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, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Snake-oil baths for beauty's sake."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1935.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The older the yearbook, the morely likely one is to encounter plant people, human-faced flowers, and other such hybrids.  From North Texas State Normal College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #hybrid #faces in things #human headed #human flower #pod people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May nobody go berserk on you today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #berserker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from University of the South's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #endpapers #impressionistic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #horse #ocean #sea #rowboat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1970 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #dog #sledding #skiing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
19th century Kongo power figure (nails and blades activate spirit within) and St. Sebastian in Mannheim.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #aura #vintage yearbook #yearbook #writing
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1958.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Cleveland State's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She had become the spirit of the storm itself."  From The Echo-Maid by Alice Aspinwall, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

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From "The Greener Hat," by Christopher Ward:

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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.

From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #witch #fairy tale
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
"Nonsense talked in Parliament."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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February 27, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Let nothing you dismay.  The end of the great bamboozlement is coming."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #polar bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #boots #giant boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dave Porter's Return to School by Edward Stratemeyer, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #cycling #illustration #bicycle accident
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #butterfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tachka, 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 #whip #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #magic wand #dancing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #teapot #vintage yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #pipe smoker #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Squash grows on trees.  From The Little Story House by Miriam Mason, 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 #squash #vegetable
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #butterfly #vintage yearbook #dancing #hybrid #butterfly man #social butterfly #butterfly people
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Old News (permalink)
"What I wouldn't wish for my best false friend!"  From Together, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline #frenemy #false friend
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Old News (permalink)
"And shadows of unknown bodies."  From Mars Hill College's 1973 yearbook.
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#shadow #vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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It Bears Repeating (permalink)
"For some, this night will seem an eternity" -- recursive opening voiceovers from Dark Shadows episodes 703, 704, and 705.
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#eternity #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 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 #alice in wonderland #mushroom #caterpillar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #oz #personal protection
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How true those words are, even today.  "Life is not what it used to be."  From Woroni, 1960.
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#life #changes
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February 26, 2023

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Snakes On a Plane: "An awkward moment in the clouds.  Snake aboard.  Uninvited passenger on the Australian flight."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Just let us at him,' said one great fish with bulging eyes."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #fish #fishing #talking fish
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Old News (permalink)
"Nuns know art."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#cat #vintage headline #nun
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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 #constellation #cygnus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 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 #anthropomorphism #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1920 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull face #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #armor
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #jesus #sacrifice #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #harpy #vintage yearbook #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #invention #ink pen #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #up all night #vintage yearbook #midnight oil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Story House by Miriam Mason, 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 #winter #jack frost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A low-to-no-budget couple's costume idea.  From Barton Community College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #minimalism #1970s #faceless #no face #box head
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Thelma Todd, in Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#oyster #vintage photo #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman #pearl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pleasureville is only one second away.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #food
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From George Fox University's 1982 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #glacier #mountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #giant book #book of life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #falling #flying machine #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Baseball sure has changed over the centuries.  From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #greece #baseball
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Witchcraft calling?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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February 25, 2023

Old News (permalink)
This saying is a Googlewhack to this day: "The early lemur gets the fruit."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two versions.  From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899 and The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #lion #oz #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #bird #hey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #parrot #cleopatra #vintage yearbook #yearbook #roman
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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 #mouse #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National-Louis' 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you're cold, she's cold.  Let her in.  From The Johnson Journal, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #winter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1971 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#ghost #cemetery #graveyard #vintage yearbook #spirit photography
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Looks like the watermelon policeman allows looting.  From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #advice #watermelon #confession #bad advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alchemist #chemistry
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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 #devil #monster #money #hybrid #greed #moneybags #chimera #three headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not everyone knows the Cape of Good Hope is wearable.  Also, here's an entropy cloak if you could use one.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"With friends or at a party, she was happy and gay.  At home, alone with her husband, she was moody and nervous."  From Together, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #extrovert
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#religion #vintage illustration #knife
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There are dogs named Shock, Quiz, Turp, and Spitz in this volume of the magazine.  From Chatterbox, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #dog #vintage magazine #magazine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to the title page. From All Done From Memory by Osbert Lancaster.

From All Done From Memory by Osbert Lancaster.
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#vintage book #book #animated gif
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Peaches is the cat everyone wishes they had!"  From Duke University's 1927 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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#vintage illustration #bridge
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Old News (permalink)
"Had awful experience."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #headline
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February 24, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Together, 1961.
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#word game #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1875.
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#monkey #reflection #anthropomorphism #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #hare
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Old News (permalink)
"The only good alien is a dead alien."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Trumpeting in the dark.  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #trumpet #1960s #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #giraffe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The last word in modern winter comfort at a winter resort on the Somme."  From Bazaar Daily, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #winter #war #vintage magazine #soldier #bathtub #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Fox University's 1982 yearbook.

