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November 30, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bees #bee #1930s #illustration #beehive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #native american #1920s #illustration #pictograph
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode is by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #pinocchio #trap #illustration #living toy #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #eagle #animal attack #vulture #1910s #lammergeier
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
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#eerie #gothic #poem
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1790s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bates College's 1923 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #golf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #animal attack #firecracker #bull
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Old News (permalink)
"Have you tried do-it-yourself head-shrinking?"  From The Aberree, 1956.  
> read more from Old News . . .
#psychology #vintage headline #headline #self-analysis #head shrinking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State College's 1941 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 #camera #1940s #photographer
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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 #father time
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Meramec Community College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #upside down #1970s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1925 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #diet #magnifying glass #dogs #tiny
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia Teachers College's 1961 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #devil #dice #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brevities by Lisle de Van Natthewman, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #hare #turtle #tortoise and the hare #goal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Extraterrestres, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1955 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 #fountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #rabbit #chicken #easter #egg
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November 29, 2024

Strange Dreams (permalink)
Devils dancing around the turkey king.  From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 1914.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
> read more from Strange Dreams . . .
#vintage illustration #devil #thanksgiving #turkey #dream #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #squirrel #1930s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Twelve different ways of saying the same thing."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1941.
> read more from The Right Word . . .
#variations
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #knight #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"French are outraged."  From Woroni, 1958.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #spoon #camel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The ghost of Greek tests passed."  From Southwestern Union College's 1988 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1908.
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#vintage headline #hair #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1899 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #up a tree #hollow tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Death-test proved it!"  From The Improvement Era, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage ad #1940s #vintage man #man #crash test #ad
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Zetetic Scholar, no. 8.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #unicorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia College's 1923 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caveat Emptor, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #yin yang #magazine #lollipop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1918 yearbook.  See Divination by Punctuation.
> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#punctuation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #exclamation point
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gas chamber music."  From Punch, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #musician #gas mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Utah Agricultural College's 1925 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 #before and after
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Old News (permalink)
"10,000 bees get loose.  Hive of insects fall on street — Chicago crowd is stung."  From The [Earlington, KY] Bee, 1916.
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#bee #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Conversations with Julian Barnes:

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"I was getting obsessed about being obsessed with obsessions."

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INTERVIEWER: I wonder if we can't see the ghost of a parrot flapping through Staring at the Sun....
BARNES: No, I wasn't reminded of Parrot, not at all.
[I love that JB refers to his novel Flaubert's Parrot as simply "Parrot," along the lines of "Catcher" or "Streetcar."]

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[Barnes mimics the tenor of Continental literary theory.]
"In the tenth book of dialogues by Jean-Michel Whoever, the proposition is put forward that..."

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[Regarding his time working for the OED.]
"I spent three professional years with the language post-1880, in letters C to G. I doubt it shows through in my fiction."

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"I don't feel, to put it crudely, that because I've written Flaubert's Parrot I have to write 'Tolstoy's Gerbil.'"

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INTERVIEWER: And yet I feel that sometimes you do confuse the reader....
BARNES: I only confuse the academic reader.

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INTERVIEWER (Xesus Fraga): A novel is like a clock, you just see the time going by, but not the mechanism, the book's structure.

***
[This bit is from JB's journal, prior to his actually writing "Parrot"; and I don't think "inner sense of parrothood" made it into the novel!]
"The bright-green perky-eyed parrot...which irritated him at the same time...as giving him an inner sense of parrothood."
***
> read more from Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan . . .
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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 #spiritualism #seance #vintage headline #ectoplasm #cryptozoology #headline
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November 28, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Those who can really see what's coming, are blowing their minds with drugs or booze, the rest are turning to the occult or sex!"  From "Escape!" by J. T. C., 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #end of the world #illustration #end times
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #thanksgiving #turkey #vintage postcard #harvest #illustration #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Turkey fishing.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #turkey #fishing #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode is by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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> read more from I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought . . .
#vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Short life, but a high one."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
> read more from Old News . . .
#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ellis Stanyon's Magic, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #shadow #tiger #hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #thanksgiving #turkey #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State University's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyeglasses #cat's eyes #woman #vintage woman #1980s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1962.
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#effigy #vintage photo #1960s #doll #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo'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 #walking the dog #tangled #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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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#religion #vintage illustration #demon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This skeleton graduated from Swarthmore College in 1917.

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

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#skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1947.
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#cat #crossword puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiger
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Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Three Men and a Baby: it's "My Baby's Four Fathers."  From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Old News (permalink)
"Furry fashions for the winter.  With the coming of the Thanksgiving Turkey, fierce winds begin to howl and textures grow heavier."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #winter #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 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 #thanksgiving #turkey
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Old News (permalink)
"Beyond the grave a gate opens."  From Cosmology Newslink, no. 40.
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#life after death #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology'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 #diploma
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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 #lion #oz
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November 27, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life, 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #raisin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Destroying shoes knows no season.  From Year-Round Fun by Gates & Riordan, 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 #dog #shoe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #candy #illustration #candy man #licorice #ad #allsorts
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"And lead us not into vacation, but deliver us from people, Amen."  From The Gleaner, 2013.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati'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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1926 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
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Old News (permalink)
"Ouija boards offer solution."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#ouija #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #anthropomorphism #turtle #vintage magazine #artistic animal #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, you bet I know just what you are!"  From Wesleyan 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 #star #telescope #astronomer #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Not wings but a [quill] pen."  From Indiana State Normal School's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #ball and chain #scholar
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1959.
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#cat #vintage woman #1950s #tuesday weld
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ufology and demonology."  From Ufologia, 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 #demon #demonology #alien #ufology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1906 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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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 #bear #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"OK, I'm an unknown animal so I'll do you a real cheap acoustic set."  From Animals and Men, no. 05.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #musical animal #cryptid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster #illustration #1910s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #1960s #illustration #crossword puzzle
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November 26, 2024

