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February 28, 2018

A Rose is a ... (permalink)
May you, too, have roses without end (barring any allergies and presuming you like roses).  From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor (above) to the set pieces of Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean ride (below).  From Le Canard Sauvage, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #pirates of the caribbean
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window."  From The Judge, 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 #cupid #poverty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pansies.  From Harper's Young People, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #flower people #faces in things #pansy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Now turning, we are winding, / The ends together binding."  From Friedrich Froebel's Pedagogics of the Kindergarten, 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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#circle dance #circle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Old News (permalink)
"But what does he look like, dear?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 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 #death #grim reaper #hooded figure #illustration #carpenter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #knocked out #knocked unconscious #brick layer #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He threw himself at the feet of the monster," from The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #giant #arabian nights #illustration #giant feet
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
“The Pope’s solution of ‘table-lifting,” from A Discovery Concerning Ghosts: With a Rap at the 'Spirit Rappers’ by George Cruikshank (1864).
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#devil #vintage #seance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1937.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We're sometimes asked what sustains us.  We make do with "the flattery of an obscure success" (The Dream of the Lilybell by Henry Morley, 1845).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #bees #swarm #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If here at the end of ages this is all—a white face floating in the whirling ball."  From "A Leaf from the Devil's Jest-Book" by Edwin Markham, in The Man with the Hoe, 1899.
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February 27, 2018

Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Hidden in the corner of an illustration, the patron saint of polka dot socks.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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Old News (permalink)
Ironically, the question "Are you doing your own thinking?" implants an idea into the reader's mind.  So the answer, technically, has to be "no."  From The Judge, 1912.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"He saw a ghost."  From The Idler, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #magick #skull #occult #goat
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"The infinite peace of Nature is quieting my soul.  I love the sea.  I can almost say my prayers to the sea."  [Followed by an isosceles triangle of asterisks].  From Possessed by Cleveland Moffett, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #long nose #illustration #musical nose
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
Here's why mountains are bewitching.  From The Pendulum, A Novel by Cora G. Sadler, 1912.
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#occult #silence #mountains
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The king's son and the lion."  From Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Ignácz Kúnos and illustrated by Celia Levetus, 1896.

Here are collected the best lions I've encountered in my research to date.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #lion #illustration #turkish
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #soccer #illustration #football
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #merman #king neptune #illustration #submarine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A grape juice hallucination.  From Life, 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 #hallucination #illustration #delirium #little men
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #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 #bat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She put the mysterious power of the planchette into action but wasn’t prepared to face what it wrote.  From Pleasant Hours, 1869.   See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#spirit writing #spirit medium #ouija #planchette #oracle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was forced to submit."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 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 #arabian nights #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Curious Client, by Christopher Bush:

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"He said a lot about being knocked down with a feather," Galley said.

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[Irrelevant Quotations dept.]

"An honest man's the noblest work of God," he quoted, and heaven knows why.

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"Something about that girl always gets me. Damned if I know why."

I said nothing. To him she might have been a lump in the throat; to me she'd been a pain in the neck.

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[Fictitious Naughty Stage Comedies dept.!]

He'd first met her when she was in the chorus of Now You're Getting It.... Previous to that she'd been on the road with a company touring in How's Your Father?....

 

[Of course, How's Your Father? was too appealing to stay fictitious forever, and I see that several decades after this novel was written, it became the title of a TV show.]

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[Both Sides of the Family dept.]

It looked to me as if we were in for the father and mother of all fogs.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Corpse Collector" by Koro Otei.  From Der Orchideengarten, 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 #macabre #death #horror #corpse collector
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February 26, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Before Carmen Miranda's famous fruit hat, there was the veggie hat.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #hat #weird hat #vegetable hat
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)

Let Them Come To Me:

Why Fortune Telling Automata Are So Uncanny

and Why You'll Hereby Question the Humanity of Everyone You Encounter

 

It's technically impossible to separate an automaton fortune teller from the world of myth and dark fairy tales, not only because automata are from that world, but also because their makers were touched by stories that they heard or invented themselves and then tinkered and carved and clockworked their creations to open the eyes of their audience.  The Devon Guild of Craftsmen has noted that "making automata is difficult.  Making other sorts of three dimensional objects can also be hard, but the extra dimension of movement seems to add a disproportionate amount of difficulty.  Moving parts involve principles (physics, not morals), levers, shafts, cranks, cams, springs, linkages, ratchets, drives and gearing.  No wonder some of our makers have built whole, imaginary worlds around their pieces." [8]  We would disagree that moral principles are not involved, but we can't scientifically prove that and so will let the point go.

Lady Audley is currently in the collection of Bruce Toriello, host of "Tales of Midnight."
 

Take just one look at the fortune telling automaton Lady Audley, and a dark story already begins to unfold.  Her history has been traced back to a New Jersey boardwalk's penny arcade in the 1920s.  From the very beginning, visitors sensed that Lady Audley had a life of her own.  The cards she dispensed not only predicted the future but also seemed to know the present uncannily well.  Lady Audley notoriously wouldn't respond to questions she felt were superfluous, and on occasion she would even volunteer information about subjects she felt important, without having been activated.  One of the strangest rumors was that no one was ever seen refilling the fortune cards disepensed by the machine, which begged the question of where exactly they came from.  In 1964, the boardwalk was set ablaze and nearly three dozen people were unable to escape.  The arcade was the first to burn, and its sole survivor was Lady Audley.  The arsonist turned out to be one of many who claimed to be held under her strange mystique.  He felt a slave to her predictions and would travel nightly to the boardwalk, desperate to know what tomorrow might harbor.  He eventually determined that the only way to break the spell was through the cleansing power of fire.  When he discovered that Lady Audley survived the flames, he went into a blind rage and took a bullet in the heart by police detectives.  A fortune card dispensed by Lady Audley was recovered from his pocket.  It read, "From six chambers will come the stillness of life's regret.  Four chambers in a cage will be broken but never will forget."  If it sounds like something out of an urban legend, remember that the truth tends to be stranger than fiction.  Lady Audley's history is likely not just stranger than we know but stranger than we can know.

Unlike the palm reader in Caravaggio's famous painting, who slyly slips off a querent's ring and so simultaneously reads and steals his fortune, an automaton behind glass cannot be a trickster.  Indeed, the automaton behind glass does not cajole but rather sits still and quiet.  If it embodies a motto, perhaps it is, "Let them come to me."  The automaton does not and in fact cannot hawk superstition, nor can it make false claims.  Gullibility or conviction is wholly upon the shoulders of those who would cross silver into the cabinet's coin slot.  If the questions are self-centered, it is the querent who has trivialized the proceedings, not the automaton.  If the prediction is laughed off, that's the querent's error and not the fortune teller's, for all oracles are true, as proven in Marie-Louise von Franz's On Divination and Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance (1980).  If the consultation is to be called a folly, recall that word's French meaning, "delight," and that foolishness is "wooden-headed" (reiterating that an automaton puts on no airs).  If one would call the consultation anything, perhaps it should be deemed a sin, for that is to imply that the automaton can reveal what God has wisely concealed and expressly forbidden, and what higher tribute could a fortune teller receive?

The Lady Audley automaton seemingly attracting ghostly orbs, as revealed by our custom "Uncanny Detector" app (seen in operation in our video about exploring a ruined wizard's museum.)
 

