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November 30, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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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 #polar bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1961.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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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.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 1898. 
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#spirit photography #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University'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 #salve
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.

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Old News (permalink)
"An unidentified beeping object."  From The Journal of Borderland Research, 1968.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1937 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage illustration #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1987 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"You're here — but why?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#meaning of life #existentialism #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#cat #musician #guitar #glee club #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whitney's Choice of Emblemes by Henry Green, 1866.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #emblem #bow and arrow #bird #hunter
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Death of Mr. Gantley, by Miles Burton:

A town called Carronport Water, "placid and land-locked"!
Mrs. Butters


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
King Priam and Zeus' eagle.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
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#vintage illustration #eagle #mythology #greek #1930s #illustration
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November 29, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 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 #fox #chicken #duck #1920s #illustration #animal friends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #man in the moon #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 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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#vintage illustration #lion #hinduism #1960s #illustration
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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 #bird #bear #1930s #illustration #resting #apathy #inaction #inactivity
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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.]
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#vintage illustration #buffalo #native american #1920s #illustration
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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.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wide Wings 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 #witch #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Where sharks and crabs mingle with the elephant's bones."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's political elephant as a tree.  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #elephant #1920s #woodpecker
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Old News (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline #parenting #childrearing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 1968.
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#skull face #mask #vintage photo #tricycle #1960s #skull mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A king's carriage passes a witch.  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king
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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 #vintage diagram #diagram #anomalous #light rays #atmosphere
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Old News (permalink)
"I left my body to seek advice."  From Fate Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #astral travel #out of body #spirit body #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouris 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #sphinx #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #spooky #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #chair #ghost chair #ghost furniture #night walk #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucers and the Coming Space Probes by Riley Hansard Crabb, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University'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 #baseball #caveman #prehistoric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 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 #magick #buddhism #occult #disease #lucky charm #tibetan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #pillow fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pyramid Power by Max Toth & Greg Nielsen.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #pyramid
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November 28, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we didn't even spot the playwright in this picture!  From the Daily Mirror, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #theatre #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #animals #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Feb. 1994.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #thrown out #1990s #dress code #bouncer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #papoose #illustration #up a tree #1910s #rockabye baby #rock-a-bye baby
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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 #1920s #puppeteer #puppet #marionette #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The purring of a cat."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #crazy #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Water is her formula for living."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#vintage headline #water #headline
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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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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vintage book #book #greek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Patterns which, in conjunction with a prism, form colors on their boundaries.  From The Journal of Borderland Research, 1989.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #black magic #rabbit #dancing animal #dancing rabbit #wodehouse #magazine #black rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University School of Medicine's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #disease #1970s #illustration #test tube #germ
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"My task is done, my song has ceased, my theme has died into an echo; it is fit the spell should break of this protracted dream. The torch shall be extinguished which hath lit my midnight lamp—and what is writ, is writ; would it were worthier!" (Lord Byron).  From Wake Forest College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #the end
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#spirit writing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wind #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Husband calls on God as witness."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #butterfly #vintage yearbook #yearbook #butterfly net #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1921-1922:

[All Nathan, including the attachments, except for the "I've no idea what is going on here" cover art.]

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To advance it as a theory, full-grown, full-fledged, and flapping...

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ghosts with the Hamlet left out

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the usual charges that I was again making up names of foreign plays in order to impress people with my travel and learning

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James Barton's feet are good comedians

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Melodrama that failed to mel.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #letter w #chicken #1900s #chick #illustration
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November 27, 2025

Precursors (permalink)
Before Eat, Pray, Love, there was Run, Walk, Laugh, Fly.  From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #turkey #uncle sam #vintage postcard #illustration #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#WTF #the blob #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustrated by Florence McCurdy.  From Wee Wisdom, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #dog #lucky #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rabbits celebrate Thanksgiving.  From Youth's Companion, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat #drawing #mouse #illustration #circle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UpNorthMemories.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy and His Daily Living by Helen Burnham, Evelyn Jones, & Helen Redford and illustrated by Iva Lou Wildey, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #nutrition #1930s #illustration #food
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Bubblyjock.  From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
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#vintage illustration #turkey #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a wonderfully mysterious photo of a Martian pilot, from Flying Saucers at Edwards AFB, 1954.
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#martian #alien
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Pathfinder, 1929.
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#word game #poem #word puzzle
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Old News (permalink)
"Murder by a ghost."  From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magic clue."  From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1954 (first image) and 1955 (second and third images).  
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#vintage illustration #demon #macabre #skeleton #skull #grim reaper #plough
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Circleville Bible College's 1979 yearbook.