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We've heard of singing telegrams, but here are vintage headlines sung by Masha Solo of Archmage Band.  It's "Let's Undo" by Nine Inch Nails, remixed by Neons Gone Mad.
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #archmage band #nine inch nails #trent reznor #masha solo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mammoth Story Book, 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 #fairy tale #spinning wheel #1900s #Rumpelstiltskin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snow #illustration #yak
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The Right Word (permalink)
The credentialed letters after his name!  From The Aberree, 1964.
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#credentials
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College'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 #up a tree
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1908.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do you neck with the lights on, or off?"  "Yes."  From The Old Line, 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 #drunk #chandelier
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #shoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little White Lies no. 38.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #rocket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The APRO Bulletin, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman #entity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1928 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #card game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blunder's Mystery Companions by Florence M. Pettee and illustrated by Alexander Key, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #underwater #swimming #diver
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Conversations with Neil Simon:

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"[Being a writer is] like handing your personality through the door, but you don't have to show it...It's on a piece of paper."

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[Re. setting a play in Yonkers]
"I love the word Yonkers."
[Don't we all!]

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SIMON: When a play opens, 95 percent of what's up there is what I have approved of....
INTERVIEWER: What's the other 5 percent?...
SIMON: There's only 95 percent in anything in life.

***
[RLG dept.]
"I did have the honor of being voted the neatest playwright at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston because they had very little cleaning to do in my room."
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Can the very absence of the bogeyman be terrifying in itself?  "There was no one there with me and I was frightened."  Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seifeld to be the first show about nothing. 
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#horror #loneliness #existentialism #isolation #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Two doctors don a poison pill costume.  (Supposed to be funny?)  From Indiana University School of Medicine's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#poison #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #doctor death #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #lantern #diagram #1930s #illustration
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November 25, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fishing with his spirit double.  From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 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 #fishing #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Up-River Pirate Cult."  From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #pirate #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #illustration #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
There is a god in the tail of a cat, "since only a cat can listen with her tail" (Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings, 1984)
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#cat #deity
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"How many 6-packs of green beans do you need to make your weekend fun?"  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #addiction #vegetable #green beans
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He walked on his hind feet, using the walking stick with his paw."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #walking stick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Choosing the turtle.  From The Old Line, 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 #anthropomorphism #turtle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Berea College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #woodcutter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lumberjack #ax
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #crossword puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Michigan State Normal College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mythology #finis #chariot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #the end #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Thoughts on Psychometry by Ida Ellis, 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 #heart #1890s #psychometry
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Old News (permalink)
"Courage is what we don't have."  From The Gateway, 1961.
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#vintage headline #cowardice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strange Daze, no. 5.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University'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 #making faces #days of the week
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 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 #illness #cold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #sheep #animal fight
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Indiana State Teachers College's 1936 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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November 24, 2024

Unicorns (permalink)
Wow, someone called Tim Morris so hated borrowing from the library (not buying, mind you!) our acclaimed A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound that he went onto Amazon Australia to defame it.  This beggars our imagination!  We quote the 1-star review below, for how hilariously he displays his intellect:
I borrowed this book from the library once and could not make head nor tail of it. I am still not truly sure if it is written seriously as esoterica or as a mere curiosity. If you believe you can hear a mythical creature instead of seeing it, by listening in random places in nature and trying REALLY HARD, I really don't know what to say. True students of actual folklore will explain the storied history of how the modern idea of unicorns came to be, it contains things like gazelles, rhinoceros, and the valuable horn of the Narwhal sold to gullible people. All this New Aged spiritual garbage regarding unicorns is mere delusions. I will say it plainly again-THERE ARE PEOPLE IN 2024 THAT BELIEVE IN UNICORNS AND FAIRIESIf that doesn't make you feel sick, I don't know what to say.
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We were delighted to receive this photo from a reader of our Books of the Dead.
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#skull #prof. oddfellow #book of the dead #books of the dead
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #alligator #monkey #zoo #alligator costume #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 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 #airship #flying machine #dirigible
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1917 yearbook.
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#secret #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 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 #turtle #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Cut it out."  From The Film Daily, 1923.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 109.
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#alien #ufo #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From A Cat Is Watching by Roger Caras, 1989.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the APRO Bulletin, 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 #bigfoot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1894.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1923 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 Ufologen, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration #cryptozoology #mothman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth 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 #star
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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 #mask #native american
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1892 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #humor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #joke
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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 #mythology #chariot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Nov. 24: burn dummies."  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 #effigy #vintage yearbook #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.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #tiger #hunter #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1912:

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Monday, the somethingth. [letter heading]

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the shiny seat of [the play's] theme [Nathan]

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Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff [A real playwright's name: another Wagstaff! Could this be a relation of Gribble's?]

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[Title of actual Paris revues, per Nathan]
Pourvu Qu'on Rigole
Enfin
Tais-Toi! Tu M'Affoles!
Ce Que Je Peux Rire
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[More snippets attached. The John Kendrick Bangs bits are from an exhaustingly in-depth "Who's Who in Wagner" series (à la "the" Who's Who) that ran for at least three lengthy installments.]












