CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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February 28, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Have you ever encountered an old list, in your own handwriting, that you have absolutely no memory of?  Our most dedicated reader shared this one.  The items read:
  • Hiccup cures
  • Lessons to be learned from rest[aurant] servers
  • How to spot a threatening cloud
  • Deeper meaning of bad dreams
  • Building materials that can fit in your pocket
  • Books that offer a good explanation of things
  • Haikus
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#lists
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are behind the Encyclopedia Brittanica.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A locked cuckoo clock shows the future continuous tense: "He/she/it will not be cuckooing himself/herself/itself."
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #time #clock #pronouns #cuckoo clock #1950s #locked
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A city atop a mushroom cloud -- the endpapers from Northeastern's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #mushroom cloud #atomic city
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #hybrid #antlers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #three heads #three headed #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I threw the volume at the cow, because I had no brick."  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #cow #throwing the book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #zipper #my lips are sealed #zipped #mouth zipper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #classroom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #mice #art museum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #donkey
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Old Man Winter and the spirits of Cold, Ice, Hail, and Wind are in a face-off with Spring.  From Le Courrier Français, 1907.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #weather #personification #old man winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #vision #god #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #vintage magazine #armor #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buria, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #blackbird #memento mori
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #goat headed #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #goat #head butting #animal power
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1927 Southwestern yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#blindfold #serpent #occult #goat #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skull and bones #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #broomstick #witches
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Whether this is a shattering of reality or a confluence of parallel universes, our custom Uncanny Detector App was indecisive.  From East Carolina's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #parallel universe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton
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February 27, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lambs #halo #shepherd #1890s #illustration #lamb of god #holy lamb #holy sheep
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are the pain of living and the drug of dreams.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #horror #1900s #giant hands #two headed eagle #blood #double headed #red sky #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #serpent #cobra #hindu temple #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Own Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #firedrake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #fear #elephant #rabbit #drunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #imps #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #owl #crow #duck #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #halo #jesus #illustration #concentric circles
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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 #arabian nights #contemplation #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #torture #illustration #stretched #pulled apart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #faces in things #run over #vintage automobile #car accident #automobile
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage photo #trick photography #black and white photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #tiny person #big hat #mustache #green dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #hybrid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a ghost from the Duke yearbook of 1983.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duke university
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #halloween #skeleton #october
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"On Earth, fountain is one thing, light another.  When thirsting, thou seekest a fountain, and to get to the fountain thou seekest light" (St. Augustine of Hippo).  From East Carolina's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fountain #light and darkness #light and shade
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not sure why this is captioned "oddball stuff."  For some of us, this is a typical day.  From Mansfield's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #mustache #smiling man #oddball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat people #cat headed #half cat #cat person #singing cat
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February 26, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From our 21st cousin, Emily Dickinson, quoted in Mansfield's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #poetry #yearbook #afterlife #emily dickinson
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to British explorer Bear Grylls flying over Everest.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #skiing #propeller #bear grylls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Thinkograph, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #automaton
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble, by Catriona McPherson:

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"Hidey-holes," I yelled, feeling rather foolish, for it is not a word suited for yelling.

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I would be interested to see her have the vapours but not if I had caused them.

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Schichtlers--she managed the name without quite sounding as though she had swallowed a fly while bicycling.

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Alec...saw off my hunch with no more than a desultory wave of his pipe hand and so, as we set to, trying to think how to prove it, we left my hunch behind.

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"Thank heavens you weren't shoved on stage with Sarah Bernhardt and..."

"...Henry Thingamajig."

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Hats were dreadful that year, as they are most years to anyone who is honest enough to say so.

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Bonuses: Rich American visitors referred to generically as "Roosebilts and Vanderfeldts"; and the NOUN form "[a/the] higgledy-piggle."

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of "foul balls," but are these "cowl balls"?  From Baptist Female University's yearbook of 1977.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowl #ball game
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1878.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #chicken people #chicken man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #italy #big boot
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Prohibition as the patron saint of bootleggers.  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #patron saint #halo #prohibition #bootlegger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Woodcut by Wharton H. Esherick.  From Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk by Mary Marcy, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #underwater #fish #under the sea
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #music #cornucopia #illustration #tuba
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #tiger #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #demon #drinking #imps #illustration #a toast #devil's music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #skirt #parachute
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #harp #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gazeta Shebueva, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #musician #french horn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An unretouched page from Centenary's 1935 yearbook, like something straight out of How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #collage #distorted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's easier to open a fairy door by invitation than through perseverance.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton key #fairy door #1930s #perseverance
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February 25, 2019

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
To best see pirate ghosts haunting the seashore, we first go purblind.
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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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#prof. oddfellow #night photography #fog #seashore #ghost hunting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Before "Peace, Love, Mickey," there was "Magic, Love, Leprechauns."  And, to this day, it's a Googlewhack.  From National-Louis's 1975 yearbook.