Lady Audley negotiates a boundary between rational mechanism and legendary magic and thereby speaks of a double world. [2]  "The hard border between the natural and the artificial evaporates when machines are animated with life." [3]  She sits within a booth, the glass panels suggesting the hazy fringe between life and nonlife, the human and spirit worlds, possibility and probability, old wives' tales and unvarnished truths.  For all her answers, Lady Audley's "undecidables and ambiguities" [4] spark even more questions … about her own cognitive autonomy, her immortality, her accountability, her imprisonment. [1]  Is she walled in, or are we?  Does she act mechanically, or do we?  Is she unsettling, or is there strangeness in everyday life? [5]  Indeed, the automaton that tells our fortune is uncanny not for its weirdness or otherness but, as Freud described, for its familiarity.

In the lingo of information science, "every automaton has a nonempty set of fair behaviors." [7]  That word "nonempty" is fascinating, for it's not quite the same as "full."  Non-emptiness sounds like the opposite of Zen enlightenment, and it implies a transcendent state of release from death and rebirth that yet escapes utter annihilation.  One recalls the "unpeopled space with presence" of Denise Levertov. [9]  "Nonempty" also recalls the "not zero" concept of fuzzy logic.  A card-offering automaton may "not be playing with a full deck," as the idiom goes, but neither is it an empty deck or a zero-sum.  That other word, "fair," is also crucial.  It means unbiased and trustworthy.

Then there's this question: is Lady Audley inhuman, and how can we know who isn't?  For to call Lady Audley an automaton is to introduce a disquieting implication, since anyone else we encounter could be a perfected automaton, an android, a golem, or some other alien impersonator of the human.  As Stanley Cavell has rationalized in The Claim of Reason (1979), "Obviously, you can never be certain that other human beings exist, for any one you single out may, for all you know, be something other than you imagine, perhaps a human, probably a human if you like, but possibly a mutation, and just possibly an automaton, a zombie … The world is what it is.  And whatever it is, so far as you take it as inhabited by candidates for the human, you are empathetically projecting.  This means that you cannot rule out the non-human (or human non-being) possibility."

More than a fortune teller, is Lady Audley a votive object, a prophylactic talisman, a promise, a petition, or a phantom? [2]  Is she haunted or a projection of our own haunted selves?

And can every single one of these admittedly profound questions be answered for merely a quarter?  A quarter is half of a half, and it's one of the thousand paradoxes: "you can slice something into forever, halving" [6].

 

Notes:

1  Thanks to Michael Davidson in "Attended with Trouble," The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time, 2017

2 Thanks to Elizabeth King in "Perpetual Devotion," Genesis Redux: Essays in the History and Philosophy of Artificial Life, 2010

3 Richard Hardack, Not Altogether Human: Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance, 2012

4 Julian Wolfreys, Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature, 2001

5 Thanks to Katie Model, "Gender Hyperbole and the Uncanny in the Horror Film: The Shining," 2012

6 Elana Dykewomon, Risk, 2012

7 Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, 1988

8 P. de Burlet, "Tall Stories," The Devon Guild of Craftsmen, 2010

9 Denise Levertov, "A Ring of Changes," With Eyes At the Back of Our Heads, 1959

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's as if someone just lit a candle and this scene in progress was suddenly revealed.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precusor to the name "Jazzma," which would appear five years later in The Gnome King of Oz.  From The Judge, 1922.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And the four bare walls were all that remained."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1901.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
With a setup this overblown, you already know the payoff couldn't possibly live up to it, so we've left it off as a courtesy.  From Lauzun by Mary Frances Sandars, 1908.  Amazingly, this passage was later quoted in a piece about the art of letter writing.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"It is unlucky to thank a fortune teller, a magician, or anyone who teaches you anything of the black art."  From the Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ninny ninny not, your name's Tom Tit Tot."  From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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Old News (permalink)
A sign of jangled nerves.  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1943.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"That cold-blooded demon which we call Science is killing romance from amongst us.  Years ago everybody believed in the wonders of the invisible world, and ghosts were among the regular inhabitants of every rural district.  Now, we are so seldom suffered to see or hear of a ghost, that a visitation has the effect of novelty."  From Chambers's Journal, 1889.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A double-exposure car wreck.  From Mocca, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cesare Ripa, 1669.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cirque du Nord, 1898.  Courtesy of the Nasjonalbiblioteket.
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February 25, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They seek the Wurbaloo."  From New Adventures of Alice by John Rae, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Inside of herself … outside of herself … waiting" -- three chapter titles from Electa by Jennie M. Drinkwater, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fairy Tales, 1861.
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Old News (permalink)
Cats aren't staring into space -- they're looking at themselves with the mirrors in their eyes.  The headline reads, "Mirrors in cat's eyes cause them to shine at night."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Witches of Warboyse" from A Compleat History of Magick, Sorcery, and Witchcraft, 1715.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mountain-Sprite's Kingdom by E. H. Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1881.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There was no one there," from Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others by John Kendrick Bangs, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A flower within a soap bubble, from The Windsor Magazine, 1902.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
The sun will be there, with bells on.  From Jugend, 1910.
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February 24, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pay up and shut up."  Courtesy of the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The secret of the light."  From London Society, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Great Pyramid in New York City's Central Park.  From Popular Mechanics, 1934..
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1937.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cartoons Magazine, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's some sort of thing in an ornate capital P, from an 1862 issue of Fun magazine.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The intellectual, emotional, and physical centers of the human construction, from The Gate Beautiful by John Ward Stimson, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From De Kapelle der Dooden by Abraham a Sancta Clara, 1741.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1910.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Shall we accept the universe?  From Accepting the Universe by John Burroughs, 1920.
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February 23, 2018

Old News (permalink)
"I can use a good stoker."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #pipe smoker #vintage headline #illustration #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I understand the cries of all beasts and birds."  From Twenty-two Goblins by Arthur W. Rider, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #talk to the animals #bird call #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Walter Prichard Eaton suggestions that someone should write a book called How to Tell the Sermon from the Jazz.  He also suggests the title How to Project Your Personality Through the Empyrean.  From The Judge, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #broomstick #full moon #october #walpurgisnacht #witches #hallowe'en
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Poison Jasmine, by Clyde B. Clason:

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[Did Prof. Oddfellow go back in time and write this sentence?]

"Some words have so many [associations] that we might almost think of them as magic words."

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"The first thing I knew was when that West broke into my room to ask some idiotic question about a bathing suit. I'll bathing suit him!" Todd cackled as if he considered the last remark a witticism.

[And a few paragraphs later, after someone has called Todd "Scrooge."]

"Scrooge, eh?" He frowned severely. "I'll Scrooge you, young man!"

[All of which brings to mind the Pythons' pepperpot "Madame Sartre," who as you may recall has a line in that same vein.]

***

[Apparently, members of the What's-Their-Name extended family can show up even in familiar old expressions. Here's one of them understudying Robin Hood!]

