CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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February 28, 2021

The Right Word (permalink)
Don Lancaster's Cheap Video Cookbook (1978) is dedicated to the Yeahbut.
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#book dedication #yeahbut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #armor #section mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #doctor #brain surgeon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mystery #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #monster #train #locomotive #giant paw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1848.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #winged lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #geometry
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Puzzles and Games :: Constellations (permalink)
Can you find the pictured constellation in this night sky?  Click the image for the answer and a nifty quotation.
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#constellation #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1911 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 #memento mori #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He dances all day with the polar bears."  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 #polar bear #dancing #musical animal #jack frost #dancing bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This happens every time we read a book, too.  From Longwood's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #butterfly #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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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

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"You make me sound like a blue stocking."
"Weren't you?"
"Never more than a blue sock."
"And what are you now, Nancy?"
"A single strand of blue thread."

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She...was quite capable of copying her own mouth-twisting trick.
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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 Nebelspalter, 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 #death #skeleton #graveyard #grim reaper #scythe #war dead #red sky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If we could reassure you that these are merely mannequin heads looking at one another, we'd do it in a heartbeat.  From Salem's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #decapitated #mannequin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #illustration #personal space #shunned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #sword #puss in boots #hyena
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you buried in pleasure?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1935.
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#pleasure #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The moonlight sail.  From Sandman Twilight Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker and illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, 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 #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #raft #boat #mouse
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February 27, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The altar of light and the birds of darkness."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #good and evil #bird #light and dark #altar #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #reading #piggy back #space is limited
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #silhouette #end of the world #rooster
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photo may be used to facilitate astral or time travel.  From Guilford's 1975 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"For they scamper in forty directions at once when they think you're about to wake."  From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
> read more from Strange Dreams . . .
#elves #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1923 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades by Florence Holbrook, 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 #anthropomorphism #bear #goldilocks #three bears
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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 #silhouette #hobby horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Bears and lions revisited."  From Barnard's 1981 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #bear
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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 Concordia's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#animal headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #spirit #muse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The jester's marotte servers as the pole for his banner!
From the University of Illinois' 1911 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
Catching some rays.  From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #sun #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1916 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #airship #hot air balloon #dirigible #mountain spirit #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is one of the most damning photos we've encountered in an old yearbook.  From Pembroke's 1970 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 #1970s #damning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two ways of finding a cosmic goat.  From Star Lore of All Ages by William Tyler Olcott, 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 #constellation #goat #night sky #capricorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 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 #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May your day hereby be free of werewolves.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #werewolf
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February 26, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Is an electro-spectre a ghost who haunts currents of charged particles?  It’s also the name of a Norwegian band who invited me to transmogrify a new song through my haunted clockwork for an album of remixes.  I could hardly believe the sounds that came out when I attached the spirit radio to the grandfather clock via a strand of cobweb.  Don’t ask me how that even works — I’m just rolling with it myself!  You might recall from a previous episode that the clock face has inexplicably been pulled backwards, beyond the back of the cabinet, and a ghostly face floats within.  All I know is that it transmogrifies better music now.  I wonder if I can tune into the clockwork version of Electro Spectre’s song, to find out if you agree how astonishing it is.
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #penetralia #electro spectre #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that Cecil Baldwin, voice of Welcome to Night Vale, picked up our How to Be Your Own Cat at Quimby's Bookstore in New York!  He wrote, "My bookstore mojo was on point today!"

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#books #how to be your own cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #giant #skull face #hunger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This window into the otherworld is from Colorado College's 1980 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#otherworld #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #surreal #red sky
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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 #orb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A disrobed teddy bear.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #teddy bear #disrobed #undressed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A skeleton strung onto an electrical wire.  From Otterbein's 1904 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dave Porter's Return to School by Edward Stratemeyer, 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 #sword #initiation #secret society #hooded figures
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We presume that's the skeletal art model in the background.  From Wake Forest's 1977 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #demon #hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #knight #armor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A tip to the wise."  From the 1915 yearbook of the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #whisper #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fairy stepped on the sunbeam."  From Fairy Grammar by John Harold Carpenter, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #ray of light #fairy tale #sunbeam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #giant skeleton #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #gallows #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hanged man #false prophet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #lantern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #women #vintage women
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Done on Both Sides," by John Maddison Morton:

***

[Pretty racy!]

Mr. Whiffles: I merely say, Mrs. W., and I say it emphatically, that this copper receptacle for fuel is making a very ungrateful return for the liberal amount of friction that I've been lavishing upon it for the last three quarters of an hour.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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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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February 25, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #samurai
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #goat #oz
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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)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #demon #all hell breaks loose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #eyes #illustration #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1923 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#monstrous #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are frustrated, inhibited, and no one understand you.  From Catawba's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #inhibited
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #infestation #cheese #fear of insects #giant worm #fear of worms #art #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The least understood forest on earth contains glowing trees and can be explored only via old yearbooks.  From Swarthmore's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing tree #night photoraphy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #graveyard #grim reaper #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It all boils down to "Wigs and Cues."  From Barnard's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #cape #illustration #wigs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1948.  (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 #skull #horror #knife
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #gears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The winged wheel of Justice.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #justice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #teddy bear #new york #flying bear #floating bear #levitating bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #cow #gas mask
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"I stared at the glowing tree and realized it was something related to the state of my consciousness" (Manuel J. Vargas, Awakening Home: Seeking Heaven on Earth).
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree #photo
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The Right Word (permalink)
"You slide the mask down the page until you see a new row of ___."
As we proved previously, it's a bizarre and wonderful phenomenon that whenever you see rows of asterisks in a book, they invariably illustrate the text either following or preceding them.
From a 1968 education monograph.
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#asterisk
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Name That Cat by Doug Cassidy.  A book of a thousand cat names is fine, though more useful would be tips on pinpointing a cat's secret name or names.
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#cat
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February 24, 2021

Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift through time.  (For Postcard Time Machine. and The Casual Observer.)