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkin head #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ole Miss's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #irish
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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 #garden of eden #adam and eve #fig leaf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #constellation #scorpion #scorpio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #dog #bone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Rose of the New York Journal," by Christopher Ward:


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Dentistry's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dynamite #dentist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #trumpet #vintage magazine #magazine #chrub
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February 23, 2023

Precursors (permalink)
Forty years before a mouse cut the wire in Dr. Seuss' One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, a rat cut the wire in The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#mouse #telephone #vintage headline #dr. seuss #headline
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Old News (permalink)
We, too, make occasional comments on onions.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#onion #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This episode of Dark Shadows was brought to us by the letter M.  "The letter 'M' is very strong in this room."  From episode 648.
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#letter m #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #tibetan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's rare to find architectural icing anymore, even at the finer bakeries.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #cake #icing
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"I want people to know that ghosts do exist."  A doodle of a sheet ghost on a hearse window is as good as way as any to spread the word.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2004.
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#ghost #ghost hunter #sheet ghost #hearse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Women's consciousness week."  From Longwood's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #strangulation #self defense #strangled #choked #choking #women's studies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #electricity #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #alarm clock #1920s #rude awakening #bunk bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Trick I Learned From Dead Men by Kitty Aldridge.
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#death #graveyard #one weird trick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern Junior College's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #insect #fly #bugs #teacup
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Revealed -- why roof shingles need to be replaced regularly.  Blame Father Time.  From Hampden-Sydney College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #bad portrait #family portrait
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Deer In the Family by John Hartmann.
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#vintage illustration #deer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  "What ever happened to what's his name?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1978.
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#vintage headline #headline #whatshisname
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #pig #hunter #up a tree #boar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #throne #queen
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Old News (permalink)
"Dances with joy."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage headline #vintage man #man #headline
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February 22, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Sailor's 'nightmares' to be turned into air bases."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#nightmare #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And, oh, the tone color beats belief."  From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #piano #deity #tiny man #god #conductor #pianist
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Old News (permalink)
Uh oh.  "Don't sniff at scented papers."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#perfume #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the frontispiece.

From White Morning
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#vintage book #book #animated gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A Japanese masseur, who is frequently blind."  From Old and New Japan by Clive Holland, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #japan
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banjo #musical animal #illustration #neck pain #pain medicine #pain in the neck #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 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 #hunter #stag #antlers #deer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A visual pun, "knight time"?  From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #knight #clocks #illustration #armor
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Old News (permalink)
"Loch Ness moster has been peaceful."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2002.  See How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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#sea serpent #vintage headline #loch ness monster #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#india #beggar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 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 #procrastination #zebra
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Keep on truckin'."  From Barton Community College's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #snowman #walrus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From True Experiences With Ghosts by Martin Ebon, 1968.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghostly railroad crossing from Thornton Community College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#spooky #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1970s #railroad crossing #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #crying
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoe #1890s #moustache #ad
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #picture puzzle
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February 21, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mistakes people make."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #tea #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Was not insane but only lost."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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#vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#minotaur #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in memoriam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insects #sap #bugs #syrup #tree sap #maple tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling animal #mascot #lynx #basketball
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1966.
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#punishment #vintage headline #headline #helping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Georgia's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chronos #deity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#occult #vintage yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Procopius College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 21.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #snowball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #toilet #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you have the happiness habit?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #happiness #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Mockbeggar," by Christopher Ward:

***

her face--which she wore somewhat ostentatiously on the front of her head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #white cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Capital University'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 #wishbone #mardi gras
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We tracked down a temporal anomaly in Lenoir City, Tennessee and were reminded of how "when time stops, space ceases to exist" (Chung Suejin).
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#temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #simile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 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 #aesop #ass #donkey
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February 20, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Swiss mask from Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 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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#mask #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Hymns no better than ragtime."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cat Who Turned On and Off by Lilian Jackson Braun.
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#cat
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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 #occult #vintage diagram #zodiac #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1963.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #sheet ghost #clothesline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wm. H. Beard's American museum of art.  From Scribner's, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cave #statue #museum
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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 #world #anthropomorphism #mask #faces in things #theatre #potato #tiny men #tables turned #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Time to acknowledge the unexplainable in life."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2004.
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#mystery #vintage headline #headline #unexplained #unexplainable
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern Junior College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #one eye
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't have the powers I once had, but I have enough."  From Dark Shadows, episode 954.
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#occult #dark shadows #warlock
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hyena watches a jackal eating a cloud.  From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 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 #cloud #jackal #hyena
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
How do you dress for Washington's birthday?  From Peace Institute's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #george washington #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bird
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
An artist is haunted by his grotesque hybrid caricatures — all of them.  From House Scraps by G. Duckworth Atkin and illustrated by Geo. Cruickshank, F. C. Gould, and Lucien Davis, 1887.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #caricature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1950 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 #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #magic wand #the end #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #phrenology #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Please tell him to say something."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #animal attack
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February 19, 2023

Apropos of Nothing (permalink)
Here's something "About Nothing" by Rupert Cross (via the winsome Jonathan Caws-Elwitt).
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #money #vintage headline #headline #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 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 #celtic #men fighting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose In Silhouettes by Katherine Gough Buffum, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #falling #jack and jill #well
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Bluff Your Way In Poetry by Nick Yapp, 1989.
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#poetry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #candle #1920s #tiny people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #artist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Munster Village by Mary Hamilton.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tulane's 1909 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 #skull #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation #secret society #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #fraud
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher #knowledge transfer #brain drain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Arthur Rackham.  From St. Nicholas, 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 #levitation #weightless #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #bottled ghost #man in a bottle #specimen bottle #specimen jar
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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 #strange light #spirit #doppelgänger #spirit body #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The cover of Barton Community College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #chaos #mayhem #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #fairy #elf
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Whiskers and Soda, by [of course] Frank Richardson:

[This collection of short pieces begins with what the author calls a "shocking bad preface."]