"Rambling all around what-you-call-it's barn," Willis answered dryly.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cats #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, 1868.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cats #windmill #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The beginning of an awful doom."  From Beyond the Vail by Jabez Hunt Nixon, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The mysterious cup" from Tales of Fairy Land by Johann Ludwig Tieck, 1879.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1942.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The ghosts of fur coats.  From Life magazine, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#fairy tale #full moon #moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #playing cards #illustration
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February 22, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Long before pleasure bots, there was Artie the artificial escort.  From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #real doll #pleasure bot #replicant #sex robot #escort #artificial person #love robot #love bot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #general death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The law of the wood."  From Parables from Nature by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #forest #woods #trees #illustration #natural law #law of the wood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The King of Topsy-turvy by Arthur Lillie, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #moon #comet #shooting star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #physiognomy #evolution #illustration #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In case of fire, be a circus acrobat.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #acrobats #circus act #burning building #fire escape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A will o' the wisp from Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles, illustrated by G. H. Clements, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #spooky #will-o'-the-wisp #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Girl inside glass globe of giant light bulb."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skull face #statue #idol
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's an address from The Flint Heart by Eden Phillpotts, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #magick #occult #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She would tear his eyes out."  From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #angry
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Old News (permalink)
"Human hands on clock tell the exact time."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#timepiece #vintage photo #vintage headline #human clock #body clock #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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#vintage illustration #jester #handstand #grandville #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gate to English, Book I by Will David Howe, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #sunrise #sentence diagram #illustration #journey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The genie went to him in the shape of a monstrous cat."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #giant cat #arabian nights #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 #ghostly #otherworld #angel #conjuration #spirit #ahriman #supernatural #art
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February 21, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #eyeglasses #pince-nez #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nowadays everybody goes around filming things, but it used to be cooler to be a projector.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #movie projector #projector #movies #old movies #reel to reel
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Precursors (permalink)
The term "genderfluid" dates back to the 1990s.  But here's a Narcissus giving a wet kiss to his feminine self in The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #gender identity #gender #anima #androgyny #narcissus #gender fluid #genderfluid #feminine side #genderqueer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The tent was shivering and shaking and from it emerged groans and growls."  From Jack, the Young Explorer by George Bird Grinnell, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #camping #illustration
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
Just for a laugh, from The Girl's Own Book by Lydia Maria Child, 1833.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #mythology #giant bird #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Disillusioned Occultist by Charles Edward Barns, 1889.
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#occult #esoteric #vintage book #book #occultist
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to The Incredible Melting Man.  From 30 years earlier, in Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #long neck #illustration #melting man
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Old News (permalink)
"Robot dance master."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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Old News (permalink)
It was either this or Opera with a Telescope (for those fifth balcony seats).  Astronomy with an Opera-glass by Garrett Putman Serviss, 1895.
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#vintage headline #astronomy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Boris Artzybasheff, "The Last Centaur," 1922.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #magnet #illustration #attraction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The well of the world's end.  From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #well #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #dentist #tooth #giant tooth #cavity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #pig #illustration #pet walker #pet pig #walking the pig
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Isle of Palms by Charles Martin Newell, 1888.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #whale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #hell
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February 20, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tattercoats forgot all her troubles and fell to dancing."  From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dancing #illustration #carefree #forget your troubles #get happy #art
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"What may seem surprising at first is that, whilst it appears to, the surface of the Sun is not actually burning at all!  Neither is it boiling nor bubbling as it appears to in high-resolution views." —Philip Pugh, Observing the Sun with CoronadoTM Telescopes.
On the rise: my collection of vintage sun imagery

 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the specimen jar to the guillotine.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #coffin #guillotine #specimen jar
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From various J. K. Bangs works:

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From Alice in Blunderland:

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"The Station?" cried Alice. "What Station?"

But before the Hatter could answer, Alice, glancing through the window, caught sight of a very beautiful train standing before the veranda, and in a moment she found herself stepping on board with her friends, while a soft-spoken guard at the door was handing her an engraved card upon a silver salver "Respectfully Inviting Miss Alice to Step Lively There."

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From Jack and the Check-Book:

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"H'm!" said the squeaky little voice. "It is rather less than I had thought. However, we can fix that without much trouble. Zeros are cheap. Just add six of them to that balance."

"Do you mean add or affix?" asked Jack.

"Affix is what I should have said," replied the squeaky little voice.

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From Half-hours with Jimmieboy:

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So wide awake was he, indeed, that the small bed in which he had passed the night was not broad enough by some ten or twelve feet to accommodate the breadth of his wakefulness

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From The Worsted Man:

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[following one of the songs in the piece]

"But what is your scheme, Impatience? You cannot charm us with a song, you know, even if we have joined in the chorus."

***

From A Rebellious Heroine:

***

“I’m not an idiot, my dear Dorothy.”

“You are a heroine, love,” returned Mrs. Willard.

“Perhaps—but I am the kind of heroine who would stop a play five minutes after the curtain had risen on the first act if the remaining four acts depended on her failing to see something that was plain to the veriest dolt in the audience,” Marguerite replied, with spirit.

***

“Miss Andrews,” said Willard, “may I have the pleasure of presenting Count Bonetti?”

The Count’s head nearly collided with his toes in the bow that he made.

“Mr. Willard,” returned Miss Andrews, coldly, ignoring the Count, “feeling as I do that Count Bonetti is merely a bogus Count with acquisitive instincts, brought here, like myself, for literary purposes of which I cannot approve, I must reply to your question that you may not have that pleasure.”

With which remark... Miss Marguerite Andrews swept proudly from the room, ordered her carriage, and went home, thereby utterly ruining the second story of her life that I had undertaken to write.

***

“I am perfectly well aware, Mr. Parker, what we are down for, and I suppose I cannot blame you for your persistence.  Perhaps you don’t know any better; perhaps you do know better, but are willing to give yourself over unreservedly into the hands of another; perhaps you are being forced and cannot help yourself.  It is just possible that you are a professional hero, and feel under obligations to your employer to follow out his wishes to the letter.  However it may be, you have twice essayed to come to the point, and I have twice tried to turn you aside.  Now it is time to speak truthfully.  I admire and like you very much, but I have a will of my own, am nobody’s puppet, and if Stuart Harley [the author of the book within the book] never writes another book in his life, he shall not marry me to a man I do not love; and, frankly, I do not love you.  I do not know if you are aware of the fact, but it is true nevertheless that you are the third fiancé he has tried to thrust upon me since July 3d.”

***

“And that hero—from the Brooklyn dry-goods shop?” I asked, with a smile.

“I’d like to see him so much as—tell her the price of anything,” cried Harley.  “A man like that has no business to live in the same hemisphere with a woman like Marguerite Andrews.  When I threatened her with him I was conversing through a large and elegant though wholly invisible hat.”

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan, 1904.
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Precursors (permalink)
Sarah McCann has said that self control is fictitious.  Here's proof: Self Control, A Novel by Mary Brunton, 1839.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The pipe changed into a strange flower."  From Stories of Enchantment, Or The Ghost Flower by Jane Pentzer Myers, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"For hours, Doc, she's only said 'Phew!'"  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #smoke #pipe smoker #illustration #smoke inhalation #smoke sickness #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #birds #rising sun #nature #ducks #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In a forked glen into which he slipped at night-fall he was surrounded by giant toads."  From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He sent a telegram to a croquet game that the canary is getting dissatisfied and that the cat has left.  From The Judge, 1913.  Cue the song "My Canary Plays Canasta in Canarsie" by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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Old News (permalink)
Here's confirmation that "too far east is west," and vice versa.  "'Wild West' canyons found off New England coast."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's a big berg, but I'll risk it!"  From The Judge, 1916.
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February 19, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #piano #piano bed
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)

The Most Exclusive Seance Parlor Outside Hollywood

What parlor is more exclusive than the Houdini Seance Chamber in Hollywood's Magic Castle?  (As difficult as it is to get into the Magic Castle, of those select few who know the secret word to whisper to the carved owl on the sliding bookcase, only a smaller fraction ever see the Houdini Seance Chamber.)  More exclusive than that is the macabre sitting room where the host of "Tales of Midnight," Spooky Brucey, divines the truths behind the most sinister legends on record.
Through our network of masked contacts in arcane circles, we came into possession of previously uncirculated blueprints and photos of the Tales of Midnight parlor.  As this room is filled with age-old secrets, we thought to analyze it through the sage-colored glasses of ancient Chinese necromancy, as detailed in Seance Parlor Feng Shui.  And we discovered more than a few surprises.

