CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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December 31, 2021

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #new year
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
The 1970s weren't understood decades later, and they remain unsolved to this day.  "The decade of the 1970s began and is ending in confusion" (The Indianapolis Star, Dec. 30, 1979).  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1998.
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#vintage headline #1970s #headline #unsolved
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The little new year lay rocking in his cradle up in the sky."  From When Fairies Were Friendly by Evaleen Stein, 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 #winter #night #baby new year #new year's eve
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #ostrich #1940s #head in the sand #denial #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Someone out there likes us."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Old Year welcomes the "little stranger" New Year.  From The Wave, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #father time #new year #old year
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light and dark #lens flare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #faces in things #art
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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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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Swarthmore's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #shark costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #birds #birdcage #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to communicate in his native tongue. From Guilford's 1979 yearbook.

From Guilford's 1979 yearbook
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#beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tongue #1970s #gif #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A new year's resolution: "I won't miss a bug again this year."  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From His Burial Too, by Catherine Aird:

***
Detective Inspector Sloan had no time for euphemisms so early in the morning.

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Like a sticky snail the Superintendent strewed a trail of imperfectly assimilated concepts behind him: not only did they show where he had been but they were a nuisance to the unwary.

***
"They've just designed a new instrument for checking the performance of a solar energy source to provide impressed current for cathodic protection of underground pipe lines."
"Nice work," said Leeyes cordially, "if you can get it."
***
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bells #new year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bouncing, a Canadian winter sport."  From Chatterbox, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #canada #tossed about
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see Father Time impaled by his own scythe after being tripped by Baby New Year.  From Innis Herald, 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 #happy new year #father time #scythe #impaled
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December 30, 2021

Old News (permalink)
Troubling news: "You can't do the twist with a bowl of soup in each hand."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#dancing #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tarzan, from Cine-Mundial, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tarzan
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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 #king #crown #1890s #aztec #montezuma #emperor
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1935.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #ice #winter #old man winter #frozen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed photo spread is from Rockingham's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#transformation #skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cursed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #thumbing nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #political cartoon #sphinx #art
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Old News (permalink)
Same script, different cast.  From UNC Pembroke's 2002 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #same old story #same script #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #toupee #hairpiece
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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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#magick #occult #pierced
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
"Dead is a nonsense.  But a real one.  And one of us is dead."  From The Force by Peter Redgrove, 1966.
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#death #poetry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 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 #grotesque
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #porcupine #catamount
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bigfoot #oklahoma #1980s #mystery cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When it comes to making friends, where you hang out is important.  From Charleston Southern's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ventriloquism #hobo #ventriloquist
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The Right Word (permalink)
We do appreciate a book that gets to the real questions, and of course the real questions require the "mystical quadruple interrogatory: how? what?? whence??? whither????"  From Rending the Vail by William Aber, 1899.
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#question mark #mystical #questions
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The two lovers searched for peace and solitude in a world unwilling to cast aside a looming cloud of despair."  From Santa Clara's 1994 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #west side story
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #lightning #hand #today's the day #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis' 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #beetle #doom beetle
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December 29, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rooster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Arthur Rackham.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #arthur rackham
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat's Whiskers (1923).
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #sheet music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 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 #giant #giant hand #shadow #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A "lost wind spire."  From Lyndon State College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wind #tent #camping #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #guillotine #decapitated #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Our tree of knowledge.  From the State Female Normal School'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 #tree #illustration #family tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #tree spirit #faces in things #tree face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Westwords, Sept. 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#demon #cat #eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two very different covers for The Little Time-Keeper by Jon Silkin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #timepiece #father time #vintage book #book #timekeeper
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Due West's 1920 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drunk #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Chinese epigram - 'You can substitute a turnip for an egg only once!'"  From The Film Daily, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #chinese #lion #turnip #egg #epigram
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Absolutely a ghost, according to the results of our custom Uncanny Detector app.  From West Georgia's 1972 yearbook.
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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #cursed #invisible man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
An orgy of men falling into a hypnotic trance after looking at Luv's revolving mirror.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Today's Raul Julia kissing a goat is from Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage photo #goat #raul julia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Methodist College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #zombie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman #extraterrestrial
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #barrel #costume #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #lion #puss in boots
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December 28, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"My secret of youth I give to you.  Eat your way to beauty."  From Mystic World, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #vintage headline #beauty #women #vintage women #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We operated this strange device to a remix we created for Nine Inch Nails:
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #lie detector
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1874.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #angora cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #heart #vintage man #man #wanted poster #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hare pounding rice for mochi."  From Japan and Its Art by Marcus Bourne Huish, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #japanese #rabbit #mochi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1973 yearbook.

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

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Piper, 1985.
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#umbrella #vintage photo #eye
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's yearbook of 1975.

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

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #valkyrie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Trier.  From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #leopard #lion #caged animal #zoo #tiger #bear #hippo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Durham College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He wanted very much to be king."  From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flowers
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

***
"Are you just going to sit there and let them insinerate things about your own son?"

***
[An alternative to a long string of *mixed* cusses.]
MacGregor's jaw tightened and silently, to himself, he said the same rude word ten times. Somehow, it helped.

***
This Wednesday morning breakfast was so typical as to be almost a caricature of those that had preceded it.

***
Didn't somebody say that the true essence of something or other was knowing what questions to ask? Well, whatever it was, Charles Edward MacGregor would have done very well at it.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From If You Can't Walk, Fly by Helen Lewison. 
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#vintage illustration #birds #giant bird #red bird
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Old News (permalink)
"Sad food causes fat."  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage headline #weight loss #fat #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Georgia Southwestern's 1973 yearbook.
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#snowman #vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The ring of solitude.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ring #bling
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December 27, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #illustration #1880s #pardoner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ye Quaint Magazine, 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 #germs #germ #microbe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Sphinx in its normal, involuted, and evolved states.  From Mysteria, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #occult #symbolism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astrology #jupiter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cat #motherhood #kitten
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to a fully painted version. From Fairy Circles by Villamaria, 1877.