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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s #fur coat
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November 23, 2024

Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #music notation #high note #1890s #illustration #singer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She dressed the cat up in a pretty little dress."  From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #cat #native american #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 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 #1920s #pinocchio #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Golden Links in the Chain That Connects Mother, Home and Heaven by Mrs. J. P. Newman, 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 #angel #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Cat decided the verdict."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.
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#cat #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1956.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #animal attack #lion #eaten alive
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #bat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant bat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern Union College's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#outer space #vintage yearbook #you are here
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"In my time young people didn't spend their time enjoying themselves."  From Tabitha of Lonely House by Hildegarde Hawthorne, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #cat #old fashioned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1903 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 #artist #tiny man
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Old News (permalink)
"Had to pull himself out of bed every day."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#fatigue #tired #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein'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 #writing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #raft #milk #hallucination #stranded at sea
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Old News (permalink)
"Positively dangerous to stand still."  From Interzone, 1994.
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#vintage headline #headline #keep moving
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National Kindergarten College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#castle in the air #vintage illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
Perhaps the imp of scr-r-r-umptiousness is named Scr-r-r-imptious?  From Improvement Era, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #imp #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Frederick College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Arkiv X, 1996.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #umbrella #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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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 #pumpkinhead #oz
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November 22, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mill That Charles Built, A New Game of Forfeits, 1820.
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#vintage illustration #rat #illustration #1820s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Yes, it's actually a standup routine about an anti-pope's grimoire.
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#necromancy #occult #prof. oddfellow #pope #grimoire #video #penetralia #standup comedy #anti-pope #honorius iii
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There are all kinds of things in my mind.  Shapes and forms and ..."  From Dark Shadows episode 295.
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#dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"To become extinct once is unfortunate — to become extinct twice looks like carelessness."  From Animals and Men, no. 29.
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#vintage headline #headline #extinction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #cat #musical animal #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #tug of war #hen #chicks #worn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1922 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)
Art from two covers of Carbonel by Barbara Sleigh, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #pet walker
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #faces in things #pain #foot #bunion #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #fairies #vintage magazine #magazine
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The cockatoo has but one joke (luring a kindly finger to its cage, then biting it so that its owner squawks), and the humor is weak.  From Odd Creatures by Dum-Dum, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #cockatoo #caged bird #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1939 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 Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"The fisherman's prayer: O Lord, suffer me to catch a fish so large that even I when talking of it afterwards may have no need to lie."  Via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #fish #fisherman #strange prayer
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From farces by Grace Livingston Furniss:












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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 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 #crossdressing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus #1920s #illustration #trapeze
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Old News (permalink)
"The unlocked door.  What the dog knew."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline
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November 21, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In the Land of Opportunity, there are so many opportunities for dirt and bacteria to gain entrance to the milk cans.  From Healthful Living, Based on the Essentials of Physiology by Jesse Feiring Williams, 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 #germs #disease #milk #1930s #illustration #bacteria #contaminated #contamination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Laughing Horse, 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 #1920s #illustration #linocut #lino print
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #norma talmadge
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Old News (permalink)
"The cat who listens."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1957.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
St. George slays a dragon atop this timeless clock at Loew's Jersey Theatre (1929).  Photo courtesy of temporal anomaly investigator Wally Gobetz.
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#temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Saucers, Space & Science, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #canada
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Old News (permalink)
"Just eat, sleep and work."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lawrence Institute of Technology's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deadline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"So you really do have etchings!"  From The Old Line, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #etchings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National Kindergarten College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rich Man and the Singer, Folktales From Ethiopia, illustrated by Christine Price.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
How you get "wired" on coffee.  From Swarthmore College's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #coffee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Miss Observer and Mr. Dreamer."  From Applied Psychology by John William Taylor, 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 #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #constellation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #astrologer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #silhouette #spider #little miss muffet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College'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 #lion #lion's den #biblical #daniel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 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 #anthropomorphism #rabbit #vegetables #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1900 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 #marotte #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Monkey claims a kitten."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#cat #monkey #vintage headline #headline #animal friends
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1919 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 #native american #illustration #basketball #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 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 #jesus #1920s #biblical #illustration
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November 20, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life, 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dandy #1920s #mustache #illustration #moustache #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"In the ghostly company of twenty thousand men."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wolf spider.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 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 #spider #1930s #illustration #wolf spider
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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 #1900s #illustration #seal #fur seal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #canoe #crinoline #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Teaching Creative Art in Schools by Eccott & Eccott, undated (c. 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 #design #illustration #Adolfo Best Maugard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Use both doors."  From The Improvement Era, 1951.
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#vintage ad #eye #ear #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pelted by frogs.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't believe in nothing."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#atheism #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #personal protection #fencing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A word of warning from a clown: "Hey, diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle!  Look out, look sharp for Mother Goose; she's in the air, she's everywhere, and I fear she's wandering loose."  From Wesleyan College's 1911 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 #note to the reader #preface #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"The 'naughty' chair."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.
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#chair #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hatchling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #egg
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Upland News, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #charity #money #question mark #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gustavus Adolphus College's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #faceless #cross dressing #no face #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 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 #rabbit #turtle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's clerical horse is from the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #push button
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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 #skeleton #vintage yearbook #elevator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the British UFO Research Association's Proceedings of the Second National Research and Investigation Conference, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien #spaceman
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November 19, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode is by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pony Express.  From Living in the Age of Machines by Wilson, Wilson & Erb, 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 #horse #mail carrier #illustration #mailman #pony express
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'm busy now.  Come around in about an hour."  From The Old Line, 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 #clock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Review, no, 2.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot #cryptozoology #mothman #loveland monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati'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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Presumably reading racy passages in the sometimes censored God's Little Acre.  From Gustavus Adolphus College's 1950 yearbook.
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#reading #vintage yearbook #vintage men #smiling men #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 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 #mirror #chicken
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singer
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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 #alice in wonderland
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Old News (permalink)
"They paddle and get nowhere."  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #ping pong
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #severed head #oz #1900s
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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 #cowboy #auction
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Old News (permalink)
"From hamming to whamming."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #tennis #vintage yearbook #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.]
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#vintage illustration #deer #trout
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Paris Review Interviews, vol. IV:

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"I believed in the doctrine of immaculate rejection. I never used an agent." [E. B. White]

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"The joke is the purest, most essential form of storytelling. Every word has to count." [Paul Auster]
***
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Old News (permalink)
"One war over; new one on."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#war #vintage headline #history repeating #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The man who lost his shadow."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#shadow #vintage headline #headline
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November 18, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 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 #alphabet #map #1930s #illustration
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.  This sky-writing forms a poem, according to the Tic Tac Toe Story Generator.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In alternate turns, complete a row, column, or diagonal with three X’s or O’s. Each X and O has a discrete unit of meaning, as detailed in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words. Choose and write a letter meaning alongside each X and O placed in the grid; don’t repeat a letter meaning within the same game. Number each turn on the grid, to establish the linear progression of the story. When the game is finished, use the sequence of key words to construct your story, adding connecting phrases as necessary.

Click here for a printable template.  Thanks to Gary Barwin for inspiration!
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#vintage illustration #tic tac toe #1920s #illustration #skywriting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 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 #fox #rooster #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, & Dr Merryman."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#doctor #vintage headline #headline #self-healing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 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 #bear
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Old News (permalink)
"Invisbile man mugged by mimes.  Witnesses report seeing nothing."  From Toike Oike, 2014.
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#vintage headline #invisible man #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #kangaroo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1906 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 #dandy #1900s
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Old News (permalink)
"Sunburn halts wedding; bride unable to attend."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#sunburn #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bates College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #train #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caboose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Peanut butter!"  From The Old Line, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #desert #peanut butter #dry mouth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1959.
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#cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lawrence College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #makeup #face painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #living toy #yarn doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National Kindergarten College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #candle
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Unicorns (permalink)
Today's cyclopean unicorn is from Zetetic Scholar, no. 12/13.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #wizard #unicorn #one-eyed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #flowers
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #snowflake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1932 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 #1930s #illustration
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November 17, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, 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 #harp #robin hood #1920s #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #drawing #tree #1920s #illustration #contrast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's Bellerophon on Pegasus, fighting the Chimera, is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #illustration #chimera #bellerophon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Awareness, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #stars #astronomy #juggler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit attendant.  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Aug. 1882.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #spirit guide
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 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 #poison #soda #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"The mark of the beast ... with an all-star cast."  From The Film Daily, 1923.
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#vintage headline #headline #mark of the beast
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Drury College's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #panther
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #spoon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary College of Louisiana's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #submerged
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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 #animal attack #bear #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #buggy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 2.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #smoking #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Trojan Horse by James Reeves and illustrated by Krystuna Turska. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage book #book #trojan horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #blackbird #bird #nursery rhyme #smart animal #rook
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Those Barren Leaves, by Aldous Huxley:

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"Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."

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Young Lord Hovenden laughed in a very ventriloquial, man-of-the-worldly fashion.

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The third button of his waistcoat was undone and his right hand, like a half-posted letter, was inserted in the orifice.

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my most Sphingine smile

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[These two snippets go with the Etruscan/Fufluns attachments.]

"My enthusiasm for Fufluns carried me away."

"Flucuthukh to me only with thine eyes."
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[Additional offstage character names]
Lady Giblet
Lady Belfry

[Note re. the "invented" attachment: This novel is from 1925, so the Lucia echo is probably intentional. Oddly, the line is given to Miss Thriplow, even though it's Mrs. Aldwinkle who's the Lucialike character in the present book.]


























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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Can you do 2 good turns at once?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #1950s #ad
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November 16, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
This is a Googlewhack.  The Aztec mantra "Icksa tonga feen" promises to keep one young forever.  Just because this information was published only in the Weekly World News (Jan. 10, 1995) doesn't mean it isn't true.
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#magic words #vintage headline #aztec #headline #mantra #chant #weekly world news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #1930s #illustration #johnny cake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #1920s #perspective #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 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 #crab #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #rabbit #bird #1920s #worm #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Note the pillow for the medium's head to collapse upon.  How could a seance parlor floorplan be applicable to one's own living space?  The surprising answer is within Seance Parlor Feng Shui.  From Proceedings of the Sociiety for Psychical Research, 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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#occult #vintage diagram #seance parlor #diagram #floorplan
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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 #magic #sailboat #night and day
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #faces in things #pipe smoker #pipe dream
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I know there are no such things as ghosts, but suppose there are?"  From Dark Shadows episode 52.
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#ghost #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #library #ladder
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1895.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eureka College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #priestess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke
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Old News (permalink)
"Sure, 'it' works, but so does everything for somebody."  From The Aberree, 1957.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sleeping dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Beelzebub watched it, his little body quivering with suppressed excitement."  From St. Nicholas, 1895
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#alligator #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Bring it out of its hiding-place."  From Salem College'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 #archway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #the end #organ grinder
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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 #automaton #oz
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Old News (permalink)
From Wycliffe College's 1972 yearbook.
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#despair #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #hope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #illustration #1880s
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November 15, 2024

Strange Dreams (permalink)
That feeling of falling asleep under a milk-bottle tree that fruits vegetables.  From Building My House of Health by Jessie Lummis, 1927.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #tree #daydream #1920s #milk #illustration #WTF
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #chicken #human headed #1920s #egg #illustration #chicken man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode is by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#comedy #vampire #video #jonathan caws-elwitt #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stage Costuming by Agnes Brooks Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1800s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Histoires et Contes Amusants by Joseph Edgar Poirier, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1950s #ant
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Old News (permalink)
"Clothes to be caught wet in."  From The Old Line, 1962.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Household aristocrat."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1941.
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#cat
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Old News (permalink)
Two headlines on the same page, the second proving the first.  From The Romulus Roman, 1976.
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#vintage headline #headline #disrespected
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1978 yearbook.