***
Personally, I never know any of my heroines.
They always cut me.
[That's a "spoiler" from a piece called "Novelists and Their Characters."]

***
In spite of the fact that we belong to the same club, we are quite friendly when we meet.
***

[The attachments, as you can see, come from a piece about discovering the East Pole (which, as my own photo reminds us, I subsequently discovered here in Northampton); and from the signature screed called "Why Wear Whiskers?."]

[Bonuses:
The United Nonentities Club
Mr. Cringle-Blake
Mrs. Craven-Hill
Captain and Mrs. Baillie-Plews]

 







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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 #bird #bluebird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#owl #anthropomorphism #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #lamb #crossword puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #japanese #long hair #hairdresser
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February 18, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Lovable, not abominable."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1952.
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#snowman #vintage headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Dmitri said, 'I'm a pretty boy!'"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#parrot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two versions  From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899 and The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #cat and mouse #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #fruit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #flying #goat #if you had wings
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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 #silhouette #jester #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winged horse #pursued
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #nose #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grindstone #nose to the grindstone
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Old News (permalink)
"Cheaters never win, or do they?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #squirrel #vintage headline #headline #chainsaw
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories distilled into a gemstone.  Of course, memories and dreams are distilled into unicorn skulls in Haruki Murakami's intriguing novel Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World.  From the U.S. Naval Academy's 1947 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #memory #vintage yearbook #ring #yearbook #gem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Opening this one at random can be surprisingly beneficial.  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 #book #book of life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales, edited by Jean Cothran and illustrated by Clifford Geary.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #wolf #rooster #lamb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From National-Louis' 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #torch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The bear cat.  From Hampden-Sydney College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear
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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 #jester #well #mule #jackass
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1960s #vintage man #smiling man #trash can #garbage #trashy costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #knight #amror #art
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Old News (permalink)
"And it's over, over, over."  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1960 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #vintage headline #headline #all over
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The Shinke-cho beast, via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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#vintage illustration #monster #japanese #dragon #shinke-cho
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1902 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 #smoke #the end #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1874.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #toad #1870s
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February 17, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Lipstick for fowls."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#chicken #vintage headline #lipstick #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#time travel #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #kreskin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1941.
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#religion #vintage illustration #christianity #gate #vintage magazine #crossroad #narrow path #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Adams State College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lighthouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Meat-Eaters by Lucy Guernsey, 1858.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#fire #vintage yearbook #1960s #fire eater #fire eating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #witch #broomstick #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Miami University'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 #yarn #tiny woman #knitting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #the end #1920s #mother goose
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Wouldn't Smoke," by Christopher Ward:Smoke

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the tremulous uneeda of the postum glittered like nabisco

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And then, as by a miracle, the thing happened! The m'toto spoke! In a high shrill voice, it wailed, "Trochee spondee! Trochee spondee a-a-anapest!"
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#castle in the air
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University'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 #harp #yearbook #musician #kicked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 1865.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1860s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.  Compare to this more elaborate stage set with signage.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chair #theatre #stage design #symbolism #sign
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Old News (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1911.
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#vintage headline #buried alive #headline #premature burial
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Observe the merriment with longing eyes, through a small window."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stick figure #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to the frontispiece. From Zest by Charles Norris, 1934.

From Zest by Charles Norris, 1934.
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#vintage book #book #animated gif
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The world is a crystal ball.
How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hours when storms are gone.
—Thomas Moore
Illustration from Texas Wesleyan College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #wizard #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.  See One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alphabet #anthropomorphism #letters #1910s
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February 16, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A decade before Where's Waldo / Where's Wally, it was so much easier.  From How In This World Can I Be Holy? by Erwin Lutzer, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #where's waldo #where's wally #1970s #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

The Oath Referential, or, Sentimental Swearing

SPOTTED IN THE WILD; EVIDENCE (OR PRESUMPTION) OF SOME GENERAL BYGONE CURRENCY

My only aunt!
Oh, asterisk!
Oh, blank!
My hat!
Good egg! [? not easily searchable, but unlikely to be unique]
God's trousers!
Great jumping beans!
Ye little fishes!
Jumping Jeroboam
Pooh-bah!
Snakes and ladders!

