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December 31, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

Thanks to Hungarian recording artist 0B1R for letting us know that our haunted clockwork album Stroke of Midnight "is so awesome! Maybe I was searching for this kind of music all my life."
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Swan Hotel at Disney World.  From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Old Year goes out and the New Year comes in with the snow.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #father time #new year #old year
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A book as a flying horse.  From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the light, ardor, and purity of the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy favor you today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #angel #seraphim
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You know it's your time to go with the earth itself vomits crazed wolves at you.  See caption.  From Colliers, 1916.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #studying #lawyer #law
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #father time #scythe #new year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #top hat #new year #candy cane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Father Time as a wrangler, taking away an old year that has already barked enough.  From Wake Forest's 1925 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Friendly Village by Mabel O'Donnell and illustrated by Florence and Margaret Hoopes, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1973 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1876.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #river styx #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Father Time spills some red ink.  From the Duluth Herald, 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 #political cartoon #father time #new year #ink
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Washington's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Old dress, new year."  From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1921 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
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #new year #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whitney's Choice of Emblemes by Henry Green, 1866.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #emblem #skull
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December 30, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Sadako crawling out of a TV screen in the Ring series.  From The New Communicators by Dorothy Forbes, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #sadako
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Thanks to Bruce Earl, who wrote, "I love this! Every time I watch I notice something new. Don’t think I’ve ever read a more original and philosophically ambitious lyric! I’ve given up trying to find adequate words. More please."
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#music video #entropy #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #archmage band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #monster #drunk #hallucination
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #japanese #fox #wedding
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cannon
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1952.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #beard #crying #praying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Beautiful Cats by Howard Loxton.
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#cat #darkness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rifle #about face #spinning around
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Story House by Miriam Mason, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #faces in things #snow fairy #snowflake
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Parrot's American Home, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #surreal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lion versus ape: which do you wager for the win?  From Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ape #lion #animal fight #tarzan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #boot #cobbler
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippis 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #griffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gryphon
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Old News (permalink)
"The passing year was erratic and topsy turvy."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#new year #vintage headline #topsy turvy #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The nightmens' dance."  From Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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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 #flower people #faces in things #violet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Do you remember?"  From Wabash College's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #memory #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"But who is the Foe?  Who is the Friend?  What value is there to life when the time is out of joing?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage headline #headline
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December 29, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"New light on the fall of man.  Flood preceded fall, according to newly discovered tablet.  Sat it was Noah who ate from tree of life."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#garden of eden #biblical #vintage headline #noah #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #centaur #archer #sagittarius
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#horse #vintage photo #two headed #trick photography #pushmi-pullyu #pushmepullyou
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cat in heaven, from the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #heaven #cat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #tree costume #man #no socks
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Red sky at night.  From Eastern Kentucky's 1992 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #clouds #night photography #yearbook #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #penny-farthing #cycling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There's a satisfaction, after all, in being very young."  From Scribner's, 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goose #youth and age #gosling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Michigan's 1965 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 #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An alien autopsy in Awareness, 1995.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #alien autopsy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What happens when graduation ceremonies are held at a stadium.  From Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #world #sports #graduation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Presumably a sheet ghost legs contest.  From North Central College's 1970 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #1970s #legs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Again, sir a million thanks.  Good night."  From The Golden Journey of Mr. Paradyne by William J. Locke and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #hat #vintage man #man #thank you
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Party central.  From Texas Wesleyan's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage man #streamers #after the party #toilet paper #smiling man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #faces in things #oz #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pluck and Luck Complete Stories of Adventure, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #explosion #vintage magazine #magazine
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December 28, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Amazing -- every department at Montana State University had a dean as well as a fool (the various foolish roles all played by the same fool).  From the 1939 yearbook.

