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, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan of the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #elephant #animal attack #tarzan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snake #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bring me your chest of yarns."  From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #living toy #yarn doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #white rabbit #cheshire cat #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Deviatya Val, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #winter #frost king #old man winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1954.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #atlas #earth #weight of the world
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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 #teeth #dentist #pull the tooth #extraction #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Alfrida Storm, in the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #fox #hybrid #human headed #animal trap
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Due West's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #facial expression #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #lion #star #winged lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Then how can it be said that I am alone when all the world is here to look on me?"  From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #loneliness #yearbook #solitude #alone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #ironing
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #walking through walls #animal cruelty #vivisection #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A multiple choice test.  From George Fox's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#religion #christianity #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #repentance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #diving #faces in things #sea of blood #illustration #red tide #tarot tower #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Richmond Professional's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #brick wall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #spinning wheel #thread
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Legislative exorcism; or, the belief in word-magic."  From Gambling, or Fortuna, Her Temple and Shrine by James Harold Romain, 1891.
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#magick #occult #exorcism #law
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February 27, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored by DJ Tundra of Patronus Records, who praised our clockwork cover of The Cure's "Close to Me": "AWESOME work in the creation of this rendition and in the artistic way in which you really made the song your own. And the music video adds greatly to the overall allure of the production and is done so very well. A sensational audio/visual experience!!"
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#clockwork music #neons gone mad #the cure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #fairy tale #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario 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 #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"It's nice."  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#cat #vintage photo #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Yoeman Lowbrow says that “counter-coulrophobia” is the fear that those not afraid of clowns are actually clowns themselves.  From George Fox's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #coulrophobia
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Who believes in curses?  "Anyone who has to."  From Dark Shadows episide 446.
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#curse #vampire #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Richmond Professional's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"Cops go along with gag until asked to disrobe."  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 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 #edge of the world #edge of the earth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The man in the moon, from Puss Junior and the Man in the Moon by David Cory, 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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#man in the moon #vintage 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #underwater #under the sea #diving bell #deep sea
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Berea's 1950 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tower
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ghostly #winter #supernatural #night #baby new year #new year's eve
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State's 1932 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #world #atlas #giant #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #why the earth wobbles
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1922.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea dog #dog bite #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#christianity #spiritualism
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Demented Spiv, by George Bellairs:

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You couldn't very well have a ghost in spectacles.

[I bet the Oddfellow archives could prove that assertion wrong! (Btw, the context here is the problem of a nearsighted actor being cast as the Ghost in Hamlet.)]

***
A tall, fair-haired youngster, with huge nose and a quiff over one eye, detached himself with apparent reluctance and ambled, hands in pockets, to Littlejohn. He looked like a toucan.

[I really like the way "he looked like a toucan" is given as sort of afterthought, or bonus.]

***
Menstone didn't look straight at you when he spoke, but over your left shoulder. As though you had a wraith by your side.

***
Her husband was always putting his innocent foot in it....he'd called Rainrider and Heathcote, Heathrider and Raincoat.

***
The bobby's eyes opened wide and looked ready to roll down his cheeks with surprise.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #biology #cellular #cells
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February 26, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #cliff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 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 #cat #jester
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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 #mythology #cerberus #three headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan (Macon)'s 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #robot
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A seance without candles is like a body without a soul.  From Tulane's 1978 yearbook.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #seance #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cauldron #mad scientist #tentacles
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1988 yearbook.
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#stained glass #vintage photo #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #three heads #three headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1984 yearbook.

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#cat #optimism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1932.
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#hell #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #invisible man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The story of Jonah.  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 #whale #biblical #jonah #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #dragon #knight
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You've seen the statistics that one in ten men has inclinations or preferences toward "cheerleading."  This photo would seem to prove it -- note the one in ten, on the far left.  From Richmond Professional's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #cheerleader
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage headline #tragedy #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #comet #scythe #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Glitter in night sky made boy scream for mother."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1980.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #glitter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#demon
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February 25, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Chistopher Voss, of the band Volt 44, for writing, "I appreciate the consistency of content production and production value on your channel. Inspiring!"
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #11:11
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Your dirty shoes are not welcome in my parlour."  From Chatterbox, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #sheep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the flower stood Prince Fay."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 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 #fairy #flowers
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Don't Take This the Wrong Way (permalink)
"Don't take this the wrong way, but you're too weird to be average."  —Robin Palmer, For Better or For Worse
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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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 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 #anthropomorphism #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1918 #illustration #castle in the air
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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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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Reblog if you've plunged beneath the placid surface and found yourself in an alien world, a warped reflection of the one you had so foolishly taken for granted (Deborah Moggach).  From Wake Forest's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #distortion #warped #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if a tortoise has pulled you away from tiny men.  From The Old Line, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #turtle #tiny men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the New Jersey State Teachers College yearbook of 1934.

*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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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
The belly laugh is back!  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage ad #laughter #laughing #belly laugh #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night owl #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 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 #ghost #skeleton #ghost horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington & Lee's 1951 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#spooky #occult #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Ghost of Honeymoon Creek by Raymond Bial.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1894 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 #staircase #secret society
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Old News (permalink)
"Swedish flic not shocking."  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#swedish #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dust, by Martha Grimes:

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This did not satisfy the eyebrows, which stayed up.

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"It's a bit mixed up [....]" Diane raised her glass as if toasting confusion.

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The tables were far enough apart that you weren't putting your spoon in another table's granola--an image Jury found faintly erotic.

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Melrose...wished he had a pocket watch to snap shut or a pince-nez to twirl.