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#love #magic #vintage yearbook #leprechaun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #crow #statue #ruins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1909. 
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#vintage illustration #zeppelin #dirigible #giant bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #men in makeup #makeup #eye makeup #eyeliner #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #goat #bear #musical animal #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #celestial #solar system #j. p. morgan #bullhorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There are many "evil trinities," including:
  • treachery, cruelty, and superstition (the evil trinity of the Spaniard, in Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine by James Phinney Baxter, 1890)
  • alcohol, ignorance, and immorality (the evil trinity of backwoods settlements, in Colliers, 1915)
  • cowardice, impatience, and self-love (the evil trinity of a fatal course, in Bonnie Kate by Mrs. De Courcy Laffan, 1894)
  • lice, impure food, and foul water (the "evil trinity of chicken raising," in American Poultry Advocate, 1914)
  • lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and pride of life (the evil trinity of corruption, in The American National Preacher, 1843)
  • servitude, destitition, and ignorance (the "evil trinity of political debasement," in Eagle Pass by Cora Montgomery, 1852)
  • the boss, the speculator, and the soulless corporation (the evil trinity of public park sanitation, in Popular Science Monthly, 1899)
  • appetite in the drunkard, greed in the liquor maker and seller, and indifference in church members (the evil trinity of temperance work, in Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1892)
  • the world, the flesh, and the Devil (the evil trinity of the soul's enemies in Christian theology)
  • infidelity, anti-Christianity, and Spiritism (the evil trinity of unclean spirits in American Messianic Fellowship Monthly, 1917)
  • ignorance, superstition, and prejudice (the evil trinity that plots human misery, in The School News and Practical Educator, 1904)
Pictured is the trinity of absolute evil from Christian Iconography by Adolphe Napoléon Didron, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #devil #evil #demonic #evil trinity #absolute evil #list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #automaton #cyborg #man machine #human engine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #forest #rabbits #creatures #deer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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#vintage illustration #sun #grandville #illustration
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #lion #illustration #lion and unicorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #scarecrow #spooky #october #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #pianist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wolverine yearbook of Michigan Agricultural College, 1922.

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#religion #vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #full moon #cat #faces in things #top hat #rooftop #yowl #cat in a hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Deviatya Val, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #crocodile tears #alligator tears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #mountaintop #artist #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magical Man of Mirth by Elbridge H. Sabin and illustrated by Abbott & Knipe, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #octopus #under the sea #illustration
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February 24, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to selecting emojis.  From Park College's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #symbolism #emoji
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #bear #barber #winter coat #animal grooming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1909. 
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#vintage illustration #fish #fishbowl #thirsty #drinks like a fish #fish bowl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #monsters #siren song #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #ancient egypt #sphinx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #art gallery #art museum #crowd
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1917.
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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 #shark #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #satan #hell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #flag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #scissors #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #ominous #shadow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #tennis
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #skull #palette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #bat #full moon #chariot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Diatel, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #fishing #fisher of men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The mother-in-law of epidemics is on her way to the frontlines.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #epidemic #disease
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We don't know who is saying "I am here" -- the Screw Ball or the Janus? From Glassboro's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #janus #two faced
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Mr. Pioneers Takes His Picaresque, by Richard Mallett:

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After a few moments the old man called out, "I don't like you much."

"No?"

Silence. Mr. Pioneers tried again: "No?" Still silence. Then girl said, "You don't know about father, let me explain. Some people won't take No for an answer, but he's different. He won't take No for a question."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #ostrich
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We like the four winds in these endpapers from Swarthmore's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #strange map #four winds #1940s #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #heart #cannon #shield #ace of hearts #armor #personal protection #bouncing off
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February 23, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is how night people dodge beams of light.  From Duke's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light beam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If upside-down is the new normal in your life, then reblog.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #circus #upside down #weightless #trampoline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Driven out by so-called progress.  From Le Courrier Français, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #otherworld #mermaid #fairy tale #satyr #imagination #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The King of Coins.  From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #money #tarot #currency #king of coins #dollar #king of pentacles #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bear costume #furries #bear skin #vintage furries #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #hell hole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #giant bird #eaten alive #bird monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #flying machine #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #face shape #portrait painter #circle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #goya
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #satyr #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #father time #cannibalism #scythe #illustration #eaten alive #devoured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever met your dopplegänger.  From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #light and dark #other self #double self #astral body #doppelgänger #twin #doppelgänger #spirit self
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #train wreck #derailment #off the rails
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #goat #animal sacrifice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #do not leave children unattended
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's as if the dead are speaking: "But there is a bond between us at times, and it is this we seek." From Glassboro's 1971 yearbook.
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#cemetery #graveyard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gravestone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #sword #hearts #knave of hearts
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of time gates and portals, and this one in Swarthmore's 1940 yearbook may be used to facilitate journeys into the past.

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

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#portal #time travel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #1940s #time gate #7:53
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #candle #lights out
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February 22, 2019

The Right Word (permalink)

We're often asked, "is it teepee or tepee?"  You'll see tepee everywhere, but "popularity is only of temporary moment ... a vulgar struggling for supremacy" (Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, 1849).  Indeed, California's Wigwam Motel (on both the historic registry and alongside the ghostly vestiges of Route 66) spells it teepee.  That's surely definitive.  For further proof, we offer our own graphical evidence (heehee).
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#teepee #california #wigwam #route 66
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1984 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #faces in things #lion #human faced #illustration #human flower #lion's mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crab #lobster #illustration #marine biologist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #angel #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #artificial life
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #umbrella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pitchfork #crocodile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A boxing puma.  From Pearson's, 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 #boxing #knocked over #puma #boxing animal
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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 #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#mummy #vintage illustration #pharaoh #pyramid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #occult #demonic #illustration #art
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #rain gear #rain jacket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #animal attack #bear #hunter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #elephant #animals #lion #giraffe #hippo #rhino #dancing animals #animal wrestling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1921 Southwestern yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #giant #fairy tale #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Blood Card, by Elly Griffiths:

***

The general's eyebrows now seemed permanently suspended in the air.

***

Petre took out a large white handkerchief and unfolded it so slowly and deliberately that Edgar thought, for one wild moment, that he was about to perform a magic trick. Instead he wiped his brow and then carefully refolded the handkerchief.

***

"I'm going upstairs to make coffee....you stay here and chat."

This, of course, temporarily robbed them both of the power of speech.