SPOTTED IN THE WILD; PROBABLY UNIQUE COINAGE BY ONE AUTHOR

Well, I go to Chicago! (Robert Graves)
Damask cheek! (G. D. H. & Margaret Cole) [? presumed unique but not easily searchable]
I'll be double-dyed in Danbury! (Ellery Queen)
Filberts! (Ellery Queen)  [unique? not easily searchable]
Great Jonathan! (Vincent Starrett)
Jesus H. Moses! (Rex Stout)
Moulting Manitous! (Douglas G. Browne)
My Great-aunt Maggie! (Alan Melville)
What the Lord Chancellor? (F. Frankfort Moore)
Sac à papier! [unique? not easily searchable]
Hoots toots! (Gladys Mitchell)
Good old gaiters! (Gladys Mitchell)
Well, by the Great Catamaran! (Carolyn Wells)
Phooey with an olive! (Norbert Davis)
Rouge pots and hare's feet! (New York Times, 1903)
Oh, fiddlehead ferns! (Kimberly Greene Angle)
Toasted cheese! (Hope Mirlees)
Busty Bridget! (Hope Mirlees)
By my Great-Aunt’s Rump! (Hope Mirlees)

NON-OATH REPURPOSED INTO AN OATH BY JC-E

Well, of all the arts!
Muppets on ice!
Jumping dingbats!
Marvin Gardens!
F'rinstance! (modeled on the French "par exemple!")
Double davenports!
Whizzle McFluff!
Oh, Bucky balls!
Peaky Blinders!
Well, I seldom! (even milder version of "Well, I never!")
Muffins and crumpets!
O vanitas! O fiddlitas!

UNCATEGORIZED

O the Times! O the Manners!
Darn my socks!
Mother Machree!
Great goats of spunk!
NOTED BY PROF. ODDFELLOW
Old balsam! (The 'Jorrocks' Edition, 1892)
Judas' cats! (Western Ontario's 1930 yearbook)
Blowing blizzards!
Oh pickles!
Howly jabers! (Judge's Library, 1887)
Good luck! (Scribner's, 1876)
Oh, migrations!
What the hey, what the nonny?
Winnie-the-Pooh performed twice! ([Conestoga] Spoke newspaper)
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#swearing #oath
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Old News (permalink)
"No actual suffering."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage headline #suffering #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Resolve to keep the things worth keeping."  From Lighted Pathway1960.
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#resolutions #advice #vintage man #man
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The Right Word (permalink)
Surely these two images go with each other's titles.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #diary #aromatic ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hair brush
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Colliers, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #reflection #vintage automobile #automobile #polish #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Procopius College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #losing one's head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #bee
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Biola University's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #armor
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't care who's calling, do you?"  From The Addams Family, 1965.
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#addams family #morticia addams #don't answer the phone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 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 #wolf #caveman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant
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Old News (permalink)
"Outclassed by opponents with more money."  From Ohio University's 1973 yearbook.
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#money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#oz #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"In quiet splendor."  From Mount Vernon Nazarene University's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage yearbook #library #1970s #vintage man
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Old News (permalink)
"World's unhappiest man."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline #unhappy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"No swimming.  Acid in water."  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #sign #no swimming
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Old News (permalink)
"The mysterious universe.  Will there be an end?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline
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February 15, 2023

Oldest Tricks in the Book (permalink)
"Then I dusted off a discarded middle name, adding an s to make it sound more surnamesque. It’s the oldest trick in the pseudonymously authored book, but I liked the ring of 'Jeremy Edwards.'" —Jeremy Edwards, in How to Write Erotica, by Rachel Kramer Bussel, 2023
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It'll all be over before the subtitle is gone.  From Dark Shadows episode 601.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 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 #father time #scythe
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Old News (permalink)
"A bridge from the universe to the microcosm or vice versa?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage headline #headline #discus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Does any one have to learn that out of a book?"  From St. Nicholas, 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 #anthropomorphism #geometry #bee #hexagon
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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 #death #cemetery #grave #angel #angel of death #graveyard #grim reaper #mad scientist #burial #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #funeral #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #chariot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage postcard #ancient rome #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Their master's voice.  From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #phonograph
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Delta State's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #long hair #1970s #vintage woman #hope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #dog #ox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Every contract should specify a separate microphone for the dummy, because if you don't believe in your ventriloquism act all the way, the audience won't, either.  From Biola University's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #ventriloquism #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
Five is "the 'queer number.'"  From Lighted Pathway, 1961.
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#vintage headline #queer #headline #five
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Hundred Games & Pastimes by E. V. Lucas, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The King of the Mamozekel by Charles G. D. Roberts and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #moose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #orchestra #musicians #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #little red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #teddy bear #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1923 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #constellation #bull #taurus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Michigan University's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #optimism #pipe smoker #1920s #vintage headline #headline #ad
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February 14, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We actually tried this, and a clown looked back at us from the mirror, just as depicted here.  From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mirror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fame and Fortune Weekly, 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 #vintage magazine #cross dressing #magazine
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #standup comedy
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Old News (permalink)
"Cupid will wear helmet."  From The Duluth Herald, 1915.  
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#cupid #vintage headline #headline
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astrology #gemini
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #flamingo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I am living to give vent to the deep emotions aroused in my psychic being."  From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long legs
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
A valentines prayer from Purple Parrot, 1943.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #valentines
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Delta State's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage women
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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
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #fire #reading #fire extinguisher #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This was captioned, "The only one in captivity."  From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #horse #cupid #central park
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Biola University's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #smiling #self portrait #vintage man #smiling man #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you involved in a WEB of dislike?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #spider web #vintage headline #headline #dislike
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1928 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #cupid #heart #valentine
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Animal Land, Where There Are No People, by Sybil and Katharine Corbet:

"I have been asked to say something about the creatures that live in Animal Land where there are no People. My daughter Sybil, aged four, began to describe them to me about a year ago, but as I personally know nothing about them except that I draw them from her very graphic descriptions, I thought I had better write down a few of the facts about them, collected by her, in her own words:—
'Animal Land where there are no People is quite near, only you can’t see it. It is a kind of Garden Cage, with the North Pole and the sea always roughling and wavy. In the summer they like to be hotter and hotter, and in the winter colder and colder. They live by the North Pole and in the leafy places near. It is always light there, always day, they climb the poles and always play. That is Animal Land.'"
KATHARINE CORBET
January 1897

[Some highlights include precursors to Yoda, Pikachu, and the Moog.]

