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December 31, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #chaos #mayhem #new year #1940s #illustration #pandemonium
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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 #twins #seeing double #puppet #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"An old riddle of the new year: A father has just twice six sons. Not one e’er sees his brother. Of thirty daughters to each son, not one e’er sees the other. Each daughter’s life twice twelve doth count. Of strange facts here’s another: One-half their lives they’re white as light, and black as night the other."
From Youth's Companion, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #riddle #new year #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Paris chooses Aphrodite as the fairest.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
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#vintage illustration #mythology #paris #greek #illustration #aphrodite
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Old News (permalink)
"Things that have not gone up amd things that have gone down."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree #illustration #weeping willow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Expressways, Grade 3, Level 6, Handstands by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #1910 #old year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #mittens #yarn ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Freeman Junior College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #kissing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #aurora borealis #1970s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal #squirrel
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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 #waterfall
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 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 #vintage ad #sphinx #egypt #pyramids #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1892 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 Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #fox #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #bear man #man bear
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't worry!"  From The Instructor, 1955.
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#worry #vintage headline #headline #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"Use winter to grow more beautiful."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#winter #vintage headline #advice #headline
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December 30, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1920s #new year #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 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 #underwater #under the sea #illustration #diver #1950s #lifesaving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where Our Ways of Living Come From by Howard Wilson, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bull #hunter #1940s #caveman #illustration #prehistoric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #feathers #feather #native american #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A biscuit keeps you going."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #pipe smoker #shovel #1940s #illustration #biscuit #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"How would you like to have a gunpowder dress?  The explosive is now spun and woven into a fabric which looks and feels exactly like silk."  From Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage headline #headline #gunpowder
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I would a tale unfold."  From the University of Michigan's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #knot #1890s #tail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #toys #pixie
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Old News (permalink)
"Pretend you love me."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1960.
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#vintage headline #faking it #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The uphill climb of survival.  From Ohio University's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #survival #uphill #climbing
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #dreaming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #lion #1930s #vintage hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Picket, 1994.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #monster #angel #sword #tentacle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan University'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 Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#lion #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Blind Bow-Boy, by Carl Van Vechten:


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horn #1930s #lamb #illustration
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December 29, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1980.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #buddha #illustration #buddhist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bowles's Polite Recreation in Drawing, 1779.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #making faces #humility #1770s
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Open Door English Series for the Junior High School, Book Three, 1934.
* 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 #1930s #illustration #storyteller
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #antlers #moose #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Come down here, Mr. Red Wing, and I will tell you all I know."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #bird
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Old News (permalink)
"Demons are a girl's best friend!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#demon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #dog #nursery rhyme #butcher
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Old News (permalink)
"Uncertainty encircles tomorrow."  From Goshen College's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #uncertainty #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #dancing #native american #bear dance
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Old News (permalink)
"A wise man's shadow is better than a brazen man's sword."  From Taylor University's 1950 yearbook.
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#shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hypnotized and pierced with hat pins.  From How to Win by L. H. Anderson, 1893.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1943 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1940s #vintage man
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Old News (permalink)
"One ringy dingy ... two ringy dingy ..."  From Ohio University's 1981 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #telephone #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #sleeping #yearbook #asleep #1890s #do not disturb #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mosquito
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Old News (permalink)
"Apathy takes a lot less time."  From Memphis State University's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #apathy #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #cave #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"The gay gallop."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Do you envy a person who can play on a linoleum?"  From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #linoleum #spoof ad #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #snow #winter #1900s #illustration
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December 28, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpine Architektur by Bruno Taut, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #visionary #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's a crazy "Match Game" episode in which the cast of Grave Mood Rings puts its spin on the band Soviet.
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#music video #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #jack-in-the-box #rabbit #teddy bear #1960s #illustration #living toys
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cupid's Book, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #breakfast #table setting #1920s #diagram #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wrong place for winter sports."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #toboggan #stairs
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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 Hampden-Sydney College's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #1930s
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't feel disappointed!  Perhaps you expected too much.  Miracles.  Hokus-Pokus.  Legerdemain.  You should have known better."  From The Film Daily, 1927.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1898 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #hell #fraternity #vintage yearbook #burned alive #burned at the stake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Who is this 'they' we talk about?"  See this video about a surprising pronoun alternative.  From Purdue University's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #pronoun #they
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't be a stork."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #advice #stork #standing on one leg #standing on one foot #ad #don't be
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Old News (permalink)
"But everyone does it."  From Ohio University's 1981 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #cheating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Adelbert College's 1947 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #cat people #cat headed #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life of a Foxhound by John Mills and illustrated by J. A. Shepherd, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Excuse Me, by Rupert Hughes:

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Cars are mere vehicles, but locomotives have souls.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #overworked
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December 27, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #castle in the air #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #bird #rooftop #1920s #chimney #illustration #mockingbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From She, The Woman-Man by Aleta B. Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1935. At Archive dot org.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Sometimes you have to put your entire book pitch on the front cover.  Form Up From Boredom, Down From Fear by Leckart with Weinberger, 1980.
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#vintage book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#cat #vintage photo #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"From borrowed brightness to broken body and mind."  From The Improvement Era, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #smoking #tobacco #before and after
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'I'm simply all worn out.'  The story is the same, no matter what her station in life may be."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #chronic fatigue #tired #exhausted #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It was a jerky year of double bubble fortunes."  From Berea College's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage woman #bubblegum
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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 #macabre #death #skeleton #mortality #coffin #vintage headline #coffin surfing #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Football sure has changed over the years.  From Miami University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #sword fight #wounded
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't linger in outer darkness."  From Vanity Fair, 1916.  (Hat tip - the winsome Jonathan.)
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blowing bubbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #horse #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mop life.  From Iowa State's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage men #mop hair #mop wig
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
"3 times a third of 3 sisters."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
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#1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #seeing double #1960s #vintage man #man #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale #broom
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December 26, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #1900s #illustration #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #sign #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings #match game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #costume #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Heavy toll of prank and scare."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#practical joke #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Not quite a Cinderella story: "I turned into a pumpkin or whatever she did."  From Dark Shadows episode 359.
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#pumpkin #cinderella #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #friar #bottles
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Old News (permalink)
"Spiders are good to eat."  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906.
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#spider #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #books #lion #1940s
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
It turns out that 1 is more than a number.  From Manchester College's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #number #number one #number 1 #1
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #1960s #dracula
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1962.  
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#ghost #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas Agricultural College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Literary Cavalcade, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double #third eye #1960s #overlap
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Era Magazine, 1914.
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#cat #vintage photo
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Vanity Fair, 1923:

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A good old-fashioned ghost is an A-1 publicity agent. [George S. Chappell]

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Mr. Gordon Craig sees the future and the salvation of the drama in puppet shows.
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Notes on a couple of the attachments:
1. The one I've labeled "hand of hands" attracted my attention because the large hand is made up of small hands.
2. The hat/shoe spread amuses me because I'm imagining short, invisible ghosts wearing each ensemble.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories of Pioneer Life, For Young Readers by Florence Bass, 1900.
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December 25, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1950.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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Old News (permalink)
From the Thorton Courier, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman by Annie Fellows Johnson and illustrated by Reginald B. Birch, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The devil takes what he wants before Santa goes down the chimney.  From Current Sauce, 1960.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 1902.
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Old News (permalink)
"Call back yesterday."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#time travel #vintage headline #time warp #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1955.
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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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Old News (permalink)
"Of many varied shades are the shadows found in social life."  From Taylor University's 1950 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1927.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Aggravating damages."  From the University of Michigan's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect #lawyer
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Find W. G. Grace."  From Chatterbox, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trumpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Compliments of the Season by Eleanor Donnelly, 1887.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson State Teachers College's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon On The One Hand by Bill Crofut.
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Washington College's 1955 yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
"A dog that enjoys Christmas."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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December 24, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage christmas #christmas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #1900s #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Book, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Undated postcard via UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Old News (permalink)
"Wireless call to Santa Claus."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from a 1908 postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
105580 21693
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1990 yearbook.

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

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#vintage christmas #christmas #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #santa #1990s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.
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December 23, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1950.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Comic Birthday Book, undated.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Red Herring, Dec. 1993.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #illustration #glider #1910s #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Tiny firstlings of a season not yet due."  From Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Old News (permalink)
"Our pets enjoy Christmas just as much as we."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1949.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pupils' Own Vocabulary Speller Book 2 by Gates, Rinsland, Sartorius & Peardon, 1947.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Book, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Old News (permalink)
"Christmas is often overdone.  The day fosters habits of extravagance."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #vintage postcard #christmas pudding #illustration #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A little-known truth revealed: holiday wreaths are not for looking at but rather for viewing through.  Christmas trees are meant to be seen through wreaths.  From Ohio State University's 1968 yearbook.