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Jury cornered a laugh and shoved it back in.

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Mrs. Babcock stiffened and bristled even more. Melrose could have buffed his boots with her.
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[Bonus: Melrose, at one point, is said to be "fed up with feeling like a rhetorical question." And now I'm hearing that as part of an old-fashioned advertisement for some cure-all: "Are you fed up with feeling like a rhetorical question?"]

[Another bonus: A "long case clock whose tone was so dulcet...it might have been apologizing for time passing."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box #elves
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February 24, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #ice #rescue #dog #thin ice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Which do you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #tarantula #animal fight #centipede #rattlesnake
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Old News (permalink)
The ghost of a soldier who never made deacon.  From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
From Deliverance Prayer by Matthew and Dennis Linn.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The shot into infinity."  From Science Wonder Quarterly, 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 #science fiction #space travel #infinity #rocket
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to complete the sneeze. From Coraddi, 1987.

From Coraddi, 1987
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#toupee #before and after #hairpiece #sneeze
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #walking the dog #hats #pet walker #bird hat
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Old News (permalink)
"What's happening ... Not a hell of a lot."  (At least that's better than dead mice and scurvy!)  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline #nothing happening
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you thought prices at the pharmacy were unbelievable, perhaps you haven't yet learned to believe in your elf.  (See How to Believe in Your Elf.)  From Valparaiso's 1914 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mortar #pharmacy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There are thousands hanging on every word."  From The Film Daily, 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 #tiny people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #dragon #alligator
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anti-religious #horror #spider web #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1969 yearbook.
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#religion #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fashion #vintage fashion #rabbit #bunny #easter #woman #vintage woman #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The affections of animals are attuned to the feelings of the human heart" (George Micholson, 1819).  From Otterbein's 1923 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #banjo #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 #monster #poison #medicine #man in a bottle #swamp thing #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1950 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blue devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 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 #owl #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crossroads
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Old News (permalink)
"What to do 'til the minister comes."  From Modern Screen, 1952.
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#vintage headline #headline
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February 23, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #anvil
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Ten times a day they stopped the clocks."  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #elves #clock #temporal anomaly #1880s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#cat
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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 #face mask #confession #woman #vintage woman #ad
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It Bears Repeating (permalink)
"It bears repeating, moreover, that power is not everything" (Dominique Venner).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #turkey #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Extinction of Bigfoot linked to U.S. robot pointing a cucumber."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #ghost #devil #knives #fear of doctors #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Extended orientation begins."  From Wesleyan College (Macon)'s 1986 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#halloween #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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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 #beard #electricity #power lines #electric beard #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Our custom Uncanny Detector app confirms there are four ghosts in this photo.  From Berea's 1950 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 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 #earth #faces in things #mooning
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #horse #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #biblical #david and goliath
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #hayloft
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Old News (permalink)
"What's happening ... No kidding!  Dead muce and scurvy!"  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#mice #vintage headline #headline #scurvy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #paint #1950s #frankenstein's monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #humpty dumpty #egg #broken egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Emerson's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#skull #occult #effigy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Preannouncement: A sound designer from the Danish video game developer IO Interactive asked us for a Neons Gone Mad cover of a song from PlayStation's Dissidia Final Fantasy, for an album of Square Enix video game franchises music.  Along the way, we anagrammed every phrase of the original lyrics so as to decode a second song hidden within.  Here's a peek at the result.
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#neons gone mad
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February 22, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 2001.
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#vintage illustration #fire #advice #illustration #sign #bad advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
All-too-rare to see lobsters fighting eagles, yet it's all part of nature's pageantry.  Which would you wager to win?  From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #lobster #1900s #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #axe #native american #tied to a tree
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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 #beard #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Seems like a cumbersome costume, but they make these in Japan.  From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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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 ad #anthropomorphism #effigy #vintage photo #polar bear #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #alcohol #white bear #watering can #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Rain or shine.  From Siren, 1930.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #rainy day #umbrella #rain or shine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #devil #serpent #snake #garden of eden #eve
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Here We Eat" by Virginia Robinson.  From MacMurray's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dining hall #women's college
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nagaechka, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #ghosts #horror #art
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #hybrid #athor #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1977.  (Our restoration.)
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#vintage illustration #monster #dragon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #distortion #window
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Pfeiffer's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #reflections #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"He had a big tantrum and then exhausted himself."  From Dark Shadows episode 492.
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#exhausted #dark shadows #tantrum
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arrows #st. sebastian
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From It's Murder with Dover, by Joyce Porter:

***
The trouble with pulling strings is that one can never be absolutely sure what is on the other end.

***
The Chief Constable's mouth flapped like a newly washed shirt in a stiff breeze.

***
[Non-words as Words dept.]
Dover sank resentfully beneath the froth again. "Gurgle-sloshlurp!" he said.

***
[I love this malapropistic mashup of "standing there like a lemon" and "like Patience on a monument."]
"Stop standing there like a bloody lemon on a monument!"
***