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#mummy #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #rabbits #bunnies #cannon #war and peace
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"What has the public a right to expect?"  From the University of Illinois' 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 #making faces
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"'Our only hope now is to find a safe landing somewhere on the other side,' was all he said, and then he disappeared."  From Edmonton Churchman, 1946.
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#crossing over
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Edinboro State Teachers 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #winged lion #oz
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1907:

***
"Why...do scholars always think they must marry by logarithms?" [Henry Sydnor Harrison]

***
[Hannah Dale is a character the protagonist is seeking, among a county full of people named Hannah Dale.]
But I was tired [of?] Hannah Daling.
[Howard Markle Hoke]

[Meanwhile, the protagonist has privately assigned the pet name Whimsie to a woman who delights him.]
I could induce her to tell me who Whimsie really was.
[ibid.]

***
character name: S. Eugene Entwistle

***
the violins were clearing their throats for the overture
***

Note:
With "Puppets, Best and Worst" I was hoping for a reviewer's round-up of literal puppets; alas, the puppets were metaphorical and uninteresting.

 

















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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #knight #flour
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Old News (permalink)
"Pigeons and squirrels: charming nuisances."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#squirrel #pigeon #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology'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 #playing cards #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 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 #knight #dwarf #lancelot #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You can tell a good scientist by the headgear.  From David Lipscomb College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #hat #scientist #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Every girl should know how to serve food attractively."  From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #1930s #illustration #manners
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November 14, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to premarket distressed clothing.  From Life, 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #illustration #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"The eyes of a snake.  Their great power of fascination."  From The Children's Newspaper1924.
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#snake #mesmerism #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Open Door English Series for the Junior High School Book Two, 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 #1930s #illustration #professions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #illustration #river #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany We Grow Up 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 #rabbit #squirrel #1930s #illustration #animal friends
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Old News (permalink)
From Unseen Resources by Elizabeth Twiggs, 1921.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'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 #bottled ghost
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Old News (permalink)
"I didn't feel a thing."  From Lighted Pathway, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #train #vintage headline #railroad crossing #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 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 #vintage ad #shoe #thermometer #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Randolph-Macon Woman's College's 1917 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He gives me the shivers."  From The Old Line, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ghost #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1916 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #occult #mystery #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1945.
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#mirror #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Coming events cast their shadows before."  From Wesleyan College's 1906 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spear #tarzan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 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 #fairy tale #sleeping beauty
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #bald #hair loss #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 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 #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit #1920s
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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.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #giant hat #hat #ad
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November 13, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Twin Peaks' Dr. Jacoby.  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1980 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #Twin Peaks #1980s #twin peaks precursor
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The toys of the old Egyptian boys."  From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 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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#mummy #vintage illustration #egyptian #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"There is something good in Germany."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#germany #vintage headline #headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"I'm in the past and I'm frightened."  From Dark Shadows episode 858.
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#time travel #temporal anomaly #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1912 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 #artist
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Old News (permalink)
From An Uncloseted Skeleton by Lucretia Peabody Hale and Edwin Lassetter Bynner, 1888.
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#skeleton #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #illustration
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #oz #sign
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Old News (permalink)
"Wore fancy togs and got fired."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #feather #tickling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Rat, the Frog, and the Kite."  From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #bird #aesop #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke, 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 #shadow #rooster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #radio #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 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 #human headed #illustration #plant people
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Old News (permalink)
"The devil has yet to come to my seance."  From Toike Oike, 2014.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#devil #seance #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1974 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 #pocket watch #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reaching Our Goals by Horn, Goodykoontz & Snedaker and illustrated by Cleveland Woodward, 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 #lighthouse #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bicycle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #vintage headline #pennyfarthing #illustration #penny farthing #headline #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#bicycle #vintage photo #automaton #robot #1900s #photo
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November 12, 2024

Old News (permalink)
Adjusted for inflation, this reward would be over £25,500.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
120
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#comedy #prof. oddfellow #penetralia #standup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #airplane #illustration #seaplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A pea waking up."  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 #illustration #pea #sprout
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A lurikeen.  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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #elf #ireland #leprechaun #illustration #irish #lurikeen
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's the thing ...
  • after a couple weeks the novelty will wear off
  • we rarely see our own fashion flubs
  • despite the danger on this road, if you drive it often, you probably feel very comfortable traveling it
  • there’s a bigger, more important challenge out there and we've all overlooked it
  • your story won't write itself
  • most of us have something, or occasionally two things, that keeps us off the cover of Vogue
  • you don’t need to sit in unusual positions
  • the holidays are not a sprint
  • in some cases, it’s not fun to have rules
  • deep down, we all want to do the right thing
  • traveling can make us crazy
  • work friendships are largely geographical in nature
  • shoving the negative emotion aside only buried it
  • we all lie about something—our ages, IQs, how many nights a week we watch dance programs on TV
  • you can't let the power freak you out if you're going to use it
  • your life is full. And if you don't realize that... then you're just like the rest of us, but that's no excuse
[snippets gathered through the course of our research]
See our collection of these lists: Bullet Lists.
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#list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gambling #lemon #life gives you lemons #slot machine #fruit machine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The honey is all engaged."  From St. Nicholas, 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 #fairy #flower #bee #honey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mermaid #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Heaven Is Real But So Is Hell by Vassula Ryden.
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#heaven #hell #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #shark #shark costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1932 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Old News (permalink)
"Are aliens earthling look-alikes?"  From The APRO Bulletin, 1987.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"I laughed until I read it."  From Tufts University's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jewish Fairy Book, translated by Gerald Friedlander and illustrated by George Hood, 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 #fairy tale #smoke #jewish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1919 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Californiacs, by Inez Haynes (Gillmore) Irwin:

***
California, I repeat, is populated mainly with Californiacs; but the Californiacs are by no means confined to California. They have, indeed, wandered far afield. New York, for instance, has a colony so large that the average New Yorker is well acquainted with the symptoms of Californoia. The Californiac is unable to talk about anything but California, except when he interrupts himself to knock every other place on the face of the earth. He looks with pity on anybody born outside of California and he believes that no one who has ever seen California willingly lives elsewhere. He himself often lives elsewhere, but he never admits that it is from choice. He refers to California always as "God's country", and if you permit him to start his God's country line of talk, it is all up with intelligent conversation for the rest of the day. He will discourse on California scenery, climate, crops, athletes, women, art-sense, etc., ad libitum, ad infinitum and ad nauseum. He is a walking compendium of those Who's Whosers who were born in California. He can reel off statistics which flatter California, not by the yard, but by the mile. And although he is proud enough of the ease and abundance with which things grow in California, he is even more proud of the size to which they attain. Gibes do not stop the Californiac, nor jeers give him pause. He believes that he was appointed to talk about California. And Heaven knows, he does. He has plenty of sense of humor otherwise, but mention California and it is as though he were conducting a revival meeting.
***
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#california
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's ice skating dinosaurs are from Mr. Punch’s Prehistoric Peeps by E. T. Reed, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #ice skating #caveman #prehistoric
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #1900s #illustration #nov. 12 #november 12
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Doodles on the endpapers of Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gallows #1920s #doodle #endpapers #illustration
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November 11, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Friends and Neighbours by Gray & Monroe, 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 #skating #pig #rollerskates #1940s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Junior English Activities 2 by Hatfield, Lewis, Thomas & Woody, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #writing #1930s #illustration #language
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Acclaimed by the producer of Missing Persons' original song, it's our vampiric "Dreaming in the Hallows."
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vampire #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bird #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars In Their Courses by Sir James Jeans, 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 #moon #vintage diagram #diagram #illustration
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #celtic #bridge #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Dinah, the Story of a Prehistoric Pet" by Elizabeth Webb, 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 #dinosaur #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A word about giant despair.  It is easy enough, these days, to say that the world is going backward.  There have always been people to say so, in every stage of the world's history; but it must be admitted that there are dark signs now and far too much evil rampant in the world."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#end of the world #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's artistic 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 #artist #cactus
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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 #goat #alpine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1906 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
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The Right Word (permalink)
Textual erasure courtesy of a mimeograph machine.  From The Old Line, 1940.
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#mimeograph #missing words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1953.
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#cat #kitten
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to The Flying Nun, from Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #father time #in the clouds #nun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #pet walker #walking the cat
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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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University'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 #illustration #fat and thin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#up a tree #vintage illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #doctor #film #ad
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1938 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #snow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #snowflake
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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 #cat #horse #illustration
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November 10, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A preface obscured by the author's spectacles.  From Sharp Eyes, written and illustrated by William Hamilton Gibson, 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 #eyeglasses #spectacles #1890s #illustration #preface
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, His Book by Eva March Tappan and illustrated by Charlotte Harding, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #robin hood #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #caveman #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lying in bed too long."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #tall #bed
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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 #gingerbread man #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.
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#humor #writing #laughter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #letter H #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'm his first flame, and do I look like a blowtorch?"  From The Old Line, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1930s
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Snead State Junior College's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1953.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Municipal University of Omaha's 1949 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sports #tackle
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Old News (permalink)
From Out Live Your Life by Max Lucado, 2010.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#artist #painter #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #sword
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor 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 #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #dog #origami #sheep dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #circle #1950s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Conversations with S. J. Perelman:

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Did the author have to make changes at the behest of the producer? "Mr. Behest, the producer...."

