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February 29, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fabeln by by Peter Hagboldt, 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 #fable #mouse #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if leap year will be one long spring."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #leap year #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Rare white crow is seen.  Also albino squrrels and eels of varied freak colors."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#crow #squirrel #vintage headline #headline
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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 #virgo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Books as architectural materials.  From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When they start their campaign."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1945.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 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 #island #palm tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1925 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Men detest the intrusive powder puff."  From Movie Classic, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #1930s #makeup #woman #vintage woman #powder puff #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Omar Khayyám, from Wesleyan College's 1935 yearbook.
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#calligraphy #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #omar khayyam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Magnification of a jester.  From Scribner's 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 #jester #microscopic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Atlantic Christian's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You knew that dating can cost an arm and a leg, but apparently it can also cost a face.  From Improvement Era, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faceless #no face #dating #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#effigy #vintage yearbook #1950s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Book of Shadows by Don Paterson, 2005.
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#clock #aphorism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Muskingum College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #leap year
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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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling animal #smiling wolf
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #god #vintage headline #blame #headline
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February 28, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Life converges there, just at the public duck-pond."  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 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 #cricket #pond #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #1930s #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Cats do have personality."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1934.
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#cat #vintage photo #1930s #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Teaching a dog to read.  From Susquehanna University's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smart animal #pie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 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 #demon #imp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A goddess from Elmhurst's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goddess #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Run over by a pumpkin coach.  From Scribner's 1870.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #run over #pumpkin coach
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Thornton Junior College's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dunce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychology of Color and Design by Deborah Sharpe, 1981. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#faceless #no face #target #1980s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #elephant #animal attack #tarzan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  Nifty tie!  From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #lobster
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Those marked days.  What will they tell you?  Is fear of them shattering your health?"  From Movie Classic, 1933.
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#vintage ad #calendar #1930s #ad
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Old News (permalink)
From Dreams of Being Eaten Alive by David Rosenberg, 2001.
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#vintage headline #eaten alive #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage photo #costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1954 (first two stamps), 1955 (last two stamps).  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #postage stamp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1895 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 Chatterbox, 1892. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #lyre bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1940 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#shadow #vintage yearbook #1940s #doll #living toy #toy #living doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sandman's Mountain by Louis Dodge and illustrated by Paul Bransom, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear
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February 27, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An $80 round trip to Mexico, "more interesting than the old world," is about $2900 in today's inflation.  From The Wasp, 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 #vintage ad #cat #mexico #1900s #illustration #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Up with fun!"  From The Instructor, 1970.
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#vintage headline #fun #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Holy Cross College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #atlas #mythology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #holding up the sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #hell hole #hellhole #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Sandman's Mountain by Louis Dodge and illustrated by Paul Bransom, 1920.
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#eyebrows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #badminton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #illustration #king in a barrel #art
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Sea Monsters Unmasked by Henry Lee, 1883.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A vulnerable area.  From Rush Medical College's 1895 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #seat of the pants #trousers #pants
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Old News (permalink)
"Many sins mentioned."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePau University's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#ape #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #beauty and the beast #costume #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cat spreading crumbs."  From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1909 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 Human Culture, 1905.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #phrenology #character reading #diagram #bigamist
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #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 #dancing #native american #fire ceremony #fire dance
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Van Wagener's Ways, by W. L. Alden:

[These are precursors to the Professor Branestawm stories of Norman Hunter (complete with a sidekick who is a colonel). Bonus: They're set in a town called New Berlinopolisville.]




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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #heart #oz #1900s #illustration #tin woodman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio College of Dental Surgery's 1902 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
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Pucks wants to know if a top hat makes the head spin."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #top hat #1930s #illustration
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February 26, 2024

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #riddle #prof. oddfellow #music video #illustration #video #neons gone mad #sigfus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #makeup #lipstick #ad
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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 #hunger #aesop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #seasons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Money Bag, 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 #political cartoon #torture #dungeon #the rack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #hat #vintage man #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
From How In This World Can I Be Holy? by Erwin Lutzer, 1974.
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#vintage headline #holiness #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst'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 #1960s #ugly man
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Old News (permalink)
"Idol comes to life."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1950.
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#idol #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1925 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 #parasol
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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 #hot air balloon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #prohibition
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dancer #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You didn't have to answer like that.  Now I'll have to take another tranquilizer!"  From "The Mad Machine" (1975) by J. T. C.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #self medication #tranquilizer #hard times
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the West Tennessee State Teachers College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #wind #big hat #1900s #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #insect man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"As an item of furniture it was of no extraordinary value but for just a few people it had a special sigificance.  The sofa."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #furniture #sofa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When cats foresee the future."  From Your Incredible Cat: Understanding the Secret Powers of Your Pet by David Greene.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #psychic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From King's College's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lion #target #lion king
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Old News (permalink)
"You don't fly in a nest."  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#nest #vintage headline #headline
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February 25, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #alice in wonderland #illustration #eel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How strange your voice sounds!"  From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #monkey #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hamster
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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 #anthropomorphism #hen #illustration #nursery rhyme
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I got a million recipes how to cure it.  None of them work."  From Dark Shadows episode 35.