***

An ice cream van trundled mournfully past playing "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #birds #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Laura Palmer being wrapped in plastic in Twin Peaks.  From Presbyterian College's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #Twin Peaks #wrapped in plastic #laura palmer #twin peaks precursor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A widow display of money.  From Nebelspalter, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #money #window display
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February 21, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you would bring your personal demons to Show & Tell.  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1972 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #show and tell
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #rain #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #angels #flying head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #hand of god #headache #migraine #hit on the head #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #pitchfork #crocodile #alligator #trident
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spout-powered motor.  From The Judge, 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 #whale #spout #motor #blowhole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #fear of death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #walrus #i am the walrus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Every ten days the genie comes hither."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #earthquake #melting building #tarot tower #falling building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #death #blindfold #sword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #artist #illustration #art critic
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #chair #before and after #broken mirror #entropy
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
He laughed so hard he ripped the magazine page.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #vintage photo #horror #laughter #black and white photography #1900s #cursed photo #torn page #ripped page
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #hybrid #two headed #specimen bottle #specimen jar #mutation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Savage and Its Heart."  From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #full moon #howling at the moon #savage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An illustration by Jim Toomey, from Duke's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #two headed #conjoined #odd couple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #fright #spirit #pursued
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You might have already known that the French root of "mascot" means "witch."  From Northern Illinois' 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fox #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mascot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #lion #bear #animal trainer #lion's mouth #animal tamer
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February 20, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

"You want to go into the desert and learn higher magic, nebbich, when you … cannot distinguish a Hall of Riddles from the real world and do not even suspect that the books of life contain something other than what is written on the spine?" —Gustav Meyrink, The Green Face

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#portal #magick #occult #prof. oddfellow #gustav meyrink #cowboy hat
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a "spaghetti western," 40 years before the phrase was coined.  The caption says, "Effect of a spaghetti dinner on members of a wild west show."  From Life, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #cowboy #wild west #lasso #spaghetti western
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Slowing time.  From Rockford's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook #slowing time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #graveyard #spirit #open grave #funeral
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #warthog #boar #warth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Tous, 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 #skull #giraffe #camera
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #rooftop #gargoyle #spades
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #death #grim reaper #cave #art
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #off a cliff #golden calf #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #night and the city #hard boiled #film noir
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 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 #war #vermin #rat #fly #pestilence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #rabbit #bear #illustration #alligator tears #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satyr
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bellows #tiny woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #political cartoon #meteor #giant head #stone head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #hunting #rifle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You were correct in your suspicions of modern art.  From Thompson's yearbook of 1963.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The bride of the devil has not yet been snatched into the bottomless pit.  From The Devil's Bride by Milton H. Stine, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satan #prophecy #end of the world #apocalypse #book of revelation #devil's bride
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is what the 1970s was like, everywhere you looked.  From Central Carolina Technical Institute's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #the people could fly #butterfly man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #rabbit #hunter #people who look like animals
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February 19, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nothing in his hat.  From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magic wand #magician #vintage magic #magic #top hat #illustration #nothing in my hat #art
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Addams Family's mustachioed baby Pubert.  The caption reads, "Young Mother (examining baby with magnifying glass): Harry, I'm simply tickled to death!  I believe that when Baby grows up he's going to have a dark mustache."  From Life, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #addams family #pubert
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This May Surprise You (permalink)

The true origin of Bibendum, the Michelin Man, is shrouded in mystery.  Even Wikipedia (always the second to acknowledge when it's wrong) admits that it's unclear when the word "Bibendum" came to be the name of the character himself.  But now we can finally reveal all.  Contrary to popular rumors, the name obviously has nothing to do with Horace's phrase "Nunc est bibendum" ("now is the time for drinking"), as that would encourage drunk driving.  In fact, Bibendum's genesis is a footnote in history, quite literally.  In footnotes, an asterisk (*) is followed by a dagger (†), then a double dagger (‡), and then a section sign (§).  It was a section sign followed by the textual reference abbreviation "ibid" that engendered the Michelin Man.  Note how the section sign looks like a circle (tire) with two arms, as seen from above.  André Michelin, confronted by that footnote, equated the symbol with the mysterious abbreviation "ibid."  Upon looking up the meaning of "ibid," the horror of that sign and its occult label only increased, for André was told that it meant "ibidem."  (Spoiler: "ibidem" means "in the same place," "in the previously referenced source").  He had fallen into recursiveness, a tunnel of appendaged tires that eternally rolled back into itself.  This is the horror William Gibson described as a stomach-churningly creepy, "weird, jaded, cigar-smoking elder creature suggesting a mummy with elephantiasis ... the rolls of his pallid, rubbery flesh like the folds of a partially deflated blimp, greasy and vile" (Pattern Recognition).  When André regained consciousness and realized, practically retching, that he knew what his company's mascot was ordained to be, he remembered "ibidem" as "Bibendum," the addition of that initial B serving as a pictogram of the Michelin Man as seen from the front (a round head over a larger round body).  As anyone can see, combining the overhead-view section sign with the front-view capital B brings the figure into three dimensions.  Indeed, it was André's seemingly accidental addition of that B that brought the Michelin Man to life as one of the world's most recognized corporate symbols.
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#bibendum #michelin man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Faith, hope, and question mark.  From Elon's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #question mark #questioning #faith hope
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Stolen Words, by Thomas Mallon:

[This scholarly but lively, witty work about plagiarism, and how it became the modern concept we recognize over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries, sits on my imaginary shelf next to Marginalia by H. J. Jackson (who is cited in this book, because her buddy Coleridge figures heavily not only in the history of marginalia but also in the history of plagiarism).]

***

To some extent every writer's desk top is like a Ouija board, his pen pushed across it by whatever literary ghost he's just entertained.

***

It's...common for the novelist, particularly the young one, to create his characters out of himself. What's odd, and what may have been true in Sterne's middle-aged case, is taking the opportunity to make oneself out of one's characters.

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Originality...set itself down as a cardinal literary virtue sometime in the middle of the eighteenth century and has never since gotten up.

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[Coleridge] would likely have denied that what he was really giving...was not so much an account of what Sterne's brain went through when musing upon female anatomy as of what his own underwent in the presence of German metaphysics.

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One can barely conduct a study of plagiarism amid the deafening sound of literary pots roaring at literary kettles.

***

Coleridge: "I regard truth as a divine ventriloquist."

***

Charles Reade: "A man's life is like those geographical fragments children learn 'the contiguous countries' by. The pieces are a puzzle; but put them together carefully, and lo! they are a map."