Click to shift through time
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#vintage postcard #gif #detroit #movie palace #postcard
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We analyzed this spooky hallway with our custom Uncanny Detector app and determined that though the lonesome figure on the steps is not a ghost, he is communing with a spirit.  From Duke's 2002 yearbook.
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#spooky #vintage photo #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #hallway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #half man #manimal #half beast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #the people could fly
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Dreaming of books written by fools.  From Littleton's 1907 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dreaming #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Milking a minotaur.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #minotaur #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The 4-fold manifestation of the divine trinity, forming the 'jewel in the lotus' or the 'diamond heart,' the geometrical reason for the twelve-fold divsion of the zodiac.  From The Key of Destiny by Harriette Augusta Curtiss and F. Homer Curtiss, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #occult #triangle #sacred geometry #geometry #1920s #mysticism #trinity
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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 #musician #brass instrument #teamwork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, Written Principally By a Lady of Ninety, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #cats #dancing animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard there's no point unless you dedicate your life to it (whatever "it" may entail).  Well, this particular yearbook staff followed up on that, and apparently none of them lived to see the publication.  From Eastern Carolina's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #graveyard #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
To this day, it's easier to find decorative umbrellas than umbrella decorations.  (We checked!)  From Le Charivari, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #bling #ornaments
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois' 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dentist #ivory #tusk
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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 #full moon #gun #insomnia #night #sleepwalker #sleep walking #art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Man in Gray, by Frances Crane:

***
[I didn't realize that a "jiff" was fungible!]

[The babysitter would] be with us in a jiff. [...] I...used the jiff to look in on the kids....

***
The doctor tried to look extra doctorish.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cyclops from Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #cyclops #flashlight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We know of the hands of a clock, but hourglasses have hands, too.  From Mars Hill College's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We hardn't need to be reminded to ask about haunted mirrors and resident ghosts -- those are the first questions we ask wherever we go!  From Fodor's New Mexico.
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#ghost #haunted mirror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog to bring back comfortable fashions.  From University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1930s #vintage men #kaftan
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Old News (permalink)
"Skeptic insists UFOs exist."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #skepticism #vintage headline #headline
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February 23, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #siamese twins #conjoined
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She really did try to smile, though she didn't know how at all."  From Howtobegood Stories by Edith Cushing Derbyshire and illustrated by Noble Ives, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Father Time can no longer chase down new graduates, per the education amendments of 1972.  From William and Mary's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pursued
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #doctor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #fairy godmother #art
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Littleton's 1907 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #burned alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Plays by Cecil Henry Bullivant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A single flower can make so much of a difference.  From Florida Southern's 1961 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Manual de Mitología by Patricio de la Escosura, 1845.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #mercury #deity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #water spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #bicycle #cherubs #spade
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

***
"You dashed off to feed your cat or something. Minsky? Minky?"
"Mr. Minks."

[Which is only of interest--if at all--because of its coincidental similarity to the following passage in The Pleasure Dial, when Sid Heffy can't remember Artie Plask's name.]

"And where’s that new guy, anyway? What’s his name...Placky? Platsky? Pla—"

***
"It met at his say so, usually once a month when there was absolutely no moon. It was his little joke: the La Luna club didn't really exist, legally or publicly; so it could only run on nights when the real moon didn't exist, either."
***
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #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)
Reblog to bring mop wigs back to weddings.  From Eastern Nazarene College's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #wedding #1960s #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Soul Trapper from the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #horror #soul trapper
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February 22, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Bluff Your Way In Poetry by Nick Yapp, 1989.  (However, we don't say we've spent three days and nights reading The New Apocalyptics.  Rather, we say -- truthfully -- that we've been reading The Tibetan Book of the Dead.)
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#poetry #advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Come to my room in a half hour and bring a loaf of rye bread."  From Purple Parrot, 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 #penguin
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"This isn't happening."  From Dark Shadows episode 769.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Wonderland, A Dramatization by Alice Gerstenberg, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #march hare #costume #rabbit costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Measure magazine [Saint Joseph's College], 1942.
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#vintage illustration #spider #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #saint #animals #halo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Imagine being immoralized in a yearbook for using yourself as an ironing board.  From Colorado College's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #ironing #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A postcard from c. 1911, photographed by A. S. Johnson.  Courtesy of UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage postcard #giant fruit #fruit #cantaloupe #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The rose-sprite.  From St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #sprite #costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #death #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #war machine #centaur #cannon #robot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #pipe #1900s
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The Right Word (permalink)
A tombstone-worthy sentence diagram: "If an inscription be put upon my tomb, it may be this."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.
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#sentence diagram #tombstone #epitaph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #candle #tiny men #butterfly men #candles with faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #faces in things
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #foolish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #illustration
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February 21, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Given today's prices at the florist, few can afford this arrangement anymore.  From Le Charivari, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1890s #flowers #say it with flowers #floral arrangement #say it with flowes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ouranos, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #horse #levitation #illustration #taken up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #life on mars #martian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Interlachen's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #shoe #shoe boat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Orlton West's film "Waitress!", in Close Up, 1929.
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#vintage photo #service industry #waitress
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1985 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #blow-up doll
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Old News (permalink)
"Oh, I forgot my key!"  From Awake magazine, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #keyhole #forgetting #vintage headline #key #woman #vintage woman #headline #forgetfulness #mindfulness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goat legged #faun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cigar #dandy #illustration #runt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you would be surrounded by cats and owls.  From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #owl #cat #mustache #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lynx #running #track
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #fairy tale #outer space #falling #phantom #goose #evil spirit #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An inkblot from Yeshiva's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #inkblot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From Art and Nature Sonnets by Francis P. B. Osmaston, 1911.

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#vintage illustration #milky way #constellation #night sky #celestial #cosmos #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Turquoise Shop, by Frances Crane:

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"Finally I said either I'd have my window open or else. Well, I elsed."

***
"I guess she's not so this-and-that, after all."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #vampire
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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 schnapps devil."  From Nebelspalter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #alcohol #schnapps
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There's really only one answer to the classic riddle about the tree that falls in the forest with nobody around to hear it.  Keep that tree from falling in the first place, and then it won't matter whether it makes a sound or not.  From Biola University's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #tree #stretching #vintage men #1980s
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Precursors (permalink)
In 1977, George Burns played God in the film Oh, God!  Here he is, apparently, five years later, though strangely smaller and transparent.  From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.
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#ghost #bible #tiny man
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February 20, 2021

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You may have (correctly) surmised that castles in the air condense from evaporated moat water (as we proved here).  But they may also form out of the incensation of ritual offering bowls.  From the University of Montana's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #castle in the air #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ya-Hoo magazine (Amherst), 1954.
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#vintage illustration #medusa #illustration #snake hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Belmont Abbey's 1962 yearbook.