 

The old wizards of Feng Shui overlaid an esoteric map onto an area to see how the arrangement harmonized with the elemental flow of existence.  When we overlap that map upon Spooky Brucey's parlor, we see a stroke of genius right off — the placement of the fortune telling automaton, Lady Audley, in the room's upper left corner, exactly where the Chinese ancients identified the space of "Fortune."  Lady Audley is not merely at home in this corner; it is here and only here that she can truly thrive as a prophesier.  Incidentally, this automaton survived a boardwalk fire in 1964, the blaze having been set by a man who felt that Lady Audley enslaved him with a strange power and who sought to break the spell via purifying flames.

 

 

A most intriguing revelation is the location of the "Beast's Hole in the Wall."  This niche, partially sealed off with weathered boards, contains a carnival sideshow abomination that was rescued after being swallowed by a sinkhole in Florida.  This beast sits in the "Wisdom" section of the room, prompting the startling suggestion that Spooky Brucey acquires knowledge from a seven-foot tall monstrosity that was first captured while it scavenged in a ruined Turkish necropolis dedicated to the god of the dead.  This insight is perhaps one that Spooky Brucey would prefer to remain private, so we'll take that particular issue no further.

 

 

The crystal ball and its table are positioned in the "Career" area of the map, which indicates that Spooky Brucey has a calling to foresee, to foretell, and perhaps to forewarn.  Interestingly, the two chairs at the seance table cross over into the "Wisdom" and "Mentors" areas.  Whichever chair Spooky Brucey himself may sit in is therefore auspicious — if the "Wisdom" chair, his crystal ball readings will be shrewd, and if the "Mentors" chair, his interpretations will be strengthened by the guides and confidants at whose feet he has studied.  Note that the "Mentors" section also features the door to the parlor, meaning that Spooky Brucey is open to learning from new sources that enter into his life.

 

 

A table holding occult objects lies in the "Creativity" area, meaning that Spooky Brucey's original ideas are inspired by rarefied dinguses (or dingi).  But more intrigue is found in the "Partnership" zone, where we find a wooden crate.  Dare we wonder who — or what — constitutes Spooky Brucey's partner?  Is the crate newly arrived from some exotic locale, is it being prepped for shipment, or is it a permanent fixture and merely cracked open occasionally?  These are questions we may not ask.

 

 

We mustn't overlook a rather profound paradox that exists in the Tales of Midnight parlor.  The fireplace is in the "Career" zone, whose ruling element is water.  This suggests that the fireplace is perhaps ornamental or that the chimney is so corroded that it's unsafe for burning.  Yet things are decidedly odder, for opposite the fireplace, in the "Reputation" zone ruled by fire, sits a vaudevillian magician's ventriloquism dummy found nailed in a trunk at the bottom of a lake.  And so in this seance parlor, fire and water are inverted.  There may be some sly technique behind this inversion, for if Spooky Brucey has concerns that incendiary gossip by tricky dummies may harm his reputation, he has dampened such fires with something decidedly soggy.  And if the flow of his Water-ruled career is intended to get steamier, wasn't it the three witches in Macbeth who said, "Fire burn and cauldron bubble"?  So even these two seeming violations of Feng Shui betray a seance parlor "on the ball," as it were.

 

 

Only two zones remain.  "New Beginnings" auspiciously features a window, symbolically a portal to another world.  The center of "Well-Being" is the only zone bereft of objects, suggesting that the dead center of the room is where Spooky Brucey finds the most happiness, encircled as he is by the uncanny artifacts he has curated.  The center of the room, being ruled by the Earth element, is here surrounded by its own zodiacal constellations, each with a unique story and intrigue.

(To learn how to create your own magical seance parlor, see Seance Parlor Feng Shui.)

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Precursors (permalink)
In 1969, Georges Perec wrote a 300-page novel in French without using the letter e.  Sixty-five years earlier, we have this French passage with only e's.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
To news that the end of the world has been postponed a few years, he responds, "I'm sick of these constant postponements.  They only add to the general irritation and unrest."  Indeed, this is how the media helps keep the populace in a constant state of trauma.  From The Judge, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barbarian and Noble by Marion Florence Lansing, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #death #burial #funeral
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
"Is that what you call a joke?"  From Half-Hours With Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs, 1893.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #nose #illustration #foot nose #nose foot
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #demon #ocean #sea #wind #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall, 1895.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to cross his eyes.
From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1881

From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1881
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1853.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #fat acceptance #punch magazine #rooster #illustration #people who look like animals
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Old News (permalink)
Some of the very best photographs of wild animals are selfies.  "Jackal takes own picture."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#weird headline #vintage headline #jackal #selfie #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#fortune teller #vintage book #book #dream book
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
The power of art.  From Jugend, 1912.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from All Nations by Anthony Reubens Montalba and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1850.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1937.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #king neptune #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #angel #dandy #illustration
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February 18, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Great arbitress of modes and fancies, / Ruling the world with subtle glances, / You do the piping, we the dances."  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat #vintage hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My hand has lost its eyes."  From Every Where magazine, 1911.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Spell-Bound by M. A. Bird, 1865.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1833.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #ostrich #pelican #1900s #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #snow #statue #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
This is true of the Grim Reaper.  "Power scythe run by motor operated by one man."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#grim reaper #scythe #weird headline #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Talking across the ocean," from Pearson's, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wild Animals At Home (Ernest Thompson Seton, 1913).
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#vintage illustration #antlers #illustration #angry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hurdle #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #crown #elves #wee folk #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a flower for you.  From Le Rire, 1897.  See our virtual "Loves Me, Loves Me Not" flower.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration #skiing
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February 17, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Evolution of a raccoon."  From The Judge, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fish #under the sea #sand castle #illustration #underwater palace #sea castle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twenty-two Goblins by Arthur W. Rider, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Modern Magicians' Hand Book by William J. Hilliar, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Voices of the Stars by James Edward Walker, 1894.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Henric de la Cour song about a dream of being a shark.  From Le Rire, 1913.
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Old News (permalink)
Q: Too much of everything?  (Popular Mechanics, 1934)
A: Too much of most everything, yes.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1900s #illustration #stork #broken bridge #creek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #bagpipes #decapitated #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"These psychic times."  From Life, 1920.
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Old News (permalink)
"When the 'urge-to-go' gets you …"  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912.  This is clear evidence of How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #cherub #illustration #wheelbarrow #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

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#vintage illustration #demon #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Satan is a personal being," from Satan, His Origin, Work, and Destiny by Carlyle B. Haynes, 1920.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #wig #big ears #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #snake #animal attack #tiger #wild animals #up a tree #aligrator
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February 16, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Canard Sauvage, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #owl #king #tiny man #giant owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's pipe-smoking chimp watching a python swallow a porcupine.  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #pipe smoker #python #porcupine #chimp
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Off the Record, by Dolores Gordon-Smith:

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[Disillusionment, mixed-metaphor style.]

She'd been trampled by those feet of clay.

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[Men's Furnishings and Benedicta dept.]

"Bless his cotton socks."

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[Larvae's Furnishings dept.]

"Then, along comes Bryce, who thinks she's the caterpillar's boots."

***

The shout of "Murder!" was taken up, carried down the street and suddenly a ring of densely packed people gathered round the steps.... Errand-boys, a postman, respectably dressed clerks, all the servants from the other flats, newspaper sellers, fashionable women, men in flat caps, men in greasy overalls, women in aprons with their hair in nets, dozens of children and innumerable barking dogs. Two taxis squealed to a halt and what seemed to be scores of top-hatted, exquisitely dressed young men leapt out, and took up, in penetrating, high-pitched voices, the cry of, "Murder! I say, murder!"