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#thanksgiving #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #turkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #turkey #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ax #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #illustration #crossword puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Club of ugly faces."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.
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#vintage headline #headline
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November 26, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #thanksgiving #turkey #vintage postcard #illustration #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpine Architektur by Bruno Taut, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #gem #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Murder: 'I look better in uniform.'"  From The Western Comrade, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #grim reaper #war #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #saint #deity #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #bird #chimney #illustration #chimney wren
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychic Science, 1927.
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#ghost #spirit photography
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Old News (permalink)
"They've moved Thanksgiving again!  It starts right now!"  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#thanksgiving #turkey #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Tomorrow I shall breathe with lungs of Betelguese."  From Reality Magazine, 1938.
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#vintage headline #headline #betelgeuse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1942 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#ghost #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #1940s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant bird #photographer #giant crow #giant blackbird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Huntington College's 1984 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Redwood, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"'I know myself,' he cried, 'but that is all'" (F. Scott Fitzgerald).  From Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's 1984 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #talking bird #parrot #maledicta #expletive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Great news: "'Chesty' people can breathe again."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dizzy #illustration #hangover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #falling #pet walker #penguin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera #photographer #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Robots in glass houses" should throw ...?  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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#robot #glass houses #vintage headline
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November 25, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1996.
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#vintage illustration #birdcage #bird #caged bird #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #soccer #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hibernating bumblebee.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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Old News (permalink)
"Descent from great hog?  Lecturer thinks he has discovered Darwin's 'missing link.'"  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#evolution #darwin #vintage headline #headline #hog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen by F. Anstey, 1803.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear
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Old News (permalink)
"Girl says dead father is a white butterfly."  From The New York Magazine of Mysteries, 1901.
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#life after death #reincarnation #butterfly #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #queen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Do wooden shoes grow on trees?  From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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Old News (permalink)
"The oddest things can happen to an air hostess."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Shimmie lizard."  From the University of Mississippi's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shimmy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two versions.  From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899 and The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #queen #queen of hearts #oz
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Old News (permalink)
"You need a vacation from marriage."  From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1953.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #two faced #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #ruler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #chicken
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #rat #illustration #poem #jamaica
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Torch-Bearers, by George Kelly:





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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucers and the New Consciousness, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #universe #uroboros #ouroboros #diagram
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Pathfinder, 1937.
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#word puzzle
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November 24, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1890s #illustration #siamese cat
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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 #bear #illustration #dancing animal #dancing bear
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Old News (permalink)
"You can't scare me with tales."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fearless #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Some of the best drawing tutorials end with blacking out everything but the eyes.  From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #owl #drawing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sounds like a typical Monday: "There were demons, and angels, clowns and monks, imps and fairies."  From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #mask #masquerade #costume
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Old News (permalink)
"My invisible wife."  From Fate Magazine, 1956.
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#ghost #vintage headline #invisible #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I have a Past—behind me!"  From Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen by F. Anstey, 1803.
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#vintage illustration #past
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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 #ufo #outer space #vintage yearbook #yearbook #soap bubble #bubble
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weaver College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teepee #night #the end #tepee
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Old News (permalink)
"One cannot feed on poesy nor clothe oneself in words, they hold her, but why should she believe that?"  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1952.
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#poetry #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Normal School, Farmville's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duck #pet walker #walking the duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century Illustrated, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #chariot #king neptune
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #tree ring
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Old News (permalink)
"Mathematical proof of a spirit world.  Numbers are at the root of all things, proving that material things have a spiritual origin."  From The Journal of Borderland Research, 1964.
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#occult #spirit world #esoteric #vintage headline #numbers #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #balcony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #winged feet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magnifying glass #handstand
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Old News (permalink)
We use this sort of math, too: "Was 50 last year; 49 now."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #happily ever after
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #celtic
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November 23, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Why art is better dead than dying.  From Erewhon by Samuel Butler, 1872.
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#art #erewhon
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that sculpture & graveyard photographer Nadine Dinter played Neons Gone Mad at her gallery show in Berlin.
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#neons gone mad #nadine dinter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Thin and ugly necks.  From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #exercise #1900s #illustration #neck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #money #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Happy as the night is long."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#night people #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Making pea eating a pleasure."  From The Pathfinder, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #knife #vegetable #eating #peas
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Old News (permalink)
From Meeting on the Moon by the Borderland Sciences Research Foundation, 1969.
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#moon #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #animal #cave painting
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Old News (permalink)
"Not for me."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1944.
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#vintage headline #i would prefer not to #headline #no thanks
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Australian men are 'quite a weird mob.'"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#vintage headline #headline #australian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Apotheosis, or the passage of the spirit from earth to spirit life."  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Nov. 1882.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #life after death #spiritualism #afterlife
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #jack frost #wrestling #weatherman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #shark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A potato turkey.  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #turkey #potato
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Memphis State College's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #gull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #burned alive #hooded figure #burned at the stake
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1918:

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Emotions have their fashions no less than millinery. [Nathan]