From Fairy Circles by Villamaria, 1877
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#fairy tale #king #harp #fountain #fairy king #gif
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"You may find it hard to believe, but rainy days pass just as quickly as sunny days."
Kindergarten Basics by Kate Kelly ad Anne Zeman
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#rainy day
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Because darkness must call to darkness."  From Dark Shadows episode 816.
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#darkness #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The skunk who came to dinner."  From Festive Food Decoration for All Occasions by Shelia Ostrander.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Campus Enquirer (University of Alberta), 1982.
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#vintage ad #dumbed down #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #genie #magic lamp #ad
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #cat #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Grimace, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #demon #headache #migraine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1913 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull face #walking dead #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #secret society
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 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 #zombie #vampire #undead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flowers
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Old News (permalink)
"'That deathly feeling.'  People often speak of having 'deathly sensations.'  What are the actual sensations of death?  Are there really any feelings of pain when death comes?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1895.
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#vintage ad #death #vintage headline #headline #ad
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December 26, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Too many frauds getting to the act.  Dark age for witchcraft."  From The Aberree, 1956.  
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#witchcraft #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa
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Old News (permalink)
Confirmed -- "Flocks of Canadian geese coupld cause nuclear warfare."  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#war #geese #nuclear #vintage headline #headline
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Some of the best snowmen are out of books.  A postcard from the early 1960s, via UpNorthMemories.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #vintage photo #snow #winter #book #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I told you ... you know nothing about wickedness."  Orson Welles, The Lady from Shanghai.  From The Film Daily, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #orson welles #shadow #wickedness #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Old News (permalink)
Sometimes it's a little of both -- "Sorcery or saucery, they ask."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1972.
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#ufo #vintage headline #sorcery #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's some sort of laddie Godiva (we recognize that sort of thing, as we're related to Lady Godiva — the barest branch of the family tree — on our maternal side).  From Unknown, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #naked man #godiva
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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 #zodiac #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dizzy #you spin me round #spinning kick #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Caricature, 1835.
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#religion #vintage illustration #bat #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #skull face #mask #capital s #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1934 yearbook.

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

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We were researching what the night contains and shouldn't have been surprised to discover sheet ghosts.  Do you agree that it is sheets ghosts who, in the final lines here, billow down lanes at dusk, like a mist of bleached portraits that don't exist, "who walk like a shivering laundry of shifted humanity"?  From The Force by Peter Redgrove, 1966.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#death #sheet ghost #poetry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Santa Clara'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 #map #yearbook #1930s #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #beaver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One sign features a line misattributed to Lewis Carroll: "The hurrier I go, the behinder I get."  The other says "Super Rabbit."  From Wesleyan College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Curse of the Dream Witch by Allan Stratton.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #skull #dreams
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Murder of Steven Kester, by Harriette Ashford:

***
"Say, will you stop saying '$1,200 in my knittin' ball'?"

[If I remember correctly, a Kelly Roos book had a bit that went "Stop saying 'furniture'!" I'm going to watch out for more of these "stop saying [word or phrase that has been uttered repeatedly, though justifiably, in someone's recent speech]" items.]

***
His face was an animated question mark.

[I think that's one better than the classic "face was a question mark"--which was already pretty darn good, imho.]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #falling #rescue #winter #rooftop
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December 25, 2021

Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
Not everybody wonders about a Christmas tree's underwear.  From Costuming Made Easy by Barb Rogers.
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#vintage christmas #christmas #fashion #vintage fashion #mannequin #disguised as a christmas tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When a ghost gives you second sight for Christmas.  From Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Don Bolognese.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"You may find it hard to believe, but adults really do love homemade presents."
Look What I Did With a Leaf! by Morteza E. Sohi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times by Frances Browne and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Italy is not a boot but rather a Christmas stocking that can be stuffed with other nations.  From Nebelspalter, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we thought that this Santa was sporting wings and a halo with chimneys in it.  Then we realized that any depiction of Santa without wings or a chimneyed halo is fake news.  From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 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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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1964 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"'Flying Christmas Trees' spotted."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1973.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From The Strand, 1907.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Judson's 1981 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ever since Christmas was ruined, the kids' sorry energy has been coming in smoothly!"  From Kyoryuger episode 42.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
We find that when we wear Christmas presents as shoes, foil paper makes for a slipping hazard.  From The Point [Fitchburg], 2007.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From When Fairies Were Friendly by Evaleen Stein, 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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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1981 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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December 24, 2021

Strange Dreams (permalink)
Christmas is a dreamy time ("I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas," for example.)  But is the classic imagery nightmarish?  We consulted an old book of dream symbolism, The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy (1899):
Reindeer are auspicious:
However, sleigh-bells are inauspicious:
Santa being a stout person is auspicious:
That his beard is white is auspicious:
That he comes down the chimney is auspicious:
Receiving presents is inauspicious:
Snowflakes are auspicious:
The singing of carols or hymns is inauspicious:
A fire in the fireplace is auspicious:
With only three of these nine symbols being inauspicious, Christmas is two-thirds a sweet dream.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

More from The Rest of My Life, by Carolyn Wells:

[According to her opening chapter, Wells's memoir is to be about the portion of her life *not yet lived* (hence the title), rather than a conventional autobiography covering the past--a genre she holds in contempt: "Why should a biographer look back and never forward? Why harp on the past when the future beckons?" (By the way, I don't know when Wells began drafting this book, but when it was published she was 75 years young.)

But the bad news (for her, at least) is that she doesn't deliver on this promise, and after the introductory chapter she goes on basically to write about her past. But the good news is, there are still many, many highlights [cue snippets...]

***
A more concise or better biography [than the "Solomon Grundy" nursery rhyme] can, probably, never be done.

***
My childhood? Wearisome to read. My married life, my literary career, my approaching middle age--bah, it sounds like a shelf of the Elsie Dinsmore books.

***
I invariably run up against the theory that the fourth dimension is Time. Which is silly. I know all about Time, and I think it is a negligible quantity.

***
Of course it caresses your vanity to be asked [for advice], but if you must respond, make your advice so vague and generalized that it cannot be definitely followed.