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#creatures
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Old News (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1956.
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#valentine #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cupid #bow and arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #cupid #valentine's day
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February 13, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"I'll be so happy when information is so easily available as to make journalists obsolete."  From Internet Magazine, 1995.
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#journalism
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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 #crow #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #oz
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Old News (permalink)
"I was a naughty girl who told fibs."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
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#liar #lying #vintage headline #naughty #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The psychic hand, from Lessons in Palmistry; Studies of the Eye and Planetary Influences by Cornelia Gaffney, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hand #psychic
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #chess
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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 #anthropomorphism #goat #vintage headline #strange #tea party #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #lion #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The University of Toledo's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sculpture #modern art #cubism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tongue of Time by William Harrison, 1857.
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#timepiece #clock #midnight #twelve o'clock #noon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Western College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #dead things #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #the people could fly #skiing #underwear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of shadow boxing, but this is shadow bowling.  From Arlington State College's 1965 yearbook.

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#shadow people #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bowling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#anthropomorphism #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mushroom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American Girl's Book by Eliza Leslie, 1831.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #piano
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1969 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #1960s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Some people seem to prefer to wear their feelings 'sticking out.'  Do you?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1955.
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#vintage photo #feelings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mother goose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Dermot and the Thirsty Stones, written and illustrated by Richard Bennett.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #long hair
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Old News (permalink)
"The scientists are at fault."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage headline #big science #headline
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February 12, 2023

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 book #bird #book #goose #pigeon #skiing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Richmond Professional Institute's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #wheel #czechoslovakia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Spirit raising.  From The Magician Annual, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage magic #magic #stage magic
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Georgia Southwestern's 1973 yearbook.
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#snowman #vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
We're still waiting for word on how to handle missed days.  From the [DuPage] Courier, 1979.
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#vintage headline #headline #missed days
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arlington State College's 1965 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #spider #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #minerva
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Death is the victor."  From Lighted Pathway, 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 #cemetery #graveyard #tombstone #gravestone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clubs #playing card
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #beer #magician #rabbit #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fairy tale #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jack and the beanstalk #beanstalk
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Old News (permalink)
Wonderful news!  "Not all good things have to end."  From Current Sauce, 1971.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Drugs came after drink and completed wrecking of a bright young man."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  
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#vintage headline #substance abuse #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mountain climber #the end #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The candle is lighted."  From Lasell Female Seminary's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #animal attack #constrictor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis."  From Manchester College's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #vintage woman #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 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 #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We've all seen "spirit photography," but here's an actual spirit photographer.  Indeed, it takes a ghost photographer to take a ghostly photograph.  From Goshen College's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Bane of crossword puzzles.  Competitors are no better than gamblers."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline #crossword puzzle #headline
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February 11, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Played with a ghost."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cat versus snake: which would you wager to win?  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 #serpent #cat #snake #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From In Search of a Lovely Moment by Roger Breland.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #lion #ant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Clothing to flatter your silhouette -- literally.  From Pfeiffer College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythology of All Races, Vol. VII, 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 #mythology #harpy #peacock #hybrid #human headed #bird people #bird woman #peacock people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1921 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 #quill pen
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Old News (permalink)
This is a slap in the face of those of us who lost with ceramics.  From Lighted Pathway, 1973.
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#vintage headline #headline #ceramics
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #psychology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 3.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #constellation #goat #capricorn
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Old News (permalink)
"A moron explores the furthest limits of the human mind."  From Literary Cavalcade, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two versions.  From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899 and The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #lion #oz
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Their shadows are still in the air."  From Dark Shadows episode 647.
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#spirit medium #dark shadows
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Man was born that he may contemplate sun and moon and universe" (Anaxagoras).
From Manchester College's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Man of mystery talks a little."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier (permalink)

From Vanity Fair, 1918 (via the winsome Jonathan Caws-Elwitt):


(Thanks to Jonathan Caws-Elwitt for inspiration!)
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February 10, 2023