***

The preface to A Simpleton has Reade blustering: "All fiction, worth a button, is founded on facts.... I rarely write a novel without milking about two hundred heterogeneous cows into my pail."

Most novelists perform the same chore less loudly on a smaller herd.

***

Take a writer not quite so beyond criticism, and we tend, upon spotting historical lumps in the narrative gravy, to object.

***

By mid-March things were sufficiently complicated for an academic to step in.

***

The four volumes of Uber Land und Meer that were brought up from the lower depths of the New York Public Library together weigh more than an IBM Selectric typewriter and are so covered with dust that you have to imagine the Bismarckian Hausfrauen who subscribed to the unbound originals sternly clucking at their current untidiness.

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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A word of caution: though this photograph may be used to facilitate astral travel, it is not to be used in conjunction with near-death experiences. From Fairmont's yearbook of 1979.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallway #light at the end of it
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #anthropomorphism #animal headed #hybrid #donkey headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #blue lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The seancers have no faces.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spiritualism #seance #1890s #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #long hair #big hair #opera glasses #braided hair #long braids
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #anthropomorphism #faces in things #leaves #illustration #vines
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #tanks #illustration #armored #animal shapes
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Old News (permalink)
"Lobsters are like people," from Popular Mechanics, 1952.  
And we can prove that lobsters are like people.  See the vintage lobsters we've so far collected.
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#vintage photo #lobster #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An all-pig carousel and a grope.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #carousel #pig #groping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #goat #illustration #toreador
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Novelty weddings are a thing of the past.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.  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 #mountaintop #top of the world #extreme wedding #novelty wedding #unusual wedding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fugas, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #pollution #smokestack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #falling #murder #dog #pet walker #pushed off #when dogs kill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #political cartoon #uncle sam #distortion #funhouse mirror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Feminish Movement."  From Indiana State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #vintage gay #gay
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If the sun is just right, you can burn a hole through the facts using a giant magnifying glass.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #question mark #questionable #magnifying glass #facts
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February 18, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#mask #mad scientist #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #giant #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #moon #faces in things #mooning #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #music #vocalist #singing #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #angel #sacred and profane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #harpy #human headed #bird man #rooster man #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bookworm #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #telephone #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My rivals."  From Pearson's, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Something leads me on."  From Child Classics, The Third Reader by Georgia Alexander, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse #knight #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #angel #winged man #illustration #celestial sphere #star globe #star sphere
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #demon #bat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Long I to-night for your presence again.  Come from the silence so long and so deep."  From Rock Me to Sleep, Mother by Elizabeth Akers Allen, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #grief #yearning #missing you
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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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 serpent #sea monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #death #horror #skulls #long hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of having an angel on one shoulder and a demon on the other.  Sometimes it's two demons.  From Bulat, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #good and evil #nun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
These Cousins Itt appear in Bethany's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cousin itt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Doctor Sunshine -- his medicine is always safe."  From The Doctors, A Satire in Four Seizures by Elbert Hubbard, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #sunshine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever left your fake mustache out to be polished.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #fake mustache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The sphinx weeps over an overheard secret.  From Indiana State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #secret #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Office shenanigans -- the old "quill pen through the head" gag, plus some novelty giant scissors.  From Nebelspalter, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #quill pen #1870s #arrow through the head
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February 17, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #chair #camouflage #camoflage #detective #disguised #chair costume #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Still she says, 'I do not love the men.'"  From Indiana State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lesbian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's minotaur at an oyster restaurant is from Life Magazine, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #minotaur #anthropomorphism #bull headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcohol #towing #bottle #bottle horse #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #tiptoe #balance #pinpoint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #demon #owl #bound and gagged #torture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #giant bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #deity #god #jupiter #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #artists #venice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #long neck #tin man #illustration #bird house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #cannibalism #tiny man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #illustration #horse racing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat legged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #angel #black cat #cat #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #cake walk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tough decision: heaven or your favorite outfit.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #dandy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bulat, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #birds #long hair #naked woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #pear head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wolverine yearbook of Michigan Agricultural College, 1922.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drama #candle #theatre #dramatics
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Burglars in Bucks, by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole:

***

[Six dots appear in the middle of a letter one character is writing to another.]

.      .      .      .      .      .

Those dots are Jerry [he writes], coming in.

***

"I may accept a poltergeist which breaks crockery, and even, at a pinch, one which doubles up keys in people's pockets, but I will emphatically not accept one which manufactures imitation keys, bends them up so that there is no risk of any one's trying to use them, and substitutes them for the real ones."

***

[Writes Everard] "She clutched me and sobbed, 'Oh, Everard!' any number of times; but when I asked what was the matter she only Oh Evararded again."

***

"'Racing touts,' said Coulson, ' 'ud be a pretty name for them.' He didn't tell me what an ugly one would have been; but by the shape of his face I could guess."

***

Bonus: An offstage character called Lady Doppelganger.

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February 16, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the rappers Kris Kross wearing their clothes backwards.  From Duke's 1914 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #backwards #backward clothing #clothes backwards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #explosion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Rire, 1852.
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#vintage illustration #devil #halloween #skeleton #crossbones #spooky #october #skull and crossbones #sheet ghost #hallowe'en #skull and bones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #owl #clock #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #mercury #rooster #faun #winged feet #winged hat #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #flying car #flying throne #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil #conscience
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #melting building #hallucination #inebriated #illustration #hallucinating #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1911.
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#religion #vintage illustration #political cartoon #serpent #snake #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1896.