***
His riposte was so quick and apt and his further conversation so much cleverer than mine that I cease reporting it.

***
To me, the Nineties connote shirtwaists and humor. [From a chapter called "Those Nineties."]

***
On one occasion I entered [Oliver Hereford's] studio during one of these brief spells of spotlessness, and unthinkingly tore a letter to bits. Oliver walked the floor in dismay. What could be done with the scraps? I suggested that I had a half-filled waste-basket out in my New Jersey home. He hailed the fact with joy, and stuffing the scraps in an envelope, directed and mailed it to my address.

***
My sister told [Oliver Hereford] of a club we were forming and offered him the privilege of membership.
"It is," she explained, "the Esurient Club. Do you know the meaning of esurient?"
"No," said Oliver. "I've not the faintest idea what it means."
"Then you can join. A member must not know the meaning of the word, he must not ask anyone what it means and he must not look in any dictionary."
"Then how does he find out what it means?"
"Oh, you have to wait until you run across it in a book, or hear it accidentally in a casual conversation. When that occurs, you are given a degree, but, of course, you mustn't tell the other members what it means."
Oliver said he would think it over before joining the club, and later wrote to my sister that, after all, he had discovered he was ineligible for membership.
"I'm sorry," he wrote, "but I find that to belong to a club like that one must not only fail to know what esurient means, but one must care what it means. I don't."

***
[Re. misprints in Shakespeare editions.] "Ferdinand, with hair-upstaring" [someone quoted], claiming that it should be up-starting.
"No," said Oliver, "anybody could say up-starting, but that's commonplace. Up-staring,--fine!"

***
[Oliver H. thought well of the limerick form, in theory, yet rarely wrote them.]

But he said he had two lines to use as third and fourth in any limerick, so he was never at a loss, except for the other three.
His patent inside lines were:

When they said, "Goodness me!"
She replied, "That may be."

***
[Hereford wrote to Wells]

"I'm planning to re-write the alphabet, and have it begin with C is for Carolyn....It's a terribly simple thing to do if you don't lose your nerve. You just consider the alphabet as a circle, and instead of (when you straighten it out) dividing it between Z and A you divide it between B and C and make B the last letter and C the first. Don't say anything about it though, as I want to surprise the schools--and the writing world."

***
[And I guess we're fortunate that The Lark survived long enough to be digitized, because Wells tells us that it was printed on] paper which totally disintegrates if you look at it....I always turn my head as I pass the shelf that holds my copies.

***
His poems were on the order of those lays that are always asking where things are,--like the snows of yesteryear or my wandering boy tonight.

***
[In Stratford-on-Avon]

I knew there must be a fitting tribute of emotion displayed at sight of certain material memorials, and equally well knew that whatever might be my sense of reverential homage, in me such power of emotional demonstration did not abound. I should therefore take with me someone who could adequately supplement my shortcomings.
Sentimental Tommy, of course!
To be sure that was not his real name [it was Harry P. Taber], but I call my friends whatever I like.

***
[Walking Encyclopedias et al. Dept.]
Though he is a Bartlett's Concordance to Shakespeare, in men's clothing, I knew, for a surety, that he would quote no line from the poet the whole day.

***
All through the Nineties I met people. Crowds of people.
Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.

***
Richard Hovey...outwhistled Whistler in his gentle art.

***
[The British Museum] is as cold and forbidding as one of the Elgin Marbles, and it takes longer to get the book you ask for than to write one.

***
The only things I hope for are things I know I shall get anyway. I hope that tomorrow will be Tuesday, and it will be.

***
Headlessness is a great boon to ghosts. If the Headless Horseman had had a head, there would have been no story about him. A ghost always wants a severed head to carry round under his arm; I've heard they borrow them from one another.
[...]
But we have to have heads....while we might be better-looking, still we would look eccentric without them.

***
On the table is...my fountain pen, the only one in the world that will write on request.

[Cf. JC-E, "Amanda's Birthday Party": The words were barely out of her mouth before she began noisily rummaging through a drawer full of utensils, searching for the paring knife she had made a point of handing to Steve ten minutes before, with the declaration that this was “absolutely the only knife in the world” suitable for chopping carrots.]

[Back to Carolyn]
Also there is a gold pencil, but just for ornament, as no gold pencil was ever worth its keep.

***
[from a tribute by Caroll Watson Rankin]

One sees her work each month, each week;
One likes her style, her wit, her cheek.
As all the signs would indicate,
Is Carolyn Wells a syndicate?

Bonuses:
1. Gelett Burgess (I think) alludes to "a very Eiffel of a compliment," presumably, a compliment of metaphorically towering size.
2. The verb form "waste-basketed"--new to me, though I see that it brings various Google Books results.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 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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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
"So this is a Christmas tree?"  From Gokaiger episode 44.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Ballou's Pictorial, 1855.
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#vintage illustration #basket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Innis Herald, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #peace #jesus
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Truth or Dare, The Book You Can Play by Bob Moog, Erin Conley, and Jenny Brennan, 2001. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From There Really Is a Father Christmas by Douglas Flintan, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
Yes, the very best thing about being a Christmas tree is feeling someone place a crown on your top.  However, in full disclosure we prefer an angel.  Also, three things: store a bunch of pinecones within yourself so that you can drop them very realistically, avoid felt stumps as they're slipping hazards, and consider carefully before going oldschool and featuring actual lit candles as decorations.  Photos from 150 Things to Make and Do by Juliet Moxley.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Presentations with Persuasion by Thompson and Thompson, 1990.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Costuming Made Easy by Barb Rogers.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Tulane's 1953 yearbook.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
What nobody wants to talk about is the fact that when a Christmas tree has odd branches that stick out too far, they get chopped off.  From More Great Pretenders by Joy Wilt Berry.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Park College's 1948 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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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Old News (permalink)
We previously saw that every day is Christmas, but there has to be a holiday occasionally.  We finally tracked down "the day it really wasn't Christmas."  From Together, 1969.
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December 23, 2021