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#medicine #hangover #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hammond's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #endpapers #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcutter #woodsmen #burma #arborist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 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 #elf #firewood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem State College's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #1980s #paper bag head
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Utterly marvelous: temporal anomaly investigator Eight Cent snapped this photo at noon of a clock at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.  However, checking his camera's EXIF data, he discovered that it precisely matched the incorrect clock.  He then checked the time setting on the camera, which happened to be off by 6 hours and 40 minutes, precisely as the clock tower was off.  This is a perfect and spine-tingling example of how a rift in the fabric of space-time can affect all the chronographs in the vicinity.
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#clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bouquet and a brick.  From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy
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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 #knight #bow and arrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lawn bowling #bocce
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We hope you've brushed up enough on the 1920s to get this one.  From Motion Picture Classic, 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 hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard'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 #spears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hidden WItchery by Nigel Tourneur and decorated by Will Mein, 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 #castle #lily pond
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #ornate frame #chinese #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #pessimism #parachute #skydiving
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Old News (permalink)
"Grief did not impress him."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#grief #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fishing in a giant bowl of oyster soup.  From Susquehanna University's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #oyster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fishing #soup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 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 #flying machine
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February 24, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's stork in a giraffe chair carried by bears is from The Children's Newspaper, 1954.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #giraffe #illustration #stork #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The archetypal vortex.  From the Journal of Borderland Research, Vol XLV.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egg #vortex
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the queen, the maid, and the blackbird.  From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #king #1900s #hidden pictures
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose In Silhouettes by Katherine Gough Buffum, 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 #silhouette #house #house that jack built
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #castle #heidelberg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #tracking #yearbook #footprint #bloodhound
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Man Stanley by Philip Hamburger.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1903 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 #on all fours
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #spiritualism #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College'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 #tiger #big cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Swinging on a pendulum with the imp of three o'clock.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 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 #imp #clock #pendulum #swinging
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#death #cemetery #graveyard #skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"Come with us to the dimension called ... Beyond Reality."  From Beyond Reality, No. 27.
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#occult #supernatural #unreal #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Naught but nothing."  From The Aberree, 1956.  
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #rabbit man #carrot #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"How not to enjoy a sunny Sunday."  From Woroni, 2002.
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#vintage headline #anhedonia #headline #sunday
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #illustration
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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 #scarecrow #oz #illustration
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February 23, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The whole idea is preposterous and idiotic."  From Dark Shadows, episode 167.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Eskimo Twins, written and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 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 #twins #dog #seeing double #eskimo #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everyday Life in Prehistoric Times, written and illustrated by Marjorie & C. H. B. Quennell, 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 #elephant #illustration #prehistoric #mammoth #tusks
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Old News (permalink)
"Sandals on the dogs.  Hunters are equipping their dogs with shoes."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.  
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#dog #hunter #shoe #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dog who tried to run and leave his shadow far behind."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #dog #illustration
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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 #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #moon #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mouse's Tail by Helen Pettes and illustrated by Julia Greene, 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 #anthropomorphism #cat #mouse #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso University's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #light #lamp #flame #warmth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #winged man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lee's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #decision making
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reptiles and Amphibians by Feberal Writers' Project, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#snake #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Williams 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 #yearbook #mouse #calendar #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A crow pounced on the bit of paper and flew away with it."  From Chatterbox, 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 #crow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
His face is sewn up during hypnosis.  From How to Win by L. H. Anderson, 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 #hypnotist #hypnosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 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 #cake #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Estherian and Lanier Literary Societies of Anderson College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #heart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The constellation of the twelve powers of man.  From Christ Enthroned in Man by Cora Dedrick Fillmore, 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 #constellation #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram #occult diagram
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Idler, vol. 4 (1894):

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No man can tell the truth in the presence of mountains 14,000 feet high.