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#vintage illustration #umbrella #swan #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Speared by the imps of pain until her top droops off.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #demon #imp #pain #pierced #medicine bottle #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #demon #goya
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #water buffalo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #vintage car #car #shoe car #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #occult #shrouded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bulat, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sun #skulls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Your face here.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #faceless #bust
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An illustration by J. L. Cunningham. From Clemson's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #axe #vintage yearbook #yearbook #decapitated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An invisbile woman from Indiana State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's been said that everything that can be done must be done to improve air safety.  From Satirikon, 1909.
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February 15, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Put on your armour and be off with you!"  From My Own Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1895.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Listening carefully for the serpent's tips on artistic subtleties.  From William and Mary's 1910 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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Precursors (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #cycling #dogs #bicycle built for four
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Robert Benchley as Adam and his "fig leaf."  From The Judge, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #drowning #carrot #can't swim #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #faces in things #mother earth #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Peace as a fallen angel.  From Le Rire, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #hell #fallen angel #illustration #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration #tire #lol #ad
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
Life in black.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #black clothes #black dress #wearing black #life in black
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #hybrid #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Male bonding.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #conjoined #half and half #male bonding
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #rainy day #umbrella #animal power #exercise wheel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This myterious, horned figure appears in the Bethany yearbook of 1985.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #antlers #vintage man #well-dressed man #man #horned man #mysterious man
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Careless Cupid, by ESG:

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Della Street regarded the lawyer with wide-eyed admiration. "You clever so-and-so of a such-and-such!" she said.

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From The Case of the Fabulous Fake, by ESG:

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"You know Gertie, she's an incurable romantic. Give her a button and she'll sew a vest on it every time, and sometimes I think she even uses an imaginary button."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From Heroes of the Dawn by Violet Russell, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #giant #shield #legend #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As a rule, any faceless ghost of Japanese lore shouldn't be touched.  Know your yokai!  From Eastern Kentucky's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #yokai #faceless ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon #1910
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February 14, 2019

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
"Prof Oddfellow always writes on a different creative level - and Astragalomancy does not disappoint. In reading between the lines you will discover far more than the subject too - a wonderful, thought-provoking and creative catalyst." Steve Drury, author of Key Mysteries
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#dice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When a giant box of Valentine's chocolates gives you a flat tire.  From Swarthmore's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #heart #valentine #flat tire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #monster #creature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #chess #long game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #crow #rabbit #injured bird #bandages #injured animal #injured deer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #musicians #violin #bottles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cats #bird #cat in a hat #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #giant #giant hand #hand of god #labor #worker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #alcoholism #alcohol #corkscrew #beer and wine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #distorted face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #artist #hippogriff #illustration #hyppogriff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #giant hat #big hat #illustration #hat #women's hat #vintage hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #makeup #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #faces #facial expressions #illustration #emoji #physionomie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #bondage #man tied up #restrained #bdsm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Arbutus yearbook of Indiana University, 1906.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Communication from the spirit of the 'lowest circle.'"  From The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic by John Henry Anderson, 1860.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #magick #necromancy #occult #spiritualism #black magic #seance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #moon #pipe smoker #night #lyre #rooftop #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of "school spirit," and here are two incarnations of the spirit of Lehigh's 1938 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #break the chain #man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #trick photography #black and white photography #tiny woman
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February 13, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Practitioners of witchcraft."  From Elon's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#witchcraft #occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #witches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #bull #vintage car #car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #weird #taxidermy #hat #swan hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if God has seen you pig out.  From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #gluttony #deadly sin #all-seeing eye #eye of god #god #eye in the pyramid #pigging out
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #snail #giant snail #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #sword #wolves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we thought the Eraserhead baby was learning to box.
From The Judge, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #boxing glove
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gretelein and the elf-king."  From St. Nicholas, 1879.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #elf king
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #train #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The hare is caught."  From The Elf Maiden and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #hare #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #snow #god #muff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #devil #costume #angel costume #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #skeleton #grim reaper #open grave #grave digger #digging your own grave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bulat, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #tiny men #born of egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pirates on a moon of Jupiter, if that's what the banded planet in the sky is.  From Piedmont's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirates
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1893).
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#vintage illustration #mythology #halo #spear
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
If you're looking for your lost ƧON, this photograph may be helpful.  From Union College's 1966 yearbook.
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#weathervane #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #frog #crying #pet grief #pet frog
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February 12, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Were you ever stung?"  From Addison Seminary's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #vintage man #man #stung #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Begin Again, by Ursula Orange:

[Anthropomorphized Clocks dept.]

Jane's alarm clock went off with such energy that it whirred itself right over the edge of the painted chest-of-drawers and clattered on to the floor. The shrill metallic ringing changed to a croaking rasp. Then silence. The clock lay on its back with its ugly moon face staring at the ceiling, ticking in an offensive and deliberate manner. Beyond pulling the bed-clothes of the divan bed a little further over her head Jane took absolutely no notice. The clock, its three tin legs sticking out sharply, continued to tick. It had the sulky and obstinate air of one who performs a duty, however unpleasant. with extreme thoroughness.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #volcano #faces in things #eruption
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #esoteric #gnosticism #kabbalah
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fight #hair pulling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #airship #bullfighter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #godhead #lightning #throne #deity #jupiter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922. 
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#vintage illustration #father time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #faces #facial expressions #cartooning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #hat #women's hats #vintage hats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fold in space.  From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #milky way #winter #snowcapped #starry night #illustration #skiing #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #levitating hat #plate #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #crystal ball #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #weird fashion #fishbowl #helmet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #falling #mountain climber #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adskaia Poctha, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #crab
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wolverine yearbook of Michigan Agricultural College, 1922.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cloud #men in suits #short course
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vaudeville, The Book by Caroline Caffin and illustrated by Marius De Zayas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #spirit #vaudeville #gertrude hoffman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the UNC Chapel Hill yearbook of 1926.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #armor #rocking horse #rocking goat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This book failed to prove that Friday the 13th and broken mirrors aren't unlucky.  We remain unconvinced that old superstitions are useless.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #superstition #lucky horseshoe #good luck #four leaf clover #1930s #friday the 13th #bad luck
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February 11, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Studying by moonlight.  The book, Cemetery Maps, was a gift from our friend Gordon.
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#cemetery #magick #necromancy #occult #prof. oddfellow #moonlight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Even a skull can be a "t-bone."  From Purdue's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #capital t
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When frogs are attacked by quill-wielding elves on tiny winged horses.  From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #frog #quill #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #twisted #ice skating #1890s #you spin me round
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #elongated #gravity #horizontal
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #snake #rat #bedbug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #blue fruit #fruit #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pitchfork #hell #damned #torment #inferno
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #flying kangaroo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #horror #blood #crutch
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Alive to those suggestions of a mysterious sphere of being that come to the man who of a night has watched the pearly grey of the weather-gleam.  From The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, Vol. 2, 1887.
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#twilight #gloaming #mysterious
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #war #scales #soldiers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Studies for Pictures by J. Moyr Smith, 1868.
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#vintage illustration #thumbing nose #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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#vintage illustration #monster #hybrid #monstrous #grandville #illustration #two mouths
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #goat legged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #robot #cyborg #illustration #robomassage
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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 #death #skeleton #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #witch #windmill #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #giraffe #hippo #rhino
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #beard #lampshade #scientist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania State College's La Vie yearbook, 1920.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #fraternity #yearbook
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February 10, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The phrenology of extemporaneous speeches.  From Purdue's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #phrenology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #head bumps
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Daring Divorcee, by ESG:

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"And that really knocked me off the Christmas tree because he had told me yesterday that fifty thousand dollars was as high as he would go, no matter what happened."

***

From The Case of the Troubled Trustee, by ESG:

***

"If this thing works," Tragg muttered, "I'll be a monkey's uncle." And then after a moment, he added ruefully, "And if it doesn't work and this ever gets out, I'll be the monkey himself."

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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used as a tool to facilitate time travel. From the West Chester yearbook of 1988.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #streetlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"So many ghosts, and forms of fright, / Have started from their graves tonight. / They have driven sleep from mine eyes away; / I will go down to the chapel and pray" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Golden Legend).  From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #spirits #ghosts #longfellow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bunnies #rabbit #animal stunt #acrobat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Rire, 1852.
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#vintage illustration #mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double #prestissimo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #skull #venus #dragonfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #deity #cornucopia #two faced #pennies from heaven
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #knight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #zombie #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There, at the second window, was—a second shadow of Madame Michaux!"  From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #goat #chasm #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #death #boating #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly #parachute #gliding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #vision #biblical #ezekiel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #ghost #spirit #conductor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satyr
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #pipe smoker #trick photography #black and white photography #vintage man #giant pipe #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Magic by Archie Frederick Collins, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #magic #stage magic #egg magic #eggs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #umbrella #lizard
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February 9, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #boat #winged horse #1920s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Repeat after me: 'Where the spooky shadows creep.'"  From Kansas State's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #spooky #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #giant skull #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #lion #pet walker #pet lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Rire, 1852.
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#vintage illustration #melting man #wobbly #muscle spasms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bunny #crying animal #crying rabbit #crying bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #horse #submerged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #skeleton key #graveyard #crypt #1900s #grave robber #dressed in black #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #beard #poseidon #deity #water spirit #trident #river spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #grim reaper #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #gone wrong #fakir #piercing #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #illustration #boat hat #viking hat
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #yes and no #illustration #loves me loves me not #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #demon #heaven #horned man #st. peter #keys to the kingdom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The chest opened and the prince saw the beautiful maiden."  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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #crocodile #alligator #crocodile tears #illustration #alligator tears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard that "this is not a pipe," and that "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," but then there's this.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #monster #matador #bull fighter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #pig headed #vomit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An illustration by P. L. Bissell. From Clemson's 1976 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #eaten alive
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February 8, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1971 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #collage #distortion #1970s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The "Looking-Glass" Murders, by Douglas G. Browne:

[That's "Looking-Glass" as in "Through the": the setting involves an amateur theatrical production of Lewis Carroll.]

***

"As a conscientious artist, I couldn't give the Jabberwock pockets."

***

It was, in short, Messrs. So-and-so's idea of what a study should be.

***

"What an extraordinary creature she must be!"

"She is!" said the Major with conviction. "I have seen her with the lid off, so to speak."

***

[He] drew up before the offices of Messrs. Trimble, Bachelor, Popple & Shelfe, Solicitors and Commissioners for Oaths. Enough jokes have been made about the nomenclature of law firms. It will suffice that no one on the premises appeared to answer to any of the names engraved on the plate outside. [Fair enough! (:v>]

***

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Traditional engraving.  From the 1927 Southwestern yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #engraving #illustration #tradition
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"What I now know: there is no time like the present to take a look at who we think we are."
Debra E. Talbert, Take Me to Your Leader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #gambling #wheel of fortune #roulette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #reading #scholar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#religion #vintage illustration #nails #fetish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #anthropomorphism #cow #dog #duck #pig #rhino #drinking animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #piano #bathtub
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Broma: Órgana Política Liberala, 1881.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #illustration #dog man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #snowball #skiing #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #pipe smoker #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #noise #loud music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #upside down #daredevil #headstand #tightrope #acrobat #balance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #goya #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #big nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #bird #cradle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Signaly, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #lion #pipe smoker #hunter
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February 7, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #birds #playing cards #four aces #1890s #illustration #ace card
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Eric Andre's "Ranch Dude" character that harasses innocent bystanders.
From Butler's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #street musician #street performer #eric andre #ranch dude #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #costumes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #cannon #windmill #hats #weird hat #cannon hat #armed and dangerous
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #spooky #horror #imagination #horror story #horror writing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #ominous #magistrate #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #devil #witch #broomstick #male witch #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Follow me chicken, I'm full of corn."  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #liquor #alcohol #corn liquor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #vacuum #sucked up #street cleaner #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #cauldron #damnation #hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Geometrical lines followed by the Odic forces in nature in the process of materialization."  From On the Heights of Himalay by Albert Van der Naillen, 1896.
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#vintage diagram #six pointed star #eye of god #diagram #1890s #odic force #double triangle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #handstand #fighting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #snail #war and peace #illustration #peace angel #peace dove
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #reading #lobster #surreal #giant lobster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #angel #halo #artist #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if that's what they did to your heart.  From Bulat, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #heart #broken heart #anvil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #sandwich board #front and back
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Bobbing for apples as a Christian action.  From the High Point yearbook of 1971.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #bobbing for apples
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's (1892).