[Bonus: At one point the protagonist refers to the local aristocrat as "Lord Who's-your-father."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Handling a cat can take two hands.  From Puppetry Today by Helen Binyon.  But it's easier today: see How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #puppetry #hand puppet #cat puppet
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February 21, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The ad behind the magazine cover -- coincidence? or did the ad inspire the cover?  From The Old Line, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #tobacco #garden of eden #adam and eve #vintage magazine #1940s #fig leaf #magazine #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Gingerbread Man by G. H. P. and illustrated by Robert Gaston Herbert, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fairies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #dog #monkey
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #ghostbusting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If your hues aren't driving you mad, you may not be doing it right.  From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #makeup #ad
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It Bears Repeating (permalink)
"It bears repeating: if you use someone else as your standard, you are bound to make mistakes." —Vincent E. Rush
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Note that Jesus goes unidentified in the caption.  "The most important thing is that Jesus is left out in the conversation" (Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch).  From George Fox's 1980 yearbook.
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#beard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus #vintage men #men
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Old News (permalink)
Bad news: "Look out! here comes Blah!"  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage headline #blah #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mad tea party #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"You may find it hard to believe, but authors sometimes rewrite novels several times!"
English 20: Module 2: Travelling Through Life
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This very long hallway may be used to facilitate astral travel.  From Western Michigan's 1960 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #shoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #howling #yearbook #singing #vintage men #illustration #glee club #men singing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #top hat #cape #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This surprised us, as we've had no more than 78 good times out of doors.  From Eighty Good Times Out of Doors by Lilian Heath, 1902.
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#vintage book #book #outdoors
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the North Texas yearbook of 1917.

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #worship
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage ad #nervous #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #barrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #illustration #ad
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February 20, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #candle #human headed #moth to the flame #insect man #butterfly man #candles with faces #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An illustration by K. Hudson for Ohio Wesleyan's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #wolf #aesop #wolf in sheep's clothing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bluffton's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
Two whole pages are dedicated to the snow of 1976 (though the yearbook is dated 1977, of course it covers the months previous).  We appreciate the accuracy of the coverage.  From Rend Lake's 1977 yearbook.  Speaking of pregnantly blank maps, see this extraordinarily usual thing: The Carte Blanche Atlas.
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#snow #winter #vintage yearbook #blank #unpictured #anti-coloring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We, too, must seek safety as well as thrills.  From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mirror #1930s #woman #safety #vintage woman #thrills #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You didn't come here on purpose and so you don't count as an Enemy."  From Mothers News, 2011.
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#enemy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #knife #fighting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #spooky #gothic #night #manor house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northern UFO News, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1894 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cats #mu
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #horror #scythe
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Black Cypress, by Frances Crane:

***

"Danny Kaye could have a lot of fun here," Patrick said, eyeing the statuary as he drove slowly to the right on the circle.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #fangs #vorpal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He was not going to move out of the way."  From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #tricycle #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #cracked pot #broken pot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The rest of the sentence is, "You'll die laughing."  From an ad for The Gracie Allen Murder Case, in The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage hollywood #hollywood #gracie allen
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February 19, 2022

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
In truth, no -- we still can't stand the public gaze.  From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"You can't ration passion -- or -- There's no ceiling on that old feeling."  From The Old Line, 1946.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fable #king #flower
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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 The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
59413 57452
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This could be us digging up more of your favorite posts on the internet.  From Southeastern Community College's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #streetlight #streetlamp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Feeling needled.  From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #thread
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Owlglass, written and illustrated by Will Nickless.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard that mushroom spores drifted to earth from outer space.  So did marshmallows.  From Festive Food Decoration for All Occasions by Shelia Ostrander.
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#vintage illustration #alien #marshmallow
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1969 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
From Weird Trips, 1974.
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#vintage headline #dentist #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1951 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Haunted House Tales by Corinne Denan and illustrated by Ann Toulmin-Rothe.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #black cat #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of 38 Playboy bunny mascots in Thornton Junior College's 1959 yearbook (a phenomenon that goes unexplained).

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny #carrot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Cerebral type: "the thinker."  From How To Analyze People On Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #thinker #body type #cerebral
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Elves and Ellefolk by Natalia Balting and illustrated by Gordon Laite.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #sleeping #little people #wee folk #little men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1942.
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#vintage ad #fingers #hand #counting #ad
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February 18, 2022

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Tom said my lips looked common!"  From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage ad #lips #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lightning reveals hissing reptiles on every side.  From Chatterbox, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #lightning #storm #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #opposite day
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you dream of stars tonight, may they shine and not shoot.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #star #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A mysterious monster from the Drakkhen Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #sunflower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.
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#vintage illustration #birds
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Charmed, I'm sure."  From Siren, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ho hum!"  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #yawn
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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 Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #satan #bomb #devil's contract #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's Debutante yearbook of 1889.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #eavesdropping
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Old News (permalink)
From Woroni, 1974.
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#god #vintage headline #headline #exam
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"But a grin without a cat is the most curious thing I ever saw."  From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cheshire cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Bath day for the monster is February 18, so plan ahead.  From Rend Lake's 1977 yearbook.

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#monster #vintage yearbook #sign
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
King of the weekend.  (He really was crowned "Weekend's King.")  From the State University of New York's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#king #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #weekend
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #castle
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Resurrection Man, by Charlotte MacLeod:

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"The door...has a brass knocker with a face on it."
"Anybody's we know?"
"I hope not. It's more of a symbolic face, like a satyr or a dryad or maybe a gargoyle. I'm not too swift on dryads."

***
He was wearing...an apologetic little bow tie of no particular color or pattern. He was the sort who tended to remind everyone of someone else. [Noel Coward would approve!]

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[The elements in the authenticated painting] were the real McCoy, the guaranteed A-1, simon-pure article.

[This sent me down a minor simon-pure rabbit hole. I wasn't familiar with the expression, so I learned about 18th-century theatre's Simon Pure. What was most interesting to me was the detail that, in addition to being a "thing" in itself, simon-purity spills over into real-McCoyness in an additional way--because, in the play in which he appears, someone impersonates Simon Pure, thus giving rise to "the real Simon Pure" as an expression in its own right, à la "real McCoy"! (I also wondered if "Simonizing[tm]" was rooted in simon-purity; but apparently it's just named after one George Simons.)]