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Fortune is said to knock at every man's door at least once in a lifetime. It proves a runaway knock in many cases.
***

[A few notes re. some of the attachments]
1. The Jerome K. Jerome snippets are from a piece in which he converses with an anthropomorphized copy of the first book he published, many years before. (JKJ has told us that the cover design included an overly large "K," which you can see as the book's "nose" in the illustration.)
2. The "Neptune" and "David Copperfield" items are included simply because I thought they might appeal as out-of-context illustrations/captions.
3. The "One Author" item is from an illustrated article about trick photography.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#dragon #vintage illustration
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February 22, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sun #snowman #melting #illustration
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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 #anthropomorphism #fox #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The stars ask the moon, "What are we?"  From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #moon #stars #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Enthrone art in daily life."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1950.
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#vintage headline #headline #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem State College's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Night visitors."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 DePauw's 1911 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #cauldron #poison #vintage yearbook #skulls #yearbook #fraternities #secret society #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We'll lure strange peoples to our shores, as we are lured today."  From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 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 #skyline #city #skyscraper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We enlarged the face of this entity.  From Cleveland Technical's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 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 #underwater #fish
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois' 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 #musician #tuba
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 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 #hedgehog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #feet #boulder #1970s #rock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #window
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Ghoul-days!"  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1930s #ghoul
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Old News (permalink)
"Even orchids are weeds in wrong garden."  From The Aberree, 1961.
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#flower #vintage headline #orchid #headline #weed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #vintage yearbook #worship #boot
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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 #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Study subjects are bottled as poison in this bit of anti-intellectualism from Park College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #poison #doctor #vintage yearbook #pharmacist
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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 #fire bird #bird #native american
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February 21, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The sailing car."  From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 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 #boat #illustration #amphibious car #sail
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #penetralia #pet rock #grave mood rings
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He's all fingers and thumbs.  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.  Speaking of glove people, see if you recall this glove entity we encountered earlier.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #glove #glove people #ad
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you dream of a quadrille, be sure to dance it and not merely watch!  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #dancing #symbolism #quadrille
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to the title page.

Asbestos Phoenix
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#vintage book #phoenix #book #animated gif
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Old News (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
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#dancing #vintage headline #headline #waltz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Revealed: the signpost at a crossroads is the axis of a merry-go-round.  From Joplin 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 #carousel #merry-go-round #crossroad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anchor #drunk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Extremely dry talcum powder is here likened to ocean spray.  From Motion Picture Classic, 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 #vintage ad #surfing #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State University of New York College at Oneonta's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smile #graffiti
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Afar in his ice-bound palace."  From Little Snow White (written and illustrated by various), 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 #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #chinese #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Jupiter as it would appear if it were the same distance from earth as the moon."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #starry night #jupiter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic Magazine, 1953.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #hallucination
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana Dental College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
If the world isn't your oyster, you can always make an oyster your world.  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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#oyster #vintage headline #headline
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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 #chicken #poultry #track
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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 #candle #goodnight
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February 20, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Argus, 1991.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #depression #weltschmerz #melancholy #world weary
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Salem State College's 1985 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window display #1980s #neon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kitty and Her Kits by Frances Crompton et al. and illustrated by Harriet Bennett et al., 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 #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles.  From Purdue's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #owl #winking owl #winking animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Who's got my pickle?"  From Henderson State University's 1975 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1918.
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#cat #vintage fashion #vintage hollywood #vintage woman
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Sundials (permalink)
Sundial and snowdial.  From the University of Illinois' 1931 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #mirror #magic mirror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage diagram #diagram #lunar halo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation #secret society #hooded figure #fratrenity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Idler, volume 3 (1893-4):

***
Mr. Craven, in addition to his artistic knowledge, is a perfect ambulatory encyclopedia.

***
He presented rather a comical appearance, with his crush-hat on one side of his head like the leaning tower of Pisa. [See attached.]
***

[Bonus: a reference to one's "emotional geometry"]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903. 
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tag yourself.  From Barnard College's 1922 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #three heads #illustration #three-headed
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February 19, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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Old News (permalink)
"Sky-shrieking.  Man's insults to the beauty of Nature are many, but to exploit 'this brave overhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire,' is surely the last word in the degradation and vulgarity of man, the huckster."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Your Ship Will Come In (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 #ship
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Holy Cross College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mythology #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #satyr
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He could leave his head on the bank, when in swimming, with Gus to watch it."  From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #severed head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lycoming's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight lifter #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lovely archetypal characters like these, from old theatrical books, can be used to create your own divination deck.  We explain the easy process in this article.  This particular set of characters is from Let's Pretend: A Book of Children's Plays by Lindsey Barbee, 1917.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western College's 1918 yearbook.