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #horned man #cuckold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #occult #spirit #esoteric #consciousness #illustration #five elements #new age
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The hours speak to Nellie."  From St. Nicholas, 1879.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #imp #wizard #dice #snake eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She turned him into a little wheel, and sent him rolling."  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #lion #illustration #stranded at sea
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Old News (permalink)
"He judges men by their books."  From Popular Mechanics, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #giant book #big book #vintage headline #illustration #oversized book #huge book #enormous book #headline #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #comet #shooting star #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Charming the squirrel," from Polar and Tropical Worlds by Georg Hartwig, 1880.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The little Shadows came from their hiding places and played around."  From Loraine and the Little People by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by M. T. Ross, 1915.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Ruby Ring by Mrs. Molesworth, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #world #anthropomorphism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #bridge #illustration #1910s
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February 15, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A meme as old as time.  From The Judge, 1920.  Half a century later, with record album covers.  And this one is from even earlier.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
When crossing, it is polite to hold the grim reaper's scythe.  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"It depends what you play for, fun or money."  From The Idler, 1894.
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#money #fun #play #it depends #play to win
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #living toys
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Stay here three days, not no longer."  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #tarot #illustration #tarot strength
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit materializes as glowing gauze around a medium.  From 'Twixt Two Worlds by John Stephen Farmer, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #seance #spirit medium #illustration #ectoplasm
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The Cheshire cat.  From Good Housekeeping, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #faun #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Rachael: Do you like our owl?
Deckard: It's artificial?
Rachael: Of course it is.
Deckard: Must be expensive.
Rachael: Very.
Image from Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #owl #blade runner #guardian #illustration #someone to watch over me #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #winter #faces in things #heater #freezing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a jeweler's ad c. 1920.
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#vintage ad #1920s #jeweler #diamond mind #jewelry #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wally Wanderoon and His Story-Telling Machine by Joel Chandler Harris, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #joel chandler harris #1900s #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the untinted photo.

Eva Moore
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#vintage portrait #portrait #vintage postcard #eva moore #gif #woman #vintage woman #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #harpy #giant snake #illustration #bird woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #watering can #pushing daisies #floral print
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #father time #chronos #stealing time #illustration
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February 14, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's where Cupid dips the arrows.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #love #cupid #heart #valentine's day #arrow
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's our anagram for Valentine's Day.  (We had hoped that "put the saint back in Valentine's day" would be a Googlewhack, but there are 26 results for that phrase.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What's the only continuous vaudeville?  Cupid's Punch & Judy show.  From Judge's Library, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #puppet #valentine's day #punch and judy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But the shadow had gone."  From Harry's Big Boots, written and illustrated by S. E. Gay, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #spirit #star #light #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #devil #angel #good and evil #illustration #angel and demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"One night, returning home much intoxicated."  From Twenty-five Ghost Stories by West Bob Holland, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cat #drunk #illustration #intoxicated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #illustration #out of hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration #pillow #smiling pillow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The origin of Saint Valentine's Day."  From The Harvard Lampoon, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #angel #illustration #peace angel #power line
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Laughing Prince by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jay Van Everen, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #twins #anthropomorphism #human headed #flies #one's equal #like looking in a mirror #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satan, His Origin, Work, and Destiny by Carlyle B. Haynes, 1920.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book cover #devil #satan #book cover #lucifer #book #old book #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales by Henry Morley and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Illustrated, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #gambling #card game #cheater #caught cheating #card sharp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #popping cork #illustration #giant bottle #art #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"How sleep comes is riddle of conflicting theories."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #illustration #tsunami #tidal wave #stranded at sea
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February 13, 2018

Book of Whispers (permalink)
Carnations are the woman you once knew, only they have learned new secrets.  This revelation is whispered by carnations themselves in Literary Love-letters, and Other Stories by Robert Herrick, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever bought 19 books at once.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #books #literacy #book lover #stack of books
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder, Maestro, Please, by Delano Ames:

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"Was our tandem a Speedster, a Roadster, or a Sportster? It has to go on a form, and since the form is in quintuplicate it's essential to get it right."

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The mayor got on to the platform to express our gratitude in a few well-chosen words. While he was choosing them everyone filed out.

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[Honest Answers to Cheeky Questions dept.]

I asked curiously: "Is it lots of fun, Mr Kitson, pretending to be an eccentric genius?"

He opened one bleary eye and studied me. "Yes," he said.

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Dagobert... knew of a celebrated hostelry in the neighbourhood where the chef was an old pupil of Escoffier. His Perdreau aux morilles and Fricandeau de mousserons were famous, and Dagobert was interested in tasting such locally renowned wines as Clos Saint-Crescent and Château de Leverette. Though he was probably making up these names, he talked himself up to such a pitch of enthusiasm about them that he invited us all to dinner.

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[By the way, this book--first published in 1952--features a fictional character whose surname is Gordon-Smith. Meanwhile, one of the novels waiting in my to-read stack is by a different author--not born until 1958-whose surname is Gordon-Smith. It does not appear to be a pseudonym and--though one cannot entirely rule out the possibility that a Gordon-Smith senior was a buddy of Delano Ames and the inspiration for his character's name--I have no particular reason to suspect anything other than sheer coincidence at work here.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hare #hare tonic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #severed head #decapitated #illustration #lake of blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Bunniah's ghost.  Could it be fancy, or did he see a strange man standing before him?"  From Simla Village Tales or Folk Tales from the Himalayas by Alice Elizabeth Dracott, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #genie #djinn #folk tale #illustration #himalaya
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a sissified Venn circle overlap of homocentrics and eccentrics.  From Le Rire, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #vintage gay #effeminate #gay #illustration #homosexual #third sex #homocentric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #writing #typewriter #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #demon #greed #illustration #all mine #grasping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #devil #mouse #mice #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Haunted by the ghost of Queen Victoria.  From Jugend, 1917.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #spirit #queen #queen victoria #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"New kind of eyes."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #big eyes #eyes #vintage headline #illustration #headlights #headline #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Terrified at the sight of the genie, fainted."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #jules verne #light in the sky #ice formations #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"We are surrounded by distortions" (P. D. Ouspensky, A New Model of the Universe, 1938).  Image coutresy of the Costică Acsinte Archive.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #illustration #ravages of time #ouspensky #disintegration #ruined photo #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #world tree #giant tree #ancient tree #old man tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Guide to Palmistry by Eliza Easter Henderson, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #hand #palmistry #illustration #lines of the palm
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #teeth #dentist #illustration #art
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February 12, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the iconic "Blown-Away Man" photo, made famous in the Maxell ad campaigns.  Only it's the direct opposite, in that the speaker puts everyone to sleep as opposed to blowing them away.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #lullaby
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Gargoyles send kisses to your family.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #gothic #gargoyle #vintage postcard #old postcard #notre dame #art #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spooky eye in the rose wallpaper.  From The Judge, 1912.
My modest collection of haunted wallpaper is downright uncanny.
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#vintage illustration #japan #haunted wallpaper #japanese man #gender fluid
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Rock beats scissors.  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.   See the Zen version of Rock-Paper-Scissors: Moon-Fish-Ocean.
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#vintage illustration #jesus #1920s #rock paper scissors
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a book dedicated to a real fairy in disguise.  The Fairy who Believed in Human Beings, written and illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairies #fairy tale #book dedication #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A dead hush fell."  From The Blue Moon by David Anderson, 1919.
How fast does a hush fall?  We discovered the surprising truth, which we previously diagrammed here.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The spirits of hunger and poverty.  From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #hunger #poverty #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Emerson once said that books are noble, and here's proof.  By Emma Jane Worboise, 1871.
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#old book #emerson #nobility
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Forced to comb his horrible elf-locks whilst he slept.  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #sea creatures #under the sea #card game #illustration #diving bell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #gallows #blackbird #hangman #noose #illustration #1910s
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The Right Word (permalink)
For heathen read heartless.  For scare read sense.  For lest read list.  For Bill read body.  From The Pilot, 1900.
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#erratum #errata
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The white castle."  From Prince Harold by Levant Frederick Brown, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle #illustration #white castle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hell frozen over.  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demons #imps #illustration #hell freezes over
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Old News (permalink)
Here's a precusor to the chemtrails/contrails conspiracy theory.  "The clouds of death."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#death #vintage photo #poison #cloud #contrails #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #zombies #war dead #fallen soldier #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #parliament #scissors #government #color theory #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A postcard by Arthur Thiele, World War I-era.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#snowman #rabbit #gnomes #dwarves #rifle #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #devil #cloven hoof #fiddler #musician #illustration
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February 11, 2018