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For thirty years this Mr. Dale has been tiptoeing up behind the drama and devilishly tipping its hat down over its eyes. [Nathan]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #illustration
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November 22, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bursting a bottle with ice is only as difficult as one makes it.  From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #ice #diagram #1930s #illustration #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1920s #crying cat #crying animal #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #bee #flowers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #deity #hinduism #1960s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cave #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
X stands for kisses and is used on beer barrels.  From Punch, 1910.  For a remarkable number of definitions of X, see One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #classroom #letter x
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cutlery #knife
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Old News (permalink)
"How come a nice girl like you isn't MARRIED yet?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline #single life #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Happiness results from states of consciousness."  From Ten Steps to Self-Fulfillment, Step Eight by Robert Chaney amd illustrated by Teodors Liliensteins, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #faces #happiness #consciousness #happy and sad #mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Zuñi war god idols.  From Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
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#vintage illustration #idol #native american #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #diving #vintage yearbook #upside down
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #sun #mandala #vintage diagram #color theory #color #diagram #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers fom Great Lakes Bible Institute's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #lightning #jesus #boat #storm #endpapers #stranded at sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.  (Thanks to Nemfrog for the tip about this book.)
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#vintage illustration #serpent #occult #esoteric #hands #rose #bound
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Old News (permalink)
"How to grow a gold tooth."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #tooth #headline #pulling teeth #gold tooth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The lead report: "Can pigs see wind?"  From Duke University'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 #vintage magazine #big science #magazine #1910s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Pathfinder, 1924.
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#tombstone #gravestone #1920s #code
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Candle's Beams by Alison Brown, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #candle #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Used, not spent."  From The Instructor, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass
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November 21, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Doctors are discovering new germs every day, adding terror to life and terrifying their patients."  From the Daily Mirror, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #germs #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Surprises, edited by McInnes, Belfry, Collins, Gerrard & Ryckman and illustrated by Smith & Bagshaw, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #mouse #1960s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Haunted by whatever.  From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghosts
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Horizon, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #thumbs down
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #depression #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giving up
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #giant #fairy tale #marx brothers #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The House That Jack Built, Adorned With Cuts, 1790.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Flying Saucers and the New Consciousness, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Normal School, Farmville's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Being stuck for the drinks."  From the University of California, Berkeley'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 #mosquito #yearbook #insect
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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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#vintage illustration #dragon #st. george
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Baseball has changed so much over the years.  From Miami University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Fake news: "Luxury living on a thrift budget."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1920 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 #wind #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Ainslee's, 1922-23:

[all Parker, including the attachments]

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"In the midst of life we are in Cain's storehouse!"

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It is dull enough to satisfy the most exacting.

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a ghost strictly according to Doyle

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When we heard that Ethel Barrymore was to do Juliet--you always "do" a Shakespearean character...

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among the season's hottest dogs
[this is a positive epithet]

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All I can bear to tell you is that it was one of those plays that have a subtitle. This was: "Thoughts Are Things."
***









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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's lemon playing the bagpipes is 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 #lemon #bagpipes #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the U.S. Naval Academy's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diagram #1900s #illustration #football
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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 #egyptian #egypt #1930s #illustration #scroll
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November 20, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#end of the world #vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy #amazing criswell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #1930s #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Laughing Horse, 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 #church #1920s #arizona #illustration #linocut #lino print #mission
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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 #cat #fireplace #hearth #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #hanged man #1920s #pinocchio #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Language Skills A by Moore & Kleitsch, 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 #spider #illustration
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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 #nest #bird #wren
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wartburg College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Note the uncle rabbit's orthopedic shoe and the dropped bunny doll.  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 #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #moon #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #drawing #monkey
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Old News (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hunger #dread #spyglass #vintage headline #starvation #headline #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Persecution complexes."  From Horizon, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #persecution #headline #victimhood
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1922 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 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 #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #1960s #bottle #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine #illustration #pharmacist #pill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #wolf #oz #tin woodman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1904 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Each dawn I die."  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley & Judy Crabb, 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 #occult #vintage diagram #aura #esoteric #diagram #illustration
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November 19, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 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 #political cartoon #john bull #illustration #lock
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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 #mythology #giant #1900s #illustration #ulysses #plyphemius
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Journeys Through Many Lands by Stull & Hatch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #map #north pole #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mammoth Story Book, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cow #1900s #calf #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fables In Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir, 1870.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #fox #1870s #illustration #grapes #fox and the grapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He's charming and pleasant, and terrified."  From Dark Shadows episode 5.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #wild cat #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Those flying plasmas are sure hungry!"  From The Journal of Borderland Research, 1968.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Photo-Era, 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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#photographer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Old News (permalink)
"Lack of wind makes time slow."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#time #wind #vintage headline #temporal anomaly #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University'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 #public speaking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #cat #snake #apep
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #wedding
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A spirit message from 1879: "May he whom we all believe in bless and preserve you for ever and ever."  From The Medium and Daybreak, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #spirit writing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hood College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #constellation #dove #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"One more great thing done.  One more evil going."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#good and evil #vintage headline #headline
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November 18, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1998.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 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 #gnome #1920s #tiny men #illustration #jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 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 #beard #fairy tale #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The 'mystery' of sleep."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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#insomnia #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'What's good for burns?'  'Mud,' said the Owl, 'mud.'"  The final words of How It Came About Stories by Frank Linderman and illustrated by Carle Michel Boog, 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 #animals #advice #mud
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #upside down #animal trick #headstand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #spilled ink #yearbook #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #dinosaur #illustration #extinction #paleontology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Miami University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #archer #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"When it comes to daily regularity, do you work against Nature?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Tulsa's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #janus #door #closed #closed door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From B.A.R., 1978.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #animal attack #vintage yearbook #ax
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University'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 #1920s #flying carpet #insurance
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Old News (permalink)
"Octopus not out of woods."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#octopus #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #staircase #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #cheating
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Everyone on this Train Is a Suspect, by Benjamin Stevenson:

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I'd say S. S. Dine [who made rules about mystery writing] would be rolling in his grave, but that would break one of the general rules about the supernatural. So he'd be lying very still but disappointed all the same.

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Tickets didn't just run into the thousands of dollars, they sprinted.

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They all had their links, their grievances and their arguments, which, adding ego and cooking under the desert sun, baked into nothing less than a resentful quiche.

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"Pissssss off," he said, spending S's like he'd robbed a bank of them.

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Royce scowled back at the door like it had insulted him.

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"He shouldn't be so... so... caviar... with my friendship."

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"Why do you get to interview me, and I don't get to interview you?"
"Because I'm the narrator!"

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"I know how a denouement works," I said, sulking.
"De-noo-moh," Wolfgang said from behind me, ladling the French over my mispronunciation like syrup.

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If the Ghan were a steam train, Royce's ears could have powered it.
***

Bonus: The Four Cousins of Barbara Who-Gives-a-Toss (a nonexistent book given, by the narrator, as one of several hypothetical examples of a trend toward best sellers that include the protagonist's name in the title)
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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 #cat #egg #animal fight #hen #illustration #1880s
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November 17, 2025

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 #japanese #buddhism #japan #buddha #1900s #illustration #daruma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #cat #lion #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
621
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #musical animal #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #furniture #interior decorating #highboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #jackal #1910s
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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
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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 #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Early stone age, Europe.  From Ancient Times, A History of the Early World, Second Edition by James Henry Breasted, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #hippo #illustration #prehistoric #stone age
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #living toy #toy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a lighthouse man is always on the rocks."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #lighthouse #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The final chapters of The Four of Hearts by Ellery Queen, 1938.
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#castle in the air #chapter titles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A UFO creating a crop circle.  From Saucers, Space & Science, no. 51.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #crop circle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Stanford University's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher #1940s #vintage man #man #graph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Tulsa Collegian, 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 #automaton #robot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Popular Magazine, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #horse #bronco
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #teacher #blockhead #squarehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #mountain climbing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories From the Faerie Queen by Mary Macleod and illustrated by A. G. Walker, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #knight #men fighting
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November 16, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's sofa stuffed with the hair of great men.  From The Daily Mirror1904.
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#vintage illustration #barber #1900s #illustration #sofa
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Old News (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#cat #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #mentalism #illustration #second sight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #caged animal #puss in boots #ball and chain #illustration #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Why hesitate to lock the door?"  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #disease
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Old News (permalink)
"Cat adopts rats."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1947.
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#cat #rat #vintage headline #animal friends
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Miami University's 1929 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
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Old News (permalink)
"I was a teenage dwarf."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Tulsa's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage yearbook #janus #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #long hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't you know that eggs are poison?"  From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #chicken #oz #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1920s #facing the wrong way
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Old News (permalink)
"The astral lover.  The most dangerous thing in the world dealing with the dead through the psychic phenomena of the Ouija board."  From The Occult Digest, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #ouija #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Montana College's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #caveman #wheel
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From American Mercury, 1926:

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What we got...was Expressionism that had nothing to express. [Nathan]

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One might as well play...Caesar and Cleopatra with Ed Wynn and Fannie Brice. [Nathan; now that I'd like to see!]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #1910s
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November 15, 2025