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#shakespeare #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Ursula Kimball Russell, ‘Nightmare of the Boy Who Would n’t Eat Breadcrusts’, in St. Nicholas, #6, April 1922 (via TheFugitiveSaint).
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #dreaming #breadcrust
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "Flunk" demon.  From Swarthmore's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #high kick #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Duke's 1965 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #earth #weather #war #bombs
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A spirit photograph from State Teacher's College, Farmville, Va.'s 1934 yearbook.
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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #double exposure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #1920s
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
When we're asked, as chronologicians, to correct a temporal anomaly, we often have to explain that it's not as easy as resetting a clock, for there are mighty forces out there.  From NY School of Agriculture at Alfred University's 1942 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #giant #time #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #chronos #1940s #temporal anomaly
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Old News (permalink)
"Why are horror movies so awful?"  From Photon, 1974.
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#horror #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tirra Lirra Rhymes Old and New by Laura Richards and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #flamingo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Star of Dawn:  an illustration from an 1856 issue of Godey's magazine.
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#constellation #goddess #vintage #night sky #celestial #star #dawn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1949 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Bob the owl.  From Henderson-Brown's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bob
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #jack-in-the-box
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February 19, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #before and after #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #light and darkness #orb #light and darkess
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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It's the cover version that left the band Vaylon utterly speechless: "Numb" by Neons Gone Mad:
A brief explanation of how we approached recording a cover of “Numb” by the Danish band Vaylon: we hear the line “As I walk along the shore” to be the key, because the songwriter is in a timeless moment as he reflects upon his past, his regrets, his addictions, his disgraces. His mind, as he walks, is outside of time — he’s in a sort of “eternity” of the soul. And that makes the shore, perhaps, like the River Styx, for the songwriter is at a threshold or liminal zone, trying to separate himself from the chains of the past. He is tied down by his habits, not really able to progress or to find a new freedom. He is so full of doubts bottled inside him that he can’t fully detach from his old life. And so we hear these lyrics as describing a state of existence described in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, in which a soul finds himself in the in-between existence of “the Bardo.” Because the songwriter keeps trudging forward against the wind, we made the chorus #2 and chorus #3 more and more far-away, more and more ghostly, as if a fading signal on Tesla's spirit radio. The songwriter ever walks along the shore and finally leaves the listener behind. The listener inevitably loses the songwriter, but the songwriter surely finds eventually himself. We created the rhythm out of clockwork sounds, to symbolize the relentlessness of time. Even in limbo, the seconds click away for the songwriter with each step he takes down the shore.
In the music video we created for the cover version, two paranormal investigators are trying to tune into a frequency to make contact with that distant shoreline. By the end of the song, when the singer has finally drifted into the mysterious ethers, the investigators realize that Vaylon was never there (meant to be something of a joke, in that this wasn’t Vaylon’s original recording but rather a cover version; plus, some folks will recognize it as a quotation from the David Lynch film Fire Walk With Me, when David Bowie makes a cameo appearance but doesn’t show up on the security cameras because “he was never here.”)
We should note that we changed only two words, “being social” to “hollow seashells” … the seashells being a hint at the shore mentioned in the chorus, as well as literally being Tibetan horns (further tying into the Tibetan Book of the Dead). Don't miss the original track: vaylon.bandcamp.com/track/numb
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: how castles in the air are formed.
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#castle in the air #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Most everyone knows that cats are witches' familiars, but many don't know what the cats do, exactly.  They stir the cauldron.  From With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales, edited by Jean Cothran and illustrated by Clifford Geary.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #timepiece #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #grandfather clock #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you've had days like this.  From Millikin's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #mask #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #costumes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kitty-Cat Tales by Alice Van Leer Carrick, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sororities
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A "fidgetglyph" in a scan of a page from McClure's magazine (1904) recalled a constellation.  We fiddled around and discovered that the glyph is, indeed, a lion.  [For Geof Huth.]




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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat #bird hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The motto of the Deependers' Club - "You may dissipate, you may loaf if you will, but the knowledge you get offhand will linger around you still."  From William and Mary's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #anchor #hot air balloon #deep end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #faun #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Betsy Baker, or, Too Attentive By Half," by John Maddison Morton:

***

Mrs. Mouser. (throws down her work) This is really intolerable! I wish you wouldn’t attempt to sing that song, Mr. Mouser. You’ll never accomplish it.

Mouser. I will accomplish it, Mrs. Mouser. Indeed, I may say, I have accomplished it—all, except the “Ya—oo—oo,” and I’m not going to be beat by a “Ya—oo—oo,” I can tell you.

***
Crummy. Come, come. Now that you see I’ve found you out—tell me how you contrived to wheedle poor Betsy out of her affections?

Mouser. Crummy, I’m not apt to make use of strong language—but—by the living jingo, I never wheedled a Betsy out of anything in all my life!

***
Crummy. Ah ! Any one with her?

Mouser. Yes, my wig. This is your doing—this is your precious work, (seizing Crummy and shaking him).  It was you — you who exposed me to the fascinations of this juvenile washerwoman. It’s through you that I have lost my peace of mind, and my wig.  Where are they? Where’s my peace of mind? Where’s my wig?
***
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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 Together, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #crying #food #eating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #death #graveyard #war dead
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Sacred Heart's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #shattered #tarot tower
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February 18, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You hold the strings."  From The Film Daily, 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 ad #hands #puppeteer #marionette #1940s #vintage headline #puppet master #strings #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #coffin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Out with the invisible woman.  A detail from Nebelspalter, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #invisible woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #moose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cat is seeing you, truly seeing you, through the mists of time.  From St. Joseph's College's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Atta Troll by Heinrich Heine and illustrated by Willy Pogány, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They thought only of their flight."  From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 
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#vintage illustration #escape #exodus #getaway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Windmill costumes are extraordinary rare, likely because they're difficult to store and because the powers that be don't wish us to be energy independent.  From Le Charivari, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #windmill #costume #disguise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #astrology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #virgo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Do not touch snakes, look at mating snakes, burn snakes, or inhale the odor of snakes or their dens.  From a teacher training guide to Navajo cultural beliefs, 1986.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #native american #navajo #taboo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rare to see a dog in an ill-fitting suit.  From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ill-fitting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Perhaps those clubs on the path behind the king are the footprints and spiked-stick print from where he originally posed before the sketch artist asked him to come a bit closer.  From Swarthmore's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing card #jack of clubs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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 #flying horse #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hope College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #full moon #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wolves #howling at the moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For those of us who enjoy very dark, aimless drives (highly recommended and highly spooky!), this sort of mysteriousness is not uncommon.  From Lumières Dans La Nuit, 1971.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit message from 1910, by a ghost temporarily in heaven.  If we're decoding it correctly, the handwriting reads: "Are you surprised to think I am up here [?] . Their [sic] is eight of us having a good time but expect to go back."
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#spirit writing #spiritualism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #hammock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if hairdressers should bring back the "stuff your face with all the French bread you can eat" gimmick.  (If that was ever actually a thing.)  From Lancaster School of the Bible's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #bread #hairdresser #french bread
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The virus did come at a bad time for me."  From Dark Shadows episode 571.
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#virus #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just in case, here's a witching rod.  (We traced the origin of magic wands here.)  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #witch #magic wand #occult
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February 17, 2021

Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
"How can one musician have a reunion?"  From Express, 2005.
Actually, given that musicians are continually "finding themselves," every solo recording is a sort of reunion, eh?  And for some reason the musician invites the entire world as witnesses.  I'd RSVP my regrets ... but dammit I just love music and so keep getting drawn back in.
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#musician #koan #solo artist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #monster #chimera #many headed #three headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #seeing double #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from Ann Sheridan and the Sign of the Sphinx by Kathryn Heisenfelt and illustrated by Henry E. Vallely.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #endpapers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #ball and chain #dentist #pull the tooth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #genii
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that much of the responsibility for outmoded teaching methods has been put on teachers.  From East Carolina's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher
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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.
56083 19398
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#vintage illustration #earth #outer space #darkness #light and dark #solar system #vintage postcard #planets #attraction #tied together #art #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Run down by a hobby horse on wheels.  From Le Charivari, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #cycling #tricycle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tag yourself if you are somehow all of these creatures.  From Pembroke's 1956 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Unhappy mermaid.  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 #mermaid #unhappy
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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 #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #momento mori
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #king #hobby horse #illustration #wooden horse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We think twice before boarding any transport alonside shadow people, but admittedly it all depends upon where one's going.  From Duke's 1965 yearbook.
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#shadow people #ghosts #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #foggy #bus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #mail carrier
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 1926.
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#poetry #wordless #blank verse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #dancing #costume party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Listen and tremble!  I am the king of the serpents!"  From The Echo-Maid by Alice Aspinwall, 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 #monster #snake #1890s #serpent king #snake king
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February 16, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever bowed before a giant pine cone or crowned a figurehead.  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 #ship #figurehead #pinecone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #antlers #bovine #horned man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Only a fairy cannon is guaranteed to hit its target.  From Hollins Institute's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cannon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #violin #musician
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #faces in things #candle #mother goose #burned out #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #looming #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #timepiece #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock face #fraternities #1940s #illustration #greek letters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #harpy #hybrid #human headed #hunter #pet walking #bird woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An "F minus" pinned to his jacket.  From Swarthmore'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 #yearbook #hanged man #noose #failure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #lifeguard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's levitating robot from outer space with no head detail is from the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization Bulletin, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #headless #robot #alien #spaceman #1970s #faceless #illustration #no face
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #book #1910s
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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)
"Don't lie to your wife."  From Indiana University's 1923 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #rooster #vintage headline #advice #rooster costume #chickens #tell the truth #don't lie #marital advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #cats #burned alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
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#vintage illustration #japan
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
From Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing by Charles Bowden.
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#life after death #living dead #dead
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Taken from the French," by John Maddison Morton:

***
ARTHUR. If you had the slightest particle of regard for me, you’d let me hand you up the hammer and tin-tacks! [....] Stop, Myrtle! Do let me come and hand you up the hammer and tin-tacks! So! I’m to do something energetic, am I? Drown myself in the duck-pond? Yes!—no. I have it! I’ll say good-by to Fritterly, and cut this place at once! And then, Miss Vane, perhaps you’ll be sorry—perhaps you’ll regret that you didn’t let me hand you up the hammer and tin-tacks!

***
LADY FRITTERLY. Spare me your absurd similes.

***
COLONEL COSEY. He’s a pleasant fellow enough in his way, but I prefer being out of his way! To be within the sound of his voice is like living over a printing-office—one continual clatter!

***
[A Parrot Always Makes It Funnier dept.]

LADY FRITTERLY. Give me but time to pack up my jewels, a dozen or two dresses, and a sprinkling of hats, and I’ll be with you, my Arthur! (Going—stops.) You won’t mind my bringing my favorite little pug-dog, of course you won’t—(going—stops again)—and a couple of kittens—a thousand thanks—and you won’t object to putting the parrot cage under your arm? I thought not.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #teddy bear #moose #gas mask
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February 15, 2021

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
These uncanny multiple exposure shots, exclusively with female subjects, seem to have reached their peak in the 1970s.  Presumably they served to promote and perpetuate, if only subliminally, The Three Faces of Eve.
From Lighted Pathway, 1973.
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#vintage photo #multiple exposure #1970s #woman #vintage woman #multiple personality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zork I Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #wind-up bird
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Maybe I'm a pessimist, but the one thing we can rely on is the perversity of nature: something will go wrong."  From Embedded Systems Programming, June 1997.
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#pessimism #perversity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cincinnati's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #demon #imp #headache #migraine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A scene from "The Ghost That Never Returns."  From Close Up, 1929.
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#vintage photo #shadow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1915 yearbook of the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #secret society #hooded figure #sorority
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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 #giant #skull #serpent #snake #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chef #illustration #art
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Old News (permalink)
"You're getting sleepy …" -- a hypnotizing headline from The Justice newspaper (Brandeis), 1992.
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#mesmerism #hypnotism #vintage headline #hypnosis #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #king #faces in things #drunk #corkscrew #bottle #giant bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So many yearbooks have been edited by goats.  From Barnard's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #animals #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This photo appeared upside down in the yearbook, whether accidentally or deliberately we don't know.  From Indiana University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #chalice #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The other people in the book looked at her in surprise."  From Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Bendy architecture from Millikin's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #giant hat #big hat #illustration #hat #women #vintage women
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore'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 #yearbook #bunny #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #political cartoon #demon #dove #suspicion #war and peace #peace dove
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1933 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 #spotlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #grim reaper #skull face #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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February 14, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that Cyril the Sorcerer calligraphized a line of ours about magic words and chocolate: "Delight in the magic word as you speak or sing it, as you might savor a morsel of fine chocolate. —Craig Conley"

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#calligraphy #wizardry #magic #magic words #chocolate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Mad Hatter in a skirt, from an all-female re-telling of Alice in Wonderland from Agnes Scott College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mad hatter #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fear of graphs.  From Screen Mirror, 1930.

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

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#vintage illustration #phobia #graph
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Old News (permalink)
From Lasell's 1923 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #fishbowl #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Medusa's head and the Ophite hierogram, from The Worship of the Serpent by John Bathurst Deane, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #medusa #winged serpent #snake hair #serpent worship #snake worship #winged snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mitchell's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hat #smiling man #traffic cone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #death #grim reaper #winged lion #illustration #venice #lion of st. mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #demon #hell
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Note the eerily magical 3-D effect of this printing process from 1925.  This image may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Wesleyan College’s 1925 yearbook. 
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Money making the mare go.  From The Kingdom of Coins by Bradley Gilman, 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 #money #anthropomorphism #horse #coins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #library #man reading
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovnis, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #fear #medicine #woman #pills #vintage woman #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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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Deer Leap, by Martha Grimes:

***
The Potter sisters--Muriel and Sissy--were well known in Ashdown Dean, largely because hardly anyone knew them at all.