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#vintage illustration #centaur
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February 6, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#yesterday
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you immediately suspected that this image was cursed, you were correct.  The least of it is the uncanny double eye over the pyramid.  In this space-folded, seemingly mirrored world, there is no way forward or back, only right.  This image must not be used for any out-of-body journeying.  The endpapers from New Haven's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mirror world #eye in the sky #endpapers #cursed art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1896).
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#vintage illustration #mythology #winged man #torch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #angels #heaven #cherub #in the clouds #reunited
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a vintage tree-hugger.  The caption reads, "The maiden's lips seemed crusty."  From the University of California's Blue and Gold yearbook, 1885.

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#vintage illustration #arbor day #tree hugger #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kissing a tree #tree lover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.

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#vintage illustration #owl #alcohol #drunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #griffin #gryphon #art
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
The caption reads, "Isn't it wonderful?  I can imagine the end of the world like that!"  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #fireworks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #illustration #animal doctor #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #sleeping #cat bed #big pillow
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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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#vintage illustration #beard #fairy tale #anvil #illustration #hammer #sledgehammer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920. 
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #spooky #night #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #throne #illustration #mother nature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everygirl's Magazine, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #imagination #castle in the air #cloud shape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #ancient egypt #egyptian #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #home security #security system #personal safety #home safety #anti-theft
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adskaia Poctha, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #monster #money bag #greed
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February 5, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #chair #singing #1890s #musician #illustration #musical chairs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This is what it's like to be mayonnaise."  From St. Andrews' 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mayonnaise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's true that "would-be fortune tellers" aren't as good as genuine ones.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #crystal ball
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
"Bear location still bare."  From Butler Community College's 1986 yearbook.  See this most unusual collection of the blankest maps ever attempted: The Carte Blanche Atlas.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #blank map #not pictured #anti-coloring
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Frightened Stiff, by Kelley Roos:

***

"That furniture... that furniture..." Jeff drummed out the rhythm on the top of our desk. "Kaufman's furniture and his clothes hold the secret. The clothes could have been ghosted away easily enough... but not two rooms of furniture. Not without anyone noticing it. You can't put furniture between two slices of bread and..."

"Oh, stop saying furniture!"

***

[Who knew that "straws" was a four-letter word!]

"Darling, this murder has you so stymied that you're clutching at you-know-whats! Frankly, straws!"

***

["I won't spoil this with the context that made it make sense" dept.]

"Oh, be quiet! I wish this were Saturday night so you and Sir Thomas More could pal around together."

***

Summer was still lingering in New York as if it couldn't make up its mind whether to go to Florida or California for the winter.

***

"Do you mind if I don't complete my sentences for a while yet?"

***

"And it's none of your business either. None of your damn business, I might add."

***

"Moonlight will catch the raindrops as they fall from our sumac tree and change them into pearls. We'll stand enchanted. Or if you're too tired to stand enchanted, I'll drag out some chairs."

***

[More "Who needs context?"]

For the next hour I drew imaginary rectangles in the air and shouted: "Change of address!" It didn't do any good.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Magnetized Man."  From Munsey's Magazine (1904).
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #hypnotist #mesmerized #human magnetism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #horned man #cuckold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An Impressionist makes an impression.  From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #artist #pipe smoker #impressionism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #serpent man #half snake #half serpent #snake man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #imp #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #firing squad #lady liberty #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #courage #bravery #ready to rumble
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #insect man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #crinoline #skydiving #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #skeleton #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sporty and less sporty use of the rope.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #hanged man #jumprope #jumping rope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #giant #horror #gorgon #snake hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The latest in repelling satyrs.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #armor #don't touch #keep off #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how the curvature of the earth abets war.  From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #war #cannon #round earth #curvature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #magick #conjuration #wizard #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how people get fat.  From the Record of the Class of 1891 of the University of Pennsylvania.
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February 4, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four and Twenty Fairy Tales, 1858.From Four and Twenty Fairy Tales, 1858.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

From our guide to the palmistry of the "Don't Walk" hand at intersections: Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands:

An illuminated hand to render people motionless?  The “Hand of Glory” is the precursor to the “Don’t Walk” signal at traffic intersections.  This occult horror of seventeenth century Europe required the dried and pickled hand of a hanged man, prepared with fat from the malefactor’s corpse.  Such a baneful candelabrum, when lighted, rendered motionless any person who saw it.  In some grotesque recipes, the hair of the dead man is used as a wick.  

hand of gloryCrucially, laying the Hand of Glory at a crossroads is part of its preparation.  An illuminated hand at an intersection, stopping people dead in their tracks.  No wonder this treatise on crossroads chiromancy is necessary.  The old ways never actually faded—they merely hid behind new masks.  The higher the technology, the deeper the necromancy.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical notation #sheet music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Apollo."  From Once a Week (1867).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Another dinner ruined by clowns.  From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dream #clown #purple dog #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cheers #winter #faces in things #eskimo #snow shoes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"He delights in storms and destruction," from Satan, His Origin, Work, and Destiny by Carlyle B. Haynes, 1920.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #destruction #storm #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Actual ghosts within an old college yearbook?  Yes -- and they can be consulted, even today.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook as well as The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.   Our illustration appears in The Oregana yearbook of the Univeristy of Oregon, 1920.  
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirits #occult #spiritualism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ouija #planchette #oregon
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February 3, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Football has changed over the years, but some might say that the original spirit of the game endures.  (We wouldn't, but some might.)  From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jousting #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

An illustration by Prof. Oddfellow from a collection of 112 cocktail recipes to be drunk in remembrance of the dead: Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.