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"We put father back because the room looked so bleak with that big bare space over the fireplace," Anne explained, "but he doesn't really go at all well with the new slipcovers." [N.B. Slipcovers are funny.]

***
There was an easy chair and a not-so-easy chair. [I recall that recently, in some other book, we encountered an "uneasy chair." I'll watch out for variations on this theme!]

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His head was shaped much like an old-time cheese box, long and angular.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An owl with hair curling fluid.  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #owl
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February 17, 2022

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Great title: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day by Arnold Bennett, 1910.  But does spelling out the number 24 make for a longer day?  The version with the numeral has 75 pages, and the version with "twenty-four" has 103 pages.
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#vintage book #book
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Old News (permalink)
"Well, shut my hacienda!"  From The Old Line, 1947.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Which do you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alligator #dinosaur #animal fight #tapir
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #scorpion #astrology #scorpio
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1976.
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#vintage headline #headline #misgivings
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1958.
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#vintage ad #books #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #nose #meat #sausage
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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 #grotesque #swan #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dancing cat #watering can #dancing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #bachelor #vintage hollywood #hollywood #book learning #distance learning
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #ufo #fairy tale #clouds #vintage headline #tom tit tot #headline #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #radio
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#severed head #vintage yearbook #guillotine #decapitated
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Creative genius does not click until the witching hour so it is best to relax or doodle, nibble or nap until twelve."  From Ethos, 1956.
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#creativity #midnight #witching hour
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ya-Hoo, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #novelty #clock #lamp #six arms #1950s #ashtray
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan (Macon)'s 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #electricity
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Old News (permalink)
"She's overworked but she loves it."  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage headline #overworked #headline
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February 16, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten #persian cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #doctor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The first labor of Hercules.  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #animal attack #lion #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hazing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Pets from Near and Far by Anna Bogenholm Sloane and illustrated by Marie O'Hara, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #cat #chicken
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #jester #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #artist #modern art #painter #painting with feet #foot painting #art
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art #wind
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The perennially glowing forests that spread through old yearbooks.  From Tufts' 1985 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing tree
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Old News (permalink)
From Gateway, 1982.
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#virgin mary #vintage headline #headline #isis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1993 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Trips, 1974.
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#eye #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1974 yearbook.  It's easier now: see How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat people #1970s #lion costume
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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 #anthropomorphism #rabbit #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As if they weren't terrifying enough, sometimes skeletons skewer their own skulls.  From Tulane's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #castle
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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 #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We're like that when enormous flowers approach.  From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 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 #fairy #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #constellation #centaur #sagittarius
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening News, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #rowboat #silly season #rock the boat
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February 15, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Today's invisible man not wearing trousers is from The Old Line, 1934.
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#invisible man #vintage illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"You may find it hard to believe, but the Queen herself will walk by right here when she moves to her winter palace."
The Ant and the Grasshopper by Rob Dearborn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #dogs #guard dog #chained #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #locked door #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #secret society
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #library #illustration #woman reading
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goats by Frank Wright Noxon, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Probed with hat pins during hypnotic anaesthesia.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A forward combover for mop hair.  From George Fox's 1963 yearook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The swallow and the crow had a contention."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fable #silhouette #crow #aesop
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Meddler and Her Murder, by Joyce Porter:

***
She snatched her bag of sausage rolls from the counter and bolted from the shop, creating such a flurry as she went that a tray of coconut moulds disintegrated where they stood.

***
Her jaw was hanging out like the week's washing on a good drying day.

***
"Just because she never goes out nowadays doesn't mean she isn't still all there with a cough-drop."

[It's not clear to me whether this "with a cough-drop" business exists outside the present book; clearly it's akin to "with bells/knobs on," but it may or may not be a Porter one-off. (This edition does have a lot of scanos, btw, but I think it's unlikely to be the explanation here.) Incidentally, my researches served to remind me that a "cough-drop" in UK slang can be a person who's a card, i.e., a "caution.")]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cat #snow #winter #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A classic mop wig look.  From Ohio Wesleyan University's 1951 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #vintage men #cross dressing #1950s #mop hair #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #living doll #yarn doll
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I wish I could fall asleep and wake up a thousand miles from here and believe that all of this never happened."  From Dark Shadows episode 901.
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#dark shadows
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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 #cat #japan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Charging a bull with an umbrella.  From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #bull
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Fog wandering."  From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #fog
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February 14, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that poet Steve Venright shared news of our audio version of The Minimalist Coloring Book.
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#prof. oddfellow #minimalism #coloring book #video #penetralia #steve venright
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see a parrot cupid.  From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #cupid #bow and arrow #heart #valentine's day
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Valentines grow on trees.  From Together magazine, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #tree #heart #valentine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghosts and Goblins by Wilhelmina Harper.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #sheet ghost #hallowe'en
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #hot and cold #frost king #heat king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #angel #wings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The burning of Rome.  From Le Charivari, 1843.
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#vintage illustration #fire #rome #burning of rome
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Old News (permalink)
"It all started with a coffee."  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#coffee #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1982.
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#mummy #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State's 1960 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #frown #sad face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #winter #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #electricity #illustration #electrical pole #lineman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cupid #heart #salt of life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #lamb
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #fairy #rainy day #mushroom #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blurred
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You'll have spotted the problem with this -- it's a sketch of a Ouija board's planchette, not a UFO.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #planchette
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1973 yearbook.