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"They tell me no such fish as this / Has ever seen the light. / I guess that's so, at least I know / I saw it in the night."  From The Judge, 1916.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic, Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions by Albert Allis Hopkins, 1901.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #seance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1900.

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#vintage illustration #alphabet #anthropomorphism #letter people #1900s
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"The sun was shining on a noble city of pinnacles and minarets."  From Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman, 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 #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #magician #rabbit #top hat #magic hat #1930s #illustration #hat trick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #chair #illustration #dragon throne #dragon chair #drair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #parrot #illustration #bird people
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Old News (permalink)
Even though "Pacific ocean not big enough to hold the moon," Moon River is just right.  The headline is from Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #giant hands #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #letter p #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Showing how a lion is led into his den on a travelling menagerie," from Black and White Budget, 1902.
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#vintage photo #circus #lion #vintage circus #traveling circus #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #king #jester #fool #faces in things #tongue out #scepter #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"All but Luella shone white in the moonlight."  From The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #spirits #ghosts #spiritualism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #champagne #popping cork #illustration #art
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February 10, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Waving to a scarecrow.  From The Judge, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Would you mind explaining?' said the cat."  From The Westminster Alice by Hector H. Munro a.k.a. Saki and illustrated by F. Carruthers Gould, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #alice in wonderland #cheshire cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Old Harry and his wife."  From The Dorset Coast by Charles George Harper, 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 #england #illustration #dorest #outcropping #coast #rocks
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"In the spring you will go back to the northland."  From At the Open Door by Louise Robinson, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #jack frost #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mythology #sea serpent #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #gardening #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #goat #tickling #feet #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Before the invention of e-books, this is how it was.  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage headline #tiny book #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #piano #pianist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #pipe smoker #eden #adam and eve #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dead Ouijas tell no tales."  From Cartoons Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #ouija #planchette #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Church looks like a factory except for crosses."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#church #vintage photo #vintage headline #factory #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #good and evil #priest #illustration #catholicism #forgiveness #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917. 
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#vintage illustration #demon #death #skeleton #war #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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#vintage illustration #mountain climbing #grandville #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #ship #faces in things #illustration #art
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February 9, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'm going to write a love letter for you, Popsy-wop!"  From The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cat #love letter #kitty #i love you #cat lady #meow #cat lover #love of cats #my special kitty #sweetest kitten #my one and only #precious kitten #precious kitty #my very own cat #i'll love you forever
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saints #monkey saint #primate saint #ape saint
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Iron Clew, by Alice Tilton:

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"Mr. Witherall, in my candied opinion..."

[This character says "candied opinion" repeatedly, as does her niece (because there's always a niece! in fact, in this installment there are two nieces, of two separate families).]

***

[Lord Emsworth dept.]

His pince-nez, apparently sharing his astonishment, bounced from his nose.

***

[Hydbridized Jack Horner and Jack-in-the-Box dept.]

The figure of a woman appeared suddenly in the vicinity of his front door--rather, Leonidas thought, as if she'd sprung up through the lawn from some subterranean Jack Horner pie--and started hurrying down his flagstone path.

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His cheeks and ears began to burn at the thought of what a clambake, fish fry and general field day his discovery would provide for the neighbors.

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"Unless I'm so late that Inga's soufflé has fallen by the wayside, I shall have an excellent dinner."

***

At the drop of a hat, he had intoned to them a sententious poem whose pièce de résistance was a couplet about truth having no exceptions.

It was almost a relief to find himself wondering, parenthetically and quite irrelevantly, what in the world had rhymed with "exceptions." Or, for that matter, what had rhymed with "truth."

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"Somehow I always thought of him as a pillar of--hm. I don't know that I ever went so far as to qualify the type of pillar, but I definitely placed him in the pillar group."

***

They hadn't seen him yet, but they would as soon as they finished brushing the snow from their shoulders. Yeoville and Emily [btw, their surname is Pushing] always saw everyone, everywhere. They made a point of it. Seeing people they knew was virtually their life work.

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"You hadn't ought to leave any loopholes unturned at all!"

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[Who Needs Context? dept.]

"You mean that you often drop into caddy houses at midnight after blizzards, just on the off chance of running into someone who's stolen your dinosaur's footprint?"

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"There was Blinko [a magician], in installments, and sandwiched in between his acts was a group who sang songs in hoop-skirts, and then in wimples, and then in bathing suits--you know."

***

"I appreciate how irritating it must be for you to have all these loose ends--er--waving in the air like so many question marks."

***

[Who Needs Context? dept.]

"But look here, it was a dinosaur's footprint!" Liz said. "When did it get to be a bank report? When was it a dinosaur's footprint last?"

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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"The surprising truth is that we all reach a saturation point when it comes to money."
—Stephen Goldbart & Joan DiFuria, Affluence Intelligence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed: how Bibendum keeps in shape.  From Le Rire, 1901.
See our surprising revelation about the origin of the Michelin Man.
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#vintage illustration #exercise #bibendum #michelin man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"To all in search of truth.  Greeting."  From The Mystic Self by Rayon, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #occult #snake #esoteric #hand #mystic #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An old lobster came with a bunch of keys."  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #lobster #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
Uncle Sam as an ichthyocentaur.  From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #uncle sam #illustration #ichthyocentaur #sea centaur #water centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #demon #satyr
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Single Eye by Arjuna, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #priestess #occult #esoteric #eye #illustration #single eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #demon #illustration #roasted
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Witchcraft from Popular Mechanics, 1931.   See The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.
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#witchcraft #vintage photo #school for witches #hogwarts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The onset of gray hair.  From Jugend, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #beard #aging #illustration #gray hair #going gray #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #lion #dentistry #illustration #animal dentist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894. 
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Once a Week, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #elves #wee folk #gnomes #illustration #Pandora
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Precursors (permalink)
Just shy of four decades before Alice went through the looking glass, some knights came riding "thro' the mirror blue" in Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott."  Actually, going through mirrors was an old pantomime gag by Harlequin, as mentioned decades even earlier in The London Magazine, 1822.
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#through the looking glass #tennyson #lewis carroll #lady of shalott #knights
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February 8, 2018