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

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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

***
Quel hors d’œuvre!” he exclaimed in involuntary admiration. He was indeed a masterpiece.

***
And as the two friends strolled back towards their college, he explained to David how it had long been a principle with him always to exceed the authorized allowance of words.
***

[Another telegram-related snippet, plus two other snippets, attached.]

[Bonus names]
an artist named Tierra del Fuego
novelist Ermyntrude Tropes
Lady Blandula Merris ("Bladge" to her friends)



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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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December 22, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1893.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1980.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Speaking and Writing English Book Three by Sheridan, Kleiser and Mathews, 1930.
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Old News (permalink)
"Varying amount of shopping days left (depending on the holiday)."  From The Omen, 1995.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.
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Old News (permalink)
"Pass the smelling salts."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From RFD, Spring 1975.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Undated postcard via UpNorthMemories.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brave and Bold, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From George Fox College's 1986 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Old News (permalink)
"If you face the sun, the shadows will fall behind you."  From Taylor University's 1950 yearbook.
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#sun #staring at the sun #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Something like home that is not home is to be desired; it is found in the house of a friend" (Temple).  From Purdue University's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spider web
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December 21, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #dog #1920s #pig #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Dec. 1992.
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #illustration #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Workbook to Accompany At Play Primer by Hildreth, Roy, et al., 1947. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A yule log is the first step in drawing a reindeer.  From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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Unicorns (permalink)
Today's 14-century unicorn is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You should have Violet in your bath."  From The Film Daily, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #redhead #1920s #bathtub #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Skating through the museum.  From Shadowland, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #museum #skating #rollerskates
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A rare ocean train, from Oberlin College's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #vintage yearbook #ocean #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #big book #letter v
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Juniata College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #silhouette #vintage christmas #christmas #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Language A, Skills Practice Book, Teacher's Edition by Raisbeck & Smart, 1980.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories, with our restoration.  
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Old News (permalink)
Yes, let's meet ourselves in 1950.  From The Tangent, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #time travel #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #the end #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Let's Look Around by Gates, Ayer & Peardon, 1939.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The New Yorker, Jan.-June 1926:

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There is...that terrible moment at which one of the deck-hands hears the word "efficiency" and most comically asks, "What fish did you see?"

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[Hello, Lola!] does not even live up to the standard of things called Hello, Lola!

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Easter, a play twenty-five years old, looks and acts its age.

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That portion of the public which likes to take its drama while lolling on the small of its intellect.

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Add to them the delightful young giggler of one Phyllis Connard.

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[Beau-Strings] is a cleverly dull evening.

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["Playing along," in the Wilde]
Dudley Digges, who directed [a 1926 revival of The Importance of Being Earnest] plays along capitally as the country curate.

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...and twenty more Et Ceteras dutifully doing forty So Forths.

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If so many Jims Corbett and Felixes Isman had not had their memories printed...
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Notes on a few of the attachments:
"Great Caesar's Ghost": Previously, I've encountered this only as an oath, never as an actual persona or archetype! (May be a one-off.)
The "pin drop / Grant's tomb" item illustrates exactly that--a protagonist in a humor piece dropping the proverbial pin in the proverbially silent tomb.
The incidental truncation that appears to read "cow Art" in the item labeled "yes" actually said "Moscow Art [Theater, I guess]"; but the layout had to make a detour around an illustration, as one does.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #1910s
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December 20, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Surprises, edited by McInnes, Belfry, Collins, Gerrard & Ryckman and illustrated by Smith & Bagshaw, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #puppet #1960s #illustration #hand puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #mermaid #letter H #capital H #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UpNorthMemories.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #greece #greek #1930s #illustration #horse carriage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #snow #mail carrier #1920s #postman #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Modern English Writing by Douglas Bement, 1937.
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#lie #lying #sentence diagram #untruth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blue Book, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #tattoo #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #wringer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witt's Notes, 1984.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #cheese
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Old News (permalink)
"The mouse on the moon."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #cat #egypt #1900s #cat mummy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dickon Bend-the-Bow and Other Wonder Tales by Everett McNeil and illustrated by Rob Wagner, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #wizard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage men #cross dressing #drag
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Old News (permalink)
From No Title No Cover, edited by Gene Fowler, 1980.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma State University's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weightless #cowboy #1940s #lasso #rodeo #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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December 19, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #costume #1900s #illustration #big head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #elf #1920s #illustration #poem #recipe #bethlehem cake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage christmas #christmas #santa #vintage postcard #illustration #postcard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Do not come in.  You would only aid the devil's work."  From Dark Shadows episode 725.
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#dark shadows
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Have you ever dreamed that you saw a lot of people helpless with laughter -- and that then you woke roaring with laughter?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dream #laughter #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #greek #plato
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Old News (permalink)
Great news!  "Your goals have been achieved."  From East Tennessee State University's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #spider #daddy longlegs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Teacher's College's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pieces For the Left Hand by Robert Lennon.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #paint by numbers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"The robber kitten."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #ex libris
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Old News (permalink)
"His mother is worried."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#worry #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dickon Bend-the-Bow and Other Wonder Tales by Everett McNeil and illustrated by Rob Wagner, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Connecticut State College's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#scarecrow #vintage photo #wizard of oz #vintage yearbook #oz #moonshine #tin man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Munro's Ten Cent Novels, 1864.
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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage magazine #magazine
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel," by A. E. W. Mason:

***
"And I ask myself"--Mr. Ricardo never could ask himself anything without assuming a manner of extreme pomposity--"I ask myself...."
***

[Bonus: nonexistent (I assume) jewelers called Messrs. Lustre and Steinopolis, of Hatton Garden--mentioned by a character in an entirely hypothetical scenario he's depicting, so presumably fictitious even within the fictional world of the story]
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Following New Trails by Horn, Moscrip & Porter, 1940.
* 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 #lighthouse #illustration
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December 18, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #santa #1920s #illustration #garden #farm #seeds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #jack and jill #puss in boots #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)


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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 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 #medieval #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #twelfth century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #1940s #illustration #kitten
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Old News (permalink)
"Visiting another life ... through hypnosis."  From Fate Magazine, no. 52.
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#occult #vintage headline #headline #past lives #hyposis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #peacock #1920s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's the source of shivers.  From Chicago Teacher's College's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shivering #shivers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 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 #buddhism #wheel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #redhead #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #money #fairy tale #1920s #gemstone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #telephone #sign #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"She wants it stopped."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.
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#enough is enough #vintage headline #enough already #stop #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"She's modern!"  From Chicago Normal College's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Porcupine's Kisses by Stephen Dobyns, 2002.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#porcupine #kissing #personal protection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #imp #skull #vintage yearbook #playing cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Man in the Moon is a guitarist.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #guitar #illustration #interior moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Circleville Bible College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A lot of ink might go into a book, but some books actually give back ... especially if their covers are portals.  From Bonstonofavitch by Thomas Carlisle and illustrated by Kathleen McKie, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #portal #surrealism #spilled ink #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insect #1890s #illustration #pupa
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December 17, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 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 #goddess #hinduism #illustration #1950s #durga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lewis Story Method of Teaching Reading and Spelling Manual, illustrated by Bess Bruce Cleaveland, 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 #elf #illustration #letter l #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Sensible—happy' should and would be her motto."   From Youth's Companion, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #flower #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"What is it you want?"  From the University of Michigan's 1898 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Little he cared for specters grim."  From The Century, 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 #monk #specter
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Old News (permalink)
"Preferred death to taking drink of medicine with brandy."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#alcohol #teetotalism #vintage headline #brandy #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Is Shakespeare Dead? by Mark Twain, 1909.
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#shakespeare #question mark #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #organ grinder
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Old News (permalink)
"I looked begind the curtain ... they were back!"  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 2007.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #duck #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #pants
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lady Green Satin and Her Maid Rosette, translated by Baroness E. Martineau des Chesnez and illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #the end #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Too wet for play.  Please cooperate."  From Ohio University's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #water #flooded #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Young Klondike, Stories of a Gold Seeker, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #seal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #the end #illustration
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December 16, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 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 #vintage ad #money #money bag #1900s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1991.
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#vintage illustration #music #trumpet #illustration #1990s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Santa has a garden.  From Wee Wisdom, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #santa #reindeer #1920s #illustration #garden #plough
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bellows #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We know what we want for Christmas.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #knitting #hat #women #vintage women
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"(There is always a last time for everything.)  Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."  From "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke.
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#end of the world #stars #arthur c. clarke
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College'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 #top hat #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1981 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"A new theory.  Men over thirty-five years old do not need exercise."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.
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#exercise #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Is it sad to be funny?"  From Screenland, 1933.
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#vintage headline #comedian #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kirksville College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ad
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Old News (permalink)
News we can believe: "Many weeds in fields."  From The Duluth Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #headline #weeds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sun #weathervane #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1790s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Og—Son of Fire by Irving Crump and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #caveman #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #editor #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #vintage men #illustration #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life Science by Benedict, Knox & Stone, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #flowers #illustration #watering can
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Life, July-December 1923:

***
English snippet-hounds [from an unsigned piece, but I suspect it's Benchley]

***
You, too, can have knuckles that knuck.
***
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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December 15, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not spilling water is only as interesting as one makes it.  From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #bucket #diagram #1930s #illustration #centrifugal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #capital t #letter t #1900s #illustration #mink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #sun #snowman #melting #1930s #illustration #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Patterns for Writing 2 by Dashwood-Jones, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #native american #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clothing for Moderns by Mabel Deane Erwin, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #illustration #coat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's true -- when you forget you're seeing everything upside down, you can stumble into awkward situations.  "Andy tried to walk towards Penny, but he forgot he was seeing everything upside down and stumbled into Sally's arms instead."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 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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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #horse #dreaming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "A Demon's Nightmare" by J. T. C. (1972).
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#vintage illustration #demon #strange bedfellows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile #celebration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#epitaph #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #effigy #tibetan #funeral rites
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #hat #tie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #devil #stalin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #long hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #backwards #1900s #vintage men #facing the wrong way
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buffalo Bill Stories, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #buffalo bill #vintage magazine #catamount
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #illustration #book horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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December 14, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cat #bird #1920s #robin #illustration #up a tree #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #elf #winter #skating #ice skating #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #santa #illustration #holiday #holidays combined #holidays #1910s #holidays collide
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #through the looking glass #alice in wonderland #drum #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #solar system #diagram #illustration #descartes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #butter #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I love tranquil solitude and such society as is quiet, wise and good" (Percy Bysshe Shelley).  From Salem College'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 #tea
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Old News (permalink)
"Between the world and me; the world would have to change."  From Purdue University's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #egg #surreal #faceless #no face #egghead #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"When girls go wrong."  From Progressive Thinker, 1906.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kaskaskia College's 1979 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1978 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
"The times do change."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cincinnati Bible Seminary's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #headless #1970s #invisible man
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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.
70183 67883
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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #full moon #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #hallowe'en #donkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Sit down you're rockin' the boat."  From the U.S. Naval Academy's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #phonograph #illustration #record player #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #chinese #illustration #wheelbarrow
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Triumph of the Nut, and Other Parodies, by Christopher Ward:

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She went abroad and was polished in Poland and finished in Finland.

***
Two great dreaming towers towered toward the sky, like a gigantic pair of white flannel trousers, reversed.

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whether sound travels faster in the direction in which it is going or in the opposite direction
***












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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a loser can keep a winning smile."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #smile #illustration
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December 13, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #japanese #peach tree #1900s #illustration #oxen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #sheep #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #lamb #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1920s #illustration #bobolink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Second Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #turkey #illustration #gosling
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #desert #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #sheep #lamb #illustration
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
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#elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Runaway Equator by Lilian Bell and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #ox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Peterson's Magazine, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #rooster #needlepoint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Haunted Churchyard, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #cemetery #graveyard #tomb
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Old News (permalink)
"Drinkers go insane."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#alcoholism #insanity #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat #ornate frame
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #mouse #cat and mouse #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #airplane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When the Millennium comes."  From Vanity Fair, 1916.  (Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan.)
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#vintage illustration #party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mirror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #looking glass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #spider #daddy longlegs
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December 12, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #animals #1940s #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #weather #map #1900s #illustration #heatwave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #winter #reindeer #1920s #sleigh #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #1920s #cat and mouse #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Another unprovable "marvel" of big science: "silent sound."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1948.
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#silence #vintage headline #big science
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We have no explanation for what has happened."  From Dark Shadows episode 697.
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#dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"Put on a happy face."  See also this video about faking it till you make it.  From Catawba College's 1989 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #happy face #faking it #fake it
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From People's Computers, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #droste effect
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Old News (permalink)
"The devil pays off."  From Film Daily, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the "What's in your bag?" trope.  From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1911 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #what's in your bag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #sun #silhouette #egypt #camel #pyramid
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Old News (permalink)
"Has his first egg shampoo."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#egg #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This happens only if one uses a traditional typewriter.  From Ohio University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #typewriter #letters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #piggy back ride
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Calvin College's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #meat grinder #mannequin #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"The dark night: Earth and Mars restore a mad universe to equilibrium."  From The Occult Digest, 1929.
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#astrology #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, British Edition, 1940, illustrated by Edd Carter.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #occult #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A new bubble is born."  From Bowdoin College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blowing bubbles #soap bubble #1960s #vintage man #man #photo
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Old News (permalink)
"Fair and wise and good and gay."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Pocketful of Poses, by Anne Parrish:





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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #sword #sword in the stone #illustration #sword and the stone
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December 11, 2025

We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From The Snow Book by Western Education Development Group, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #1970s #illustration #snowflake
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#zombie #vampire #undead #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #pinocchio #illustration #living toy #1910s
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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 #falling #oz
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Old News (permalink)
"Time has arrived to go over the top, is advice."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From "The Blue Sleep" in The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #ghost #bridge #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fable #lion #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Sounds like a variation on "Go fly a kite."  Go "watch a rehearsal."  From Ohio University's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #theatre #1940s #vintage man #rehearsal
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Old News (permalink)
"It's all over now."  From The Film Daily, 1927.
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#end of the world #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A pleasure to wear—day or night."  A lucky rabbit's foot from the Lucky Heart Curio Catalog, undated.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #superstition #luck charm #lucky charm #rabbit's foot #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #costume #mascot #1960s #vintage men
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #don't laugh #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1979 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Folk of the Woods by Lucius Crocker Pardee and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1913.
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#bird #vintage illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #witch #halloween #spectre #full moon #spirit #october #sheet ghost #vintage halloween #vintage postcard #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration #knitting needle
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December 10, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom,1919.
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #christmas #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #1960s #posture #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Nests in the tree are safe from me."  "Few catches, no scratches."  "Skim milk for many, not cream for a few."  "No mice caught except for public good."  "No prowls, no howls."  "I never sleep in."  "Love live the canary."  From Youth's Companion, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858. 
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#vintage illustration #finis #illustration #nursery rhyme #poem #1850s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #cat #falling #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948. 
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#vintage illustration #ice #duck #1940s #illustration #water
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's turkey reciting Hamlet is from Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #turkey #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hamlet #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #grim reaper #war #strife
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #starry night #telescope #observatory
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #illustration #eek
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Old News (permalink)
"Children are a problem."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #halo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #lesbian #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nick Carter Weekly, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #illustration #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tony and Jo-Jo by Gates, Liveright & Esterline, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #organ grinder #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"More comfort than brains."  From North-Western College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Faust by Goethe and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #dungeon #Faust #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Sax jazz."  From State Teacher's College, Farmville's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #jazz #saxophone
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Old News (permalink)
"The electric eye watches the coffee."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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#coffee #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #1930s #illustration #birdhouse
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December 9, 2025

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #picture puzzle #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
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 #ice #wind #old man winter #influenza #1900s #illustration #grippe
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A night which many feel will never end."  From Dark Shadows episode 633.
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#night #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Edible Christmas decorations on the farm.  From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #christmas tree #vintage christmas #christmas #animals #1920s #illustration #farm
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Our Dumb Animals, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #1960s #illustration #smart animal #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  
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#vintage illustration #pied piper #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The cat who ate Danish modern."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#vintage headline #cat
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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 #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bard awaiting the Muse.  From Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #harp #muse #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #king #knight #sir lancelot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's book ladder is from Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ladder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
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#money #vintage illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Tulsa Collegian, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A time to break down."  From Circleville Bible College's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #foot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #snake #animal attack #treasure #gold #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #printing press #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Life, Jan.-June 1923:

***
an elm-lined avenue of escape [Sherwood]

***
[The plot of Pasteur was] designed to show that he had a human side as well as a beard. [Benchley]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #duck #illustration #duckling #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State University of Iowa's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #toothache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #ladybug #1930s #window #illustration
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December 8, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #illustration #bodhisattva
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #drawing #sleeping beauty #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #story of the running wolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #1860s #illustration #heavy load
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Old News (permalink)
"Good times coming.  Are we in sight of better days?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#vintage headline #it gets better #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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#vintage illustration #night #bear #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I state the false to learn the truth."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #mouth #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #anthropomorphism #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
Reblog if you take "Seen, eaten, gone" vacations.  From Sharing Experiences by McKee & McCowen and illustrated by Corinne Malvern & Sylvia Haggander, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #stranded at sea
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Old News (permalink)
"While I pondered weak and weary."  From Fenn College's 1951 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #edgar allan poe #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A 'stag' dance."  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #men dancing #stag dance
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Old News (permalink)
"Past, present is in her fuchsia!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #mosquito #native american #iroquois
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #vintage yearbook #yearbook #letter j
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Old News (permalink)
So the first "car show" was put on by P. T. Barnun in 1896, the auto being exhibited as a circus freak.  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage headline #vintage automobile #automobile #headline #barnum
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #anthropomorphism #nose #vintage yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From McMaster's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1950s
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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.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leaf #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
87793 87079
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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December 7, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Savage Folk by John MacLean, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #native american #1890s #illustration #plains indians
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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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#dinner #lion #1910s #vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phonic Primer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #counting #illustration #apple #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #rat #oz #rat king
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tag your body language: Eagerness, Submission, Respect, Abhorrence, Fatigue, Humble self-indication, Scorn, Explosion, or Mental chaos.  From Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #body language #posture #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Have you lived before?"  From Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #reincarnation #egypt #pyramid #ad
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: "What will the future hold?" 
A: Meltdowns.
From Ohio University's 1981 yearbook.
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#snowman #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #Rumpelstiltskin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Broome Community College's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bee #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #gardening #hoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Take a lion with you on your vacation!"  From Movie Classic, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #lion #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1906 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #night sky #starry night #biblical
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Dentistry's 1983 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teeth #dentist #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From "Is College Training Useful On the Farm?" in Lebanon Valley College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cow #singing #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"How my voice suddenly became a man's."  From Progressive Thinker, 1906.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder in Absence, by Miles Burton:

Place name: Triptown-on-Sea

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Marionettes by Edith Flack Ackley and illustrated by Marjorie Flack, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #seesaw #puppet #marionette #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #sable
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December 6, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #winter #bird #1940s #illustration #feed the birds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #letter I #handwriting #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#squirrel #bird #drawing #1920s #vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #illustration #dick whittington
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
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Old News (permalink)
"Help from nowhere.  The answered prayers."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #power of prayer #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #boxing #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cosmic Survey, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan and the Golden Lion by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #lion #tarzan
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Old News (permalink)
"Kitten power."  From Concordia Teachers College's 1972 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #vintage headline #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And then?  And, then, all was blank.  Behind that and his present awakening, blank, nothingness, darkness, what you will."  From The Golden Journey of Mr. Paradyne by William J. Locke and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The harbor each-one-names-for-himself," on the Island of New Mania.  From Wheaton College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #1920s
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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 #creatures #lasso
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nonsense #all-consonant word
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1903 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #violin #1900s #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lettering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via BUFORA Newsfile, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #comet #shooting star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #sheep #1960s #illustration #arrow #bighorn
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December 5, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #1900s #illustration #salvation army
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Number Stories Work-Book 1, by Findley, Studebaker & Knight, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Weakness is disease.  It is only those who are not strong enough to resist the attack of disease germs that go down."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1924.
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#illness #disease #vintage headline #weakness #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ship #poseidon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand of god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Lullabies by Elva S. Smith, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #skull #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mercury #1930s #airplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage illustration #upside down #seeing stars
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you a 'wet-dry' or a 'dry-dry.'"  From Improvement Era, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #camel #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"TGIF ... or any other reason."  From Ohio State University's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #friday
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What's new, pussycat?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#cat #vintage fashion #1960s #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #graveyard #cat #vintage yearbook #tombstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lost knowledge of strange arts."  From Reality Magazine, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #beard #wizard #occult #crystal ball #esoteric #mystic #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Your grave will be a bottomless pit."  From Dark Shadows episode 601.
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#curse #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas State College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #men fighting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In front of the stampede."  From Ten Years a Cowboy by Charles Clement Post, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phrenological Journal, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #phrenology #physiognomy #drawing #making faces
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Have Tux, Will Travel, by Bob Hope "as told to" Pete Martin:

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I get peeved as easy as the next guy--unless the next guy is Donald Duck.

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My grandfather got caught cheating at chess. He was using loaded bishops.

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[Simon and Schuster] not only insinuates that I had a ghostwriter, they brought the book out on Halloween.

