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February 29, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #locomotive #iron horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The moon does not rise tonight."  From McGill Daily, Oct. 30, 1980.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #darkness #crow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"With feelings of deepest thankfulness."  From The Misericords of Exeter Cathedral by Kate M. Clarke, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #dragon #church art
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Just as weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them, deceased persons will open up to a good listener.  Ask questions that are simple but open-ended.  Resist the urge to overshare.  And learn the difference between friendliness and flirtation.  From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #necromancy #occult #living dead #corpse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The nature of this UFO will be obvious to fans of the cult TV show The Prisoner: it's "Rover."
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #strange light #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washburn's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #the stage #footlights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #spider web #caught in a web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State's 1920 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #occult #goat #mountain spirit #illustration #goat spirit
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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.

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #head in the clouds #running
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A fortune teller from Chowan's 1915 yearbook.  For remarkable esoteric enigmas you can solve at your writing table, see The Pencil Witch.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gypsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Grelot, 1873.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #money #anthropomorphism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1893 yearbook of the University of Kansas.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #insect man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Suddenly, a black bird swooped into the room--."  From Spellbound, 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #omen #blackbird #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #demon #divination #monster #wizard #king #occult #fire #horror
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It's Really Happening (permalink)
"I just can't believe that it happened here.  I... I... I... I mean here ... Gosh.  I just can't believe it."  From Swarthmore's 1994 yearbook.
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#unbelievable #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign #it happened here
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The probabilities between two trapezoids are infinite.  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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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February 28, 2020

Old News (permalink)
The famous six-word story popularly attributed to Hemingway, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn," pales in comparison to this six-word headline: "Man on lonely beach sees UFO."  While the Hemingwayesque story is tragic, it's excruciatingly mundane.  Yes, life is fragile—welcome to reality.  We can see why Hemingway got credited with this six-word story — he wrote about how The Sun Also Rises and how it rains in spring, other excruciatingly ordinary topics.  Mortality, sunrises, and rainfalls aren't interesting.  Granting that the headline recalls The Old Man and the Sea, the flash of extraterrestrial mystery saves it from humdrum existence.
We spotted a sort of follow-up headline, from six years later.  Another man on a lonely beach (at 2:30 a.m.) saw a UFO float in with the tide.
Headlines courtesy of UFO Newsclipping Service, 1975, 1981.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Picture of Murder, by T. E. Kinsey:

***

"No one ever said ghosts had access to the Land Registry."

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #chariot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mosquito netting.  From Judge's Library, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #mosquito #illustration #mosquito netting #mosquito pattern
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern Illinois' 1904 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1904
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #hat #antenna hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Evil has no hold on you."  From Greensboro's 1972 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #evil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #flying fish #hot air balloon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Typing atop a winged horse requires dedicated practice, patience, and correction fluid.  From the University of Chicago's 1912 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged horse #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The old woodman talks with the bear.  From A Book of Fairy-Tale Bears by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bear #talking animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lake Forest's 1960 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #cauldron #shakespeare #macbeth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #animal attack #birds #seagull #bird attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if there should be more humane ways of dispatching hood ornaments.  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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #hood ornament
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's common to see birds perching upon wires like notes on sheet music, but this is our first encounter with birds perching upon an edge of sheet music.  From Winthrop's 1899 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook #sheet music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #dragon #chinese dragon #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #scissors #winged man #1890s #butterfly man #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford's 1914 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #torture #dungeon #horror #constricted #squeezed
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February 27, 2020

Old News (permalink)
"No secerts any more" -- from back in 1965.
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#vintage headline #privacy #secrets #headline
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Precursors (permalink)
This hungry cheese is a precursor to Pacman.  From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cheese #pacman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An emerald monocle that shows the viewer the moment of his death.  We have one, and it's flattering to wear, but for some reason we keep it in a drawer.  From Unknown, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #monocle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'm a chestnut but don't roast me."  Courtsey of UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage postcard #vegetable people #chestnut #postcard
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Old News (permalink)
"Mystery apparently unraveled.  Bigfoot's named Butch."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #monster #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1937 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #twins #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tweedledee #tweedledum
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Old News (permalink)
"Can you enjoy being a housewife?"  Without irony, we'd recommend wrinkle-free fabrics and wrinkle-releasing sprays.  From Awake magazine, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #ironing #vintage headline #headline #housewife
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #advertising #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #newspaper dress #newspaper clothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #hot air balloon #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A play on "jambalaya."  From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lyre #lyre bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #bottled ghost #specimen bottle #caught in a jar #specimen jar
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Instead of an 8, it's a 1/2, on the page for the 7 1/2 Club in Hampden-Sydney's 1929 yearbook.
For the weirdest math that actually computes, see Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mathematics #weird math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #mushroom
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the photo that inspired the bookplate. From Union College's 1928 yearbook.

From Union College's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #horse #carriage #bull
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Here's one of our favorite ways to look on the bright side of life.  From Swarthmore's 1994 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lightbulb
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #windy day #bellows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Weed fiend, loudest dressed, and night owl.  From Charlotte College's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #art
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February 26, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #giant eye #giant butterfly
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Varsity, Oct. 3, 1975.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage photo #sheet ghost #hallowe'en #costume #newspaper #newspapers
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

We're delighted by this 5-star review of pencil witch of The Pencil Witch:

"When the power of a focused, analytical mind combines with a resolute, independent spirit and a kind heart, the results are virtually guaranteed to be magical. 'The Pencil Witch' is a case in point.  I started reading this literally and figuratively charming book with the understanding that it would be a simple grimoire of practical magic, which it is. From the very first pages it's also a lot more.  Professor Oddfellow took me on a metaphorical exploration of metaphysical principles, but with such whimsy that I was never consciously aware of being educated even as I was entertained.  The individual concepts covered are ingenious and fascinating in and of themselves, but what I loved most about the book was the way it's prompted me to revisit my understanding of the relationship between mind and matter. The Pencil Witch has given rise to a series of lively discussions about metaphysics inside my brainFive stars." —Natasha, on Amazon

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#witchcraft #occult #grimoire
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Old News (permalink)
We applaud this headline (finally, news we can believe!) and also the portrait for depicting the thrice great Charles Fort with a halo.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.  The headline reads, "Fortean followers are keeping spirit of the weird alive."
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#vintage illustration #weird #vintage headline #fortean #Charles Fort #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 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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#religion #vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #hybrid #donkey #donkey headed
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)