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that a selection from our How to Be Your Own Cat as well as Neons Gone Mad's "That Cat Step" featured in Bad Juju & J Bone Presents.
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#how to be your own cat #neons gone mad
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #rose #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #full moon #nest #bird #night #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #modern art #1970s #illustration
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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 Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #bees #bee #1930s #illustration #dancing animal
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Old News (permalink)
"The old lady takes a sandwich."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #sandwich #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Occult Review, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #sacred geometry #numbers #nine #six
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #the end
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Old News (permalink)
How studying insanity drove a physician incurably insane.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#insanity #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Charles Viewer, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Two Worlds, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's why the earth wobbles on its axis.  From Miami University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tag yourself.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rose Polytechnic Institute's 1935 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Tulsa Collegian, 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 ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"On borrowed time."  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hourglass #father time #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Surrouded by space gnomes while sitting upon giant books on top of the world.  From Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gnome #outer space #books #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Midweek Pictorial, 1924.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #beachwear #1920s #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Joseph's College's 1923 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 #pied piper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat
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November 14, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By 1965, people will be half blind, will resemble gramophones, and will dress like this.  From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #future #prediction #1900s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"If we are with the right and for it, though all the world have gone over to the other side, the long line of ancestral and glorified men are behind us, —troops of beautiful, tall angels, to enshield us from all wrong."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars by Carl Garrison, 1901.
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#sentence diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Aug. 1992.
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#vintage illustration #castle #illustration #the people could fly #kicked #1990s #onwards #upwards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today and Tomorrow by Hildreth et al., 1940.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Following New Trails by Horn, Moscrip & Porter, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #illustration #diver
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Old News (permalink)
Imagine that: calloused hands from handling too much money.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#money #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #horse #jester #circus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun magazine, 1869.  (Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan.)
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#vintage illustration #jester #king neptune #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #alligator
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Old News (permalink)
"Life begins at zero.  Beware!"  From The Journal of Borderland Research, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Hearts yearned, eyes looked afar, feet set upon the wave."  From Goshen College's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dunce #teacher
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Old News (permalink)
"Was Eden in Florida?"  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#garden of eden #florida #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Folk of the Woods by Lucius Crocker Pardee and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #ermine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Texas State Teachers College's 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Guide for Drawing the Acanthus by James Page, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #greek #winged lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlam College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #then and now
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Old News (permalink)
"Fig leaves & hankies!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1944.
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#vintage headline #fig leaf
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, July-December 1922:

***
an atmosphere of the absurd which is really produced by magnifying reality, by putting it on stilts [Jean Cocteau; his emphasis]
***
Broun192207Broun192209Cocteau192209mathematicsWoollcott





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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1924.
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#labyrinth #maze #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
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#vintage illustration #insect #1890s #illustration #gnat
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November 13, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #paper doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cow #pig #flowers #illustration #animal friends #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's rabbit drawing a jack-in-the-box.  From We Can Read Surprises by Gerrard & McInnes, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #jack-in-the-box #rabbit #1960s #artistic animal #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #fox #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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#vintage illustration #fairy #underwater #fairy tale #harp #1920s #under the sea #musician #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if all these pacts will bring us pax."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #war and peace #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1926 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 #hat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Great news!  From You Don't Have to Take It Anymore by Steven Stosny.
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#enough is enough #had enough #enough already
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May Garian raiders do pillaging of a different sortie, elsewhere.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #pirate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1933 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #woodcutter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lumberjack #ax
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It was more than she could bear, being alone in the house with the big white cat.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fear of cats
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #lion #eyes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan Agricultural College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hobo
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Old News (permalink)
"Can a man sell his soul?"  From The Occult Digest, 1925.
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#occult #soul #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #before and after #vintage man #man #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1910 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 #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English in Action 3 by J. C. Tressler and illustrated by A. B. Savrann, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #genie #magic lamp #wishing #1930s #illustration
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November 12, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #travel #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not blowing a spool off your lips is only as interesting as you make it.  From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration #spool
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #sloth #illustration #armadillo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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 Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #cauldron #oz #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #map #cosmography #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Patterns for Writing 2 by Dashwood-Jones, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #cannon #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #shoe #1900s #illustration #up a tree #woman #vintage woman #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #1890s #illustration #three wise men
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Types of games, from The Journal of Borderland Research, 1972.
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#games #list
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #canoe #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #nursery rhyme #waiter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #flower #dew drop #dew
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Old News (permalink)
"Believes in hell."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#hell #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
Today's color swatches in a web are from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1958.
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#vintage ad #spider web #paint colors #colors #1950s #paint swatches #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"All men are living ghosts."  From Light, 1935.
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#ghost #occult #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ontario Agricultural College's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#cow #vintage yearbook #1950s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The fullness of the moon means something it has never meant before."  From Dark Shadows episode 638.
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#dark shadows #moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gnome #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #stein #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Shall We Do In Art? by Florence Hart, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #illustration #living toy #toy
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November 11, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1900s #illustration #invisible man #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #goat #1920s #sheep #illustration #farm
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Old News (permalink)
"We're all at Sea ... and loving it!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#sea #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #rooster #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's raisin thief is from Butler College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #thief #vintage yearbook #yearbook #burglar #raisin
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you possess the stamina to rise above mediocrity?"  From Reality Magazine, 1939.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Denying the alien presence has resulted in a different nation."  From Enigmas, 1993.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #ladder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir Rhyne College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy
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Old News (permalink)
"Making the world safe for crime."  From The Occult Digest, 1925.
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#vintage headline #headline #crime
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flute #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #winter #monkey #illustration #frozen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"No cease-fire yet in battle for hemlines.  Women will not surrender."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Peter Whiffle, by Carl Van Vechten:

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"If there has been one set purpose in my life, it has been not to have a purpose."