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"They don't finish sentences in England. They telegraph the thought. People speak in ellipses."
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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 #monkey #illustration
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November 9, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What if a vampire ...
    • on one drop of blood could linger for thousands of years?
    • discovered his lover wasn't another nosferatu but was instead (shudder) a human
    • had a conscience?
    • used a lost dog to lure victims?
    • could feed on pure emotion?
    • has silver fillings in his teeth?
    • faces the choice of turning someone or letting him die right then and there?
    • underwent psychoanalysis?
    • felt remorse for his actions?
    • moved in next door?
    • wants to send his grandmother a photograph, but he is invisible in each picture?
    • thinks he's a werewolf?
    • does escape his old sect?
    • became involved with artificial blood research?
    • needed to travel quickly from New York to Los Angeles?
    • is already among us?
    • tried to hold on to the light?
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.]  See Bullet Lists.
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#vampire #bullet list #list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #clown #1900s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #fox #pipe smoker #native american #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb and illustrated by Otho Cushing, 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 #mythology #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"And despair and further confusion."  From Dark Shadows episode 248.
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#dark shadows #despair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1931 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)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like this rare book is going for $1,500!  From Secret, Don't Tell, The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism by Carla Emery and illustrated by Corey Smigliani.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #broomstick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #horse #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Occult hooligans."  From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.
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#occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #piggy bank
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
In 1921, there was a club called "Class of 1993," for students who didn't expect to graduate before the summer of '93.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess
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Old News (permalink)
"What psychometry is not.  No contacts with the dead."  From The Aberree, 1957.  
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#necromancy #vintage headline #psychometry #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Usually photographed but sometimes drawn: the mysterious glowing trees that spread through old college yearbooks.  From Assumption College's 1981 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 #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 3.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Magnum Opus" by Rake Illustration.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #alchemy #symbolism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890. 
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#vintage illustration #elf #tiny people #thread #sewing #thumble
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tag yourself.  From The Improvement Era, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #ignorance #indifference #making faces #indecision
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November 8, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
"Book of the Week: Find more meaning in x's and o's with linguist Craig Conley's 'One Letter Words, a Dictionary'. Covering scarlet letters, medieval branding marks, bra sizes, blood types and more, this handy guide offers over 1000 definitions for those 26 letters and is on the shelves at the Little Library."
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#one-letter words
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise.  In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask.  Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #video #grave mood rings #screaming skull
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Old News (permalink)
"Never too late to roam."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#wanderlust #vintage headline #headline #roaming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Mesmerise: A Manual of Instruction in the History, Mysteries, Modes of Procedure, and Arts of Mesmerism, or, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Clairvoyance, Thought Reading, and Mesmeric Entertainment by Hames Coates, 1890.
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald College's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #autumn #leaf
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Old News (permalink)
From Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #vintage headline #headline #god of love
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #dog man #toy dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina Teachers College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #animal attack #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Flying Saucer News, 1958.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From London Teachers' College's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage woman #straws
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #costume #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #exclamation point #the end
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Old News (permalink)
"They play their game in the shadow of the underground."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Prose Bowl, by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg

Nicknames of some of the star players--the Cranker, the Hackensack Hack, Fantasy Fats McGee, Junk Artist Jenny, and a protagonist known as the Metaphor Kid.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #sailor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Reserve University's 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #illustration #chocolate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  
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#vintage illustration #falling #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #billiards
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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 #cat #illustration #hat
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November 7, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"Meteors coming our way.  Rushing toward us at 40 miles a second."  From The Children's Newspaper1930.
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#vintage illustration #giant #1930s #vintage headline #meteor #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #nursery rhyme #pincushion #needle #pin #1850s #pin cusion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Japan, 1861.  Via the Waseda University Library archive.
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#vintage illustration #waterfall #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The World of Wonders, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #geology #rocks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #propaganda #funnel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #toupee #wig #hairpiece #peter the great
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Forceful silence."  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 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 #goddess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #dentist #tooth pulling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Montana School of Mines yearbook of 1960.

*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 pyramid #eye in the sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #needle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Toronto Normal School'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 #singing #choir
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal attack #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #pursued
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myths & Legends of the Australian Aboriginals by William Ramsay Smith, 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 #mythology #long hair #aboriginal #red hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #silhouette #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blue devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In another life, what would you choose to be ... cat? dog? lion? fish? elephant?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#reincarnation #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor 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 #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #rabbit
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November 6, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 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 #snail #magnifying glass #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If MTV would show videos like this, they would still be a cultural force." —Taskboy, re: Grave Mood Rings' "The Ghost Rejoins the Living"
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#vampire #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a tailor's catalogue is a trouser Press."  From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #nest #animal attack #bird #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).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #milky way #aurora #night sky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Queen's University's 1981 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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Old News (permalink)
"Sought rest for his sole.  Found it on hs wife's face, and she wants divorce."  From the Duluth Herald, 1911.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #turtle #1930s #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #hat #vintage man #man
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Old News (permalink)
"Are the saucers our friends?"  From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
She painted her hand, too, to leave a handprint.  From Flora Macdonald 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 #handprint #ink
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Old News (permalink)
"Have you tried your imagination?"  From The Instructor, 1955.
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#imagination #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #cave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Live for the moment, the moment you forget."  From Dharma Combat, no. 11.
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#vintage illustration #memory #animal headed #noose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Huntington College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #turkey #vintage yearbook #yearbook #november
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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 #vintage book #book #cliff
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #1960s #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #muscles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #hourglass #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #illustration #in memoriam
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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
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November 5, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Outdoor Book by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #owl #dog #1920s #illustration #up a tree
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in Christian Day's The Witches' Book of the Dead, in a section about the phrase Aski kataski haix tetrax damnameneus aision.
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#magic words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #dog #mountains #1920s #st. bernard #alps #life saving #switzerland #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#magick #magic spell #buddhism #prof. oddfellow #bodhisattva #video #penetralia #shantideva
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A horse can live in a bird-house."  From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Some are born Great; some achieve Greatness, and other have it pinned on them."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #medals
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"How long is the road to Perfection? What must we go through in life to reach our goal, whatever it is? And by what means can we lose our way?"  From Mystic Magazine, 1954.  
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#vintage illustration #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1883.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina Teacher's College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #rodent #chinchilla
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Another glowing tree spreading through the forests of old yearbooks.  From Ohio Northern University's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Old News (permalink)
"My fact is better than your fact."  From Caveat Emptor, vol 4, no 4.
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#vintage headline #headline #fact
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1939.
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's book in ballet slippers patting a Trojan horse is from Wilson College's 1949 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 #trojan horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of ten crystal ball pictures in Wilson College's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly in Pittman Center, Tennessee and recalled how Joanna Rawson wrote, "I still don't know when time stops belonging to us, or us to it" (Quarry).
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#temporal anomaly
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Conversations with Robert Graves:

***
"The public, when you write a poem, is like the little figure you put in an architectural drawing that shows the scale."