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
The 2nd weirest computer game in history -- a walkthrough of the Neons Gone Mad game.
374
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#prof. oddfellow #video #computer game #neons gone mad #walkthrough
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Old News (permalink)
"Big amount is desired."  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline #everything counts in large amounts #more more more #big amount #large amount #the more the merrier
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Unicorns (permalink)
Delightful and rare as a flying unicorn: The Unicorn with Silver Shoes by Ella Young and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #flying horse #flying unicorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the West Virginia University Division of Forestry's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deer
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1942.
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#poem #sonnet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hades
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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 #mythology #hot air balloon #orpheus #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From Western Michigan's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#grotesque #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The happy family."  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 #bird #mouse #rat
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Old News (permalink)
From Delta State's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #1970s #social butterfly #social life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The ill-fated "Have a Coke and a crooked smile" campaign?  From Purple Parrot, 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 #modern art #cubism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #smile #arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #snake #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Old News (permalink)
"Locked in a furnace.  What happened when they really turned on the heat."  From Blue Book, 1936.
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#vintage headline #furnace #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #robin hood #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Grelot, 1872.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #monk #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1928 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #animals
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Vanishing Point," by Christopher Ward:

[A "Pull up a chair!" precursor.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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February 9, 2023

The Right Word (permalink)
"Psst!  Go pffft with your Bmmfft!"  From 73 Magazine, 1967.  See Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.
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#vintage headline #all-consonant word
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #jack-o'-lantern #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The castle's creeping grass is growing out of the photo.  From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1858.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #playing cards #capital c
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"To each his own."  From Valparaiso's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Delta State's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #double exposure #1970s #decision making
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #1940s #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Has Beens.  From the University of Arkansas' 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1900s #vintage women #has been
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Old News (permalink)
From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 16.
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#vintage headline #headline #gaming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not sure if the "Please flush before leaving" toilet is a prop or the paper roll's date to the party.  From Aquinas College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1960s #toilet #toilet paper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.  We love this sort of anthology that seems hell-bent to convince readers that the locality in question is plagued by vampires, werewolves, ghost ships, sea serpents, aliens, flying carpets, and other haunting anomalies.  Every region should have one!  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #maine #seal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Anderson College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reading for Meaning, Practice For Come Along by Paul McKee et al., 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1977 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"The persiflage of pressing palms or the knoack of knowledge of knitting knuckles."  From Purple Parrot, 1937.
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#holding hands #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying broomstick
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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 #fox #weight scale
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Old News (permalink)
"Tax the cats!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#cat #taxation #vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You're his wife ... who's his girlfriend?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage ad #marriage #1960s #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Big things looked for."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #headline
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February 8, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"What am I living for?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#meaning of life #existentialism #vintage headline #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#picture puzzle #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to the title page. From Argentina, A City and a Nation by James Scobie.

From Argentina, A City and a Nation by James Scobie
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#vintage book #map #book #animated gif #argentina
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Still true -- "Life goes on, but only from moment to moment."  From Dark Shadows episode 592.
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#life goes on #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"Standing—or creeping?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Collier's, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Blessing the apple orchard.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #apple tree
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leaf #costume #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 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 #train station
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnard's 1916 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 #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #crazy #headline #owl people #human owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institue's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Parrot's American Home, 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 #home decorating #table
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #human headed #cerberus #decapitated #ax
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Old News (permalink)
Yeah, we've taken that detour, too, only technically it was an emergency landing in Shreveport, Louisiana due to a storm going through Texas.  From How Father Time Changes the Animals' Shapes by Gaylord Johnson, 1939. 
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#vintage illustration #father time #bird #evolution #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #1920s #booze
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Well, here's mud in your eye."  From The Purple Parrot, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mud #a toast
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University'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 #bees #laundry #beehive #clotheline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #horse #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"From any angle it's the light that counts."  From the College of Wooster's 1953 yearbook.
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#light #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Deadwood Dick Library, 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 #ventriloquism #canoe #stranded at sea
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February 7, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
363
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#scarecrow #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's rare to gain an insight into fairy spinners' magic spells. "Pluck the moon-rays into shreds.  Shreds of moonlight, flax of bubble.  Twist them into flimsy threads.  Weave the muslin double-double."  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #magic spell #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bad breath #plastic bag #suffocation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh dear!  Day and night!"  From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 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 #neon sign #night and day #rude awakening
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
Everybody's doing this now.  From Western Ontario's 1988 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1980s #look-alikes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chariot #underworld #hades
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiny people #sieve #sifter #strainer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #rube goldberg #chemistry #armor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Teachers College at Harrisonburg's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #laundry #1930s #clothesline #all washed up #hung out to dry
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Day It Rained Diamonds by M. E. Chaber.
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#diamond #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It turns out that it's not actually the bird who make the "cuckoo" sound in a cuckoo clock but rather a tiny expert birdcall mimicker.  From the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cherub #clock #cuckoo clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drummer #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We, too, use iron skillets as mirrors and flour as face powder.  From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mirror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #frying pan #iron skillet
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly invetsigator Urbex Jane encountered this ruined clock tower at Villa Leopard.
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#ruins #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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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 #men fighting #sign #disabled
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Blacker Oxen," by Christopher Ward:

[Doing the math!]