***
[She imagined a Henry James-influenced mystery story] in which several people have achingly endless, convoluted conversations over tea and biscuits, all of them knowing there was that body in the solarium but, with their Jamesian sensibilities, making such oblique references that no one knew if anyone knew if he or she knew. Including the reader.

***
Getting her to talk about anything at all was like being stuck at a party of clams.

[I didn't know that clams had parties! But then, why would I? After all, I don't know any clams well enough to score an invitation.]

***
[Drunk-lord inflation!]

Carrie had once found her outstretched beside the privet hedge, drunk as three lords.

[I'd never done the math to realize that three equally drunk lords would be drunker than just one.]

***
[Her face] reminded Carrie of a poached egg.

***
When she allowed them an audience, it was in her withdrawing room, where she promptly withdrew her attention.

***
It wouldn't surprise Carrie at all if they'd married because of their names--Regina and Reginald--so they could call each other Reggie.

[Cf. Robyn Hitchcock, "All aboard / Brenda's iron sledge / Please don't call me Reg / It's not my name."]

***
[Flirtatious Rhetorical Questions Silently Answered dept.]

Again, she giggled. "Ain't you a caution?"
Jury didn't think so and wanted to get on with it.
***

Bonus: A minor character called Mrs. Thring (i.e., "thing" with an R added).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We are frightened and are running away."  From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fear #elephant #deer
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Old News (permalink)
The cherub's impish counterpart works overtime.  The headline reads, "Demonland Cupid works overtime."  From The Current Sauce, 1956.
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#demon #cupid #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The hippopotamus of victory.  From The Queer Beasts by Arthur Acland, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #hippo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This passage is a Googlewhack: "The world is starved for the life we have discovered.  We dare not keep it to ourselves.  We are born, like Christ, to die, and in our death to bring the joy of life to others.  Our life is a paradox — death in reverse!"  From Goshen College's 1971 yearbook.

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#death #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meaning of life
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Old News (permalink)
Confirmed -- love is a lollipop.  From Lighted Pathway1988.
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#vintage illustration #love #heart #vintage headline #headline #lollipop
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February 13, 2021

Unicorns (permalink)
We're thankful for this review of A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound:
5-stars.  Très drôle et très joli.  Un livre rempli de schémas "scientifiques" afin d'illustrer tous les sons que produisent les licornes.  Beaucoup de citations issues de la litérature, permettant de varier le propos.  Court, mais distrayant.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blue Planet Project: Alien Technical Research - 25 (undated).
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Alberto Martini, in Attraverso gli albi e le cartelle by Vittorio Pica,  Vol. 2, 1904 (via TheFugitiveSaint).

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Each person is doing what he does best, though it may only be eating and sleeping."  From Mitchell's 1974 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Wise as a treeful of owls."  From the University of Missouri's 1904 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #piano #duet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Be gentle with yourself."  From Mitchell Community College's 1980 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

"For the ancient Greeks, the god of theatre was Dionysus—the 'god of the mask.'  Initiation into the mysteries of Dionysus was a passage through ecstatic possession and transformation into the mysteries of identity—appearance and reality, death and rebirth.  This god with many faces was also the 'god of confrontation' whose entranced eyes 'cannot be avoided'" (Mask Improvisation for Actor Training & Performance: The Compelling Image, 1996).  Illustration from Plays For Players And Guide To Play Production by Verne E. Powers, 1957.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bay Path's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #puppet #marionette #1970s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #question mark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So rare to see a full-frontal pom-pom, revealing that pom-poms are ghosts' hair.  From Chowan's 1981 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #earth #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1909.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1908 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #new year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bone-head from the 1912 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonehead
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February 12, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Prof. Oddfellow goes up against a lie detector:
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights #breath #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A camera freezes time in the University of North Carolina Wilmington's 1974 yearbook.
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#silhouette #diving #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #under the sea #king neptune
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Hyperbola and Ruthetta" is a Googlewhack.  From the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg's 1972 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1917.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It was true I ran into the horse."  From Eliza by Barry Pain, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #horse #bicycle accident
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #smiling cat #tickling #laughing cat #smiling animal #laughing animal #ticklish #ticklish cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #onion #giant vegetable #onion man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gnome #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"She wants to be wicked" -- Corinne Griffith in Talking Screen, 1930.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #catty corner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Folk Tales from Grimm by Ethelyn Abbott and illustrated by Dorthy Dulin, 1913.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Precursors (permalink)
Warhol gets all the glory, but artists have been doing tomato cans for as long as there have been tomato cans.  From Indiana University's 1908 yearbook.
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Limelight, by Emily Organ; derailed into Observation and Flirtation, by Horace Wigan; thence to the dictionaries:

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[From Limelight, by Organ]

a well-received performance as Mrs. See-deep [sic] in Observation and Flirtation

[Well! That allusion piqued my interest. It turned out that Observation and Flirtation was a real stage comedy from 1860; I found the text online and took a glance at--and I quote--"Observation and Flirtation: A Comedy in One Act, by Horace Wigan, Comedian, author of Conjugal Lesson--Fascinating Individual--Base Impostor--Pyramus and Thisbe--The Absent One, &c., &c." In the cast of allegorically named characters, Mrs. Seedeep bears her husband's surname; Mister Seedeep goes around making annoying, confident surmises about people's feelings and activities because he "sees" it all.]

[From Observation and Flirtation. "Fiddle-de-dee" as a Verb dept.]

MR. SANGUINE: You in love? fiddle-de-dee!
DR. SLOMAN: Fiddle-de-dee! I shan't fiddle-de-dee!

[A note on the spelling: Both Merriam-Webster's and OED's official versions of the word show no hyphens—but they differ in that M-W's version is "-deedee" (like Dee Dee Ramone) rather than "-dedee" (and a visit to Google Books suggests that "-de-" vs. "-dee-" is in-dee-d a UK vs. U.S. spelling difference). However, three out of OED's five citations for the word are, in fact, hyphenated as in Wigan's version.]

[From the Oxford English Dictionary. Nonsensical Appendage dept.]

Etymology: < fiddle n. or fiddle v., used in a contemptuous sense with a nonsensical appendage.