It's simultaneously 10 p.m. and nearly 2 a.m. in this Oakland, California temporal anomaly documented by Patrick Boury.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of this timely weirdness, we spotlight this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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#temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Her book."  From Lasell's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #ex libris #bookplate #marbled paper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Sphinx Club, from the Ole Miss yearbook of 1909.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Japanese St. George."  From Nebelspalter, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #dragon #dragon slayer #st. george
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 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 #cemetery #graveyard #snow #architecture #organ grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if this is why we shouldn't chop down trees.  From Lustige Blätter, 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 #arbor day #woodsman #anthropomorphism #lumber #tree spirit #woodcutter #faces in things #tree cutter #tree face #arborist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #horror #sheet ghost #hooded figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #world #father time #scythe #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Encountering the shadow self.  "In a world intent upon the unrealities we must become aware of the realities."  From Catawba's 1969 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark #shadow self #spirit double
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A cat imagines things about you, nothing you can know for sure" (Leonard Michaels).  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 #cat people #vintage postcard #cat woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pig #crying animal #crying pig
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February 25, 2020

Precursors (permalink)
A yin-yang crater on the moon, from Montclair's 1969 yearbook.  (Surely this predates photography of Saturn's moon Iapetus, which also has a yin-yang crater.)  
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#moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #yin yang #crater
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here are four different / same books by Dostoevsky / Dostoyevsky / Dostoieffsky: Injury and Insult, The Insulted and Humiliated, The Insulted and Injured, and Humiliated and Insulted.  We wonder if even a single person on earth has read all four.
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#vintage book #dostoevsky #dostoyevsky #same book different title #book titles
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Old News (permalink)
From an era when journalism still had integrity: "Something strange is going on."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#weirdness #vintage headline #strangeness #headline #something weird #something strange
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Such an important reminder never to play chess anywhere near a game of Clue, lest a wrench-wielding Prof. Plum ruin everything.  From Astounding, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #chess #clue #wrench
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Some folks sleep with a comfort teddy bear, but teddy bears can have nightmares of their own.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1925.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #teddy bear
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Santa Klaus Murder, by Mavis Doriel Hay:

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Nurse Bryan flaunted naturally; she would probably have flaunted whilst walking in her sleep.

***

"All that shutter business is just a blind!" [This is then revealed to have been an unintentional pun.]

***

[Bonus: This is one of those novels in which the chapters have titles, and chapter 14 is called "A Pair of Eyebrows."]

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One of the many tools we use to create our weblog.  (For Teresa.)  From Le Charivari, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ink pen #pen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #peace #greece #shield #illustration #shielf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #cauldron #tiny people #giant food #vegetable soup #vegetable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A most difficult thing for many."  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 #balancing act #circus #emotions #tightrope #balance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I want to make this absolutely clear!"  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1972 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pollution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rooftop #chimney #soot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilmington's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #devil #graveyard #spooky #vintage yearbook #yearbook #headstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Atomic landscape."  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 #end of the world #radiation #apocalypse #nuclear #post apocalyptic #atomic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A restoration of an image from The Entheogen Review Complete.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #tribal art #fish monster
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February 24, 2020

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that Bobby Bræger (screenwriter, genealogist, lost film hunter, and hauntologist on the cheap) considers the fractued mirror of our Abecedarian blog on Tumblr to be "one of five or six vital blogs" on that medium.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Yeah, we've had weekends like this.  From Unknown, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #ghost #magick #occult #deity #weekend
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Cat Who Married a Mouse" … and the bottle of meat that came between them.  From Kitty-Cat Tales by Alice Van Leer Carrick, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse #meat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #winter sports #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #shadow #slap in the face #men fighting #face slap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration #river of blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vulture #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Everyone is as God has made her, and ofttimes a great deal worse."  From Lasell's 1898 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #quotation #don quixote
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #river styx #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Reblog if "swat life" is something we're born into, not something we choose.  From Swarthmore's 1994 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #swat life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1932 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The warning ring.  From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #ring #hand #warning #jewelry #1970s #bling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's Gem yearbook, 1931.

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

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#vintage illustration #serpent #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snake charmer #1930s #linocut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #mouse #cannon #eek #fear of mice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1903 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #skull face #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satiricheskoe Obozrenie, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #vintage magazine #skull dagger #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's 1928 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #dragon #hell #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #snail #hybrid #human headed #snail king
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February 23, 2020

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're delighted that Rainbow Connection Collective discovered the magical flexidisc we recorded for Fiddler's Green magazine (no. 5).  The translucent green record looks great against Nasturtium!
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phrase "trundle bed of nails" is a Googlewhack.  But here's one!  From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #bed of nails #trundle bed
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Old News (permalink)
This is the one and only occurrence of the phrase "de-monsterably shy," making it a Googlewhack.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #demon #jersey devil #vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern Illinois' 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #fish #under the sea #octopus' garden
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #spider #human headed #buddha #illustration #human spider #gandhi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #kissing #illustration #kiss across the ocean #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's rare to see Pegasus' party mask.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The flinging of ectoplasmic bunnies is no longer a sanctioned activity at most universities.  From Dubuque 's 1989 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weird photo #ectoplasm
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #death #dream #bellows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Pull back the blanket, and you will see …"  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1963 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blanket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zabiyaka, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giant #faces in things #mountain spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Ole Miss yearbook of 1909.

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#vintage illustration #father time #train #locomotive #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1909
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #saint #st. peter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You might have assumed that dandies look so good because they have the help of manservants, but the truth is that they rely upon sophisticated robotics.  From Purdue's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #invention #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #robotics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #bird #big hat #bird hat
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February 22, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration for "The Twelve Brothers" by Edward Henry Wehnert for Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1857.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #flowers in the hair
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Old News (permalink)
With the advent of political correctness, physicists no longer stomp on tiny space aliens, not even with scientific rigor.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1970.  The headline reads, "U.S. physicist steps on little green men."
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #spacemen #little green men #space aliens
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The Right Word (permalink)
The magic word "rolyksnolyb" is a Googlewhack.  The word comes down to us via a short story by L. Ron Hubbard.  From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #magic word
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "Cadaver Ball," from Tulane Medical's 1985 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cadaver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #doghouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirits #seance #board meeting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #carried away
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's Hullabaloo yearbook of 1892.