Old News (permalink)
You'll have caught the two typos in this headline.  It should read "taut," not "tawt," and "tat," not "cat."  From The Martlet, 1952, referencing the Mel Blanc song of 1950.
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The very tiny caption reads, "How not to spend Christmas!"  From The Boy's Own Paper, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Yule-Tide in Many Lands by Mary Pringle and Clara Urann, and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From The Wizard of Oz, adapted by Oscar Weigle and illustrated by Robert Patterson.
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
A century ago, math was relatable and children learned to calculate the costs of a cantata.  From The Triangle Arithmetics, Book Two, 1928.  See Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.
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Old News (permalink)
Christmas tree UFOs seem to appear earlier every year.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Vogue, 1914.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
An old postcard gifted to me by friends in Wales.  Undated.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Around the world, gas masks for Christmas.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1936.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The ritual burning of the Christmas tree.  From South Suburban College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#christmas tree #vintage christmas #christmas #fire #ritual #vintage yearbook #yearbook #burning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elves and Ellefolk by Natalia Balting and illustrated by Gordon Laite.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #mouse #tomte
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The war on Christmas.  From The Gateway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #missile #war on christmas
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Miss Merry Christmas."  From Pfeiffer College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage christmas #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1916.
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December 22, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ghost blooms painted by a flower medium.  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Nov. 1882.
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#vintage illustration #bouquet #spiritualism #flower #ghost flower #spirit flower #astral flower
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Here in the darkness and the dust of hidden years."  From Dark Shadows episode 6.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Digging up the Christmas dinner."  From St. Nicholas, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Santa lion.  From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage christmas #christmas #lion #santa #prosperity #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #biplane #airplane #vintage airplane #peace angel
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
It's raining dollars!  From The Film Daily, 1926.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #money #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's yearbook of 1964.  This is similar to this other UNC minotaur, from 1940

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

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#vintage illustration #minotaur #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1975.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It says to "recognize this as the world in which we live."  From American University's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #door #padlock #unlocked
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Old News (permalink)
"Santa Claus said he saw the legendary Big Foot."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1977.
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#santa #bigfoot #sasquatch #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We, too, have had enough with flat surfaces and prefer writing on spheres.  From Akron Municipal University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphere #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
The North Wind in his cave.  From Tales from Story-Town by Mina Pearl Ashton and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1930.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From National Agricultural College's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #burned alive #burned at the stake #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Idle Jack."  From Jack and the Bean-Stalk by Hallam Tennyson and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #crow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bucket #yearbook #faces in things #broom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #snow #winter #bird
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Duke's 2009 yearbook.
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#snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #streetlight
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1985.
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#postage stamp #peace angel
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1966 yearbook.
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#christmas tree #vintage christmas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #tree costume #christmas tree costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.

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#vintage illustration #dancing #shoes #cobbler
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December 21, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#ghost #christmas #prof. oddfellow #ghost hunting #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Keep your ear to the ground!"  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage ad #ear #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From From Nowhere to the North Pole by Tom Hood, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #magick #anthropomorphism #occult #tree spirit #faces in things #tree face #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #mood #woman #thistle #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washburn's 1917 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)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #lantern #santa
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1923 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You already guessed what team Jesus would play on -- the Lord's.  From Durham College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus #long hair #mustache #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #cat king #scepter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #chemical marriage
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Funeral of Figaro, by Ellis Peters:

[A marginally more polite liking/lumping]

Johnny could like it or lump it, whichever he wished.
***

From Vertigo 42, by Martha Grimes:
[Just one item from this one, a minor character name: Cuthbert Egg.]
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Old News (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1951.
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#fire #vintage headline #burning #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #jesus #christ
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #devil #on all fours
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Old News (permalink)
We find that it tends to be either one or the other, a ghost of Christmas past or a UFO.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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#ghost #ufo #christmas #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
Unsent Christmas cards.  From Together, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #vintage headline #headline #unsent
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December 20, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Even adjusting for inflation, this is way more economical space travel than the elon-gated musk-rats offer in this strange modern time.  From Screenland Plus TV-Land, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #space travel #hot air balloon #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Which do you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #animal fight
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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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #knitting #living toy #yarn doll #yarn ball
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The mind and visage oft are things apart, / A smiling face oft masks a breaking heart." From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #depression #broken heart #heartbroken #sad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Lord of Clubs.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #sword #playing card #jack of clubs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
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#vintage illustration #elf #hollow tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Harness the reindeer!"  From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 1905.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Beat a Rotten Egg to the Punch by Cathie John.
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#egg #rotten egg
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
Symbol from the tomb of Galla Placidia, Ravenna, 405-450 A.D.  From Saint Mary's 1963 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snowflake
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Old News (permalink)
"Forgive me, God, but damn everyone else."  Robert Burns quoted in The Martlet, 1965.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
Oh, no!  "Good times cancelled."  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage headline #good times #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #photographer #stork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"The big news!"  Harold Lloyd in The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #imp #whisper #vintage hollywood #tiny woman #hollywood #harold lloyd
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Reversible Santa Claus by Meredith Nicholson, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #santa #two headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #christmas
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And to think, we may never meet again."  From Swarthmore's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #never again #strangers in the night #transitory
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.  (Individual cards are available from Zazzle, and deep discount bulk orders of 10 or more are available from Vistaprint.)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #library book #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #stork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #serpent #snake #crushed #1930s #illustration
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December 19, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"This week has four evenings."  From The Gateway, 1966.
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#vintage headline #temporal anomaly #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#video #penetralia #prod. oddfellow
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #magic spell #fairy tale #dreaming #prince of night
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Old News (permalink)
"Nobody knows just when he's going to walk in front of an automobile, or entertain a house party of nice, husky, vicious, little disease germs."  From Wadco News, 1922.
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#death #germs #news #vintage headline #vintage news #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I know you told me what my convictions are but honestly Steve I forgot them."  From Woroni, 1971.
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#religion #vintage illustration #halo #guru #convictions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Campus Enquirer (University of Alberta), 1982.
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#vintage ad #charity #money #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #architecture #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psyche by Louis Couperus and illustrated by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #castle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #candle #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabeth College's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mice #eek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Otboi, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vampire #1900s #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #on fire #burned alive #burning alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Richmond Professional Institute's 1938 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #south america
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a rare book with a surprising price tag: Jeremiah the Cat by William Maurice Culp, 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Slice of Life," by Peter De Vries:

***
[The operator of a stalled elevator is giving the passengers a technical rundown on the repair that must be made.]

"They've got to rimify the bandelage that goes around the grims, then marinate the horpels on the rebrifuge," the operator said--or words to that effect.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Carrots and apples decorating the Christmas tree for rabbits to eat.  Reblog to bring back the old ways.  (And recall this great illustration of rabbits decorating a Christmas tree themselves.)
From St. Nicholas, 1916.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #rabbit #carrot
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December 18, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #horse #winter #sleigh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Ruby Warlock.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #bottle #warlock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bow and arrow #hunter #deer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #twins #crossroads #mouse #mice #country mouse #city mouse
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Old News (permalink)
"Emotional outpouring adds nothing significant to understanding."  From The Martlet, 1967.
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#vintage headline #emotional #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Doctor Rabbit and Ki-yi Coyote by Thomas Hinkle, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Why Am I Thinking in Such Poor Handwriting?
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#brainstorm
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Dreaming of a picnic.  From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #picnic #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The little daughter of the snow."  From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #snow #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Like an Apache war-torch."  From The Film Daily, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #arrow #apache #flaming arrow #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the feathers that muffle up thy unmeaning face."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #fable #feathers #aesop
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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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#cat #psychic
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #barber #hairdresser
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The world in the clouds.  From William and Mary's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #clouds #yearbook #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Even the real Santa may wear a false beard.  From Garner-Webb's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage christmas #christmas #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #santa #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1985.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #elephant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins 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 #spider web #caught in a web
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Always Remember (permalink)
"What you see here you will never forget and you'll never remember."  From the unforgettable Dark Shadows episode 347.
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#memory #hypnotism #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #up a tree
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December 17, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
"Gifted duo makes great version! Bravo!" says Sweden's Sigfus, of our cover of The Cure's "Close To Me." 
"Great joy for my ears.  I want to keep listening," says Japan's Chihiro Matsumoto.
"Genius!" says Nottingham's R. Smith of Arse-Myth.
"A wonder of a track!" says Freddie Maier López of MTM.
"Wow!!  Such a cool atmosphere you created with the church bells.  Takes the listener off to a wonderous world of magic and bliss.  Has a meditative and beautiful energy to it.  Masterfully crafted; thank you" says Azar Breakey of Spirit Sound Innovators.
We're honored!
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Produced with the permission of Universal Music (license #1000000004087). "Close To Me" written by Robert Smith, The Cure. Neons Gone Mad Clockwork/Spirit Radio cover performed by Michael Warwick.
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #the cure #robert smith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #naturist #nudism #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #long nose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An ex libris from the 1920 yearbook of Illinois Woman's College.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fountain #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A serpent watches as Eve wonders whether she's in the mood for an apple or rather something more savory.  From The Foot-Prints of Satan, or, The Devil in History by Hollis Read, 1873.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #garden of eden #adam and eve #biblical #apple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #medieval #horse #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jousting #armor
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Too rare to see an elf riding a polar bear.  From The Counterpane Fairy, written and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #polar bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you feel like trash and wear leather gloves to eat melon.  From Westminster Choir College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #gloves #trash can
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Old News (permalink)
Not sure why mysterious music and an elusive rainbow are newsworthy -- given that we're always listening to obscure music and have found every rainbow we've chased to be evasive, this sounds quite mundane.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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#rainbow #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Wasps to take bees."  From The Getaway, 1982.
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#bee #vintage headline #wasp #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #camel #long neck
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Palace Guard, by Charlotte MacLeod:

***
"Personally," said Sarah, "I found the salt of the earth a trifle on the peppery side."

***
Somebody else was playing Handel's Second Concerto Grosso on a stereo that was considerably more hi than fi.

***
[Says an aging beatnik type]
"I don't mean a cat, man, I mean a pussycat. Like with the fur and whiskers and the whole bit."
[I really like "the whole bit," as though being a cat is a sort of shtick done for an audience. Well, maybe it is!]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #cat #smiling animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #conehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
As you guessed, he wants the amulet back.  From Unknown, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard
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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 #darkness #night sky #dark night #stars #starry night #lights off #putting out the light #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's to weekends.  From Pembroke's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #ready for the weekend
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December 16, 2021

Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the song "Never Did No Wanderin'" by The Folksmen, in the film A Mighty Wind.  "She had never visited strange and exotic lands — I've never sailed the Amazon."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #animal mask #animal headed #theatre #costume #mummer #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
One plus one actually doesn't equal two anymore, what with large values of one and the new math.  From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#vintage headline #1970s #math #headline #one plus one
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insect #beetle #doom beetle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's pig riding a wish-horse is from The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"(Sleep) Learning without apparatus."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#angel #sleep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From McGill Daily, Dec. 8, 1983.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eye #being watched #surveillance society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Up there ... or down here."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1988.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #outer space
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the cover of Hampden-Sydney's 1990 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #collage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's crying Swiss cheese is from Nebelspalter, 1937.  Our translation of the caption: "Denmark now exports Swiss cheese to Switzerland.  Tears of joy upon seeing home for the first time."
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #crying #cheese #swiss cheese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We don't have to wear that protective hat since we installed a door alarm.  From St. Andrews' 1975 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1982.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dice #spider #human headed
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There's no death like it!  How would you rather kick the bucket -- slowly fading out of the world in a fog of arteriosclerosis and senility in some two-bit nursing home ... or disintegating instantly in a glorious hail of bullets?  Choking on mashed turnips at the age of 93 ... or getting detonated into heaven by a magnificent explosion of TNT?  Think about it."  From The Getaway, 1982.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If no tin foil is available, a steel pot will suffice.  From Joplin Junior's 1955 yearbook.

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Old News (permalink)
"Society for the Continuation of Life on Earth."  From The Cougar City Gazette, 1970.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Our main textbooks in college, unabridged dictionaries, were very nearly as big as hers.  From Sacred Heart's 1960 yearbook.