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

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#fool #vintage yearbook #1930s
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Old News (permalink)
This is a Googlewhack as of this posting: "We hear a tuneful murmur, dawn divine, beyond where matchlocks clank your passing knells."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Day after day, it's always 6:24 a.m./p.m.  From Current Sauce, 1970.
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#temporal anomaly #clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #palmistry
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #1960s #vintage headline #advice #headline #seeing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A skeleton strung onto an electrical wire.  From Otterbein's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #bees #swarm #beehive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #lion #caged animal #zoo #lion cage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado State's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #totem pole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By F. G. Cooper.  From Colliers, 1916. 
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #shadow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #paper dolls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester #making faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The entire page, a question mark.  From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #musician #saxophone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Belzhazzar.  From Chatterbox, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #king #babylonian
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Old News (permalink)
"The elephant is a tender lover."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#elephant #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #mirror #vintage yearbook #blockhead
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Old News (permalink)
You've heard of "big fish stories," but they've actually made it into newspapers.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#big fish #vintage headline #shark #headline
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December 27, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Today, there's little evidence that badgers are allowed at the polls.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #badger #voting #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #fortune telling #bigfoot #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cowboy #endpapers #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #penny-farthing #cycling #penny farthing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May no gas clouds occlude you today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #cloud #pollution #gas cloud
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Memphis State's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #astral body #spirit double #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Fish-hawk nest on the sand-dunes, Hog Island."  From Harper's, 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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#nest #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #cow #lantern #bull #meat #beef #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You may have heard that Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water, but it was actually milk and cookies.  From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #jack and jill #milk and cookies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #two headed #siamese twins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A pitchfork-wielding angel.  From Mars Hill's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
From Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing by Charles Bowden.
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#life after death #living dead #dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #hippo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There are those who walk the path of darkness, a path that can never be lighted by good, because evil hides itself too well in the night, choosing the moment that it will reveal its horrors."  From Dark Shadows episode 218.
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#darkness #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #holy grail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mouse #swimming
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December 26, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hunter #nursery rhyme
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #dog #aesop #ox
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #lion #hidden picture
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Old News (permalink)
"Spent a fortune; now a pauper."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#money #vintage headline #headline #poor #pauper #overspending
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#frankenstein's monster #vintage illustration
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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)
From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 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 #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #dog #two headed #cerberus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1925 yearbook.  Explanations: How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thirteen #clover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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#vintage illustration #ice monster #ice giant #ice goblin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A kangaroo conductor.  From Loyola's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #conductor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #precipice #flying horse #cliff
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Augustana College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #airplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Blue flames danced eerily."  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 #wizard #occult #fire #chinese #blue flame #blue fire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #broken sword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A rat went galloping full-speed over us."  From Lighted Pathway, 1952.
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#rat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilmington College's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #seahorse #parade float #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale #in the clouds #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #flying machine
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December 25, 2022

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Weather gone crazy.  Keeper: 'Yes, this is one of our queerest cases.  You see, he thinks he's a beautiful young woman called Spring or Summer.'"  Old Man Winter: "June is January and December is May — it's a gay life."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #old man winter #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A Christmas story without the ghost."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1954.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grasshopper's Hop by Zitella Cocke and illustrated by Joseph J. Mora, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1947.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage christmas #christmas #saint #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The solemn tradition of gathering together to observe night snow revealed by a streetlight.  From Assumption College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #crown #queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century 1890.
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#vintage illustration #angel #trumpet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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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 Santa Clara's 1928 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1899 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Santa held this present back until you needed it most!  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa
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December 24, 2022

Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #father time #dream #santa #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Pleasant.  There's nothing the matter with Christmas!  It's the presents, the element of surprises, and the spirit that make the great day glamorous."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #star of david #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #candle #1930s #poinsettia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas present #wrapping presents
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #sleigh #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #star #three kings #three wise men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The three-in-one wise men.  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #camel #three kings #three wise men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage christmas #christmas #bell
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Northern Crown, 1908. 
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #cat #santa #gemstone #shining #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Christmas is for the birds.  From Together, 1969.
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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.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #yuletide #fireplace #yule log
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Old News (permalink)
"Lets give Christmas back to the pagans."  From Together, 1973.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.
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#christmas #pagan #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #parrot #birdcage #santa #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage christmas #christmas
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From University of Saskatchewan's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #blur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #stockings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1972 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.
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#vintage christmas #christmas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #hat #vintage man #man #tin foil hat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You can lie about discovering the North Pole and still come home for Christmas, though the whole world's hat will fly off.  It'll help if you're a jack-in-the-box.  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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December 23, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's angel and devil at the Ouija board is from Wheaton College's 1924 yearbook.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#vintage illustration #devil #angel #good and evil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ouija #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #vintage postcard #bullhorn #postcard
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #whiskey #christmas #alcohol #vintage headline #alcoholic #bottle #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #elves
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Old News (permalink)
Not crazy enough to be committed, not sane enough to be out, and then came that Christmas tableau.  From Together, 1972.
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#vintage christmas #christmas #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Odd Number Club from UNC Chapel Hill's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thirteen #odd number
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ballou's Pictorial, 1855.
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#vintage illustration #angels
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Illinois State Normal's 1951 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #beard #deity #bee #jupiter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #bell #santa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Skeletons on the moon.  From Pearson's, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #santa #turtle #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #halo #mary
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog to bring back formal portraits wih mop wigs.  From Saint Jerome's College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s #mop hair #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage christmas #christmas #lion #santa #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Roller skates versus penny-farthing: which do you wager for the win?  From Chicago Normal College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1941.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #christmas #falling
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December 22, 2022

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Most people like reading about what they already know--there is even a public for yesterday's weather." —Nancy Mitford, "Reading for Pleasure," 1961
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#yesterday's weather #old news
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Old News (permalink)
"Repression cannot crush spiritual revolt."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #1940s #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage christmas #christmas #pipe smoker #santa #smile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1946.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #vintage christmas #christmas #christmas fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Town Clock by Reba Mahan Stevens and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #anthropomorphism #christmas
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory.
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#vintage illustration #christmas #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"When mother was Santa."  From Together, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #snowball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on all fours #human snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Little master misery."  From Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #misery #horse #plow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Colorado College's 1969 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#spooky #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne's 1987 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #balloon #vintage man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harpers, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #night #france
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Missouri Southern State University's 1975 yearbook.
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#christmas tree #vintage christmas #vintage yearbook #costume #1970s #christmas tree costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 1865.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1860s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyes #chemistry #beaker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #snowman #vintage magazine #magazine
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December 21, 2022