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#vintage illustration #occult #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern's 1921 yearbook (our restoration, as per usual).

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A knife-wielding cat from The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #smiling cat #knife #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Favorite details -- Puss in Boots and the gnomes.  From Nebelspalter, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #gnomes #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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#vintage illustration #lion #eaten alive
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You knew that "the sky is the limit," and you've seen the sky, but here's the actual limit itself.  From MacMurray's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the sky is the limit #the limit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #veil #illustration #blood #bosporus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat man #animal headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #goat headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #animal intelligence #pig #smart animal #animal reading
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's 1928 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #spooky #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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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February 21, 2020

A Rose is a ... (permalink)
A rose is a peacock feather.  From Rosa Amorosa by George Egerton, 1901.
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#vintage book #book #peacock feather #rose
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The UFO landing in Whitfield, Scotland (1967), from Awareness magazine, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #light and shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death on the Cherwell, by Mavis Doriel Hay:

***

"And don't squeak so; they'll think I'm keeping guinea-pigs in my room."

***

"Will you please stop saying 'eek,'" requested Jacob, with a hint of testiness. "You're going to use up all the e's."]

***

"Did you motor down?" Gwyneth asked Basil politely.

"We did—but I thought it was always called 'up?'" [Misordered punctuation sic]

"Well, of course, you come up, if you come to college, but when you motor from London on a visit I think you motor down."

"Very subtle! But of course, Oxford thought is subtle."

Gwyneth laughed uncertainly, fearing that Basil was a high-brow being obscurely witty.

***

[Imaginary Sister for the Sake of a Joke dept.]

"My sister...married a Talbot."

[The Talbot is apparently a model of automobile, and the speaker subsequently admits that he invented the sister for the sake of the joke. I've done that myself! "My sister is so economical that when she goes out in the cold, she comes back with one rosy cheek."]

***

The whole academic world seemed to be changing its nature, putting on wigs and false eyebrows and taking part in a melodrama.

***

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern Illinois' 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lizard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #demons #conductor #illustration #demon choir #demon chorus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #night people #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern Illinois' 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #hot air balloon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #faces in things #costume #furnace #cakewalk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I will have a thousand memories."  From Birmingham-Southern's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #memories
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
The snow queen, illustrated by W. A. Wellner.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snow queen #winter #snowfall #winter spirit #winter goddess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Like scenes in a horror film, this is page three of Lenoir-Rhyne's 1963 yearbook.

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#horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dark hallway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #angel #skulls #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#humor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When a bookworm doubles as a bookmark.  From Unknown magazine, July 1940.
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#vintage illustration #horror #bookworm #hands of god #1940s
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February 20, 2020

Strange Dreams (permalink)
This is us every time we go to sleep.  With the exception that we don't wear as much lipstick to bed.  From Unknown, 1940.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #occult #dreaming #curse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Set the hour and I'll turnip."  Courtsey of UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #turnip #vintage postcard #vegetable people #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #carousel #merry-go-round #pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #mascot #dog costume #siberian husky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #illustration #frog king #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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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #grotesque #clock #snake hair #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pan's Garden by Algernon Blackwood, 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 #haunted #spirits #spooky #ghosts #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #facial hair #mustache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's never disturbing to encounter things like this in an old yearbook.  From York Junior College's 1962 annual.

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

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#scarecrow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #living toy #raggedy ann #raggedy andy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #angel #merman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"'It's nothing,' the maid says calmly. 'Don't be upset. These are just the silly stories her papa tells her'" (Eugène Ionesco, Story Number 1, 1968).  From Washington College's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eugene ionesco
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #smile #teeth #say cheese #big teeth #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Keuka College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #drunk #snake charmer #hallucination
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear
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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 #kitten
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February 19, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ric et Rac, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird costume #costume #hunter #camouflage #camoflage
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Those fun moments when pretzel knots impersonate Aztec glyphs.  Pretzel knot diagrams from "Hyperbolic Pretzel Knots" by Jeffrey Meier.
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#vintage illustration #pretzel #diagram #aztec #mathematics #knots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If we've said it once, we've said it a thousand times -- "Grab bags are dangerous."  From Unknown magazine, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witchcraft #occult #spider #grab bag
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Old News (permalink)
"Snicker if you like but [cryptozoologists] don't care."  They write stuff like How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time and A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#vintage headline #cryptozoology #headline
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"When I dance amid the striking lightning, he dances with me too."  He'll dance with anybody, but please don't prove that for yourself by going on during an electrical storm.  From Weird Tales, 1939, illustrated by Virgil Finlay.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #demon #lightning #electricity
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Evicted by the divine landlord.  From The Varsity, March 31, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #god #eye in the sky #eviction #landlord
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
It is simultaneously 4:00 and 8:00 in this temporal anomaly from Serbia, documented by Bicanski.  We might note a bit of irony: although time at that clock tower is unstable, the numbers four and eight happen to be symbolic of stability, symmetry, and squareness in Chinese culture.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of this timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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#clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #giant #moon #cosmic man #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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 #oz #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
He's praying that an effigy named Cato will burn forever.  From Susquehanna's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #effigy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #severed head #decapitated #head lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: An isolated pedestrian is on one page; click for the context on another.  From Eastern Kentucky's 1968 yearbook.

From Eastern Kentucky's 1968 yearbook
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#shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gif
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We would have blogged this for Septober 31, but the computer doesn't recognize that as a valid date.  If it's not real, why does every Septober 31 play out like this cartoon?
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #septober
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We spotted this satiated alligator at our local concrete statue shop.
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#photography #alligator #jesus #black and white photography #severed hand #handless #no hands
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1907 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The old woman throws the milk at the fox.  From A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #moon #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Recueil d'Antiquités by Antoine Mongez, 1804.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #centaur
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February 18, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 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 #divination #witch #fortune teller #crystal ball #shadow
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"New radicalism is cuddly and lovable, unlike 60's version."  From The Varsity, Oct. 31, 1975.
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#vintage photo #pig #radicalism
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wave, 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 #ghost #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We sensed something disquieting about this photo, and sure enough, a zoom onto the figure's face reveals an otherwordly entity.  We chose not to investigate what, exactly, the figure might be cradling.
From Medical College of Virginia's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

"Functionally a library … spiritually a sanctuary." —Louis I. Kahn

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#library #sanctuary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Past Imperfect, by Julian Fellowes:

***

[How to Be Your Own Ghost]

London is a haunted city for me now and I am the ghost that haunts it.