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The very tiny caption reads, "A pleasant family party!"  From The Boy's Own Paper, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sorority
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Old News (permalink)
It's raining ducks in Wisconsin.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#duck #vintage headline #Charles Fort #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lafayette College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quince
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #hedgehog
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February 6, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Farmer's Magazine, 1913.  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 #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We agree -- the wee folk ask way too many questions.  From St. Nicholas, 1915.  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)
From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Slowly, uncertainly, doubtfully, hesitantly, questioningly, unknowingly, but steadily."  From the 1972 yearbook of the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #questioning #uncertainty #hesitant #unknowning #steady on
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
While we appreciate that there are in fact a dozen members of the Intensely Vigorous College Nine, a single mop wig isn't enough to say "zany exhuberance [sic]."  From University of Saskatchewan's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #musician #band
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From Bits Of Talk for Young Folks by Helen Jackson, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #saint #st. christopher #saint christopher
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Sundials (permalink)
From Pfeiffer Junior College's 1946 yearbook.
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#sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strangely Enough! by C. B. Colby.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #grave #graveyard #tombstone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #bobbing for apples #no head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dress caught on the door and tore a piece out.  Now I can't take it back, and it costs a fortune."  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage automobile #automobile #torn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One in three 70s people wore "one size fits all" neckties.  From York College of Pennsylvania's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1970s #necktie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Homespun magazine, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #moustache #making faces
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Old News (permalink)
"Waiting for the things to come."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mr. Shakespeare needn't mind."  From Impertinent Poems by Edmund Vance Cooke, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 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 #falling #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #seeing stars #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Egyptian couch-bedstead -- carved wood, gilded and highly colored."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Revealed: ghosts like to haunt big houses because, like sheets, they naturally spread out.  From Panzer College's 1935 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Examples of blatant naughtiness."  From Dressing Gowns and Glue by L. de G. Sieveking and illustrated by John Nash, 1920.
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#naughty
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February 5, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #monkey #queen #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of Saskatchewan's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage woman
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Come, Hawlins, let's look up naughty words in the dictionary."  From Purple Parrot, 1934.  There are some doozies in The Dictionary of Ugly Words.
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#vintage illustration #dictionary #butler
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Reserve University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Thought Too Much by Robin D. Gill.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#japanese #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spiral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fourteen Hundred Cowries and Other African Tales, edited by Abayomi Fuja and illustrated by Ademola Olugebefola.
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#vintage illustration #folklore #africa
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montreat College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"Was eminent diety.  God dies in Atlanta: An obituary."  From The Daily Tar Heel, 1966.
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#deity #vintage headline #god is dead #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Delta College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #money #anthropomorphism #coin face
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Old News (permalink)
"Just a pinch, please."  From Together, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #hand #vintage headline #headline #pinch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Our custom Uncanny Detector app misidentified this mannequin as a ghost -- an honest mistake.  From East Carolina's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #mannequin #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs) and illustrated by W. Fletcher White, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #native american #iroquois #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."  From Omaha'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 #yearbook #artist #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary.  Can you guess which entry this illustration is from?
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#chair #swimming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois State Normal University's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bottle #sign
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #pig #crossword puzzle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Nightmare causes man's death."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  
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#nightmare #vintage headline #headline
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February 4, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"I caught a mermaid and ate her."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1952.
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#mermaid #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two versions.  From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1899 and The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #oz #flying monkey
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A book that is shut is but a block. ... Please help us to keep the book clean and moving."  From Ten Years Under the Earth by Norbert Casteret, 1933.
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#library book #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #1960s #vintage women
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Burgess Meredith as The Penguin in Batman.  From Le Rire, 1913.  We previously discovered this other Penguin precursor, as well as surprising proof that the Maltese Falcon ended up in Batman's house.
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#vintage illustration #maltese falcon #batman #precursors #illustration #burgess meredith #penguin
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The Right Word (permalink)
Let's bring back the word "horologe."  From the University of Wisconsin's 1915 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock tower #1910s #horologe
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to the title page.

From The Norse Myths
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#mythology #vintage book #book #animated gif #norse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Moores Hill College's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #teacher #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #nest #blackbird #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A spirit photography from the University of Arkansas's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #spirit photography #spirit photograh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#windmill
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College'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 #lion #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 115.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The ritual burning of algebra.  From Purdue University's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fire ceremony #bonfire #algebra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harpers, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #pine tree #tree #giant tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton College's 1878 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mayhem #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed #1870s
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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 #frog #flat on his face #vintage headline #fallen down #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't make me fall in love."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1946.
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#love #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From All-Sports Library, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack #canada #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"There's something hiding out in those mountains."  From Montana State University's 1973 yearbook.  It actually exists: the Bigfoot Bible.
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#forest #vintage yearbook #mountains #night photography #bigfoot #strange glow #glowing trees
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Old News (permalink)
"No bottom to mud hole."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #mud #bottomless pit #headline
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February 3, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A new weirld little songlet, plus a lucky penny charging station.
Thanks to VastCooler, who wrote: "Reminds me of something The tesidents would make. You're a pretty neat guy, Oddfellow."
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#prof. oddfellow #lucky penny #video #penetralia #ammut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 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 #gnome
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Greeting to those who leave all hope of interesting matter on the outside."  From the University of Arkansas' 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drunk #hallucination #dizzy #illustration #banks #melting architecture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #life and death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 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 #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #exclamation point #sign #protest
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Burgess Unabridged, by Gelett Burgess:

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[On the question of reviving archaic words.]
As for "Welkin," "Lush," and "Bosky"--who dares to lead their metric feet into the prim paths of prose? Let bygones be bygones.