Book of Whispers (permalink)
Before The Horse Whisperer, Picasso was a bird whisperer.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.  And don't miss the Secrets of Chicken Whispering and the Secrets of Guinea Pig Whispering.
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#bird #picasso #whispering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Deadwood Dick Library, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #headstand #vintage magazine #magazine #sharpshooter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #oz #1900s #tin woodman
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Old News (permalink)
Thanks, but I'm all right.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The Bigfoot Existometer.
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#prof. oddfellow #bigfoot #video #penetralia
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Old News (permalink)
All but the hyena were recaptured after the wreck of a circus train.  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#circus #vintage headline #hyena #headline
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
The clock above the Christmas shop in Fairhope, Alabama doesn't agree with the time in the world outside of the anomaly.  Indeed, "Christmas is timeless.  You can forward and backward in time, between dreams and memories" (Chip Davis).
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#temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas
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Old News (permalink)
"What UFO?  That's our Christmas party lights."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2007.
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#ufo #vintage christmas #christmas #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From c. 1908, courtesy of UpNorth Memories.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #winter #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Came For Christmas by Cleveland Amory.
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#vintage illustration #cat #winter #chrismtas #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #christmas #horse #origami #paper folding
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #wind #blizzard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.   Our eerie song about a gingerbread man come to life is here.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #whale
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Eastern Montana's 1964 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #sun #ice skating
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Depicted as a lightning rod!  From The Century, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #caricature #lightning rod
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December 20, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Flintstones.  From Mr. Punch’s Prehistoric Peeps by E. T. Reed, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #caveman #prehistoric #billiards
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Old News (permalink)
Great news!  "Dark night, spread over 1000 years has ended."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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#vintage headline #dawn of a new day
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A Christmas wish from Purple Parrot, Jan. 1922.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Christmas.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #1920s #poem #christmas wish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #giraffe
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is what we look like any time the doorbell rings.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #hermit #1860s
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's an 1887 precursor to Batman's villain The Human Magnet (1952), from Zwischen Donau und Kaukasus by Amand von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld.
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#vintage illustration #batman #illustration #human magnet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May undead skeletons be too preoccupied with engraving their swords to wield them.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The egg dance," from Scribner's 1875.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #egg #illustration #egg dance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loyola's 1980 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #television #1980s #arts and sciences
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century 1882.
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#religion #vintage illustration #buddhism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Colliers, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #grim reaper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bowling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The kitten that wanted to be a Christmas present."  From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #cat #winter #rabbit #bunny #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #princess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animals #dancing animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #hydra #hercules
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
"Having a towering French hairdo was like wearing a Christmas tree."  From Big Wig by Kathleen Krull, 2011.
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#wig #big hair
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December 19, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage christmas #christmas
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Old News (permalink)
Here's proof that it's cool to wear tin-foil hats.  "Aluminum hats.  Its use as lining is said to induce coolness."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage headline #tin foil hat
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #hunter #hidden picture
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Old News (permalink)
More like fat lady?  From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#vintage illustration #giant #clown #circus #vintage headline #headline #fat lady
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Moses asked embarrassing questions."  From The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander by Frank R. Stockton and illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #cave #moses #embarrassment #questions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1966.
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#religion #vintage illustration #faith #mystery #eye of god #eye
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #outer space #night sky #don't laugh #stars #starry night
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Seventies fashions seem a world a way.  From Tulane's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #yarn #television #1950s
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
You can often tell a math person.  From Loyola's 1980 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Enragé, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #knife #blood #murderer #killer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Memphis State's 1964 yearbook.

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#mummy #egyptian #coffin #vintage yearbook #1960s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We previously highlighted the wonderful first page of William De Morgan's When Ghost Meets Ghost (1914).
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#ghost #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilmington College's 1969 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #eye
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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 #christmas #stocking #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Disguised as a Christmas bow.  From Broome Technical Community College's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage christmas #vintage yearbook #costume #1960s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 21.
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#vintage illustration #giant foot #zombie #trampled
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado State College's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drummer #drum #musician #nursery rhyme
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December 18, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Solved, at last -- the full moon is a bubble that bursts at first cock crow.  From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #full moon #moon #rooster #poem
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Precursors (permalink)
Though "Herbie Biscuits," in the plural, would be a funnier cat name, this is a precursor to comedian Bob Mortimer's curation of funny cat names.  From Toike Oike, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"There is no such place as 'Hollywood.'"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline #vintage hollywood #hollywood #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

The only thing that lasts is ...