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"A list of passengers sailing on the Kronprinz Wilhelm is more nearly a work of art than a novel by Thomas Hardy!"

***
"the Etruscan peridot representing a Sphinx scratching her ear with her hind paw" [It seems like maybe Van Vechten made this up?]
***


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1923.
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November 10, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Scientists opposed to kissing."  From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #bodhisattva #buddhist
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #snail #1920s #illustration #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.]
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#vintage illustration #puppet #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ameliaranne and the Green Umbrella by Constance Heward and illustrated by Susan Beatrice Pearse, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #basket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I smell a trap."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #nose #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How You Look and Dress by Byrta Carson, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #advice #posture #illustration
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #occult #illustration #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"A strange, weird mystery.  How a baby's building blocks warn against evil and give good advice."  From Progressive Thinker, 1907.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #wisdom #funnel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Irish Fairy Book by Alfred Perceval Graves and illustrated by George Denham, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #pooka
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Reserve University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #japan
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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 #end of the world #apocalypse #end times #end of time
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #transformation #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical note
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Testing susceptibility.  From Human Magnetism, or, How to Hypnotise by James Coates, 1904.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #blindfold #dog #vintage yearbook #smoke #smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #gallows #hanged man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Anthropomorphized books collect their dead in the smoke of a fire.  From Wesleyan College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #smoke
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #card game #gas mask
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November 9, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #melting #1900s #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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #seeds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #mushroom
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Old News (permalink)
"Cat that's part dog."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1945.
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#hybrid #vintage headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find Red Riding Hood, a cat, the woodman and his axe, mother, grannie, and the wolf.  From Lyceum Banner, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #little red riding hood #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Old News (permalink)
Bad news if you're already feeling overburdened: "The whole universe depends on you."  From The Occult Digest, 1931.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen by F. Anstey, 1803.
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#vintage illustration #norwegian #peculiar
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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.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gnostic, 1985.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage book #book #masquerade
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1892.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Queens College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Orilla is ere": a teaser ad with the left side deliberately cut off, from The Film Daily, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #gorilla #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #librarian #vintage yearbook #cannon #library #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage book #book
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My Discovery of England, by Stephen Leacock:

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They carry away with them their impressions of America, and when they reach England they sell them. This export of impressions has now been going on so long that the balance of trade in impressions is all disturbed. There is no doubt that the Americans and Canadians have been too generous in this matter of giving away impressions. We emit them with the careless ease of a glow worm, and like the glow-worm ask for nothing in return.

***
Or here, again, is a form of "impression" that recurs again and again-"At Cleveland I felt a distinct note of optimism in the air."
This same note of optimism is found also at Toledo, at Toronto—in short, I believe it indicates nothing more than that some one gave the visitor a cigar.

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This particular part of London is connected with the existence of that strange and mysterious thing called "the City." I am still unable to decide whether the city is a person, or a place, or a thing. But as a form of being I give it credit for being the most emotional, the most volatile, the most peculiar creature in the world. You read in the morning paper that the City is "deeply depressed." At noon it is reported that the City is "buoyant" and by four o'clock that the City is "wildly excited."

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The Abbey, I admit, is indeed majestic. I did not intend to miss going into it. But I felt, as so many tourists have, that I wanted to enter it in the proper frame of mind. I never got into the frame of mind; at least not when near the Abbey itself. I have been in exactly that frame of mind when on State Street, Chicago, or on King Street, Toronto, or anywhere three thousand miles away from the Abbey. But by bad luck I never struck both the frame of mind and the Abbey at the same time.

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It was understood that the main object of my trip to England was to find out whether the British people have any sense of humour. No doubt the Geographical Society had this investigation in mind in not paying my expenses.