[Bonus: I think Organ & Wigan would make a good name for a duo, à la Olsen & Johnson.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to turn aside from prayer to look for god."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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February 11, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The last page of Dressing Gowns and Glue by L. de G. Sieveking and illustrated by John Nash, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #exterminator #book
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Old News (permalink)
"Life somehow seemed so much the same; now it would be different ... Obliviion in gold lamé."  From Purple Parrot, 1944.
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#oblivion #vintage headline #headline #gold lamé
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #jester #folly
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We should all smile more, because sunshine is good for your teeth."  From Who Cares About Apathy by Ludlow Porch.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May no gorgonic bulls cross your path today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The standard greeting: "Hey, Bigfoot."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"None but Lucifer."  From Unknown, 1939.
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"The deepest secret has a trumpet now; the heart is housetop, and the midnight day." —Frederic Abbe
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#heart #midnight sun #collage #paradox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cincinnati's 1897 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #cake walk
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Here's some relative time from Swarthmore's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #time bending #1920s #relativity #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #ship #architecture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Creation of light."  From Florida Southern's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #creation #light #god #biblical #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wish Fairy and Dewy Dear by Alice Ross Colver, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Naval Academy's 1905 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psycho-Harmonial Philosophy by Peter Pearson, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Stays fat yet she eats like a bird."  From Talking Screen, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #weight loss #fat #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
An iron bedframe fence?
An old postcard gifted to me by friends in Wales.  Undated.
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February 10, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Before exfoliating face masks, there was the "Foliate mask."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #mask #green man #church art
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Hindpsych: Erstwhile Conjectures by the Sometime Augur of Yore (permalink)
Thanks to DJStarrNoir for drawing us a Tarot card during a live set, the Four of Pentacles (typically implying a resistance to needed change, due to a desire for control.  Gulp).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #strength #weight lifting #girl power
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Chairs that caress the body."  From The Film Daily, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #chair #caress #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Puple and White (Millsap), 1939.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #contentment
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Life is ever lord of death and love is mindful of its own" (Whittier).  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #star #life and death #whittier
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #two headed #amputee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the record which the pupil makes, there may be a great future.  That, at least, is what 'teacher' says.  But no one ever finds it."  From Talking Screen, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #record #giant record #giant lp
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We're all worried about her livin' alone, an' gettin' queerer an' queerer."  From "A New England Conscience" by Laura D. Nichols, in The Granite Monthly, 1901.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever looked in a mirror and seen a clown.  From Swarthmore's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mirror #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #dandy #hot air balloon #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if a clown has ever thanked you for your service.  From TriState's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #costume #soldier #lion costume #animal costume
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to rotate and transform each picture. From Purdue's 1900 yearbook.

From Purdue's 1900 yearbook
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If this is a lesser demon, I'd hate to see his regional manager.  From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#demon #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #snow #winter #skiing
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Lark:

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There came a time when the world began to grow older, and able to go around alone.

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Jules Verne raised to the xth power

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Interchangeable Philosophical Paragraphs
[That piece is exactly as advertised!]

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Robert Louis Stevenson says, "Back now, my Booklet"!

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A precursor to the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man?

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In praise of how children approach the art of drawing.

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[Fourth attachment.] Furniture nonsense! (I think the page on which this appears is a spoof advertisement.)

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Metaphorical literary geography.

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"L'ark de Triomphe."

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Biblio-punctuational love poetry.

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A silly game that seems to loosely precurse and blend Exquisite Corpse, Mad-Libs, and some sort of Ictionary.

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A Conleyesque map.

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Another silly game: Tintype Whist!

***

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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #flower
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Old News (permalink)
For those of us eaisly manipulated, the eerie truth is that "We are the puppet people!"  From Together, 1963.
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#puppet #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Taking everything personally is the only sensible thing to do, as we learn in Dark Shadows episode 475.



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#dark shadows #taking it personally
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February 9, 2021

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Too few home remedies for sick dolls have conveyed.  A prescription from 1906 requires that no clocks tick during the doll's illness.  Additionally, stairs mustn't creak, doors mustn't slam, and dogs must neither bark nor wag their tails.  (This we learn in Uncle Charlie's Poems by Charles Noel Douglas, 1906.)
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#living toy #sick doll #stopped clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram #atom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #hand #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Flying a little too close to the sun.   From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #the people could fly #icarus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Good Wolf by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #old book
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Sweet it is to have done the thing one ought."  From Hoenshel's Complete English Grammar, 1897.
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#sentence diagram
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Reblog if your hat sprouts mushrooms in the rain.  From Le Charivari, 1887.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #mushroom hat #umbrella hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Devils graduate in odd-numbered years, goats in even-numbered years.  From Mary Washington's 1985 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #odd-numbered #even-numbered
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #rooster #hallucination #plucked bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The scariest matchbox monster we've yet encountered.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #matches #matchbox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pathways toward the future.  From Chowan's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crown #future #vintage yearbook #yearbook #queen #illustration #pathway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Half your beauty."  From Talking Screen, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #blindfold #beauty #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane'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
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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 #bull #illustration #taurus
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder at Mondial Castle, by Issy Brooke:

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He had been content enough to go through life as mere Mr Theodore Caxton, and didn't even use the family's subsidiary titles to which he could lay claim, Viscount this, Viscount that, honourable the other.

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Adelia felt as if she were going to explode with a mishmash of boiling emotions. [I didn't realize mishmashes were that volatile!]

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His jacket was cast untidily on the back of a chair and his cummerbund was in disarray.
***
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1908 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #secret society
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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)
From Lighted Pathway, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #insect #giant insect #praying mantis #mantis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Adjusted for inflation, these silk pajamas (catered to college students) would cost $170 and $260.  From Purple Parrot, 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 #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #pajamas #ad
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February 8, 2021

Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)

From The Crow's Nest, by Clarence Day, Jr. (via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt).