***
My words will be imaginotions, penandinkumpoops, whimpusles, mere boojums rather than classic snarks, for I shall not construct “Portmanteau” words, like Lewis Carroll.

***
The frequent use of the “oo” will perhaps require an apology, and the almost equally merry “aw.” The other “long” vowels, such as “ee” and “ay” and “o” seemed inadequate to my use. Of consonants, my “G” is, no doubt, most frequent. “G” supplies spuzz to a word that can hardly be obtained elsewhere in the alphabet. “K” also has a bite, but it is frequently too suggestive for our delicate susceptibilities. “L”—what could one do in such a work, without the gentle liquid that euphonizes the most savage of consonants! Also I confess having fallen in love with the anapest.

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Oo´fle, n. 1. A person whose name you cannot remember. 2. A state of forgetfulness regarding a friend or thing.
Oo´fle, v. 1. To try to find out a person’s name without asking. 2. To talk to an unknown person without introducing him to a nearby friend.

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Tashivation. The art of answering without listening to questions.

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Tin´tid-dle, n. 1. An imaginary conversation. 2. A witty retort, thought of too late, a mental postscript.

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Unk. An unwelcome, inappropriate or duplicate present.

***
Wijjicle. A perverse household article, always out of order. [One of those recalcitrant "things"!]

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Zobzib. An amiable blunderer, one displaying misguided zeal.
***

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/59004/59004-h/59004-h.htm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hope College'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 #london
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Old News (permalink)
"Cave too cold for romance.  Youthful elopers go back to Newark."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#cave #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #robin #birdwatching
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mechanotherapy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myths by Tana Reiff.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paper Doll Poems by Pauline King, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #duck feet
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Old News (permalink)
Bad news: high school never ends.  From Current Sauce, 2006.
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#vintage headline #headline #high school
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.
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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 #vintage yearbook #greek #ocean #sea #this terrible problem that is the sea #shaking a fist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #mannequin #living mannequin
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February 2, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Entertainment for hams."  From 73 Magazine, 1966.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pig #radio #vintage magazine #1960s #ham radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #groundhog day
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1887 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #crown #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 #snoring
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The fire says that each of us came to this island empty and alone.  From St. Joseph's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How erasing happens.  From Kids and The Apple by Edward Carlson, 1983.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #arrow #pencil #eraser #erasing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Desoto's 1995 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arrow through the heart
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
St. Sebastian graffiti in Rome, courtesy of Megan Rosenbloom.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#graffiti #st. sebastian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Erskine College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant feet #big feet #big hands
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The single most important thing is …
  • to learn to stop
  • to make sure the right people are in the right place at the right time
  • not to thrust or over accentuate
  • to be on time
  • the song itself
  • to protect the key remaining pieces
  • to turn back and retake the road badly chosen
  • to follow your dream
  • to be observant
  • to get communications working better
  • that the trustee not be a friend or relative
  • not a single thing but many little things
  • that image has got to be right
  • to really know your boat
  • location
  • long-term agreements
  • to keep accurate records
  • the personal touch—being flexible and accommodating
  • blind, stupid, tunnel-vision self-confidence
  • not to reveal your password
  • the ability to figure out what is wrong
  • to rely very heavily on self-help, self-initiated efforts
  • to understand what the new realities of your society are
  • you, then your outfit
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]
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#bullet list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My face is my fortune."  From Chatterbox, 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 #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #throne #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Sandman: His Kittycat Stories by Harry Whittier Frees, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #winter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cinderella #fairy godmother #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrvcian Symbology by George Winslow Plummer, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #symbolism #rosicrucian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"He saw his finish.  You see the finish."  From Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #rattlesnake #rattler
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Now tell me something I don't know."  From Dark Shadows episode 1036.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine'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 #shark #swimming pool
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #vintage automobile #automobile
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1919 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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#timepiece #hand #jewelry #watch
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February 1, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"All over but the shouting."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #skeleton costume
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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 #past #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Annotated Ellipses (permalink)
A little row of dots that sees the night through.  From Someone and Somebody by Porter Emerson Browne, 1917.
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#ellipses
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign
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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 #fairy tale #buffalo
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you prominemt?"  From the University of Mississippi's 1947 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 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 #mythology #ship #starry night #argonauts #argo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #money #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #easter island #monolith
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Under the roof waiting for the storm's end, we found other things to talk about than rain."  From Eastern Mennonite College's 1973 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#rainy day #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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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#fish #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and illustrated by Edna Cooke anf Felix Darley, 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 #sleepy hollow #headless horseman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawings by John Leech, 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 #vintage fashion #dandy
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Old News (permalink)
"We all owe our lives to this tough roll of tape."  From Ohio State University's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The 'tortoise' costume for bashful diners. 'Oh, Mr. Smith, do you believe in Platonic love? I'm dying to know your opinion.'"  From Punch, 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 #bashful #turtle people #platonic love
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From "Is College Training Useful On the Farm?" in Lebanon Valley College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hay #pole vaulting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There's just a bit more to making a good cup of tea than we realized.  From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 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 #vintage diagram #tea #diagram
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