  • the sense of belonging to a place
  • garbage
  • repression
  • the truth of Marx's teaching as interpreted by Lenin
  • the unfolding of the tale
  • the past
  • now
  • stone
  • chaos
  • art
  • the stick
  • the provisional
  • hatred
  • a memory
  • work
  • the careless flow of time
  • the red earth of Tara
  • death
  • the enigma of the leaven the eye cannot see
  • the growth of knowledge
  • a joy beyond
  • good soil in the hands of good husbandmen
  • the human soul
  • change itself
  • the theatre building itself
  • the green stuff
  • the photos
  • the nagging thought that nothing lasts forever

[Less-interesting items we left out]:

  • friendship
  • the good we leave behind
  • love
  • beauty
  • family
  • silence
  • truth
  • a right relationship with God

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See Bullet Lists.]

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#list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #rooftop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Windsor Teachers College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #in the face #vintage women
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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 #poltergeist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1973 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 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 #mountain climber #1870s #peak of otter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dragon slayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#face #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Overland Monthly, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #sheet ghost #astral body
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mother's pillow and umbrella were constantly frightening the poor horses."  From Lighted Pathway, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tangled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #thread
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #milking #cow costume
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Old News (permalink)
"Moody Sunday observed here."  From The Duluth Herald, 1915.  
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#vintage headline #mood #headline #sunday
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #wolf #oz
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December 17, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Men over 40 are dead but they won't lie down."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#living dead #aging #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'This is your last ride,' said a solemn voice."  From American Indian Weekly, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #cowboy
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #little red riding hood #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From South Suburban's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 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 #severed head #falling apart #in pieces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
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 #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king neptune #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Oh no -- I'm committing all three of these common errors right this very minute!  From Popular Mechanics, 1942.
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#photography #vintage photo #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Dragon by Alfred Coppel.
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#dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
There are actually a great many M words, as identified in One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.  From Lighted Pathway1988.
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#vintage headline #headline #m word
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Old News (permalink)
"Touch reality vicariously."  From the University of Detroit's 1965 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #reality #vintage headline #headline #virtual reality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We went back."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilmington College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #mustache #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 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 #christianity #hand #gesture #sign language
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This confirms our disinclination to play Sand In Your Eye.  From Middle Tennessee's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Raisin' cane!"  From Purple Parrot, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #christmas #candy cane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney 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 #bull #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Milo Winter, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #throne #pomegranate
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Old News (permalink)
"Millionaire's wife gives 100 parties a year."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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December 16, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)
What a delightful microscope-themed poem, in which protozoa hail one as queen!  From The Century, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #microscope #illustration #poem
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Old News (permalink)
Can't wait!  "Trips to the moon in 1954!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.
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#space travel #moon #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I forgot that you are much too big to come into the parlor."  From The Duluth Herald, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #beetle #1900s #illustration #tiny house
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
369
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bigfoot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There are days that could benefit from a rallying horn.  Here's one, if called for.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horn #musical instrument #rallying
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We also tend to oppose Issue #5, whatever it happens to be.  From the University of Akron's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #villain #protest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hippo #pet walker
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1956.
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#christmas #santa #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We, too, majored in English, and that's exactly why so many fairies and imps populate all we do.  From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad from If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #phrenology #pulp fiction #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Receiving the vestments of ugliness.  From Wilmington College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #ugly #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Story House by Miriam Mason, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #winter #jack frost
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Old News (permalink)
"'Coping' is the thing."  From North Carolina Agricultural and Technical's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #coping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte #cynic #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #robin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's book in ballet shoes on top of the world that's strumming the eyes in the sky to sleep is from Wilson College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #musician #on to pof the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #ophiuchus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #1970s #headline #hippie
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December 15, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Scandalwood" is a very rare word outside of perfume names.  We learn that it must not be confused with deadly gossip-weed (Wisperia Scandalosa), in Pearson's Magazine, 1909, and that it is poisonous (Cupid's Almanac and Guide to Hearticulture, 1908).
"When every log of scandalwood had blood on it."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline #scandalwood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Past Eight O'Clock by Joan Aiken and illustrated by Jan Pieńkowski.
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#vintage illustration #angel #silhouette #prayer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Sad -- a graduate trying to entice a ride, but the highway is deserted.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1945 yearboook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hitchhiker
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #secret #vintage headline #1970s #faceless #paranoia #no face #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed #big book #ink pen
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Old News (permalink)
Yes, Christmas can indeed happen today, but only if it's snowing.  (Sorry -- we don't make up the rules.)  From Together, 1968.
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#christmas #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Virginia Commonwealth's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Political Carnival."  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 #political cartoon #monkeys #clown #peace angel #art
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Old News (permalink)
"My first fling with sin."  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The psudo-3D effect of this photo of frozen silence may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Tarleton State' 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 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 #snowman #winter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pembroke's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #geometry #modern art #cubism
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
High as a kite.  From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#vintage ad #vintage photo #kite #1940s #woman #vintage woman #high #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Dartmouth College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #blindfolded #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What is your hair problem."  From Improvement Era, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #hair #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Am I expected to go through that?"  From Peace Institute's 1919 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #hole #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Strange the first day."  From Ohio University's 1959 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #lion #oz #crying animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere."  From Bellarmine College's 1968 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #necromancy #buddhism #tibetan #devil dancer
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December 14, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #camel #star of bethlehem #vintage magazine #three wise men #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 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 #in pieces #jigsaw puzzle #puzzle piece #puzzle #fragmented
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1951 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#devil #silhouette #fire #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #bonfire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Traveling through space in a giant slipper with a witchy cat, as one does.  From Witch's Cat by Ruth Chew.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #space travel #outer space #shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #sheep #horns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1925 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #tiny man #secret society #door #lock and key #padlock
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The Right Word (permalink)
It's a common mistake, but Allen Whatshisname is not the same author as Allen Drury.  From Together, 1968.
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#vintage ad #whatshisname #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #jester #puppet show
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Colliers, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #dandies #vintage men #men #dapper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Georgia's 1947 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hydra #hercules #1940s #many headed
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Just a dream, just a dream."  From Georgia Teachers College's 1959 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dream #vintage yearbook #statue
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The ghosts of yesterday seem to tell me to run."  From Dark Shadows episode 2.
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#dark shadows #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog with tips on how to make room for both books and a giant teddy bear.  From the University of Cincinnati's 1949 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teddy bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1920 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Climate very unfavorable."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  
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#climate #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1916 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tea #chef #illustration
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)