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#dancing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Biblical soccer (a.k.a. Biblical football) as a footprint of the devil.  From The Foot-Prints of Satan, or, The Devil in History by Hollis Read, 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.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #bible #soccer #illustration #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #gargoyle #1870s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #flower
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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.
65761 42097
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#vintage illustration #giant #invention #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #jiggling #vibrator #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The bird is dropping off the wall.  Fun composition, too, with the quadrants.  From the University of Montana at Missoula's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Infested by tiny winged men in kilts.  From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #infestation #hybrid #pest control #tiny men #bug men #insect people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #radio #illustration #demonic radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #deity #worship #many arms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Does Hell Exist? by Wilfred G. Hurley, 1945.
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#religion #vintage illustration #hell #old book #illustration #pamphlet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Technology has shrunk so much over the years.  Before home computers and apps, even before the "personal calculator," giant "adding machines" were required.  From Omaha's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #technology #tiny men #adding machine #calculator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #black bear #bear #giant bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her official yearbook portrait.  From Virginia Commonwealth's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #spirit photo #double exposure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from The Ghost of Melody Lane by Lilian Garis, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #darkness #lantern #endpapers
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The pseudo-3D effect of this photo may be used to facilitate astral or time travel.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #pathway
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"I have a sick head."  From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #illness #sick
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Cincinnati's 1897 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #dance of death #dreaming #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dancing skeletons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #teddy bear #musical animal #singing animal #chorus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kicked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect woman
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February 7, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Adjusted for inflation, this dress would cost $400 today.  From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #black magic #rabbit #dancing animal #dancing rabbit #black 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)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #circus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1926 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #king #war #marotte #scythe #throne
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The "Latinag."  From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #Latin
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
postcard from our personal archives.
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#edinburgh #vintage postcard #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bit hard to make out, but in the trees are the words, "But anyway."  From Queens College's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The thing raised one arm and pointed to the sky."  From Bob's Hill Trails by Charles Pierce Burton, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #occult #hooded figure
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #cat #giant cat #demonic cat #headache #migraine #torment #illustration #cat demon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #sun #lark #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Do not call a bear by its name but rather "my grandson" and direct it back to the forest.  From a teacher training guide to Navajo cultural beliefs, 1986.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pet walker #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brains and How to Get Them by Christian D. Larson, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1986 yearbook.

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#full moon #vintage photo #night sky #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #lightning
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Old News (permalink)
A headline we can believe in: "Messages from the ether." From Clarion Call, 1978.
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#vintage headline #ether #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

If you must over-write, do it like Edmund Crispin in Frequent Hearses:

***
A mass of gleaming white statuary confronted him; the room, large and high as a gymnasium, was disposed about it like a frame. Faraday, the statuary might be; or Samuel Rogers; or just conceivably Palmerstone. Seated, it stared apprehensively at the door, as though anticipating the arrival of duns or bailiffs. It base pinned a large though inferior Turkey carpet to the parquet floor. Portraits in ponderous gilt frames conversed wordlessly, and with the effect of administering a decisive snub, across the top of its head. A number of well-polished but clearly functionless tables--of the sort described as "occasional," but whose occasion somehow never arises--were ranged about the room's periphery like sitters-out at a ball. And the only other furniture consisted of two immense Victorian hat and umbrella stands which, flanking the door, flourished a multiplicity of knob-crowned arms, Vishnu-like, at the ceiling.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairies
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February 6, 2021

Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #faces in things #bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you previously speculated that spiders are mathematicians, you were right.  From Cincinnati's 1897 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mathematics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story-Book Tales by Mina Pearl Ashton, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairies #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #child labor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Talking Screen, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #self confidence #self conscious #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There really was a two-page spread -- blank! -- for the "unseen majority" in the University of Montana at Missoula's 1970 yearbook.  Yet why only two pages?  The entire yearbook should have been a blank book.

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#vintage illustration #unseen #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blank page
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #earth #outer space #cape #giant skeleton #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage japan #vintage yearbook #yearbook #japan
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #night sky #spiritualism #vintage yearbook #seance #cosmos #yearbook #starry night #illustration #tiny hand #where are we going #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1897 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #books #bird #quill pen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wizard #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #candle #hermit #1920s #spiderweb #scholar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Automata theatre.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #automaton #theatre #robot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #goat #fox #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.  We traced the curious origin of wands with heads ... here.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That expression -- it's like looking in a mirror (our scrying mirror).  From the Master Of Monsters II handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #electric eel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From TriState's 1970 yearbook.  As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hair #mop hair #mop wig #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The crossword craze did, indeed, go on, and that's why everybody looks like this now.  From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #crossword puzzle
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February 5, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
An otherworldy transmission: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#prof. oddfellow #spirit radio #parallel universe #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #monster #alligator #giant alligator
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #fairy tale #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horned one #beast #illustration #art #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #incense #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Quiet Life in the Country, by T. E. Kinsey:

***
"I was four years old and recited Newton's Laws of Motion to her and then played "Frère Jacques"--quite badly, she says--on the piano before announcing that when I grew up I was going to be a polar bear."
"You were ambitious, even then."

***
[Though I still like the tmesis-enhanced "la-di-da" best, this is pretty good: "[Blimmin] Lah-di-Dah" as an aristocratic seat! (Note that the variant of the intensive "blooming" is evidently part of the place name, as it's capitalized. Meanwhile, the "di" in Lah-di-Dah is lowercased, because presumably it derives from the Italian "di" or the French "de.")]

"And now she swans around here like the Duchess of Blimmin Lah-di-Dah..."

***
"You know the sort of thing: Lady Evangeline Dullard of the Hampshire Dullards was seen dining out with the Honourable Tarquin Jackanapes."

***
"She's forever poking her nose in at the office, too, y'know. In and out like a fiddler's elbow."

[I see that "in and out like a fiddler's elbow" is a known phrase, but it was new to me.]

***
"'She's all there and halfway back,' as Mrs. Sunderland says."

[Now, this one only brings up two Google hits, both from Google Books, and both 21st-century. (The present book is also 21st-century, but supposedly set in the early 1900s.)
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lobster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It came from outer space."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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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)
Lure it with flowers.  From Centenary's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #bull costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wonder Tales from Russia by Jeremiah Curtin, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #giant bird #old book #russian
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Glowing trees keep old yearbooks from ever going completely dark.  From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1968 yearbook.
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#snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #monster #tentacles #amusement park
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian Junior College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #cemetery #graveyard #spooky #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1893.
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#religion #vintage illustration #crying #hat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Crossing your eyes to bring the two lamp posts into a single glowing sphere will induce alpha brainwaves (as in meditative states), making one more receptive to time travel.  From Kent State's 1942 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #lamp post #street lights #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #gnome #elf #camera #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ocean #sea #sea shell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a rarity -- a "turn it upside down" image that doesn't change.  From The Judge, 1920.
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February 4, 2021

Uncharted Territories (permalink)
A photo of a landmark of natural beauty, taken after darkness had fallen but presented with the greatest pf pride.  From Swarthmore's 1926 yearbook.
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#darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #not pictured
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Like all sudden decisions, I've actually been thinking about it for quite some time."  From Dark Shadows episode 884.
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#dark shadows #sudden decision
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Old News (permalink)
There can be a fine line between children and demons.  From Ghost Stories, 1926.
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#demon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Meet the bat people of Neptune!"  From Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #neptune #alien #the people could fly #winged woman #bat woman #bat people
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the consequence of foreign language study. From Winthrop's 1909 yearbook.