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#horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #faceless #cursed #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #trap
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February 13, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #feather
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #lion #bear #national animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #knife #dagger #blade
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #rain #cloud #folk tale #sewing
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1986.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #living dead #zombie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #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)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1964 yearbook.

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#halloween #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #makeup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #hollywood #not again
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One never forgets college orientation day.  From Loyola's 1995 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King of Cats by Eileen O'Faolian and illustrated by Vera Bock.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
When characters know what's what.  "I am the plot."  From Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber, 1995.
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#plot #self aware
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost from Emerson's 1980 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"You may find it hard to believe, but the plants that produce both pistachio and cashew nuts are first cousins to ordinary poison ivy."
This is a Leaf by Ross E. Hutchins
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#poison ivy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Montana School of Mines yearbook of 1960.

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#vintage illustration #spiral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #pointing #vortex #spiral galaxy
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The Right Word (permalink)
The moon is here [correctly] called "sleep's mystic amulet."  From Dorothy Frances Blomfield's Gurney's "Moon-Spell," 1913.
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#moon #mystic #amulet #poem
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Body in the Dumb River, by George Bellairs:

***
[The parrot in a covered cage] kept making noises like the popping of corks and the pouring out of drinks. Now and then he shouted, "Jolly good health to you and me."

***
The shop was in darkness and smelled of arts and crafts.

[I do understand that a concentration of art supplies might literally have an atmospheric aroma, but I just think "arts and crafts" is a funny-sounding thing to smell like. Well, "arts and crafts" is a funny phrase, period, imo.]
***

Bonus: The "no tick" sign hanging at a bar, advising the patrons that they cannot buy on credit, is illustrated with a picture of a broken watch. (This was actually the best thing in a novel that proved worthy of the "dumb" in its title--and it may actually be the author's original conception, as a quick search for actual vintage pub signs saying "no tick" with broken-watch graphics did not suggest that they exist.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hyena
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you're cold, they're cold.  From the University of Akron's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #mushroom #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Little Red Riding Hood.  From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #little red riding hood #red riding hood
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February 12, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #ghostbusting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May no bats haunt your dreams tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
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#bat #dream #symbol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #dancing #brownies #mushroom
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Old News (permalink)
It's not the same Crowley you might be thinking of.  From The Current Sauce, 1958.
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#demon #vintage headline #headline #crowley
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to make him look dramatically younger with new hair. From Coraddi, 1988.

From Coraddi, 1988
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#hair restoration #before and after #gif #bald #hair plugs
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Old News (permalink)
"Kittens, sausages, music."  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage headline #sausage #kitten #headline
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From The Link, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #piano
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Castle -- Enchanted Island."  From National-Louis' 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The genii of Nekhen and Urshu (watchers).  From Amentet, An Account of the Gods, Amulets, and Scarabs of the Ancient Egyptians by Alfred E. Knight, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #ancient egypt #egyptian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1989 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #hippo
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: Who said Hollywood is slipping?
A: We did! 
From The Film Daily, 1947.
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#vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
College or bust.  From State Teacher's College, Farmville's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #sculptor #1930s #bust
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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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#scarecrow #vintage photo #toot your own horn #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #bunnies #rabbit #yearbook #musical animal #singing animal #rabbit people #singing rabbits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #folk tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elves
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1892 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#bats
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February 11, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From MacMurray's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #surreal
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The Right Word (permalink)
Dark Shadows took pains to avoid naming "that little comic strip character that walks around with a dark cloud over his head" (ep. 43).  But he's accidentally identified in episodes, 704, 304, and 275.
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#dark shadows #charlie brown
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She Couldn't Take It!"  From The Film Daily, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #rude awakening
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Focus on yourself … focus yourself."  From Santa Clara's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #me generation #focus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1844.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #sheet ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1892 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #bouquet #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #bobcat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Stargazey, by Martha Grimes:

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If there were ever a man who, like Nature, could fill a vacuum, it was Melrose Plant. He could fill in a black hole; he could void a universal void.

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Wiggins was talking...not as if he'd caught a cold but as if he'd invented them. His comments were cold-proprietary.

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Chilten held the pause long enough to put the gum in his mouth and crunch it around, as if even the Chiclet were part and parcel of the overall mystery. [And, as I may have noted before, I think Chiclets are funnier than other gums.]

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[The protagonists are in an herb garden.]
Jury blinked, looked at Wiggins, who looked rueful. And as if mood were an herb indicator, he looked round for it, the rue.

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"It's a long story, Jury." [...]
"I'm in the long-story business, Ronnie."

[later in the scene]

"That's anybody's guess."
"But we're not," said Wiggins..."in the anybody's-guess business."

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Sebastian raised his eyebrows again, the only part of him that questioned Jury's presence. Even that question appeared rhetorical, however.

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A member was declaiming, "Rubbish, rubbish, rubbish, rubbish"....Melrose sat, waiting for the final "rubbish."

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Melrose had always loved the way London streets simply left off being what they were and started being something else, as if naming streets were nothing but whim.

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She looked around, as if words hung in the air from which she might take the right one.