We tracked down a temporal anomaly to the First Pentecostal Church Of North Little Rock, Arkansas.  Neither clock face agreed with the time in the world outside of the anomaly.  "As if time at least were to coincide with itself, and I with it, as if time and its two times were one single time that still was not time, a time where always is now and anytime always" (Octavio Paz, A Draft of Shadows).

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#church #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"If these pseudo peace demonstrators are indicative of the future of our nation, God help us!"  From Bellarmine College's 1968 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #sign #peace demonstration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lion versus elephant: which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #elephant #lion #animal fight
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December 13, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Any mouse can be a dazzling glamor girl."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1958.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #mouse #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #automaton #oz
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)
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* Historians must reconstruct the past out of hazy memory.  "Once upon a time" requires "second sight."  The "third eye" of intuition can break the "fourth wall" of conventional perspectives.  Instead of "pleading the fifth," historians can take advantage of the "sixth sense" and be in "seventh heaven."  All with the power of hindpsych, the "eighth wonder of the world."  It has been said that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.  Therein lies the importance of Tarot readings for antiquity.  When we confirm what has already occurred, we break the shackles of the past, freeing ourselves to chart new courses into the future.
> read more from Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore . . .
#prof. oddfellow #esp #extra sensory perception #video #penetralia
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Precursors (permalink)
Today, they call it "urbex."  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #urbex #derelict #urban exploration #abandoned building #old house #dilapidated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1927 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed -- how peas are cultivated.  From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #elves #farmer #pea #peas
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Owls.  From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Here's wishing you a respite.  "Once in a while, a respite."  From Together, 1971.
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#vintage headline #headline #respite
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1933 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #church #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#transformation #cat #reflection #shape shifting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Less challenging than cramming into a telephone booth.  From Alderson-Broaddus College's 1963 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #men's room
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When your plane catches on fire ... be nonchalant."  From Purple Parrot, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #falling #nonchalant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #roman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is apparently saying to use the upside-down Bible sparingly.  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #bible #advice #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #cat #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #rude awakening #shotgun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1918 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ironic, paradoxical, and instructive -- finding something else to focus upon in the midst of horror.  "Angling on the River Meuse.  'Hope to heaven you don't have to fire.  It might scare the fish.'"  From Bazaar Daily, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #war #fishing #vintage magazine #soldier #life goes on #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1912 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Beyond the Tomorrow Mountains by Sylvia Louise Engdahl. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #science fiction #adam and eve
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December 12, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Wild animals communicate via wireless radio.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #radio #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you've ever dreamed that you related an anecdote, "you will greatly prefer gay companionship to that of intellect, and that your affairs will prove as unstable as yourself."  From 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
> read more from Strange Dreams . . .
#dream #anecdote
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were).  Though we love that the narrator is bitter and alienated, the anachronisms certainly rub us the wrong way.  We get that the author is striving to appeal to young readers with references to Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, modern sports, and the like, but (having ourselves dedicated years to studying the art of prosaic timelessness) we'd prefer this book (and any, for that matter) be unrooted in time.  A classical tone, ageless -- that's what a guide to the Greek underworld should possess.  Yet the spectacular illustrations make it easier to turn a blind eye to any narrative weaknesses.  Not since Gustave Doré have we seen such an engaging depiction of the other place.
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#underworld #cape #charon #river styx #hades
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's whistling oyster is 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #oyster #musical animal #whistling #whistling oyster
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Old News (permalink)
"Rosy roads and shadowy valleys."  From Lighted Pathway, 1963.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #occult #shakespeare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #light in the window
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #hollow tree #tree door
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1912 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, in Essay de Papillonneries Humaines (1756).  Via LifeTakesLemons.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #butterfly people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #library #dating
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Old News (permalink)
"Even long ago is not so far away."  From Together, 1967.
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#vintage headline #time warp #headline #spacetime
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We're not sure that this illustration for the Dept. of History implies an "Ottoman" joke, but we'd like to think it does.  From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woman #vintage woman #ottoman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Colliers, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #men fighting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Alderson-Broaddus College's 1963 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina University's 1964 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #1960s #blurred #cursed
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fishing #fisherman #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"How I should like to blow a huge bubble around me."  From East Tennessee State University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #soap bubble #1970s #bubble
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goose #nursery rhyme
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December 11, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the cosmic insects film Starship Troopers.  "Do insects rule the Mars?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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#insect #mars #vintage headline #starship troopers
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The Right Word (permalink)
Learning pure English by being "on the sence [sic]" of Gone with the Wind.  One learns to say such things as "my ear bobs" and "you're not worth three hundred dollars."