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that the acclaimed philosopher of magic, Robert E. Neale, praised our latest video as a new artform: 
"I cannot imagine a more striking example of how the human animal can cope.  In response to a destructive event, these animals create an expression that is uniquely original in style and content, moving, funny and thoughtful.  May we all try to do the same when life offers us the opportunity."
See the video he refers to, here.
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#artists on tumblr #glow in the dark #urbex #urban exploration #video
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how to drive the furniture.  (With self-driving furniture, you just sit there.)  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #chair #furniture #learning to drive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #spirits #ghosts #exorcism #exorcist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"May I ask what sort of bird you are?"  From Malice in Kulturland by Horace Wyatt, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #satire #harpy #human headed #illustration
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
"When ether waves run wild and humor fills the ozone."  From The Wireless Age, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #humor #faces #laughter #1920s #vintage radio #radio waves #illustration
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but I've used your phone to call a friend of mine from Madrid.  He's a priest and I trust him and his discretion completely.  I've asked him to come and perform a baptism in your house today.  Just in case." —Eba Martín Muñoz, Damned Beings: The Origin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ghosts of paperwork.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swedish Fairy Tales by Herman Hofberg, 1890.
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Old News (permalink)
"Too much to eat is main reason you get fat."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The latest from Shadowland.  From Pall Mall, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'm sorry I smiled."  From Pearson's, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Someone must be impaled."  From English Illustrated, 1894.
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February 7, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Comic Magazine, 1832.
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that Vegas headliner Jeff McBride called us "The rockstar of the occult."
He refers to our videos, here.
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Precursors (permalink)
In addition to other funny non-alcoholic drinks, there's a precursor here to the Pumpkin Juice at Universal's Wizarding World of Harry Potter:
Pumpkin Brew, like mother used to take
Vebo, for that dried feeling
Bubbleola
Raisinade
Bonco Bung, 3/8 of 1/8 percent
Gooseberry Pop, it's a fizzle
Souseless Slops
Yale Ginger Ale
Claret Bluff, red in color, colorless in character
Snappy Suds, it foams at the mouth
Huckleberry Hoch, bum's the word
Lemon Squash, the boozeless beverage
Boca-Bola, the dust allayer
Ginger Joy
Guzzaline, for the gullet
Prune Phizz
Brandy-nit
Shampain Shoddy, the fizz-water that fuddles
Persimmon Punch
From The Judge, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Crow pope.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mendicant #crow #blackbird #pope #crow pope #beggar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Undertaker's Garland by John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A bit of magic from the morning of the world."  From My Laughing Philosopher by Eden Phillpotts, 1896.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see what happens next. From Le Rire, 1903.

From Le Rire, 1903
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#vintage illustration #goat #animated gif #pig #illustration #farm animals #gif #laughing animal #farmyard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Haunted Fountain by Margaret Sutton.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #fishing #sausage
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The Right Word (permalink)
For whether, read where.  For beneath, read cometh.  From The Canada Law Journal, 1873.
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#erratum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1922.
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Old News (permalink)
"Din of modern city worse than lion's roar."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#noise pollution #vintage headline #lion's roar #city life #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1940.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Unresolved oppositions of line leading to confusion."  From Line: An Art Study by Edmund J. Sullivan, 1922. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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February 6, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The bulldog was barred from Noah's Ark and had to swim to Ararat.  From The Judge, 1912.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder Gone Minoan, by Clyde B. Clason:

***

[PROFESSOR] NIELSEN: There is weighty evidence for believing that Knossos, the principal seat of Minoan civilization, fell circa 1400 B.C.

INVESTIGATOR BROWN: Then they're all dead?

NIELSEN: I believe so.

INVESTIGATOR BROWN: Then why bother about 'em?

NIELSEN: I have sometimes asked myself the same question.

***

"Why did you have the doodad carved on the panels of your, what-you-may-call-it?"

[That's the most *polite* whatchamacallit I've ever encountered. But I wonder if it is, in fact, an etymological ancestor of the latter.]

***

"Stay where you are!" Glendon shouted with wholehearted gusto. "Drop that grip! Put up your hands!"

The obedience average to the three commands was .000.

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Unicorns (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"With just my eyes closing."  From Simple Rhymes for Happy Times, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #piano #mice #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The only way to get his hat is to enter his trap.  From El Tío Clarín, c. 1867.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Holme Lee's Fairy Tales, 1869.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles, illustrated by G. H. Clements, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #blowing bubbles #writer's block #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard that theatre is at its lowest artistic ebb ever.  Here's what it looks like.  From Ulk, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #insect #illustration #praying mantis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When death rides the rubber."  From Popular Mechanics, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #grim reaper #illustration #tires #ad
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #sleep walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The prince of the glow worms."  From Fairy Tales From All Nations by Anthony Montalba and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1850.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Flug, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage poster #illustration #poster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by M. T. Ross, 1915.
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February 5, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When a drawing notices a rip in the paper of its existence, it looks something like this.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #tear in space #rip in space #fabric of existence
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Howly jabers."  From Judge's Library, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #manhole #expletive #hat #kick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Imitate a stump."  Woodcut by Wharton H. Esherick.  From Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk by Mary Marcy, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tragic and comic, shocking and risqué.  From Le Rire, 1901 and 1902.
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#vintage illustration #faces #facial expressions #audience #cartooning #illustration #reactions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you guessed this title to be The Golden Key, give yourself a round of applause.  By Nettie M. Pease, 1871.
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#skeleton key #1870s #old book #gold key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A crown of hardened icicles and fir cones.  From Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by the Brothers Robinson, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #troll #illustration #troll king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #long nose #bees #illustration #bee hive #honey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration #bear king
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
"Key to the meanings of colours."  From Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.  Speaking of which, see How to Be Your Own Cat.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 1896.
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Old News (permalink)
"Mysterious new inventinon 'hypnotizes.'"  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #mountain spirits #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #illustration #voyeurism #living portrait
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Take it out of my sight!"  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #arabian nights #hooded figure #illustration #out of my sight #take it away
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
* There is a vast world of reality into which science can no more enter than an elf can be Santa Claus.  We regret to observe that rather than face it, and confess its inability to measure it, science turns its back upon it.  Life is not always every-day life, and the insolvable mysteries are correlated not to formal rules but to spirit and inspiration.  Are bits of wisdom liable to dwarf the subject?  Indeed — and rightly!  James Howell described the ingredients of a good proverb to be "sense, shortness, and salt."  May Howell's cry resound through this present collection of maxims on believing in one's elf.