[Btw, that's the first sentence of the book--not bad!]

***

His vagueness was more akin to Mr. Pastry.

[That sent me to Wikipedia! I'll spare you the trip: 'The series, with the theme tune "Pop Goes The Weasel", had episodes lasting 25 minutes in which Hearne assumed the character of "Mr Pastry" – an old man with a walrus moustache, dressed in a black suit or raincoat and with a trademark bowler hat. Each week, the bumbling old man would have adventures, partly slapstick, partly comic dance, with two young friends. Jon Pertwee also starred in the show in a variety of roles.']

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #siberian husky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted painting
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #long nose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's yearbook of 1919.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #goat #locomotive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1872.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #detachable arms
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"As we like to appear" contrasted with "as we sometimes appear."  It's true -- we sometimes appear as Bibendum or a monkey trapped in a cobweb.
From Mary Washington'a 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #bibendum
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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 #weather #storm #god #hail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #macabre #death #grim reaper #emperor death
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant #tiny man
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February 17, 2020

Old News (permalink)
"Canada doesn't exist."  From The Varsity, Sept. 10, 1975.
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#canada #vintage headline #monkey costume #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From North Adams' 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fog #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 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 tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #war #looming #illustration #pestilence
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded." —Gertude Stein
"Colors seen by candle-light will not look the same by day." —Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Never think she loves him wholly, never believe her love is blind, all his faults are locked securely in a closet of her mind." —Sara Teasdale

From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #poetry #yearbook #women #vintage women #protest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The finest mandolins are spewed from volanoes.  From L'Eclipse, 1868.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #volcano #mandolin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If basketball were still like this, perhaps spectatorship would rise.  Bring back the old ways!  From Saint Mary's 1900 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #eagle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant bird #1900s #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #cat people #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that our most powerful teachers may reveal a darkness within our psyches.  From Francis Marion's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#wizard #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the tempest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #lion #folk tale #thorn #androcles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Odd, though, how easy it is to recall the terrible loneliness."  From Washington & Lee's 1955 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #loneliness #night photography #yearbook #solitude
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #giant #anthropomorphism #mountain spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Up the arduous height.  And ever as they go, the sun climbs higher.  At zenith, almost, now --."  From the Carthage yearbook of 1916.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher #mountain #mentor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Money-grubbing requires a financial hand.  The caption doesn't identify this as the hand of a manager of monetary resources.  Rather, it says that the hand itself is financial.  Therefore, the illustration is transformed into a talisman, akin to the Hand of Fatima.  From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 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 #hand #palmistry #financial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you already drink from a pitcher or might be driven to that.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drinking #knight #alcohol #stein #flagon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1928 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #snake charmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #beard #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #big hair #vintage man #man #selfie #picture frame
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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The Right Word (permalink)
When stage magicians conjure rabbits out of top hats, they rarely say this spell aloud.  From The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
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#magick #magic spell #witchcraft #occult #rabbit
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February 16, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you are experiencing all of these emotions simultaneously.  From Le Charivari, 1845.
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#vintage illustration #vintage men #men #boredom #ennui
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cash Box, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #money #coins #magnet #ad
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #vault #gear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #money #anthropomorphism #1930s #illustration #german coin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Which is best?  From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #crows #blindfolded #blackbirds #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #frog #insects #animal fight #jousting #fighting animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #crushed #on all fours #weight lifting #under pressure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #devil #bat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Barnard's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #1920s #massachusetts #endpapers #ex libris #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magnifying glass #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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#vintage illustration #devil #falling down
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"As we look back in time."  From Hinds Community College's 1993 yearbook.

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#time travel #darkness #blackness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #through time #the past
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
The first building to be erected on a foundation of sandwiches!  From the Muhlenberg Weekly, 1938.
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#architecture #news #vintage news #weird news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pamela Colman Smith, "Beethoven's Sonata No. 11," 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mountain spirit #pamela colman smith
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #angel #trumpet #war and peace #peace angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down #shadow self
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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February 15, 2020

Old News (permalink)
Wookie tracks (like Bigfoot) and flying saucers perplex the Vaders, years before the debut of Star Wars.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.
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#star wars #vintage headline #headline #darth vader
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1919 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #giant #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #spider #cobweb #giant spider #housekeeping #mushrooms #back to nature #dirty house #unkempt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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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 #as above so below #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #cauldron #cat #hell #germs #torment #disease #sanitation #milk bottle #boiled alive #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Grelot, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #rooster costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1897 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #dentist #dental work #tooth pain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #organ grinder #musician #street musician #street performer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #futuristic #automobile
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You know the theatrical masks, Comedy and Tragedy.  But there's an entire range of expressions in between.  From the State Female Normal School's 1903 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #scythe #disease #cholera #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The ghost on the right has no head, the ghost on the left is mostly a red blur, and the head of the ghost in the middle is transparent.  From Appalachian's 1977 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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The Right Word (permalink)
"The word-hoard."  From Handbook of the Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England by George Stephens, 1884.
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#old book #word hoard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #lion #donkey
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You've heard that it doesn't matter how you get there; it just matters that you do.  From Broome's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's an unholy hybrid from Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid
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February 14, 2020

This May Surprise You (permalink)
"I'm the spirit of unmade beds" -- Arnold Stang on I've Got a Secret.  For Hallowe'en enthusiasts: Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
Thanks for the tip, Jonathan, founder of the band The Silly Pillows
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#sheet ghost
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Old News (permalink)
Not every flying donut one sees is necessarily a UFO -- one's eyes may simply be glazed.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#ufo #donut #vintage headline #headline #doughnuts
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pensive
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Less, by Andrew Sean Greer:

***

Listen: you might hear anxiety ticking, ticking, ticking away as he stares at that clock, which unfortunately is not ticking itself. It stopped fifteen years ago.

***

New York is a city of eight million people, approximately seven million of whom will be furious when they hear you were in town and didn't meet them for an expensive dinner...[it goes on in that vein]....but only five actually available to meet you.