"Watching classical movie, learning pure English.  The most classical movie in the 20th century.  Everlasting love affair over the centuary [sic].  Moving the heaven and world.  Vivien Leigh & Clark Gable as the leading feature.  Placing yourself into the scene, listening to idiomatic dialogue, learning in the fun.  You will get a great surprise in your oral English and listening skills after you understand ten movies."
It's a beautifully designed and rather bizarre language instruction, here on Archive dot org.
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#chinese #english
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The only way to be happy is to …
  • live in the Now
  • choose, moment by moment, your future
  • make others so
  • be of use in the world
  • expect to have your heart broken every day
  • shut yourself up in art
  • be busy
  • be humble
  • wish to be happy
  • behave like what you are
  • love
  • tolerate uncertainty
  • restore inner peace
  • forgive
  • emancipate from guilt
  • aspire to a higher purpose
  • wonder
  • start yourself over and over again
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]
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#happiness #bullet list
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #advice #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tour of Doctor Syntax In Search of the Picturesque, illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1866.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #keg #goat legged #alcohol #drunk #cask #faun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boiled alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Wanted To Go Home by Jill Tomlinson.
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#cat #stranded at sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 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 #vintage men #men #vintage automobile #automobile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest'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 #diploma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ceremonial rest.  From The Century, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #ritual #native american #ceremony
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #new year #1916 #1915
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pchela, 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 #demon #dragon #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance we assumed they were wrangling a ghost, then that they were chiseling a statue.  Our custom Uncanny Detector app says it's actually the ghost of a statue.  From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A team of Santas.  From Purple Parrot, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #sports #santa
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Joplin Junior College's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #musician #tangled #tuba
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #veterinarian #squirrel
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Old News (permalink)
"Clings to cliff with his dead."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arabian nights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #inkblot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Canine opera singers so rarely grace magazine covers these days.  From Chatterbox, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #dog #musical animal #vintage magazine #singing dog #magazine
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December 10, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 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 #fairy #lily #flower #illustration #water lily #lily pond #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mr. Floozey wanted to be seen lolling in a leather Chair by the Window."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#gentleman's club #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Berea College's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #sticking out tongue #1980s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's pineapple of faith is from Eastern Pilgrim Colleges 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #faith #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pineapple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Prehistoric cavern handprints featuring severed fingers.  From Ten Years Under the Earth by Norbert Casteret, 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 #fingers #hand #prehistoric #cave painting #mutilation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A jury of the dead passed judgment.  From Windsor Teachers College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#death #vintage yearbook #1960s #jury
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mountain climber #1920s #mountain spirit
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Old News (permalink)
In just a quarter of a century we'll finally know how prescient Orwell really was.  From Together, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline #1984
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you've heard unpleasant music called a "racket," here's why.  From Hampden-Sydney's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sports #vintage yearbook #musician #musical instruments
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 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 #china #sttaue
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Augustana College's 1931 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #viking ship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 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 #vintage diagram #diagram #anatomy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The tentacles of modernism.  From Lighted Pathway, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #octopus #tentacles #modernism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A Saturn-like ring surrounds every clock, though often not visible without special equipment.  From Joplin Junior College's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #clock #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Meeting oneself.  From Purple Parrot, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #handshake #other self #double self #spirit double #twin #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From On Being a Data Skeptic by Cathy O'Neil.
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#skepticism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #costume #dagger
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Old News (permalink)
"So your child wants some white mice."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#mouse #mice #vintage headline #headline
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December 9, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #map #venn diagram #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #king #jester
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Pussy Meow: The Autobiography of a Cat by S. Louise Patteson.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Colliers, 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 #curtain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The proper way to wield a lamp.  From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 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 #cake walk #lamp
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From MacMurray's 1966 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke
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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 Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #mountain #watercolor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Proof that angel wings don't prohibit the wearing of a cape.  From North Texas State Normal College's 1919 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 #cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Time and Tigers by D. R. Amato. 
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1963.  See Strange Talismans for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #good luck #lucky charm #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #parrot #monkey #the end #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.  "Oh, we're all frank and twenty when the spring is in the air, and we've faith and hope a-plenty and we've life and love to spare" (Richard Hovey.)