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Melrose slid his stool back from the bar as if this proximity to impossible coincidence were too much to take.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Lot of Ballyhoo by Elmer Zilch, via Evan Finch.
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#vintage book #book #mustache #ballyhoo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No, you ask yourself what your neighbor will say about it."  From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers and Ex-Libris from Illinois Woman's College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #ex libris #illustration #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 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 #devil #illustration #horned man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Assumption College's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #goth
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 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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#king #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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February 10, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
"Your video is a minimalist masterpiece!" says Toulousain musician Patrick Picault of our clockwork remix of GrevusAnjil's "I Disbelieve."  We're honored!
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#neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #knight #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scissor Pictures by Ethel Barr, 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 #silhouette #cat #pussy willow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy 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 #sword #self defense #personal protection #many armed
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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 #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Now you cannot take your hands away."  From How to Mesmerise: A Manual of Instruction in the History, Mysteries, Modes of Procedure, and Arts of Mesmerism, or, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Clairvoyance, Thought Reading, and Mesmeric Entertainment by Hames Coates, 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 #mesmerism #hypnotism #vintage gay #gay #men holding hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1984.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #cat #alleycat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1945.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #wolf #artistic animal
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big book #door
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
At first glance, we thought she was holding her own severed head.  The effect is more dramatic when the photo is seen as a thumbnail.  It's a portrait of Myrtle Vane, from San Francisco Dramatic Review, 1899.
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#vintage photo #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Duke's 1923 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #twins #goat #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #pulled in two directions #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling of being a vast army of problem-solving rats.  From Woroni, 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 #anthropomorphism #rat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #cave
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's how what we call "genius" is a magic spell, like a magician's living fire that burns in the deepest darkness.  From "Genius" by Mary St. Aubyn, 1842.
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#magic spell #genius
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Very rare: a jester pursued by a winged horse.  From Duke's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #jester #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged horse #pursued
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Old News (permalink)
"Perhaps it was all a coincidence ... perhaps."  From Last Post, 1973.
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#vintage headline #headline #coincidence
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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 #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the thinker #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #sailboat
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February 9, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dove versus crow: which would you wager to win?  From Blacky Daw by Adelaide Palmer and illustrated by Dorothy Saunders, 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 #dove #crow #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She asks if anyone is home, but his eyes are down there.  From Chatterbox, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #drawing #bear #seesaw #circles
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1970.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A surfing cat from the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #surfing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Martian technology for seeing one's internal organs.  From Amazing Stories, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #life on mars #science fiction #x-ray
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic or Not? by Edward Eager and illustrated by N. M. Bodecker.  Speaking of wishing wells, we're still delighted that our mystical spell for a wishing well (which debuted in Fiddler's Green magazine, no.4) inspired a magical presentation by renowned mentalist Mark Edward for his book of mysterious séance magic, Total Darkness.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wishing well
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the apparently rare Southern Ghosts by Nancy Roberts.
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#ghost #vintage photo
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Old News (permalink)
Crossroads burials are traditionally chosen so as to confuse the troubled spirits of suicides, preventing them from finding their way home to haunt their relatives (John Stilhoe, Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845).
The headline reads, "Tombstone at the crossroads."  From The Martlet, 1968.
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#crossroads #tombstone #vintage headline #headline
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Unicorns (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #unicorn
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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 #divination #moon #fortune teller #vintage photo #crystal ball #darkness #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tower #cold reality #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois' 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dentistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The temptation on the mount.  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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#vintage illustration #temptation #devil #satan #jesus #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #fox #shell #church art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1965 yearbook.
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#full moon #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #hell #damned #damned souls #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We, too, wear our sunglasses at night.  From Montclair's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #concert #sunglasses at night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Uh, hello ... I understand you're here to help us out."  From the [Thornton] Courier, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #hooded figure
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February 8, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #leopard #vintage magazine #black leopard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 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 #anthropomorphism #wolf #fox
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This happened to us, too: when we arrived from our own time, only our astral body came.  From Dark Shadows episode 858.
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#astral body #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #harp #head butting #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wyoming yearbook of 1930.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #life and death #new life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1950 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blue devil
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From In Love and In Hate, 1875.
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#love and hate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Circles by Villamaria, 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #castle
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"As winter wends its wear way around the world (rest of caption unavailable because of illness)."  From The Martlet, 1971.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#snow #winter #night photography #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 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 #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One's shadow self may be massively larger.  From Pennsylvania State's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shadow self
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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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#halloween #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #depression #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Medical College of Virginia's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 Dover Strikes Again, by Joyce Porter:

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Miss Kettering paused for breath and grammatical orientation.

***
"I've got a photographic memory [....] I'm famous for it. They call me What's-his-name of the Metropolitan Police."

***
Miss Kettering might be a woman of rare understanding but he wasn't going to have her galloping her hobby-horses round his bedroom.

***
He was trying to block out the whole [embarrassing] scene by selecting the eight gramophone records he would take with him on a desert island, should he ever be lucky enough to be cast away on one.

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"Remember what happened the last time you tried to play Little Miss Philanthropy-Incorporated."

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"I can't abide tea that hasn't got the strength to crawl out of the spout."

***
Dover, as was only to be expected, made the worst of a bad job.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lucky Cat by Frances and Richard Lockridge and illustrated by Zhenya Gay.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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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.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario 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 #ghost
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February 7, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thank you to Catherine Menezes, who calls our Young Wizard's Hexopedia "A perfect book to snuggle up and spend time with.  Lovely large letters for young and sage.  Healing the world can begin.  Thank you, Craig."  Ms. Menezes found the Hexopedia and Astragalomancy: A Loaded Guide: Intriguing Readings of 21 Discrete Dice Throws through our Etsy shop, where she was entitled to a one-pull Tarot reading with keepsake card.
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#hexopedia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Day and night the candle smolders, and we carry death on shoulders" (a miners' song, quoted in Olgin's The Soul of the Russian Revolution).
From Chatterbox, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #life and death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rich Man and the Singer, Folktales From Ethiopia, illustrated by Christine Price.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #baboon #hyena
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like this rare book is going for $1,500!  From Secret, Don't Tell, The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism by Carla Emery and illustrated by Corey Smigliani.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #queen of hearts #playing card
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #living toys #toy box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Antique Cats for Collectors by Katharine McClinton, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Don Bolognese.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #birdcage #playing cards #bird catcher #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salve Regina's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #targeted #red eyes
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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 #crow #fox #aesop
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see his alternate photo. From Chowan's 1979 yearbook.