***

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #money bags #personal protection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #squash #vegetable people
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Change night to day. (Original postcard scans via UpNorthMemories).

Original postcard scans via UpNorthMemories
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#vintage postcard #night and day #corn palace #gif #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union College's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobweb #day sleeper #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A sobbing umbrella.  From Nebelspalter, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The amber spirit.  From The Fairy Tales of Science by John Cargill Brough and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1859.
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#vintage illustration #imp #amber
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1965 Lehigh yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bible
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snowman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #demons #monsters
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1993 yearbook.

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#stained glass #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and darkness #colored light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you don't like vegetables all that much, even though they're supposed to be good for you, yada yada yada.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #root vegetable #vegetable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #animal costume
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February 13, 2020

Old News (permalink)
It's still true that Chicago gets progressively farther away.  To this day, no two explanations agree.  From The Hophinsville Kentuckian, April 5, 1913
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#chicago #vintage headline #headline #spacewarp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This haunted portrait appears in Friday, The Thirteenth by Thomas William Lawson, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #haunted painting #illustration #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We are impressed, we are depressed; but we are here."  From Mansfield's 1972 yearbook.

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#depression #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #oz #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Calendars and Constellations by Emmeline Plunket, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Night was made hideous by the howling of wolves."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.
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#wolves #sentence diagram #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #darkness #shadow #horror #hand
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Old News (permalink)
"Elizabethan atmosphere will prevail."  It's the best news, especially for those of us related to every Shakespeare authorship contender.  This headline is from the Muhlenberg Weekly, 1938.  For how we proved our connection to every Shakespearean contender, see our video as well as Heirs to the Queen of Hearts.
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#shakespeare #vintage headline #elizabethan #headline
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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.
61987 28846
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#vintage illustration #full moon #gothic #clouds #night photography #night rainbow #tower #bright light #moonbow #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #carried away #stork #carried aloft
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #jester #clown #living toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There is a ghost car on the left side of this photograph from Eastern Kentucky's 1996 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 #ghost car #transparent car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #demon #disease #influenza #grippe #strangled
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1952 yearbook of Colorado College, and a photograph of the same mountain range in the 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mountains #yearbook #colorado
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #suicide #gallows #hanged man #hanging #noose #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #faces #facial expressions #before and after #happy and sad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #rooster costume
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February 12, 2020

The Right Word (permalink)
The name of the typo gremlin: "Druckfehlerteufelchen."  Here's one depiction of the rascal, and here's another.
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#typo #glitch #typo gremlin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Trinity Christian's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shy #1970s #vintage men #balloon #faceless #men #no face #social isolation #personal protection #body armor
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Low brain weight of congressmen from the Pacific Northwest.  From Modern Mechanix, 1934.
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#politician #brain #congress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stead's, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #arrow through the head #arrow #inattention #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Turning a marotte upside down to use as a walking stick -- not only is it bad luck, but there's nothing funny about it.  From The Wave, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #seeing stars #teddy bear #illustration
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We encountered and determined the cause of a temporal anomaly in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania.  The clock tower of the Chestnut Hill Baptist church (whose motto, ironically, is "a historic church with a timely message") displays faces with three incorrect times.  As constant investigators of such phenomena, we diagnosed the source of the problem at a glance.  An oculus window replaces the clock face on the fourth side of the tower and is the cause of the trouble.  The architect presumably sought to save a quarter of the cost of clockwork, and while three-quarter time may keep waltzes spinning, such an imbalance in a clock tower is its own death knell.  Though the cause is simple enough, great mysteries yet abound, for precisely why does a window into the nature of time trigger a standstill?
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#time #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
As we exclusively revealed here, the glowing trees in old yearbooks constitute a worldwide forest that has to this day eluded the study of arboriculturists.  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1998 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and darkness #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #enlightenment #brainstorm #meditation #illustration #yogi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #angel #coffin #living dead #resurrection #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We looked up Draculinda and discovered that she was a late-nite horror host on Raleigh's WRAL-TV in 1960.  From Chowan's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #1960s #draculina
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 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 #cat people #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And there you are!"  From Life, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #life choices #lifespan #vintage man #man #possibilities #human life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #long neck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Discarded."  From Spoon River College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #kennedy #discarded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ric et Rac, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #painter
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
The snows of yesteryear, in Muhlenberg's 1942 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #death #styx #submarine #1910s
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February 11, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kilt #heart #rifle #love and war #heard
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Old News (permalink)
"Something happened, but it wasn't worth the wait."  From The Varsity, Oct. 31, 1975.
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#vintage headline #anhedonia #headline #not worth it
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #hunter #tables turned #monty python #killer rabbit
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
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#clock #1930s #temporal anomaly
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Precursors (permalink)
Before the invention of the cell phone, people had to watch very tiny movies on other devices.  From Taylor's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #television #tiny tv
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who enters here shall surely die."  (We went through a strange door like this to conduct a strange ritual.)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 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 #death #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 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 #idol #idolatry #decapitated #golden calf #golden cow #golden bull
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #clocks #window display #robbery
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not sure about the Queen of Clubs, but we proved that we're related to the Queen of Hearts: Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.
From Agnes Scott College's 1914 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #queen #playing card #queen of clubs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 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 #fairies #winter
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Lady's Guide to Gossip and Murder, by Dianne Freeman:

***

"Ladies," he said with a tip of his straw boater. "I was hoping to find you here. Well, actually I was only hoping to find you, cousin Frances."

He paused, but as I drew breath to speak, he continued. "Not that I didn't want to find you, Lady Fiona, just that I wasn't actively seeking you, you understand? Good to find you all the same. Rather like looking for a book you'd mislaid somewhere and stumbling across another that turns out to be equally diverting."

***

"Couldn't believe my luck in receiving this invitation. Thought I was definitely persona non-something or other."

***

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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Richmond Technical Institute's 1980 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #fog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #angel #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #science #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A horse of coins.  From Le Grelot, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #money #coins
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Dope, booze, stuff, swill and hate -- and you will have it all right!"  From The Doctors, A Satire in Four Seizures by Elbert Hubbard, 1909.
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#booze #dope #hate
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
"A bit of nonsense now and then."  From St. Joseph's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #nonsense
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #devil #locomotive #faces in things #mountain spirit
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February 10, 2020

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Jonathan shares: This is one of the best errata I've ever encountered.  I mean, how often does one see a punctuation erratum?  And just imagine the overexcited typesetter reaching automatically for the exclamation point, instead of the question mark!  If it's any consolation, it's correctly punctuated with the question mark on the half-title, on the front cover, and of course in the Shakespearean epigraph whence the phrase is sourced.