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Please note that roar at the end of the English personal anecdote. It is the sign that indicates that the story is over. When you are assured by the narrators that all the persons present "roared" or "simply roared," then you can be quite sure that the humorous incident is closed and that laughter is in place.
***
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if the eye of a needle is its point of view."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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November 8, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1930s #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #bird #animal fight #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"The commercial 'we.'"  From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #pronoun #we
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Old News (permalink)
"'Love is insanity,' ruling of NY court."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Redwood, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #falling #fashion #vintage fashion #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Practical Taxidermy by Montagu Browne, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #lion #taxidermy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wink #shy #fan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Folk of the Woods by Lucius Crocker Pardee and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1913.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Mississippi's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How eclipses are symbolic of neurosis and psychosis.  From The Journal of Borderland Research, 1987.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina Teacher's College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #1920s
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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 #unicorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"If Time's hand trembles, your destiny may fall in the wreckage."  From The Occult Digest, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fate #hourglass #father time #destiny #hand #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #outer space #cupid #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #saturn #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
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Old News (permalink)
"Heyday, what a sweep of vanity comes this way!"  From Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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November 7, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Building My House of Health by Jessie Lummis, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #witch #1920s #candy #illustration #lollipop
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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 #bird #1900s #illustration #petrel #whalebird
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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 #king solomon #merchant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #tea #illustration #chipmunk
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Old News (permalink)
"A monkey must not bite."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#monkey #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
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#lion #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #occult #electricity
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Flying Saucers and the Coming Space Probes by Riley Hansard Crabb, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Denver's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horn #1920s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #animals #puzzle #rhyming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magic mirror."  From Psychic Power, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #occult #magic mirror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #walking the dog #pet walker
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Old News (permalink)
"Sweet night for murder."  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#murder #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gardner-Webb College's 1944 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #blindfolded
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #prayer #candle #1920s #illustration #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Strange people in Ituri Forest.  They make themselves invisible by painting their bodies."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #invisible #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #north wind #starry night #weightless #wind god #carried away #the people could fly #wind spirit #earthward
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Random Memories, by Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow:


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #money #fairy tale #scales #kissing #illustration #1910s
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November 6, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Subterranean World by George Hartwig, 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 #underground #coal #1870s #illustration #mine #miner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #hot potato #1930s #illustration #game
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #color theory #1930s #colors #illustration #color wheel
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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. 
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #letters #illustration #nursery rhyme #poem #1850s
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Old News (permalink)
"Castle haunting in charred ruins."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#castle #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Dramatic gong, from Dark Shadows episode 1225.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Trinity University's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #popping cork #alcohol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #1900s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Invisible Reality Behind Appearances by Riley & Judy Crabb, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #kabbalah #tree of life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Mississippi's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gnome #vintage yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Flying Saucers and the Coming Space Probes by Riley Hansard Crabb, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #aura #esoteric #diagram #astral body #etheric double
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Old News (permalink)
A lie taught in college: "Friends last forever."  From Elon College's 1986 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #fake news #friendship #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Plover by G. E. Theodore Roberts and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #native american #panther
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1937 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 #moustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration #basket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Tom Thumb (McLoughlin Bros.), c. 1885.
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#tom thumb #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The official badge for all spiritualists.  From Two Worlds, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #occult #spiritualism #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #letter a #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #illustration #no face #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers, Second Book by McIntyre, Dearness & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #illustration
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November 5, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Duchesses, countesses, and peeresses promote simple living.  From The Daily Mirror1904.
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#vintage illustration #wealth #money #1900s #illustration #simplicity
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#prof. oddfellow #penetralia
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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 #1920s #pig #illustration #swine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From By the Roadside by Dunn & Troxell and illustrated by Nell E. Hukle, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #goldenrod
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #medieval #fashion #vintage fashion #shoe #illustration #peasant #twelfth century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #mouse #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #spider #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Faust by Goethe and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #witch #occult #Faust #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Joey and the Pig by Arthur Gates, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat #caged animal #pig #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Peter Pan in tadpoledom.  Natural magic."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#peter pan #vintage headline #tadpole #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The only support of the Consternation Society.  From Earlham College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#gallows #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #consternation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's only as fun as one makes it.  From Punch, 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 #upside down #handstand #yacht
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Old News (permalink)
From Who Flys the Saucers by Riley Hansard Crabb, undated.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
If you happen to be out of a "hhg of aunty ock" (Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch?), here's one, and may it be just in time.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #grenade
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #contortionist #vintage man #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Ouija boards replace Bible, pastor warns."  From Psychic Power, 1923.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#occult #ouija #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1988 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Great news -- "The world is in no danger of being taken over by the giant mechanical brains of computers."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#computer #artificial intelligence
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Old News (permalink)
"You can never go back."  From George Fox College's 1977 yearbook.
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#mummy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reptiles and Amphibians by Feberal Writers' Project, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #lizard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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November 4, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #goat #drum #musician #illustration #dancing animals #1950s #durmmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #moon #lady in the moon #illustration #poem #1880s #lady moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stage and the School by Katharine Anne Ommanney, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #shakespeare #1930s #illustration #romeo and juliet
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
A snowflake that traveled a long distance (bottom left).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #snowflake
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Old News (permalink)
"The mathematics of immortality."  From Light, 1938.
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#life after death #occult #immortality #vintage headline #math #headline
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
"Reserved for the object of my affection."  From the Shaw University Journal, 1939.
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#yearbook #not pictured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #stork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 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 #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A ghost octopus and other ghostly sealife.  From Australian Women's Weekly, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #octopus #ghost fish
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Old News (permalink)
"Child carried away by eagle."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#eagle #carried away #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #up a tree #bobcat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit photography
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #candle #gingerbread man #1920s #1970s #disco #saturday night fever #john travolta
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage ad #antisocial #blemishes #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir Rhyne College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cat and mouse
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Old News (permalink)
"Why women have baby face: they cease to grow at 13, says scientist."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Who Do You Think Did It?" by Stephen Leacock:

***
The afternoon edition of the Metropolitan Planet was going to press. Five thousand copies a minute were reeling off its giant cylinders. A square acre of paper was passing through its presses every hour. In the huge Planet building, which dominated Broadway, employés, compositors, reporters, advertisers, surged to and fro. Placed in a single line (only, of course, they wouldn't be likely to consent to it) they would have reached across Manhattan Island. Placed in two lines, they would probably have reached twice as far.

***
In the whole vast building all was uproar. Telephones, megaphones and gramophones were ringing throughout the building. Elevators flew up and down, stopping nowhere.

***
There was something in his massive frame which suggested massiveness

***
"Inspector," he said, "I must have some more clues. Take me again to the Kelly residence. I must re-analyse my first diæresis."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In solitary splendor."  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #duck #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #paper doll #1950s
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November 3, 2025

Precursors (permalink)
Here are some bell-bottoms, 70 years before their peak popularity.  From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #illustration #sailor #bell bottoms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #1940s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy #count drahoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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#vintage illustration #gnome #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let's live a life in two hours."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.
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#vintage ad #1910s #movie #vintage illustration #ad #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Furnishing by Anna Hong Rutt, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #1960s #illustration #floorplan
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #ship #columbus #illustration #santa maria
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Good riddance."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A variation on "live, laugh, love": "laughed, liked, lived."  From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
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#vintage illustration #lamb #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"If there's ice in November that will bear a duck, there'll be nothing after but sludge and muck."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #ice #weather #duck #november #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#word puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse
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Old News (permalink)
"Good things don't just happen."  From Lighted Pathway, 1976.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #puppet master #human puppet #leash #string
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1903 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In a long (five month) trance.  From the Religio Philosophical Journal and Weekly Occult News, 1865.
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#vintage illustration #occult #trance #coma
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #black cat #cat #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse #spear #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 1865.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1860s
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November 2, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #cat people #1900s #illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #ship #architecture #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 #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everyday Foods by Harris & Lacey, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #nutrition #1920s #illustration #food #fruit #vintage digaram #digaram
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Sun Dial by Austin Dobson and illustrated by George Wharton Edwards, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Conflicting headlines from the same issue: "November a big month," "November was average month."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#november #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#underworld #hades #fruit #staff
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #ship
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Old News (permalink)
Fake news -- "Life begins at 50." From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #lion #oz #crying animal #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #caterpillar
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Old News (permalink)
"The weekend is over."  From the College of Wooster's 1953 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #sunday #weekend
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #healing #healer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vick's Illustrated Monthly, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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Old News (permalink)
"Fewer tears, more contacts from within.  Make your own joystick."  From 73 Magazine, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
We spotted some upside down letters in headlines from Progressive Thinker, 1906.  Can you spot the additional typo in the second headline?
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#vintage headline #headline
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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 ad #smoking #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #1920s #spoof ad #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Devereux Court Mystery, by Miles Burton:

***
A bright yellow tie looked pale and unconvincing beneath his fiery beard.
***

Bonus names:
Mrs. Squirl
Wilfrid Ribbon, Boot Repairer

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #illustration #riding crop
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November 1, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Bystander, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #mercury #deity #god #in the clouds #1930s #jupiter #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Ingersoll Birthday Book, edited by Grace Macdonald and illustrated by Paul Berdanier, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #zodiac #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #spider #1920s #illustration #little miss muffet
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Youth's Companion1917.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #native american #november #illustration #poem #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of Al-Sufi, 15th century.
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#vintage illustration #twins #constellation #illustration #15th century
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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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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #elf #brownie #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you use a knife around the edges of an ornamental pond.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #garden
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A pleasing personality is the secret of popularity."  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 #1930s #advice #illustration #popularity #dating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medieval Days and Ways by Gertrude Hartman, 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 #medieval #illustration
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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)
From Kansas State's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wildcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The apple porcupine."  From Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls by Lina & Adelia Beard, 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 #porcupine #apple #crafts
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
They don't make ads like this anymore.  From Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"To forge a phrase, Ngo news might be bad news—for boys."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#no #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Planet Eros of queer shape?"  From The New York Magazine of Mysteries, 1901.
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#vintage headline #headline
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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 #circle #radionics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy'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 #dancing #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Number Stories Work-Book 1, by Findley, Studebaker & Knight, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhyme Time for Children by Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 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 #1920s #illustration #farm
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