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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1939.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #insomnia #sleepless #question mark #questioning #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #dog #pet tricks #vaudeville #acrobatic
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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December 15, 2021

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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It takes some coordination, but there's nothing like wielding two scepters at once.  From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by G. Holstein.  From der Guckkasten, 1911.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The lost fairy.  From Sandman Twilight Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker and illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #cannon #illustration #sawed off #battle ship
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Old News (permalink)
"Window to a strange new world."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art #buddha
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1980.
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#vintage headline #headline #mediocrity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Joplin Junior's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #turtle #help #sign
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #kissing #vintage hollywood #hollywood #falling in love
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From WIlliam and Mary's 1972 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The child and the dragon."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caterpillar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Uncle Wiggily's Adventures by Howard Garis and illustrated by Louis Wisa.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crocodile #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Ontario's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1930s #double exposure #bottled ghost #bottle
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Old News (permalink)
"Alias Mr. Satan."  From Dime Mystery, 1947.
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#satan #vintage headline #headline
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"He would delight in seeing the birds go free."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #bird #caged bird
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December 14, 2021

Old News (permalink)
To paraphrase RuPaul, if you can't blow on the coals within, how the h--- you gonna blow on somebody else's coals?  From The Improvement Era, 1969. 
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#coal #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's a reworked version of this early "Penetralia At Large" video, about a ghostly clock tower in Solvang, California.
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#haunted #ghost #prof. oddfellow #clock tower #video #penetralia #solvang
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wildcat versus faun: which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #faun #wildcat #deer #animal fight #bobcat
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't worry about your clothes."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#goat #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emerald Dragon Guide Book.
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#vintage illustration #castle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #anthropomorphism #insect #bug #dragonfly #thumb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The use of dynamite in dentistry.  (There's a staggering amount of sadism and violence in dentistry yearbooks.)  From Medical College of Virginia's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dynamite #dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A scythe-wielding rooster and a crying rabbit.  From Baba Yaga's Geese, illustrated by Guy Fleming.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #scythe #bunny #rooster #crying animal #crying rabbit #crying bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Devil Horse.  From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #horse #devil horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1951 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse #arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Kicked by a cat.  From Grimm Tales Made Gay by Guy Wetmore Carryl and illustrated by Albert Levering, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cat #puss in boots #kick
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Link, 1972.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #wind #wind god #old man winter #illustration #winter spirit #wind deity #cold wind
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #little green man #archway #blue and yellow #art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Five Bells and Bladebone, by Martha Grimes:

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Everything about her was no-nonsense, including her attitude to her books, which were (she often said) utter nonsense.

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[Discourse That's Measurable in Geographic Distances dept.]
He was getting, thought Melrose, the answer he deserved--one that would stretch from here to Victoria Street and back.

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Unfortunately, gentlemen from Porlock, like cops, were never around when you needed them.

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"No they didn't, old sweatshirt, to paraphrase Trueblood." [Marshall Trueblood habitually addresses his friends as "old sweat."]

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At the end of the room, the long-case clock bonged out the hour of six in sympathy.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends From the End of Time by Michael Moorcock, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #skull #outer space
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oneonta's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hat #vintage women #death row
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy's Rabbit Stories by Mary E. Calhoun and illustrated by E. Warde Blaisdell, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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December 13, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cheirotherium, or Hand-Animal."  From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #anthropomorphism #christmas #bear #stocking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #night sky #airplane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ole Miss's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #big book #student
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #chameleon #lizard king #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pembroke's 1989 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #raccoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tiger woman."  From Which Was Witch? by Eleaore Myers Jewett, 1959.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insects #bugs
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #jester #question mark #ball and chain #horned man #worthless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a 1941 Brades catalog.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anvil #blacksmith
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #silhouette #finis #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustration by J. Clinton Shepherd, for the film Wild Cargo.  From The Film Daily, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oneonta's 1963 yearbook.

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#witch #vintage photo #aura #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Even more mysterious than aliens are "space 'things.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1973.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Richmond Technical's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #wolfman #werewolf #vintage yearbook #upside down #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flower fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis' 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From City Sidewalks by Bank Street.
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December 12, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Kissing the bowling ball good night.  From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
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#vintage illustration #medieval #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trumpet
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The reflection of Prince Fire-Fade in the water."  From Myths From Many Lands by Eva March Tappan, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #reflection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if the guardians of the night, the watchers, are your faculty.  From Northern Illinois' 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #devil #love triangle #triangle #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #death ship #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sailboat #night boat
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Old News (permalink)
"Welcome to my nightmare."  From The Gateway, 1979.
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#nightmare #ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you are several ghosts at once.  From American University's 1984 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A saucer of Norwich, from 1954.
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#ufo #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Montreat-Anderson's 1980 yearbook.

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#skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mice #cat and mouse #crying cat #crying animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Normal School for Women's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death in White Pyjamas, by John Bude:

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[The building] had one or two useless towers stuck on the corners, like saucy P.S.'s to a highly respectable letter.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
This is why we use room-darkening window shades.  From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.
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December 11, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbit
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you dream of singing the "A" note in concert tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.  For other meanings of the letter A, see One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#letter a #dream #singing #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #duck
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Dear Mother.  We are ago o' time.  We are going to Grama a Mother."  A spirit message (date unknown), courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#spirit writing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #1900s #cuckoo clock #horned man #cuckold
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1977 yearbook.

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#devil #halloween #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Old News (permalink)
"UFOs 'work of Satan.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#satan #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of a laughingstock.  Apparently, there's a laughing stock market, too.
From The Film Daily, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #laughter #1940s #stock market #laughingstock #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #cat in the hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's such a miracle, every time a mannequin comes into the world.  From Angelo State's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #mannequin #nurse #1970s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A journey into the unknown."  From Dark Shadows episode 822.
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#unknown #dark shadows
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
From the library of "not to leave library."  From Middle Tennesee's 1927 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #ex libris #non-circulating
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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#vintage illustration #goose #geese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Thou shalt be as free as mountain winds."  From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wind #swinging #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Dermot and the Thirsty Stones, written and illustrated by Richard Bennett.
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#vintage illustration #goat #goose #musician #dancing animal
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Old News (permalink)
It's a good question: "What terrible influence could cause the spirit of a demon to lodge in the heart of an innocent child?"  From Ghost Stories, 1926.
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#demon #vintage headline #headline
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December 10, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pyramid Power by Max Toth & Greg Nielsen.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #pyramid #illustration
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #neons gone mad #haunted clockwork
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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 #sphinx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant #pipe smoker #top of the world
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mark of the Beast by Peter Ruckman.
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#vintage illustration #apocalypse #end of days #666 #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"What's too painful to remember."  From Swarthmore's 1976 yearbook.
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#memory #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #fog #light and darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
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#vintage illustration #evolution
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #thirteen #lucky 13 #ladder
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Seems unlikely, but it's the same odds as getting any other hand.  From Richmond Technical's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #probability
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Old News (permalink)
"UFOs take partners for Tennessee Waltz."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1973.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Murder of Cecily Thane, by Harriette Ashbrook:

***
"Quit 'my dear fellowing' me and hear me to the end."

***
"You've made no attempt whatever to delve back into the history of the Thanes to discover the family curse which in turn has taken one of each generation ever since the day old Whoosis Thane vowed never--"
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Almanach de Bonne Fortune, 1770.
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#vintage illustration #strange map #vintage almanac #almanac #1770s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #card game
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #insomnia #sleepless #disease #ad
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December 9, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #aesop #donkey
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
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#vintage illustration #shoes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Margaret Kendall.  From Coraddi, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #surrealism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cinderella's Mouse by Rosalie K. Fry.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #hollow tree
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The Right Word (permalink)
Lethal, lurking, luscious, leering, lured.  From The Film Daily, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage hollywood #hollywood #lurid #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #goddess #muse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Davenport College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #clubs #bowling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #coffin #bones #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #king #king death
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #airplane #ex libris #bookplate
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop's 1911 yearbook.   See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #macbeth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #witches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #falling #snow #winter
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Animal skins and effigies ... memories of college.  From South Suburban's 1967 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sooty by Ambrosina Hurcum and illustrated by Eleanor Mussey Young, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some of the budget costume ideas just encourage people to throw things at your face.  From Martin College's 1973 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"His eyes were like saucers."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit #illustration
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December 8, 2021

Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1982.
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#pain #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #dancing #sunbeam
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"Don't take this the wrong way, but I get the sense you're a bit of a coffee novice." —Carolyn Keene, Secret Identity
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#coffee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1974 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1907.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician #contrabass
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The ways — which?"  From the State Female Normal School, Farmville's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1918 #which way #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
73211 55046
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #optical illusion #skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #egg #trompe l'oeil #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1891 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From For Men Only, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #puritan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ya-Hoo, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #insect #bug #bee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
He's hiding behind "More Honky Tonk Piano with Crazy Fritz."  From Kent State's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #honky tonk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Never accept a gift from a necromancer or demon.  Steal it or buy it, but do not accept it as a gift ... or legacy."  From Weird Tales, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #devil #occult #demonology
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Evansville's 1938 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #garbage #trash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #pipe smoker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Mars Hill's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Female Seminary's 1890 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 #invisible man #no body #scarcity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cheese
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December 7, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #goat #cashmere
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Your Hand Reveals by Henri Rem, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram #knuckles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
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#vintage illustration #vampire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #seeing double #skiing #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #laughing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The hermit saint Basolus.  From La Colotte, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #saint #hermit #1900s #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #man in the moon #faces in things #popping cork #alcohol #illustration #art #ad
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cowled sphinx."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #sphinx #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #desert #mesa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Seeing UFOs."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mothers News, 2011.
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#vintage illustration #fly #illustration #fruit fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown (KY)'s 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #club
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Old News (permalink)
"Tarantulas are not mailable."  From The Gateway, 1979.
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#spider #tarantula #vintage headline #headline
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator (permalink)
How to cheat at a solo game of Tic Tac Toe.  Plus, he has composed a poem of one-letter word meanings (see our Tic Tac Toe Story Generator for a free printable template and instructions).  His poem reads:
Gladness unknowing longing
Sun[light] crossing
Earth
Photo from the Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina's 1936 yearbook.
INSTRUCTIONS:
In alternate turns, complete a row, column, or diagonal with three X’s or O’s. Each X and O has a discrete unit of meaning, as detailed in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words. Choose and write a letter meaning alongside each X and O placed in the grid; don’t repeat a letter meaning within the same game. Number each turn on the grid, to establish the linear progression of the story. When the game is finished, use the sequence of key words to construct your story, adding connecting phrases as necessary.

Click here for a printable template.  Thanks to Gary Barwin for inspiration!
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #skull face
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From short stories by Charlotte MacLeod:

***
...a tin of a mysterious powder represented as "Mustache Strengthener"...

***
[He] had courteously declined the Order of the Gauntleted Gnu and requested a certified cheque.

***
[The cast of characters in one story includes the following.]

The Honourable Ermentine Ditherby-Stoat
A. Lysander Hellespont
Cadwallader Swiveltree
The Earl of Cantilever
Miss Twiddle
***

[Bonus: One of the blurbs on the back claims that MacLeod's "fans grow with every new book she writes." Not the number of fans, mark you, but the fans themselves! Perhaps that blurb was originally intended for a children's author--or maybe a self-help guru.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Devil's Passkey."  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #1900s #vintage man #man
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December 6, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #compass #1930s #old book #illustration
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Rhetorical Answers, Questioned (permalink)

Q: "What's a moon without a man?"

A: "To most girls a moon without a man is like a mine of money on a desert island" —Epigrams of Eve by Sophie Irene Loeb, 1913.

From an ad in The Australian Women's Weekly, 1954.