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#punctuation #erratum
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Appalachian's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#moon #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #seeing double #four eyes
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kent State's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #men's fashion #vintage man #man #1980s #80s fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage magic #magic #spirit bell
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Spacemen inhabiting human bodies are apparently able to distort photographic film and to make normally invisible forces appear seemingly out of nowhere."  From UFO Review, 1980.
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#vintage photo #distortion #spacemen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #gas mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A door flew open in its base."  From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #mushroom #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1919 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #genie #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Muhlenberg's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1896.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #winter #illustration #cold #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #prophecy #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fortune telling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Say, Warden, I'm outside in de spirit world pickin' vi'lets--wot ye goin' to do about it?"  From Life, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #prisoner #astral travel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal #interlocking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ignorance as "the world's greatest burden."  From the Cullowhee yearbook of 1918.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ignorance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Compassionate war?  From Lustige Blätter, 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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#religion #vintage illustration #war #cannon #holy war
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chicken #vintage magazine #egg #easter egg #decorated egg #painted egg #magazine
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Purdue's 1903 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insects
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #donkey #he is coming
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February 9, 2020

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Folks start looking more or less the same after you've seen enough old yearbooks.  From Millikin's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #making faces #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Big fires should best be left to the experts."  From Toike Oike, 1993.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fire #illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #prophecy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #biblical #prophet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #demons #hell #squeezed #belt tightening #cinching
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #tiger #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #demon #serpent #snake #illustration #art
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #surprise #faces #facial expressions #audience #1900s #spectators
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Note that at this point, Ralph will divide into two separate entities, enabling him to experience both sides simultaneously."  From St. Andrews' 1974 yearbook.
This is actually a phenomenon in old yearbooks.  Previously, we saw this man who met a taller form of himself on a lonely pathway, this instant of standing back-to-back with oneself as parallel universes collide, as well as this encounter with a spirit double of pure light.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage car #car #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He has mastered the first step of How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat people #tail
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Old News (permalink)
From There is No Death by Florence Marryat, 1891.
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#life after death #ghosts #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The "tomte" in Glimmingehus medieval castle in south-eastern Scania.  The tomte is waiting for his meal at the stone table in the castle hall.  Watercolour by unknown artist, possibly by A.T. Gellerstedt, from the later part of the 19th century.  Courtesy of Swedish National Heritage.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#gnome #sweden #tomte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't want to be a witch."  From Spellbound, 1976.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #black cat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Taylor's Gem yearbook, 1958.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #inner city #vintage man #man #downtown #back alley #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #hand of god #fist #giant fist #dust cloud #fist of god
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Medical College of Virginia's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bullhorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nagaechka, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #pig man #hybrid #human faced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Cloud College -- everyone sees something different in it.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in the clouds #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #money #coins #gold #1900s #art
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February 8, 2020

The Right Word (permalink)
Jonathan notes: they were trying to say "tongue-tied," but somehow they couldn't get the word out.  Honque if you're tonquetied.
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#weird word #tongue-tied
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #psychology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crocodile #red crocodile #dancing gator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lantern #insect #firefly #lightning bug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spirit #native american #cowboy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1847.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #germs #contaminated #microorganism
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lambuth's 1944 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #double exposure #astral body #tree people #spirit body
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He doesn't seem all that emotional.  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 #emotions #ball and chain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Dancing on a dictionary.  From Colorado College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #dictionary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you like sliding around in big slippers and/or if your tail sometimes slips out.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #slippers
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Old News (permalink)
Reblog if you either majored or minored in dreaming.  From Santa Clara's 1987 yearbook.  The text reads, "Learning in a dreamworld.  Not paying attention in class means expanding the imagination for daydreamers."
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#dreaming #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #dreamworld
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #falling down #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #levitation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weightless #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #bullying #headache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It was rough on bears.  From North Texas State's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #crutches
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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 #vintage christmas #christmas decorations #jumping jack #christmas stockings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #moon #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mandolin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Calendars and Constellations by Emmeline Plunket, 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 #constellations #1900s #vedic calendar
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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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February 7, 2020

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Graduation as an arrow to the face.  From William and Mary's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #anthropomorphism #lemon #faces in things #juicing #make lemonade #lemon juicer #life gives you lemons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #illustration #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Stars are falling."  A headline from the Muhlenberg Weekly, 1939.
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#comet #shooting star #falling star #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Crystals are essential to learning.  From North Central's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #prism #crystal
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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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#vintage illustration #pamela colman smith
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago State's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #face #smile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1914 yearbook.  chanticleerseria1914duke_0015

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #mythology #perseus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #creature #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #sphinx #egypt
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Wesleyan College's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#monster #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Juan Carlos Alonso, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #angel #moon #scythe #harvest
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Footprints on the Ceiling, by Clayton Rawson:

***

Merlini, with all that pink lemonade running in his veins and the circus performers swinging from every branch of his family tree, reverts to type every spring.

***

Miss Verrill produced half a smile. It was nice, what there was of it.

***

These two uncanny examples of modern black magic are the last word in something or other.

***

[Anthropomorphized Clocks dept.]

The alarm did its level best and almost failed. I heard the last tired ring just as it gave up.

***

I...put my complete profane vocabulary into one blistering and very satisfying paragraph. I tacked a neat row of exclamation points on the end....

***

Merlini wears no theatrical opera cape, curling mustachios, or pointed Vandyke, but somehow you feel that those hallmarks of the conjurer are there in spirit.... [His voice] propels you along an apparently sound but quite illogical path of thought, and then, with no warning, springs a trap door that leaves you standing on the sheer edge of an impossibility.

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"Commercialism rears it sordid head. Probably to introduce a new breakfast cereal called Ghost-Toasties, with testimonials from famous haunts."

***

"It's screwy! It's a painting by Dali. The surrealism murder. Footprints on the ceiling! Bah! Limp watches and six-legged mutton chops! Murder in Wonderland!"