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #springtime
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Old News (permalink)
From The War Cry, 1925.
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#night #light and darkness #vintage headline #headline #light and darkess
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December 8, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Old News (permalink)
"Here is an appropriate ash tray because."  From Improvement Era, 1935.
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#smoking #death #skull #vintage headline #cigarette #headline #ashtray
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Annotated Ellipses (permalink)
A little row of dots that transitions a heroine into a boarding house.  From Someone and Somebody by Porter Emerson Browne, 1917.
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#ellipses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #kabbalah #tree of life #sephirot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Having lived by a lake, we can vouch for the authenticity of this illustration.  Geese act as though no other wildlife exist.  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 #animals #rabbit #goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Well, that would explain why my piggy bank seems so light lately.  From Pfeiffer's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#money #coins #vintage yearbook #dime
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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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#vintage illustration #penny-farthing #drum #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Cats of Henriette Ronner."  From The Century, 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 #cat #cockatoo
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Old News (permalink)
"My adventures as a bulb snatcher."  From Together, 1960.
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#1960s #vintage headline #light bulb #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1928 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great caption -- "There's more talk than fact to tarantua-stories."  From The Century, 1893.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Some good, some bad, some mediocre."  From Wesleyan College's 1967 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"The T must go."  From Lighted Pathway, 1939.
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Precursors (permalink)
A precursor to Gilligan's Island?  From Illinois State Normal's 1951 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon On The One Hand by Bill Crofut.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1960 yearbook.

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#coffin #living dead #vintage yearbook
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #teetotalism #monocle #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #doctor #vintage yearbook #sawed in half
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #king #queen #oz
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Old News (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1912 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #bear #musical animal
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December 7, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)
Words that may puzzle the reader, from the delightful and rare The Unicorn with Silver Shoes by Ella Young and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
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#genie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales, edited by Jean Cothran and illustrated by Clifford Geary.
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#crow #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
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#vintage illustration #magic wand #magician #magic
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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 #occult #vintage diagram #books #book circulation #esoteric #hybrid #star #falling down #diagram #slipped on a banana peel #taking a fall #slipping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pfeiffer's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #negative
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a cone of silence, for you-know-who.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #cone of silence #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horizon
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
This temporal anomaly contains a purple haze near the middle.  Plus, a magic word square surrounds the XII, with "word" spelled forwards, backwards, upside down, vertically, and upside down vertically.  From Wilmington's 1923 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #time bending #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The small round shadow passed on across the bright lantern of the moon."  From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 
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#vintage illustration #moon #constellation #night sky #stars
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Sour grapes."  From Salem College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #grapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Spirits by David McFadden and illustrated by Greg Curnoe.
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#vintage illustration #books #esoteric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #walrus #narwhal
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is why some accountants have to keep two sets of books.  From Lighted Pathway, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #jesus #life plan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kenyon College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #joke
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The true story of the sphinx."  From The Outline of Everything by Hector B. Toogood, 1923.
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#sphinx
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1967.
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#specificity #vintage headline #advice #headline #bad advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hope College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cyrus.  From Chatterbox, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #beard #king #persian
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December 6, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Nightmares and worms.  They bob up."  From The Duluth Herald, 1903.
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#nightmare #worm #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #oz
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"His pupils were like half moons."  From Dark Shadows episode 1185.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #sea life #fish #sunfish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Carolina Technical's 1983 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wm. H. Beard's American museum of art.  From Scribner's, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #animals #statue #museum
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A better scan of this one.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.From Poets' Wit and Humor by Wh. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #angel #mask #cherub #good and evil #illustration #devil mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgia Southwestern's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull face #horror #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Thought Too Much by Robin D. Gill.
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#japanese #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kenyon College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bottle
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Old News (permalink)
"Happiness explosion is what's happening."  From The Daily Tar Heel, 1966.
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#happiness #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Call us old-fashioned, but we've never eaten an apple that hadn't been first formed into a tower.  Have you?  From Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls by Lina & Adelia Beard, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #tower #apple
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National College of Education's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #serpent #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snake charmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.
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#toad #1910s
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1974 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dream #vintage yearbook #yearbook #popcorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #mourning #crying #gravestone #1930s #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
Thurston Howell III reads the same financial report every day, as it's the only newspaper available since the shipwreck on Gilligan's Island, episode 1.28.  (See our bizarre 19-minute documentary entitled Marooned Gray Areas of Identity on Gilligan's Island.)
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#newspaper #no news is good news #gilligan's island #old news
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December 5, 2022

Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
"Perhaps you should sit quietly."  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#fireplace #advice #woman #vintage woman #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A literary disposal plant in operation."  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 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 #books #book burning #pulp fiction
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
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* Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In this rebus-style puzzle, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes. Try to guess the exact hue of each. Roll your mouse over the colored boxes to reveal the missing words. Click the colored boxes to learn more about each hue. Special thanks to Paul Dean for his colorful research.
 