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#vintage ad #man in the moon #1950s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #beard #doctor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Deader than sixty coffin nails."  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 #dead #yarn doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The House That Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #cow #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The lake of peace."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #swan #boat #lake #peaceful
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"I need someone who fancies himself as a voice for a 20-foot puppet."  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#puppet #voice actor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler'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 #police #motorcycle #law
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sword #sword of damocles #tiny sword #ad
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
64439 25613
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#mummy #vintage illustration #death #genie #magic lamp #knowledge #forbidden knowledge #arabian folklore #occult #vintage photo #djinn #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bandaged #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #sprite #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #war and peace #illustration #make love not war #cannons #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook #illustration #red headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #aliens #alien abduction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Atlantic Christian's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle #archway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot #sasquatch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #anthropomorphism #horse #goat #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's Droste effect with muttonchops is from the 1974 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #droste effect #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #muttonchops
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #radiation #computer #glowing eyes
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December 5, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Lord of Spades.  From the Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sword #jack of spades #playing card
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"Don't take this the wrong way, but your apartment kind of freaks me out." —J. Minter, Hold On Tight
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
"Remember?  Maybe you do, maybe you don't."  From Santa Clara's 1972 yearbook.
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#memory #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Where dreams come from.  From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairies #dreaming
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
Music is a cyclops.  From Mansfield's 1950 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cyclops
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question: "Frankenstein monsters are beyond belief—but what about when you meet one."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#monster #vintage headline #headline #frankenstein's monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from Trigger Berg and the Cockeyed Ghost by Leo Edwards, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #masks #initiation #secret society #endpapers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.

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

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goats by Frank Wright Noxon, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #goat #capricornus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ymca
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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 #anthropomorphism #rabbit #illustration #tar #brer rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Fox's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #seeing stars
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Right!!!!  Bully-for-you-my-boy."  From Salem's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pointing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #melting #anthropomorphism #faces in things #candle #candles with faces #candle face #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ornamental design
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field:

***
We were engaged at extra-illustrating Boswell's life of Johnson, and had already got together somewhat more than eleven thousand prints...

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/443/443-h/443-h.htm#chap12

***
He has declared that if all the [book] catalogues sent to and read by him in that space of time were gathered together in a heap they would make a pile bigger than Pike's Peak, and a thousandfold more interesting.
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad from If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fortune teller #astrologer #ad
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December 4, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
327
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #jumping #candle #1950s #jack be numble #jack be nimble
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #giraffe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #watering can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #donkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in memoriam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #coffin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish
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Old News (permalink)
"Is your neighbour a spaceman."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#ufo #vintage headline #spaceman #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted House by Edith Harrison and illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #leopard #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Northeastern's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Concordia's 1952 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I only wish I had such eyes; to be able to see Nobody!"  From Alice in Wonderland, A Dramatization by Alice Gerstenberg, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #alice in wonderland #king of hearts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A kazoo for one's personal horror soundtrack.  From Wesleyan's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #mask #gun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #kazoo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maoriland Fairy Tales by Edith Howes, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #under the sea #king neptune #trident
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1912 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 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 #horror #summons
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December 3, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #baboon #dancing animal
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #picture puzzle
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Old News (permalink)
The darker side of Bambi -- "Fawn nearly leads boys to their death in lake."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1916.
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#deer #vintage headline #headline #fawn #bambi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's lion cub "protecting" a tiny penguin with scissors is from Nebelspalter, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #scissors #lion #1930s #penguin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We developed a divinatory card deck for an eerie mage.  He took the deck and then pretended we didn't exist.  (True story!)  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #mage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf
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Old News (permalink)
Easy to believe.  "Devil in control."  From The Martlet Literary Magazine, 1974.
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#devil #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's Dark Shadows' Quentin Collins with words of encouragement for you not to give into it:
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#dark shadows
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Esther Williams, from Modern Screen, 1952.
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#vintage photo #vintage hollywood #all wet #watering can #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fleece hanging on serpent branches ... it's like every time we do laundry.  From Startling Stories, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #serpents #snakes #golden fleece
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Danish Fairy Book, illustrated by George W. Hood, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle #castle in the air
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois' 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #angel #god
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Old News (permalink)
"Ears and elbows are in fashion."  From Photoplay, 1932.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #ear #vintage headline #headline #elbow
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #mesmerism #hypnotism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Circles by Villamaria, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #charlemagne
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Passing Strange, by Catherine Aird:

***
"Quite," said the honorary secretary thankfully, adding after a suitable pause, "Quite."

***
"Though I don't know what the committee will say."
If Sloan knew anything about committees they would be divided.

***
Terlingham, Terlingham, and Owlet, Solicitors
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Cats of Henriette Ronner."  From The Century, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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December 2, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The loge gote's name is Piledriver IV.  From Jerry Todd's Up-the-Ladder Club by Leo Edwards and illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon.
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#vintage illustration #goat #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #ocean #wave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Each note took forever, like the imagined eternity of a heartache."  From Coraddi, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #heartache #violin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #flowers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Owlglass, written and illustrated by Will Nickless.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rat #talented animal #singing rat
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
"Now that religion is dead?"  From Hearst's, 1921.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#religion #vintage illustration #angel #saint #halo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Third Golden Rule Book, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1922.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #storm god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National-Louis' 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #vintage christmas #christmas #winter #night
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Washington State's 1967 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #orbs
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Old News (permalink)
"Where are the monsters when we need them?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
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#monster #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #clock tower #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sour and civil."  From Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times by Frances Browne and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Refreshing honesty about how the college system works.  From UNC Asheville's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jumping through hoops
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The "Gazibou."  From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #japanese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#dog #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #humpty dumpty #egg people
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December 1, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Craig Kringle, of Weird Christmas fame, for saying of our Penetralia series, "Please check out Prof. Oddfellow! My kinda thing."
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#prof. oddfellow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#spirit writing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I did my best."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Arthur Rackham.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #arthur rackham
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any demon lord today lord it over someone else.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#demon #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cat #goat #winter #sled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl
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The Right Word (permalink)
There's no apostrophe on either the half title or title page of Niobia Bryant's Let's Do It Again.  This can happen with certain fonts and with careless proofreading.  Let [lowercase] s do it again!
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#apostrophe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's to wonderful improvisations.  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #piano #improvisation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Strange visitor?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1980.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #drum #cloak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daddy's Bedtime Fairy Stories by Mary Graham Bonner, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford's 1982 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#dog #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Non-sleepers' club."  From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #insomnia #up all night #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #can't sleep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1985.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull face #computer
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The Right Word (permalink)
You know him as Alfred E. Neuman, but here he's identified as Rexstrew Kirxbuddle.  From Indiana University's 1942 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alfred e. neuman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's flying rocking horse with built-in radio is from The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #flying horse #radio #rocking horse
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