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"The crystal gazer who thinks the vision is an external reality is only a magician playing tricks on himself."

***

"Found them kicking about down there." Merlini nodded in the direction of the other house. I hadn't known that articles locked in a safe could be described as kicking about but I let it pass.

***

In the early history of man the professions of medicine and of magic once merged in that common ancestor, the witch doctor. Both physician and magician have inherited from him a common trait, the poker face.

***

Ira Brooke came through [the door] smiling expansively, for no reason that I could see, like a Y.M.C.A. secretary with a new swimming pool.

***

[Doing the Clam Math dept.]

"You know very well that a clam is twice as informative as any of those gentlemen up until chapter twenty."

***

"Now I wonder what he's bumped into?"

Merlini seemed to be genuinely puzzled and not very pleased about it.

"Serves you right," I said. "Are you trying to get a corner on mysterious phone calls? I've a good notion to make one myself, just to keep you guessing."

***

Medium materializes medium--a new high in something or other.

***

Gavigan beamed at him indulgently and waved his hand as if he were presenting the Metropolitan Museum with two new wings, fully stocked.

***

You could have dropped half a dozen pins slowly, one after the other, onto an Oriental rug and heard every one of them land.

***

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February 6, 2020

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her official yearbook portrait.  From Millikin's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #birds #1970s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
When food tastes like "muck," it may be because it literally is muck that's fresh off a muck farm.  From Muck Crops by Albert Edmund Wilkinson, 1916.
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#muck
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The pseudo-3-D effect of this photo may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Wesleyan College's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mayans, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #esoteric #as above so below #deity #god #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Go ahead and try to find a college art class that invites students to paint portraits of ghosts and otherwise invisible models.  Secularization has all but destroyed this avenue of artistic expression.  From Elizabethtown's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chair #painter #art student #art class
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #bug #human insect #insect woman #lair of the white worm #worm woman #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big book
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From London Society Magazine (1863).
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #sleeping #camera #surveillance society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pulemet, 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 #owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #dragon #war plane
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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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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1921.
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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 of blood #illustration #blood
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Old News (permalink)
"Mass psychology gaining momentum."  A headline from the Muhlenberg Weekly, 1939.
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#vintage headline #mass psychology #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ouija board parties and Tarot readings.  From North Central's 1995 yearbook.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#divination #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ouija #tarot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #harpy #hybrid #human headed #crying animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Every thought an evil one."  From the University of the South's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #woodcut #gun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #villain #block print #evil thoughts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One might assume that these lesbian vampires came out for Monster Movie Nite, but given the occult nature of old yearbooks, who knows.  From Eastern Kentucky's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #1970s #lesbian vampire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #anthropomorphism #pig #bling
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February 5, 2020

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There's always one guy whose eyes wander from the camera, even when all the guys are you.  From Millikin's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#ghosts #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #multiple exposure
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Haunted Realm: Ghosts, Spirits, and Their Uncanny Abodes by Simon Marsden.  We must say that Marsden's otherworldly photographs are the spookiest and most convincing we've yet encountered.
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#haunted house #spooky #vintage photo #uncanny #haunted photograph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wave, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #faces in things #eye
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
It's both 4:10 and 4:25 in this Michiganian temporal anomaly captured by Josh May at Flickr.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.

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#clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's fairy delivering breakfast to a bear is from The Bunny and Bear Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia's 1923 yearbook. The "cacabi" of the emblem could be translated as "cauldrons."  "Chuajani" is a reference to a Spanish Gypsy sorceress.  From West Virginia's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #witches
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From La Caricature, 1835.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #demon #feather
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You are expected.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #torture #dungeon #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1980 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#spooky #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #fog #streetlight #new orleans
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Old News (permalink)
"Future events important."  A headline from the Muhlenberg Weekly, 1939.
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#future #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Svetaet, 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 #owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cooking shows used to be elegant.  From Lustige Blätter, 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 #meat #cooking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #necromancy #occult #cauldron #spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #peace #medusa #shield #gorgon #snake hair #1931
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sarnia's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #poetry #yearbook #butterflies #butterfly girl #butterfly people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hunter #punched
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mathematics is ruled by a lamp genie.  From Purdue's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #genie #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mathematics
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1912.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #dreaming #faces in things
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February 4, 2020

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This cat's name, "Fred Onepound," sounds like one of the cat names coined by comedian Bob Mortimer.  (Such as Papa Handwash, Bobby Resistance, Softy Pinkpowders, and Sargeant Walnuts).  Plus, this cat's the mascot of a ship named after the goddess of sorcery.  From Navy News, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #lucky cat #cat mascot
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The Tufts gay club of 1981 showed up for their yearbook photo with bags over their heads.  From Tufts' 1981 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in hiding #paper bag head #bag over the head #gay history
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that Andrew M. Reichart, managing editor of Argawarga Press (weird books for weird people), listens often to the "Anagrammatical Ancestor Spell" flexi-disc we recorded for Fiddler's Green #5.  Thank you, Mr. Reichart, for calling our recording "inspiring."
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#magick #anagram #occult #prof. oddfellow #fiddler's green #ancestors
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here are the marvelous first two pages of an appreciation of our 21st cousin, Emily Dickinson, from The Procession of Masks by Herbert Gorman, 1923.  Gorman suggests that Emily's poems themselves are recluses, that they are unpremeditated footnotes to Emily's solitary life, that they are strange jewels set upon the unobtrusive thread of her days, and that they possess an inborn natural magic that no practice can make possible, since they are "flashes struck into existence by by the contact of an extraordinary mind with life."
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#emily dickinson
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Satyrs riding goats -- the best endpapers we've seen all week.  From Tufts' 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You might have already foreseen this -- it is cats who will inherit the Earth.  From Weird Tales, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #end of the world
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier (permalink)
Which is funnier: a gradual change in size or shape, or a sudden one?

Clue: This is according to Janet Nunn, in Learn to Draw Animated Cartoons.

Answer: Gradual. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death at Broadcasting House, by Val Gielgud and Holt Marvell:

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"Unless it's another Mystery of the Yellow Room, and Spears did it, disguised as a microphone!"