From Chowan's 1979 yearbook
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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #man #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #monster #serpent #jester #giant snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage magazine #magazine
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The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1971 yearbook.  For an explanation of how this scanned page captures a genuine spirit, see that remarkable book The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine, which makes good on its promises of real ghosts, actual hauntings, and necromancy by proxy.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maoriland Fairy Tales by Edith Howes, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #under the sea #sea goblin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #dracula
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Woroni, 1979.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #horror #mushroom people #magic mushroom #hallucination #1970s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1927 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarevo, 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 #shackles #prisoner #anvil #art
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February 6, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rabbit versus hawk: which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 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 #rabbit #animal fight #hawk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #knitting needle
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Catalepsing an arm."  From Human Magnetism, or, How to Hypnotise by James Coates, 1904.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis #vintage men #men #catalepsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #earthward
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Old News (permalink)
A glowing forest from The [Sacramentio City College] Pioneer, 1970.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #glowing trees
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #mythology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Link, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sun #tree #cabin #illustration #log cabin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #chronology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #turtle #inertia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Make a Witch, Make a Goblin by Arnold Dobrin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat and mouse #cougar #catamount
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The spider sat looking at him."  From Woodland Elf by Florence Adèle Evans, 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 #fairy tale #knight #spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.  Speaking of surprising cocktail recipes, see Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cocktail #nervous #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From He'd Rather Be Dead, by George Bellairs:

***

[The only notable feature of this book is that two of the characters have interesting verbal ticks. One habitually starts sentences with "it's all a case of," and the other with "f'rinstance." Here they are ordering in a restaurant!]

"It's all a case of this..." [Oxendale] told the waiter.
[...]
"F'rinstance," Oliver was saying.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The lock is broken on this book.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy 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 #demon #magick #occult #book
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February 5, 2022

This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Witchcraft alive, well and practising."  From Gateway, 1982.  Here's how to check your work: The Pencil Witch.
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#witch #witchcraft
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gallows #hanged man #noose #ladder #1840s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir-Rhyne'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 #rat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird man #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I was to be a tiger cat."  From a rare book with a surprising price tag: Jeremiah the Cat by William Maurice Culp, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #zoo #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1938 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
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Old News (permalink)
"You can no longer deny ... they are real!  Because ... they are real and they are here!"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Ball State's 1971 yearbook.
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#sun #bicycle #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cyclist #photo
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if, week by week, you either offend and perplex more or are offended and perplexed more.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Psyche and Astra."  From Psyche by Louis Couperus and illustrated by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'I think I can help you,' said the little voice."  From Woodland Elf by Florence Adèle Evans, 1906.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
More than one of them roaming the halls, wanting to get in.  From Wesleyan College's 1979 yearbook.

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#skull face #living dead #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mystery of the Talking Well by Irene Bowen and illustrated by Polly Bolian.
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#vintage illustration #cobweb #spider web #urbex #abandonded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #elves #brownies
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A cat protecting a bird.  From The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.
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#cat #bird
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The Right Word (permalink)
A Higglede-piddiddy and a sensitive Baraboo.  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"For what it was, and for what it was not."  From Duke's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #book dedication #what it was
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #william tell #apple
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February 4, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)
The single word "mustard" used almost as a euphemism for "blasted," from Dark Shadows episode 26.  "How 'bout some mayonnaise, too?" in episode 72.
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#mustard #mayonnaise #condiments #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any champ samurai you encounter fight for you.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #father time #scythe #rooster #baby new year #rooster headed #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #glove #invisible man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The statue that sneezed."  From Which Was Witch? by Eleaore Myers Jewett, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #buddha #living statue #sneeze
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Missouri Southern's 1971 yearbook.

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#hobby horse #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #cat
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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 #bee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Weak spots are our specialty."  From The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #garden of eden #biblical #eve #apple
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill's 1965 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat people #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #snowmen #android nim #computer game #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Thanks for the flowers."  From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #bandaged #wounded
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy-Folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #feather #hat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death of a Downsizer, by Carole Berry:

The man with her was a study in tweed. Merely looking at him made me itch.

***

From The Anodyne Necklace, by Martha Grimes:

Miss Pettigrew kneaded her brows as if she were making muffins in her mind.