***
"I am putting a ring round a piece of experience so that it can stay....I have done my best to insulate it against what is not poetry."
[So I guess a poem is defined as everything that isn't not-a-poem--sort of like a sculptor proceeding by simply removing everything from the slab that isn't part of the sculpture. (:v>]

***
[Graves's] anonymity...was largely the result of his impatient indifference to the rules of literarymanship. [Kenneth Allsop]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #freckles #ad
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November 4, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)


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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #prehistoric #dishes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss In Boots by Josiah Wood Whymper, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #bear #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #mouth #illustration #making faces
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if marriage ties are worn on wedding days."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #marriage #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Morris Harvey College's 1978 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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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #horse #lightning #storm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #trumpet #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Spires aspire to heaven."  From The Aberree, 1955.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage magazine #tower #spire #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald College's 1928 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 Easy Star Lessons by Richard Proctor, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #night sky #scorpio #ophiuchus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Arbetsgruppen För Ufologi, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Bear ye one another's burdens."  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1945 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 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 #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #upside down #painting #woman #vintage woman #1950s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #oz #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #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.]
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#vintage illustration #crow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pour Amuser Les Enfants by Victor Delosière (undated).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 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 #anthropomorphism #illustration #johnny cake #1910s
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November 3, 2024

Precursors (permalink)
We spotted Princess Leia from The Empire Strikes Back, back in 1922.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage photo #1920s #princess leia #star wars #photo
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #bird #sheet music #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, His Book by Eva March Tappan and illustrated by Charlotte Harding, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #robin hood #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #middle ages
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's pentagon getting milked is from Kansas State Collegian, 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 #political cartoon #cow #1960s #illustration #pentagon
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Old News (permalink)
"Thunder in November."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#thunder #november #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"They know any minute they might have to fight."  A collage of two elements from The Gateway, 1969.
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#animal attack #shepherd #sheep
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #snake charmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad for Defying Destiny, in The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #fate #father time #cupid #destiny #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina Teacher's College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from an undated Western Union ad.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #money
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Northern University's 1983 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Ezekiel saw spaceship 2500 years ago."  From Australian Flying Saucer Review, 1962.
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#ufo #biblical #vintage headline #ezekiel #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A prune chimney sweep.  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chimney sweep #prune
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #yarn #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 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 #inkblot #shakespeare #macbeth
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Mischief, by Ben Travers:

***
Sir Somebody Duddingbury

***
"He's rather a dear in his way, but it isn't a very exciting way."
***
Hi

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #illustration #box car
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November 2, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Design Your Home for Living by Mabel Barbara Trilling, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1950s #rectangle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 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 #crying #1920s #puppet #illustration #hand puppet #punch and judy #crying puppet
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Old News (permalink)
"News awaiting a sleeping tortoise."  From The Children's Newspaper1927.
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#tortoise #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #drawing #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The least of several evils."  From The Omen, 1996.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
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#vintage illustration #spinning wheel #illustration #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Note the occult equation above the fingertips: skull and bones minus x divided by plus equals upside down semicolon colon upside down exclamation point upside down question mark. (Actually that colon may be upside down, too ... difficult to tell.)
From Colorado 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 #hand #doodle #1900s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #oyster #faces in things #hot sauce #tabasco
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Old News (permalink)
"Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?"  From At the Edge, 1997.
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#cat #vintage headline #pussycat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Foxes at Home by J. S. Talbot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fox #hollow tree #tree door
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camel #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1876.
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#vintage illustration #bear #canoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1947 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 #to do list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #barrel #obstacle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #pipe smoker #1900s #vintage men #men
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Old News (permalink)
"Inbreeding no good."  From The Gateway, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline #inbreeding
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the book's cover.
From Kak, the Copper Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Violet Irwin and illustrated by George Richards, 1924.

From Kak, the Copper Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Violet Irwin and illustrated by George Richards, 1924
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#polar bear #vintage book #book #eskimo #gif
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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 #baseball #cat headed #illustration #bobcat
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The Right Word (permalink)
From 10 Secrets of Marketing Success, edited by Rick Crandall, 1997.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #greek #illustration #ad #missing letter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You knew that Puss in Boots had to get a shoeshine from somewhere.  From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #puss in boots #1920s #rat #illustration #shoeshine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #circus #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A carrot of an idea and point-of-view eyeglasses for a writer rabbit.  From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #writing #eyeglasses #carrot #pince-nez #1930s #illustration #smart animal #point of view
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wallpaper #1930s #illustration #interior decorating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #lies #poison #well #illustration #pollution #election #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mixing vampire humor and 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings), the web series Grave Mood Rings pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise.  In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask.  Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Korea has wanted to be left alone for four thousand years!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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#vintage headline #isolation #korea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1916 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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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From View from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal:

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"[Anthony Powell] had prepared two elaborate numbers for me…and splendid they were. He walks like Groucho Marx."

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INTERVIEWER: Why do you prefer movies to the theater?
VIDAL: I’m embarrassed by live actors. They’re always having a much better time than I am.

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The American vice is explaining, I recently explained in the New York Review of Books.

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Eventually, the novel will simply be an academic exercise, written by academics to be used in classrooms in order to test the ingenuity of students. A combination of Rorschach test and anagram.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #illustration #poem #imaginary animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's "No Photo Available" November.  From Salem Normal School's 1996 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #turkey #vintage yearbook #yearbook #november #illustration #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #boxing #kettle #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Democritus.  From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #greek #democritus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salinas Junior College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #cat and mouse #football
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1902.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado 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 #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1955.
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#artist #painting #mona lisa #spoof ad #paint by numbers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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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#vintage illustration #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"My, it's warm for November."  From James Millikin University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #on fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #november #burned alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dances and Stories of the American Indian by Bernard Mason and illustrated by Frederic Koch.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing #native american #crouching
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