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#ghost #skeleton #spirit #cupid #alcohol #stein #urn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch Magazine (1845).
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#vintage illustration #mustache #men's hair #bald #nose to nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #bending over backward
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Joyous Travelers by Maud Lindsay & Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Injecting morphine into his wooden leg.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #peg leg #wooden leg #morphine #addict
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #cherub #peace angel #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Soap of the evening!  Beautiful soap!"  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #high kick #redhead #1920s #cleanliness #soap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #lightbulb #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Edward Henry Wehnert for Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1857.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #monk #giant #bats #broom
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Old News (permalink)
"Eye and hair color are related to anger."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#weird headline #vintage headline #eye color #hair color #headline
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #saw #torment #snoring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #flower #big hat #donkey #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vberior Enarratio Eorum, 1567.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage diagram #shadow #faces in things #cosmogram #diagram #penumbra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Black cats sense despair in clowns and, in a way that is difficult to measure, "feed" off it.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #despair #black cat #clown #cats #sad clown #sadness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Anchar, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #medusa #gorgon #snake hair #serpent hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #serpent man #dentist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A snowman and a building split by a question mark.  From the Chicago Circle yearbook of 1969.

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#snowman #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #melting building
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Cotwold Conundrums, by Douglas G. Browne:

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[Whenever he visited,] he was... assured that Mr. Mallabar or Mr. Some-one-else would be informed instantly of his arrival.

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"[a person] with a what-you-may-call-it complex"

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"He was like them Greek oracles, as I say--always talking through his hat!"

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"Two Mr. Thews is a social complication!"

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[A miniature bonanza here: whatchamacallized mixed metaphors, wrapped in a rhetorical question!]

"If I can't mix what-you-may-call-'ems at my age, who can?"

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"Talks big and wide about... how he's in touch with Lord This and Sir Somebody That!"

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Bonus character name: Sir Stamford Element

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February 2, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1971 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #woman #vintage woman
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Bride of Frankenstein.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1923 yearbook.  It doesn't have to be for revenge: How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)
Cards from a hitherto unseen Cactus Tarot appear in the choose-your-own-adventure puzzle book entitled This Book is a Cactus.   Indeed, a tarot reading got planted among prickly logic puzzles, riddles, mathematical conundrums, and word enigmas.
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Thank you Adam, who writes: "And what a fun book this is! It’s great exercise for the brain to participate and interact with something that doesn’t require batteries or an internet connection. Oddly, I still haven’t killed my cactus. Though I have been tempted a few times. Ha ha ha…"


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1897).
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#vintage illustration #angel #the people could fly
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elves #gnomes #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cupids and car wrecks -- a recurrent theme in old French satirical magazines.  (In this case, it's a reference to auto racer Lydston Grandville "Cupid" Hornsted.)  From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #skull #shakespeare #hamlet #yorick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #drawing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #keg #education #barrel #medicine #brain food #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"If this ice lasts until we reach New York, our fortune will be made."  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #ice floe #iceberg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"For some reason, I found myself continually staring at the mantel-piece."  From Over the Hookah by George Frank Lydston, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #skull #memento mori #illustration #mantlepiece #mantel
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Old News (permalink)
"Master others!"  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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#vintage ad #mesmerism #hypnotism #vintage headline #hypnosis #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #death #grim reaper #knight #illustration #jousting #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #cape #swimsuit #vintage swimsuit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
Here are the images I've called "the people could fly."
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #if you had wings #illustration #the people could fly #gliding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #snow queen #ice queen #winter #winter spirit #snow spirit #lady ice #snow lady #winter goddess #show goddess #ice goddess #snow goddess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #artist #head on a plate #head on a platter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 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 #mask #artist #palette #painter #Sarah Bernhardt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A shadowy, mist-veiled form, the dumfounded lad did see."  From The Joyous Travelers by Maud Lindsay & Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 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 #ghost #mist #amorphous
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February 1, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Applying lipstick to the snow queen.  Outside of vintage Christmas postcards, gnomes making snowmen are rare enough.  Lipsticked snow queens are even rarer.  From Union College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gnome #snowman #vintage christmas #christmas #snow queen #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Gary responds: "Thanks for this One Odd Minute. I love seeing these strange beguiling charmingly sly and witty videos. Maybe it could double as a ‘how to break into your own library video.’"
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#cat people #video
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 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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#dog #folk tale #pamela colman smith #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck Magazine (1893).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mustache #vintage men #men #nose to nose #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #gnomes #hot feet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
To understand what's going on in imagery like this, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From The Cornhusker Yearbook of the University of Nebraska, 1916.
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#devil #occult #college yearbook #fraternity #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #costumes #weird hat #boat hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #february
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #world #earth #lightning #on top of the world #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Knight of the Sun fights the serpent."  From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #serpent #fairy tale #dragon #knight #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #under the sea #pants
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pitchfork #crocodile #trident #fist #red crocodile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #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 #colors #illustration #vomit #tubes of paint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #rhino #war and peace #peace mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #antlers #deer #vintage magazine #illustration #flying deer #magazine
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The Right Word (permalink)
One Punchinello, two or more Puns-chinello.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #angel #punchinello
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An artist's palette as a gong.  From Lustige Blätter, 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 #circus #palette #gong #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If swingers aren't careful, they can kick Cupid right out of the park.  (But that's not the caption.  There wasn't one.)  From Le Régiment, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #swinging couple #swingers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #pet walker #dog powered #animal powered
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Reluctant Model, by ESG:

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[This, of course, is just the standard dig at modern art...but I love the way Della Street phrases it.]

“I wonder if you’ve hung it upside down.”

“It’s all upside down if you ask me.”

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Rankin settled himself in the client’s chair with the stiffness of a carpenter’s rule being folded up.

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