***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Avila Examiner, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #alcohol #diagram #party #balloom #options
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Just aroma at heart."  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal attack #dinner party #1900s
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February 3, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
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#vintage illustration #star #seeing stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad from If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1912).
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#vintage illustration #dandy #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cat Walk by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #crow #blackbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #deer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C. J. S. Thompson, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #dragon #vintage book #book
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Watch that sun!"  From The Film Daily, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sun #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mercury #ex libris #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sleepy King by Aubrey Hopwood and Seymour Hicks, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #owl #fairy tale #guitar #bunny #musical animal
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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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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Sor Juana's Second Dream by Alicia Gaspar de Alba.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #levitation #dreaming #weightless #nun
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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 #costume #dormouse #mouse costume
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Emerson's 1981 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costumes #tin foil hat
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Old News (permalink)
"'Ice cream cone' from the sky probably more than a meteor."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.
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#ufo #ice cream #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's College 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #pig
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1982.
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#vintage headline #headline #unprepared
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February 2, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fish #fishing #seahorse #angling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #animal attack #arctic #eskimo #seal
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Old News (permalink)
"Haunted by visions."  (We found some songs titled "Haunted By Visions," but not a band named that.)  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#haunted #visions #vintage headline #headline #band name
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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 #cat #lobster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some of the many tools we use to create your favorite posts on the internet.  From Together, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #world #globe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Given that he's painted on newsprint, he'd be the "King in Yellow" by now.  From Coraddi, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #alcoholism #alcohol #in chains #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #boots #ogre
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #humor #deodorant #morbid humor #ad
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Raining cats and dogs.  From Tales from Story-Town by Mina Pearl Ashton and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #raining cats and dogs #cats and dogs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #swan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The House of Hate."  From The Moving Picture World, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #hooded figure #self defense
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You can hardly believe your eyes!"  From The Film Daily, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #eyeglasses #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ancient Calendars and Constellations by Emmeline Plunket, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #constellations
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #warthog #boar #tusked #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Stairways & gargoyles & other masonry delights."  From UCLA's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle #vintage headline #headline #masonry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The solemn owl."  From St. Nicholas magazine, March 1917.
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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #winking animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Thoth tarot Hierophant in the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot #hierophant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #yarn #kitten
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February 1, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Things that can be tideless (besides water):
  • gloom
  • Milky Way
  • loveless marriage
  • foamless weirs of age
  • rainbow-colored memories of Italy
  • ethers
  • heart of cold crystal
  • dream (as well as dreamland)
  • man
  • abyss of human illusion 
  • eternal remembrance
  • depths
  • breath
  • long days of calm delight
  • harmonies
  • night
  • grief
  • time / waste of years
  • the absence of life
  • drought
  • laboratory
  • inactivity
  • heart
  • Hades
  • astral orbit
  • soul
  • unbelief
  • morning
  • spell
  • mist
  • stupor
  • ecstasies
  • summer
  • pain
  • time of peace
  • air
  • worthless rock on a dying evening
  • childhood
  • planet
  • skyline
  • God's omnipotence
  • the past
  • truth
  • music
  • now
  • blood
  • woe / misery
  • dateless silence
  • England's green
  • love
  • moment of death
  • glory
  • thought-waves
  • mental estuaries
  • deep blue sky
  • wastes of life
  • pitiless whirlpool
  • nothingness
  • the mid-1870s
  • the horse of one's opponent
  • dawning power
  • the inner midnight of oneself
[Tidbits collected through the course of our research]
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#list #tideless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 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 #king #dancing #shoes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Zodiacal birthmarks.  From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 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 #vintage diagram #physiognomy #diagram #birthmark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A strange rider on a strange horse."  From Chatterbox, 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 #anthropomorphism #goat #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How to prevent goblins on Candlemas Eve.  From Harper's, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goblin #superstition #candlemas
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella #fairy godmother
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding (British Ed.), 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #fire #february #atomic
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Draw a woman with black hair and eyes like a cat."  From Dark Shadows episode 851.
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#cat people #dark shadows
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sun #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1987.
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#religion #vintage illustration #pope #robot
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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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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Postmarked 1914: a postcard from our personal archives.
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#vintage postcard #minnesota #postcard
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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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#snow #winter #unseen #vintage yearbook #mountains #yearbook #snowcapped #reaching to heaven #blue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Show your contempt."  From the 1970 yearbook of Thornton Community College.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #contempt #sign #protest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Confident and resolute."  From The Cougar City Gazette, 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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#mask #alien #big head #tin foil hat
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Crime on My Hands, by "George Sanders" [ghostwritten by Craig Rice]

***
She had a head full of doughnut holes.

***
Time creeps in the dark, with no sense of passage. It fumbles blindly for the next position on the clock, and though each tick is a measurable footstep, it never seems to get its feet off the ground.

***
"She said he was like a bird....Sometimes she said a hummingbird, but mostly just any old bird."

***
He stared at me as if I were something out of Lewis Carroll. A slithy tove, for example.

***
You can be jerked out of a sound sleep at three a.m. to fumble in the dark and tell some halfwit that this is not the Superba Doughnut Company; and not be able to sleep again for wondering what kind of hours they work at Superba.

***
Tomorrow would just have to be another day, whether it wanted to or not.

***
[Bastard Grading dept.]

"You said Flynne was a grade-A bastard."
"Well, he was."
"How?"
"My God!" he flared. "Don't you know what a bastard is?"....
"I've never made a classification."

***
"I might have got an Academy award, I might have got screen credit, hell, I might even have got paid."

***
[It's those NYPL lions again! They're always good for a laugh.]

"You could have found out by calling the public library," I pointed out.
"But it wasn't open in New York."
"You could have wired one of the lions, then."

***
"I'll buy him a new suit. A double-breasted libel."

***
[No Such Person dept.]
"His name's Lazarus Fortescue."
"You're kidding. There isn't any such name."
***

[Bonus: a reference to a "half-horse town."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #genie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #goose #wheelbarrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Alberta Institute of Technology's 1963 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1960s #headphones #making faces
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Old News (permalink)
"We'll not be bullied into A=A=A=A=A=A!"  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#equality #vintage headline #math #headline
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