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #hypnosis #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels and illustrated by Emily Hall Chamberlin, 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 #elves
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't know why I ever thought I could get through this."  From Dark Shadows episode 695.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #phonograph #his master's voice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toward the Western Ocean by Albert Britt.
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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage book #book #spear #javelin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hat #vintage man #pie #1980s #smiling m
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Old News (permalink)
That Place in Minnesota by Ed Fitzgerald, Somewhere in France by Richard Harding Davis, I Was In the Vicinity by Guinotte Wise, and generally Anywhere At Once.
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#vintage headline #vague
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From By the Overflowing Nile by Elmer Hoenshel, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1963.

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

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#witch #occult #vintage photo #magic #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Phonebook has 'nice cover.'"  From The Gateway, 1972.
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#vintage headline #headline #phonebook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill Universty's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #dog #doctor #vintage yearbook #tested on animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rocket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #trapped #trap #1880s
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November 5, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Jim and Judy by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#maze
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #capybara #jaguar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #effigy #guy fawkes
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1927 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Chart Magazine, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #crystal ball #psychic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #motorcycle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #lightning #costume #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Agents of Reconciliation by Arnold B. Come.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #monkey man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gallows #aesop #wolf in sheep's clothing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The spirit of commerce, from McGill Universty's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #commerce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcutter #1920s #vintage magazine #lumberjack #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #leaf
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #farmer #crossword puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1918 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#ghost #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 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 #dove #aura #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Conversations, ed. Roy Newquist:

***
"Lectures...[are] a more exciting art form, since you can make things up as you go along. Nobody else can upstage you either." [Christopher Isherwood]

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"I've felt that if I just used initials nobody would know whether I was a man or a woman, a dog or a tiger." [P. L. Travers]

***
"[An interviewer] said, 'I'm so glad you're alive; all these years I've been thinking you were dead.' And you know, I could have embraced him because I was so delighted he had thought I was dead. I had gone into the world of timelessness. All authors are dead."  [Travers]

***
"Sometimes you can't tell the difference between a man and a saltshaker, especially in these modern French novels." [Marguerite Young]
[As they say, "He's the salt of the earth."]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sun Dial by Austin Dobson and illustrated by George Wharton Edwards, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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November 4, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Vampire cats."  From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #incubus #vampire #succubus #winged cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #dwarf
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Old News (permalink)
"Two persons with one body.  One loves sweet, other sour -- have awful spats."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #siamese twins #conjoined #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1919. 
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #full belly #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #injured #wounded
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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 #ghosts #faces in things #happy and sad #light bulb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoes #spiked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #artist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #barber #hat #vintage man #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Song of Sixpence Picture Book by Walter Crane, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #money #king #miser
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1921 yearbook.

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#skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A publicity gimmick for D. W. Griffith's "The Greatest Question."  From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage ad #ghost #graveyard #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From McGill Universty's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The imp of three o'clock, from King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imp #pendulum
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Old News (permalink)
From North Adams State College's 1965 yearbook.
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#jello #vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #banana
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from Le Courrier Français, 1891
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #shadow #horror #nighmare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry #test tube
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #beard #silhouette #king
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November 3, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Conrad's Magic Flight, Book Four by Hazel Gertrude Kinscella and illustrated by Ruth Mary Hallock, 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 #levitation #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #falling #monkey #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Hollywood has nothing to do with movies."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline #vintage hollywood #hollywood #headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Don Harder spotted these disagreeing clocks at the JC Deagan Building, North Centre, Chicago.  It's never one o'clock on the left.
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#clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Old News (permalink)
"Please don't eat the objets d'art."  From The Gateway, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline #edible art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #three blind mice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #magician #levitation #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky University's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #hat #football #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artgum, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #limp wrist #fudge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flowers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In The Lion in Winter, the queen is locked in the cellar with her three princes.  Here, "The queen and [three] princesses hid in the cellar."  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 #princess #sugar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myself and I by Helen Van Valkenburgh and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #imagination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Yosemite.  From The Century, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #waterfall #yosemite
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #batik
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A map by George W. Hood, from The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #map #1910s #arcady #arcadia
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Crows Can't Count, by A. A. Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner):

"I tell you it was just a hunch."
Buda looked his disgust. "That's a swell story. We can't subpoena a hunch to come before the grand jury and be cross-examined. We can't separate your sub-conscious mind, wrap it up in cellophane, and introduce it in a case as Exhibit A."


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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lafayette College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #illustration #speaker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #basketball
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November 2, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fish #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's repentant rabbits marching along two by two are from St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #processional #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"I was snatched by a UFO ... then I had an alien's baby."  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Belmont Abbey College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spartan Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 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 #scarecrow #twins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwesters College's 1912 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 #orator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 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 #fairy tale #snow white
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #borrowed
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click twice to cartoon the circles. From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.

From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910
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#drawing #animated gif #geometry #cartooning #circles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #clown #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hunter #lynx
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The Invisible Ray."  From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#crystal ball #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic Magazine, 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 #ufo #flying saucer
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #yarn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #nose #vintage yearbook #big nose
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Old News (permalink)
"Food for the mind — and much of it is free."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#vintage headline #brain food #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Note "Sunshine's chair" and the inclusion of no fewer than four spirit trumpets.  How could a seance parlor floorplan be applicable to one's own living space?  The surprising answer is within Seance Parlor Feng Shui.  From The Direct-Voice, 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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#occult #vintage diagram #seance parlor #diagram #floorplan
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Waning sun, chilling wind, frequent rain set the stage."  From Ohio State University's 1970 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#winter #weather #vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse
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November 1, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration #up a tree
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Old News (permalink)
"The nobody who was somebody."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#nobody #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's no time to be funny on Dark Shadows episodes 244, 269, 1069, and 33.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weston's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #constellation #zodiac #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Man Stanley by Philip Hamburger.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse and buggy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The pictures you take to-day will mean priceless memories to-morrow."  From Anderson College's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dunce #1940s #photographer #making faces #ad
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #labyrinth #maze
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pacific College's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ladder #lamo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sing Me a Song by Kirth, McManus & Carmack.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#deer #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #torture #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #memory #forgetting #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #football
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #november
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mouse's Tail by Helen Pettes and illustrated by Julia Greene, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #world #vintage ad #globe #hands #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mysteriously glowing trees spread in a forest of their own, seen only through the windows of vintage college yearbooks.  From Indiana University's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night #glowing tree #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 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 #mythology #giant
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Old News (permalink)
"World needs to-day not a new religion—but an understanding of true principles that inspired all great faiths."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#religion #world peace #vintage headline #old news
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people #cat headed #illustration #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The forgotten sport of haberdashers.  From Punch, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #warthog #haberdasher
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