From Winthrop's 1909 yearbook
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aging #gif #wrinkles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Time may be limited."  From the University of North Carolina Wilmington's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #faceless #no face #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Ouija board conjured up blurbs by famous people in honor of The Goblin, 1921.
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#ouija board #blurbs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ignorance poured directly into the head.  From The Dogs and the Fleas by Frederic Scrimshaw, 1893.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #atlas #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #falling #rude awakening #trap door #dragged to hell #hole in the floor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #unicycle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #big ears #newborn #mutation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #merman #poseidon #under the sea #king neptune
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#religion #serpent #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a potion or two, just in case.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #potion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #elephant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From From Nowhere to the North Pole by Tom Hood, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #mushroom #mushrooms
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February 3, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's cheesecake of cards is from American Girl's Book by Eliza Leslie, 1831.
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#vintage illustration #playing cards #cheesecake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cutlery #silverware #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Foxes at the lectern."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #fox #church art
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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 #fairies #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mongolian Horde by Roland Strasser, 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 #demon #tibetan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Westfield State's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #grindstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1924.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cow #animal headed #animal husbandry #marriage #cow wedding #animal wedding
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1985 yearbook. 

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

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#skull face #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #cat #chef #knife #butcher
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana at Missoula's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #animal head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #moose #trophy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I was only trying to light you up."  From Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, 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 #anthropomorphism #elephant #candle #oz #candles with faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #horse #wooded horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We double-checked, and this is indeed an accurate depiction of where sacred geometry comes from.  From Mars Hill's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand of god #sacred geometry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #hell #his satanic majesty
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mirror #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Cloverdale Skeleton by C. Lauron Hooper, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birminghan-Southern's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #giantess #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 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 #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #death #grim reaper #falling #balancing act #pied piper #tightrope
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The Right Word (permalink)
A florist innuendo joke from the 1930s, in Purple Parrot (1938).  "Do you have any pansies?"
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#vintage illustration #florist #joke #gay innuendo
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February 2, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The trouble with literature is that writers have to be the ones who write it. It's always partial; it's always partisan, and it's always incomplete. When I say that writers have to be the ones to write it, I mean that in order to generate the energy to create a big novel, a big play, an involved poem, one has to be a species of fanatic. You have to think that that is really the only thing worth doing. Otherwise, you can't generate the intensity to do it well. And to that degree, by generating that intensity, you are blinding yourself to what does not fit into some preconceived pattern in your own mind. There's no doubt about that to me, and I think that probably lay behind Plato's prohibition of the artist in society, He was right in the sense that the artist doesn't know what he is doing, to some extent. That is, we pretend, or like to believe, that we are depicting the whole truth of some situation, when as a matter of fact, the whole truth is, by definition, made impossible by the fact that we are obsessed people. I don't know of a first class piece of work written by what I would call, or a psychologist would call, a balanced, adjusted fellow who could easily be, let us say, a good administrator for a complicated social mechanism of some sort. It doesn't work that way. We are not constituted that way; so consequently, to be sure, it will have to be partial. The impulse to do it is obsessive; it always is. One of the fairest, most just writers was Tolstoi, who was, to make it short, quite mad."

—Arthur Miller, “Morality and Modern Drama: Interview with Phillip Gelb” (Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticism, ed. Gerald Weales), via GrandHotelAbyss

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#writing
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #bottle #ship in a bottle
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Old News (permalink)
A UFO likened to Punxsutawney Phil.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.  And from the same year, "If summer comes, can UFO be far behind?"  The implication is that UFOs control the cycle of our seasons.
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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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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A spirit message from 1935: "Can't think, too dumb, Inspiration won't come, Bad ink, bad pen, Best wishes, Amen."
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#spirit writing #spirit message
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Physics.  From Queens College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #physics #blackboard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage magazine #magazine
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Jefferson Airplane album After Bathing at Baxter's, in which a quirky airplane incorporates an entire house.  From The Judge, 1920.  [Thank you, Jonathan!]
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#vintage illustration #flying house
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny men #gears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #syringe #Faust #Mephistopheles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prince Silverwings and Other Fairy Tales by Edith Ogden Harrison, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #illustration #cloud maidens
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles: what the hollow earth theorists rarely mention is how there are three guys in there still learning geometry.
From Chicago Teachers College's 1944 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #geometry #hollow earth #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Read Heads and Faces by James Coates, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #character reading #nose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #illustration #gold digger
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The Right Word (permalink)
"We drink that wine all day, till the last drop is drained up; and are lighted off to bed by the jewels in the cup."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars, 1901.
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#sentence diagram #wine
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder at Melrose Court, by Karen Baugh Mehunin:
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It was difficult to see much of his face, since he sported a huge black and grey beard topped with a moustache and his hair stuck out at angles--he looked like he was wearing an enraged skunk.
***
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#beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cobwebs by Harriet Gertrude Watres, 1886.
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#cobweb #spider web #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We're well past 2 1/2 and frankly still can't tell ginger ale from cleaning fluid.  Luckily, we rarely imbibe either.  From The Lighted Pathway, 1982.
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#vintage ad #ad
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February 1, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Best fashion tip we've heard in ages: "a silver question mark lapel pin justifies the existence of any suit."  From Purple Parrot, November 1940.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #question mark #jewelry
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
To go on remembering and wishing that things were different, from the bittersweet final episode of Dark Shadows.
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#dark shadows #regret
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the admirable approach to joke illustrations in Count Draculations by Charles Keller and illustrated by Edward Frascino.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost
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Old News (permalink)
"Foolishness for February."  From Together, 1957.
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#vintage headline #february #headline #foolishness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great news from Rita Hayworth -- "You were never lovelier."  From The Film Daily, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #rita hayworth #lovely
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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 #eye #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magic #magic #knife #death defying #illustration #knife thrower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We're not sure if there's a scrambled message in the crystal ball, but we did decode this statement within the letters: "Zilch jobs vex fraud gyp[sy]."
From Westfield State's 1929 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)
From Child Life, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it."  From East Pilgrim's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #handstand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #chair #swimming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #heraldic #club #wyvern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #death #hell #war #scythe
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1934 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #tall ship #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 #outer space #faces in things #pollution #factory #dust devil #dust demon #dust cloud #home of the gods #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado State's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #totem pole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #japanese #rabbit
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Really, being insane is like being fat.  You can talk about nothing else."  From the marvelous play The Tenth Man by Paddy Chayefsky, 1960.
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#insane #fat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #carried away
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