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #money #dragon #coins #treasure #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you ever felt like some sort of cosmic science experiment, here's God's test tube.  From Lehigh's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant hand #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand of god #deity #test tube
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #scissors #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Birds with human heads, arms and hands.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #bells #harpy #cathedral #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Sifflet, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #well #broken mirror #naked man #stabbed in the back
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if a faun assists your selfies.  From Flora Macdonald's 1925 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goat legged #faun #illustration #self portrait
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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.
44384 27798
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1903 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drunk #melting architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #jockey #tiny man #long ears #giant rabbit
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February 3, 2020

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that upon abandoning his Tumblr presence, Dr. John Pistelli, the novelist and professor in Minneapolis, called our Tumblr mirror of the Abecedarian weblog his favorite:
My favorite follow remains @danskjavlarna​, with his magical or even magickal ongoing image archive (not to mention his private generosity).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Surprisingly, when groups of people learn How to Be Your Own Cat, the "hundredth monkey" phenomenon is triggered.  From Birmingham Southern's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat people
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Precursors (permalink)
Before the invention of the cell phone, people had to isolate themselves in different ways.  From Kent State's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #isolation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Frankly, this is how we mustered up most of the W's for One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.  (Here's a photo of the genie bottle we use.)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 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 #letter w #genie #genie bottle #djinn #arabian nights #bottled ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mythic symbolism in carrot salad.  From Santa Clara's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #carrot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That very tiny ladder linking the two hemispheres is one of the many tools we use to create our blog.  From Starwind, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #brain #1970s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We take great pains and risk eye damage to capture lens flares in our photos, and stamping "flare" in the vicinity of the sun is cheating.  From Infantry magazine, 1980.
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#vintage photo #winter #lens flare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1907 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mayhem #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #oz #fat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #dancing #dancing animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Physics is controlled by cherubs.  From Purdue's 1905 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #angels #cherub #vintage yearbook #yearbook #physics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cow #cow costume #cow skin #cow hide
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we thought this was a pillow fight in progress, but our custom Uncanny Detector app revealed that they are in fact reading newspapers possessed by spook journalists.  From Santa Clara's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #blurred #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 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 #chicken #burned alive #roasted on a spit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A faceless blob with a mustache represents radiography in the Medical College of Virginia's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #x-ray #invisible man #xray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #musical animal #ostrich #lol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dagger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When buildings look like bottles.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drunk
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February 2, 2020

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're delighted that Clint of Fiddler's Green zine said over on Instagram that he smiles every time he sees our video about strange anagrams from alphabet dice.  We're also delighted that the editor of Yogurt Culture Zine, Brian Kelly Denton, called our video "wholesome."
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Precursors (permalink)
Before cell phones, people had to isolate themselves in different ways.  From Santa Clara's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #isolation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cat nurses fox babies.  From Fox Island by Kathrene Pinkerton and illustrated by I. B. Hazelton, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #fox
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Old News (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are "Even more lively by day, almost."  From Elon's 1979 yearbook.
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#night people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #illustration #burning building #fire escape #house fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #processional #milk bottle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grandville #sculptor #illustration #thumb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #faces in things #candle #illustration #candles with faces #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #circus #pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1987 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#spooky #occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #spirits #fairies #cherub #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #monster #dragon #lizard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An hourglass cat walking upon the blade of a scythe.  From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #hourglass #cat #father time #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Knowledge" has a sort of owl-ledge in it.  From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #knowledge #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #mortality #grim reaper #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #looming #blurred #ghost bride #bride #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"All over."  From Purdue's 1903 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #nightmare #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #serpents #rude awakening #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fear #snake #tail #skeletal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #sphinx #architecture #faces in things #art
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February 1, 2020

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

If only everyone would just …

  • let me get on with it.
  • do as they say.
  • mind their own damn business.
  • stand in silence and let the waves settle to flatness.
  • forgive, the world would be a much better place.
  • take care of themselves and let me live my life.
  • think more clearly about what they are doing.
  • pretend all is well and fine.
  • relax, slow down and take it easy.
  • sit down and talk, things could be settled.
  • say "Yes" to whatever is before them.
  • occasionally consider using the brake pedal.
  • love everybody, these age-old riddles would be solved.
  • wake up out of their bad dream.

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]

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#if only #list
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our discussion of "sim sala bim" in Magic Words: A Dictionary is referenced in Tales of the Tape: The Ontological, Discursive, and Ethical Lives of Literary Audio Artifacts by Deanna Fong.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
To this day, this phrase is a Googlewhack: "The bright open path continues her stroll."  From Salem's 1972 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #pathway
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Unicorns (permalink)
What the elk?  Ten whole years ago, London recording artist Fear of Tigers asked for permission to create an audio version of our popular Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.  Equipped with carte blanche contracts and hundreds of sound bites, Fear of Tigers led us down the garden path for an entire decade, only suddenly to release an album with a different horned animal on the cover.  Again, we ask, "What the elk?"  Perhaps, knowing that we uncovered the secrets to How to Be Your Own Cat, Fear of Tigers literally did fear us transforming into one.  Luckily, we're not at all bitter, because in the meantime we were blessed with two spectacular soundtracks of our book by even more accomplished bands: one by the remarkable Cuddlebot and one by the extraordinary Wolfgun.  It all goes to prove that artists with integrity are not quite as elusive as the legendary unicorn, after all.

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#elk #fear of tigers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Greatest Debate Within a Half Century Upon Modern Spiritualism by Moses Hull, and William F. Jamieson, 1904.
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#spiritualism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #black cat #giant cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #mad scientist #illustration #holy cow #genetic engineering #tiny cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 1916. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy tale #sleeping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"In the flickering shadows cast by a dying fire, a couple sat talking quietly, holding close a moment against the onrush of time."  From Mary Washington's yearbook of 1951.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fireplace #light and shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sleepy King by Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cat #smiling cat #winking cat #smiling animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's Hullabaloo yearbook of 1892.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #cherub #hanged man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egypt #crocodile #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The class goat from Indianapolis College of Pharmacy's 1926 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #half goat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1869.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #faces in things #mountain spirit #mountain deity #mountain gods #mountain face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This disembodied arm raises more uestions than it answers.  From Piedmont's 1973 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #disembodied #arm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Sea Shell and Other Plays by John Farrar, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #february
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's how Jesus makes a snow angel.  From Salve Regina's 1978 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #jesus
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #angel #legless
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