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This benefit usually occurs in February, but Mrs. Cummings begins to call me in November. Once she starts, she keeps my telephone line so busy I can't make an outside call without going through her.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #illustration
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December 4, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#video #grave mood rings #horror comedy #bad juju & j bone #death metal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Linoleum as art.  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #linoleum #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #medieval #farmer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Love me."  From The Omen, 2002.
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#vintage illustration #insect #fly #illustration #2000s
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Old News (permalink)
"What is a gentleman?  Gentle as a woman, manly as a man."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #gentleman #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 #falling #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't know who will stop me from eating this fellow when I am hungry."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We finally understand why better living has eluded us -- we simply can't carry that many keys around.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hand #key #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of the Holy Crosss 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1970s #musician #vintage man #cymbals #tassles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #queen #up a tree
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Sundials (permalink)
"As a shadow, such is life."  From Wittenberg College's 1949 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Seer, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #astrology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Oregon College's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wallpaper #illustration
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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 #anthropomorphism #fish #1860s #surreal #faceless #no face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Laughter & Despair by  U. C. Knoepflmacher.
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#vintage illustration #despair #mask #vintage book #book #marotte #laughter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union Hospital School of Nursing's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat people #the end
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 1978.
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#vintage ad #owl #vintage photo #letter z #night owl #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Montana College's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #sticking out tongue #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #trumpet #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1900s #shark #illustration
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December 3, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1939.  Illustration by Lola McColl Russell.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal attack #1960s #illustration #dog bite
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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#vintage illustration #1890s #illustration
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Unicorns (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #lion #1920s #animal fight #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1920s #illustration #failure #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #camel #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"TV is so tiring.  'I'm absolutely exhausted.  I had to change programmes no fewer than six times last night."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1955.
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#vintage headline #television #headline #tv
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It is dark where Willie is.  Willie comes to a dark house."  From Practice for Up and Away by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Though the headline says that two were driven insane by a ouija board, the article names four whose commitment to occult revelations led to their commitment to state hospitals for the insane.  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#occult #ouija #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Egg opera-glasses.  From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #opera glasses #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#musician #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Era, 1923.
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#cat #vintage photo #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester 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 #bird #worm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Corvi Chronicle, 2009.
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#vintage illustration #crow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #incense #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #censer
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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 #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University (Saint Louis)'s 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #bear #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stage and the School by Katharine Anne Ommanney, 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 #shakespeare #theatre #1930s #illustration #globe theatre
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telescope #1900s #illustration #dec. 3 #december 3
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 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 #anthropomorphism #cat #dog #illustration #animal friends #1880s
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December 2, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #poem #imaginary animal #prink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A black-capped chickadee and a squirrel.  From The Outdoor Book by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #1920s #squirrel #illustration #hollow tree #animal friends #chickadee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #surcoat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1892 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s
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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 #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #trojan horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #newspaper #journalism #illustration #reporter #journalist
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Divination by the leapings of an occult cat.  From Odd Creatures by Dum-Dum, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #divination #occult #cat #poem #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Brigantia, 1989.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #celtic #swan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #apple #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mademoiselle Bouffante."  From Shadowland, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #costume #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1984 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess #rubaiyat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun in the Radio World by E. Boyd Smith, 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 #radio #endpapers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "Flosofee" plant.  From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #philosophy #human headed #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's acorn man is from Pour Amuser Les Enfants by Victor Delosière (undated).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #acorn #illustration #toy #acorn head
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Smart Set, 1923:

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It is Expressionism brought to the perusal of temperamental inexpressionism. [Nathan]

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in which Voltaire is exhibited as the hero...who devotes his life to changing from one Sulka dressing gown to another, making epigrams... [Nathan]

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[The play] has its moments, but they are swallowed up in its hours. [Nathan]

***
[Singular "shenanigan" dept.]
Ervine has covered up the whole obvious shenanigan... [Nathan]

***
[Pirandello] is the dramatist of a theme's ghost. [Nathan]
***

[Bonus: A book satirizing censorship, entitled Nonsensorship.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #robin #illustration
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Today — December 1, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
This curse muttered by a biologist, "erysipelatous strabismic steatopygian" is a Googlewhack, though it occurs in Van Vogt's The Voyage of the Space Beagle.  The individual words paint a grotesque picture.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #december #jesus #1920s #illustration #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #pain in the yeahs #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #queen #illustration #mary queen of scots #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 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 #cat #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chair #1930s #french #illustration #furniture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Trésor des Jeunes Conteurs by J .E. Poirier, 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 #moses #biblical #1900s #illustration #red sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #airplane #illustration #langley
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #poem #imaginary animal #switterzee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #december
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not dream of horse-chestnuts tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #symbol #nuts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Execution of Reynard."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #gallows #fox #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Parson Beecher and His Horse by Bricktop, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #horse
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Old News (permalink)
"Horrible haunted house hides hideous happenings."  From Toike Oike, 1930.
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#haunted house #hallowe'en #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's book windmill is from Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #windmill #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1825.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dressing mirror
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to the title page.

Click to shift to the title page
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#necromancy #occult #voodoo #vintage book #book #animated gif #voodoo doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem State Normal School's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #explosion
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Old News (permalink)
"Life is a great adventure.  We are participants in the greatest drama ever enacted."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Experiences with Inexpensive Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 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 yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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