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #bluegreen #blue-green
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #newspaper dress #newspaper clothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Procession of the white elephant."  From Scribner's, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #processional #japan #parade #white elephant #elephant costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A surprisingly honest acknowledgement of woodland entities.  From the West Virginia University Division of Forestry's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #forest spirit #bigfoot
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question: "Is George Washington still living?"  We previously saw that Abraham Lincoln is still living.
From Together magazine, 1961.
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#george washington #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Tempter of Brute Power."  From Centenary's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #tempter #brute power
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs) and illustrated by W. Fletcher White, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fox #native american #iroquois
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duck #illustration #toy
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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 #devil #satan #occult #mental illness #anger #mental health #inner turmoil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Evansville College's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #shaving cream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
They lure you with their bubbles.  From the Phantasie handbook.
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#vintage illustration #bubbles #ghoul
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Vassar's 1945 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Georgia Southwestern's 1973 yearbook.
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#snowman #vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh, I thought this was a restaurant."  From Biltmore Oswald by J. Thorne Smith and illustrated by Richard Dorgan, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #dinner table #ritzy #posh
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1960 yearbook.

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#cauldron #vintage yearbook #hazing #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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December 4, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A candy elephant.  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #elephant #candy
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#vintage illustration #hammock #take it easy #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #elves #spoon #the end #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One of Santa's reindeer here is named "Stamper."  Dancer, Prancer, and Blitzen will be familiar from the popular carol.  From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #reindeer
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We've been buying the unknown for years.  Now they tell us we've been trusting to luck.  From Blue Book, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage christmas #christmas #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Composite photos of university students.  From The Century, 1887.

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#vintage photo #vintage men #men #composite #1880s
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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 #fairy tale #cat #alice in wonderland #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess #dances with wolves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #costume #rooster costume #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State Normal College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #face #yearbook #geometry #square head #square
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Francis Marion's 1976 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #1960s #pistol #pandora's box #television
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Joplin Junior College's 1942 yearbook.

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#beard #vintage yearbook #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When winter comes a little something in me dies."  From Purple Parrot, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #winter #penguin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The best teachers find the best teaching practices.  From North Central College's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sticking out tongue #teacher #tongue #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #1930s #navy #vintage man #man #sailor #paper doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #leopard #snow leopard
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The Right Word (permalink)
If you're surprised to be called Socrates today, recall that "While no one is Socrates, everyone is Socrates" (Richard Mitchell, The Underground Grammarian, 1989).  From Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s
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December 3, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Can you coffee-pot on skates?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1947.
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#coffee #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bunny #1920s #smart animal #literate animal
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"No more smelling salts.  I feel better when I'm under."  From The Addams Family, 1965
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#fainting #passed out #addams family #smelling salts
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1971. 
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#vintage hollywood #vintage men #men #hollywood #laurel and hardy #adam's apple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #flying car
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bryson's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #beard #parrot #dog #animals #robinson crusoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity
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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 #outer space #nervous prostration #fatigue #emotional #exhaustion #space tourism #zipper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #god #illustration #atom #gear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #the end #mayan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #endpapers #caveman #mammoth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Evansville College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage women #bubblegum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #goddess #star goddess #seeing stars
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #horse #apple
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's all in how you wear it.  From Mount Union College's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #hat #vintage man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #bull #cliff #meat #levitating hat #butcher
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December 2, 2022

Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #world #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #turtle #ostrich #bandaged
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washburn's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fine arts
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ball and chain #weights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Albert Staley, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #all-seeing eye #eye of god #eye #eye in the sky #rebus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #hyena
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From WBAI Folio, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1967.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline #fighting #headline #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #snake #animal attack #faceless #no face #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.
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#divorce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #depression #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #witch #dragon #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we thought they were on a flying carpet.  From Ottawa University's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #initiation #secret society #hooded figure #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Spiderland by R. A. Ellis, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #spider #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"No more labels — to each her own."  From Indiana University's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thumbing nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy's Own Paper, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #burned alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's unexpected 3D effect is from Taylor University's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #3D
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #demon #goya #the people could fly #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National Kindergarten and Elementary College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #spaghetti
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we never glue models while sitting under a cauldron, and also why we never read instructions.  From Kids and The Apple by Edward Carlson, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cauldron
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December 1, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Farmer's Magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #horse #cowboy
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Earlham's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #tall ship #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Saskatchewan's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #playing cards #costume #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Evansville College's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #rabbit #1960s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara College's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #sign #no trespassing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #spider
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wayne State University's 1945 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #december #yearbook #modern art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Taking himself seriously."  From Life Magazine, via Photo-Era Magazine, 1911.  See our video about why "selfies" are haunted.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #camera #photographer #self portrait #selfie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #december #calendar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #camping
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #rainy day #vintage yearbook #yearbook #football
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Do you know the meaning of your dreams?"  From The Duluth Herald, 1921.  See our video about death dreams and what to do about them.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #monkey #1920s #crushed #dream analysis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #discus
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Old News (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #temporal anomaly #melting watch #headline #time slip
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Telephones have grown smaller over the decades, but they've also grown less fun.  From Mount Vernon Nazarene University's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #telephone #1970s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the milkmaid.  From Chatterbox, 1909.  
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#vintage illustration #cow #hidden pictures
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Omaha University's 1957 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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#vintage illustration #alien #blurred
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