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February 4, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
See if you agree that the rabbits are the best part of this everything-throne.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #invention #chair #throne #all in one
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
All those bugs in Florida -- they're tourists, too.  From The Judge, 1913.
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
Here's the crucial difference between a humorist and a magician.  From the sublime novel The Demi-gods by James Stephens, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #saint #st. george #illustration #saint george
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mice #when the cat's away #illustration #mouse king #the mice will play
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The portrait of our father or our mother is a sort of crystal ball into which we look in the hope of discovering our destiny."  From The Collected Works of George Moore, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #train car #illustration #tiny king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #fairy #fairy tale #frog #mushroom #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #devil #illustration #1916
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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#vintage photo #speech #mouth shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1933.  See our virtual "Loves Me / Loves Me Not" daisy.
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#vintage illustration #flower #illustration #daisy #loves me loves me not #flower divination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Six Rehearsal-less Entertainments by Alice Louise Williams Chaplin, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book cover #dreaming #book cover #book #in the clouds #old book #illustration #rehearsalless #short plays
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No—I can't go on.  We're shut in.  Oh, my god—"  From Pearson's, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #despair #illustration #can't go on #shut in #oh my god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #damned #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Gate to English, Book I by Will David Howe, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #sentence diagram #pain #illustration #anger
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February 3, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The ticket to ride the Necropolitan train is a coffin.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #coffin #death train #necropolitan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The world as seen by the optimist and the pessimist.  From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #world #optimism #pessimism #thorns #roses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bizarre even by our standards -- how to immerse a statuette in a soap bubble filled with cigarette smoke, for the enjoyment of kids.  From The Picture Magazine, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #saint #st. sebastian #saint sebastian
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"As is well known, women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision, for they are both surrounded by enemies."  From The Demi-gods by James Stephens, 1921.
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#birds #women #james stephens #enemies
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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 #teddy bear #orange #illustration #still life #orange drink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #dizzy #illustration #room spins
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"How the Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to dinner."  From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's Greek.  From The Master of Mysteries by Gelett Burgess, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #occult #crystal ball #illustration #swami
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #umbrellas #dreaming #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #king #illustration #hemlock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #creature #beauty and the beast #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The spectacles of the Sentimentalist, the Playwright, the Bulskevik, and the Pessimist.  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #eyewear #eyeglasses #spectacles #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Sounds like a crystal ball: "Tracks of invisible rays seen in magic glass."  From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #occult #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was a week trying to tread on this fatal tail."  From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 1916.  This should also be of interest: How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cat #illustration #cat's tail
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hypnotism #clock #lobster #pea pod #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's some physiognomy from De Belgische Illustratie, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #illustration #people who look like animals
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February 2, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

"Weird winged crocodile at the Devil Worshippers' Wedding. As described in the strange publication which is exciting Europe, a spirit woman turned into this grotesque monster and 'played the piano, casting expressive glances at one of the young women.'"  Illustration by E.G. Lutz in The World newspaper, December 27, 1896.  Via the Tenth Letter of the Alphabet.

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#vintage illustration #alligator #piano #devil worshipper #allig
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This May Surprise You (permalink)

"Put the groundhog back in Groundhog's Day" is a Googlewhack.  (Thanks, June!)

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This old Moorish house in the tropics was destroyed by two hurricanes, but what remains is beyond bizarre. Like some sort of wizard's museum, every wall features strange niches protected by antique iron grates, containing things like bottled ghosts, imprisoned gargoyles, hoodoo shrines, haunted radios, and crystal balls. Plus, one of the great secrets of alchemy is hidden in plain view.

Part One of our urbex adventure is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gIfiRbb2fM
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A refill on the absinthe.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #alcoholism #alcohol poisoning #absinthe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

"He misses all life's joys and light, but when he counts his dimes at night, true happiness is his."  Yet coin collecting can't be separated from life or life's joys, so the caption is meaningless.  As Bruce Fleming reminds us, "everything is part of life" (The New Tractatus).  From The Judge, 1920.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The oasis."  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #insects #swarm #great outdoors #head protection
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Precursors (permalink)
Disco was actually born in 1894, with the invention of illuminated clubwear accessories.  From The Picture Magazine, 1894.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Hollow Chest, by Alice Tilton:

***

Leonidas had learned that the simplest method of quelling excessive curiosity was a full and tedious explanation. [And so have I (:v>! Because I think most people who pepper one with random nosey questions aren't actually interested in listening to answers--their kick comes from asking the questions.]

***

[Wodehousian Telegram Business dept.]

Instead of sending him thirty-odd identical messages, he thought, Mrs. Clemson Vandercook might well have presented him with one full and explicit telegram that contained a few enlightening details.

***

[Remember this, from Cold Steal?]

"East Dalton, West Dalton, North Dalton, South Dalton, Dalton Hills, Dalton Farms,  Dalton Centre,  Dalton Village,  Dalton Falls,  Dalton Upper Falls,  Dalton Lower Falls,  Daltondale, Daltonville,  Daltonham, Dalton Landing,  Daltonwood--"

[Well, there's another roster in the present book, which introduces Dalton Highlands and Dalton Greens!]

***

"Oh, so this is the right corner! I thought it was Eighth and Oak, but then almost anything seems right if you add it to Oak."

***

"I told her I was supposed to meet her there, after I asked if her name were George, and I suppose that she supposed I was a friend of her uncle's."

"It's too supposey," Lizzie said.

***

It must be Yerkes's niece. It had to be. She was the only niece available.

***

"Er--perhaps you refer to Section Four of the New Amended Code?"

"I suppose that's it. Yes...."

"Then, sir, may I venture to correct, or at least amend, your impression of that law?" Having made up the New Amended Code on the spur of the moment, Leonidas felt quite competent to amend and correct it any way he saw fit.

***

[Departments department]

"The Department," Leonidas murmured wearily, "of Complete and Utter Futility!"

***

[Just last week, I happened to recall the "six-day bicycle race" gag in ~1920s-1940s literature, and I was startled to realize I had yet to encounter it in the Tilton books. A couple of days later... Voilà!]

And the ensuing walk with the general had been as exhausting as any six-day bicycle race.

***

[As discussed, Leonidas frequently says "M'yes," But this was a new one on me...]

"M'yes, and no."

***

"Cripps has a high, thin voice, rather like a knitting needle."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bit of swinophobia from Fliegende Blätter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #pig #illustration #swinophobia
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Old News (permalink)
"Gold has fallen from the sky on at least one occasion."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#money #gold #vintage headline #pennies from heaven #sky is falling #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #spirit #suicide #noose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Even the grim reaper has off days.  From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper #time's up #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The rats were wronged, the wind was slandered—both were innocent; in a word, the house was haunted!"  From "The Haunted Chamber" in Hogg's Weekly Instructor, 1846.
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#haunted house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #germs #monsters #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From On a Pincushion by Mary de Morgan and illustrated by William de Morgan, 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #aura #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Checkmate.  From Le Rire, 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 #death #skeleton #chess #illustration #long game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wrathful deity #wind god #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Mysticism can have hands and feet.  From Paul the Mystic by James Mann Campbell, 1908.  Perhaps mysticism with hands and feet looks like one of these creatures we saw previously.

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#mystic #mysticism #apostle paul
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February 1, 2018

Strange Dreams (permalink)
Another one of those nights.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #spooky #damned #tormented
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
"A wedding a la Tango."  From The Judge, 1913.   See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #wedding #tango
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The man with the cotton umbrella."  From Every Where magazine, 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 #umbrella #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He seized the occasion to make a few well chosen remarks."  From The Puritan, 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 #alligator #illustration #baby alligator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What a paragraph I have written."  From Vermont Hall, or Light through the Darkness by M. A. Paull, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #up all night #writing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snail #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #ghost #spirits #illustration #cat ghost
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Old News (permalink)
The Popular Mechanics headline writer put the word magic in quotations, though other headlines about so-called scientific wizardry and miracles don't feature quotation marks.  "Indian medicine men still practice 'magic' among Canadian tribes."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#magic #first nation #vintage headline #canadian tribes #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 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 #animals #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It would be nice to be married if one could stay single at the same time."  From The Cup of Fury by Rupert Hughes, 1919.   See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #marriage #illustration #single life #singlehood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The mysterious influence in the air you breathe."  From an old ad for a Rosicrucian booklet.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #rosicrucian #in the air #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The genie appeared."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 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 #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #flashlight #art
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #haunted #spooky #ghosts #lion #phantoms #illustration #spectres #ghost bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, illustrated by William Heath Robinson, 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 #fairy #shakespeare #midsummer's night dream #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 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 #cemetery #graveyard #witches #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #illustration #christian art #christian painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcohol #carnival #illustration #parade #art #ad
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
St. Sebastian (detail) by François-Xavier Fabre (1789).
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#vintage illustration #saint #st. sebastian #arrow
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