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#devil #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #woman #vintage woman #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'That is an end of you,' she said.  But she was wrong, for it was only the beginning."  From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Old News (permalink)
"His kingdom is a horse!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Our custom Uncanny Detector app identified this as a haunted statue.  From Rockford College's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue
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Old News (permalink)
"Cat and 'spook' scare each other."  From The Aberree, 1961.
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#ghost #cat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoe #kicking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Psychology by John William Taylor, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #brain #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Newton Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Myriads of worlds."  From The Instructor, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Practice For Tip, Tip and Mitten, The Big Show by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten
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February 18, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #puppet #illustration #paper bag
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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.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Q: "Is your chalkboard ignored?"
A: Yes, woefully so.
From The Instructor, 1958.
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#vintage photo #chalkboard #teacher #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #sheet ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #crushed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #priestess #oracle #delphic #pythia #delphi
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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 #native american #tail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1903 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #1900s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
His eyes follow you, whether you're to his left or right.  A spirit medium's portrait of the Atlantian chief Orondo.  From Gallery of Spirit Art, Aug. 1882.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Two bits from farcewriter Thomas J. Williams, Esq.:

1. A great subtitle:
I've Written to Browne: A Needless Stratagem

2. [Attached] A precursor to Cluedo

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #chinese #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat grinder #sausage
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Old News (permalink)
"Animals' idea of freedom different from man's."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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#humanitarianism #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #cowboy #surveying
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Old News (permalink)
"Diseased or vicious fool."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #letter a #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's phoenix in a wreath of waterilies is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #phoenix #illustration
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February 17, 2024

Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
86707 34347
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#vintage illustration #angel #life after death #vision #near death experience #afterlife #cherubs #tunnel #light at the end of it #light at the end of the tunnel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #student #giant books #study
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Old News (permalink)
From The Triumph of Meanness by Nicolaus Mills.
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#vintage headline #headline #meanness
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Old News (permalink)
"Entertain the time with thoughts."  From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #thinking #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Clarion's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Using a mirror to facilitate self-help.  "He found that he was offering his hand to himself."  From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #reflection #self help
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Tears that grew a garden.  In Butchart gardens, rainbows now fill the pit."  From The Instructor, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #tears #garden
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A "21" constellation.  From Western College's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #constellation #night sky #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stars #starry night
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Old News (permalink)
Great news: "The so-called problem is no problem at all!"  From Improvement Era, 1965.
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#vintage headline #good news #headline #no problem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College of South Carolina's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #incense #chinese #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #musician #bookplate
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1919.
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#thin ice #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Talking Lion, No. 5, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #smart animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawings Descriptive of Spirit Life and Progress, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #angel #spirit #spiritualism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Track sure has changed over the years.  From Miami University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #archer
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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.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson Colleges 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #throne
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A joke about what you get when cross an elephant with a jar of peanut butter.  From I Dream of Jeannie, season 4, episode 12.
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#i dream of jeannie #joke
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell College's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tug of war #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"A great day for birds."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#bird #vintage headline #headline
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February 16, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #cow #1900s #switzerland #illustration #swiss
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not all cats are strictly zoological.  For example, see How to Be Your Own Cat.  From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Very high-numbered playing cards as shirts.  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #playing cards #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #bubble pipe #yearbook #soap bubbles #blowing bubbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She will turn into a doll."  From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #transformation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#book #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Snake House (and its basement entrance).  From Western College's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #door #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #spirit writing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Where will you invest your 100,000 hours?"  From the University of Dayton's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any rotting corpses on your path be six feet under.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #living dead #horror #zombie #undead #corpse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winking animal
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Old News (permalink)
From Here I Am to Worship by Tim Hughes (2004) and How In This World Can I Be Holy? by Erwin Lutzer (1974).
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#vintage headline #holiness #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Open sesame!"  From the Estherian and Lanier Literary Societies of Anderson College's 1916 yearbook.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #door #open sesame
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't marry a stranger.  How often have you suddenly realized someone you've known a long time was actually a complete stranger?"  From Flying Saucer News, 1963.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My Life as a Small Boy, by Wally Cox:


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mound #anthill #ant #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greenbrier Military School's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #vintage yearbook #yearbook #in the clouds #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #bodhisattva #tibetan
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February 15, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
[In the narration, for "between" please substitute "betwixt" (my bad).]
Is Land Between the Lakes haunted?  (Yes.)  We took a spirit radio to America's 170,000-acre necropolis.
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#ghost #cemetery #graveyard #occult #ghost hunter #prof. oddfellow #spirit radio #tennessee #ghost hunting #video #penetralia #land between the lakes #kentucky #ghosthunter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany We Grow Up by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1930s #illustration #hiding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elements of Interior Decoration by Augustus Sherrill Whiton, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #furniture
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Old News (permalink)
"Life a thing apart.  The quick and the dead.  No man can discover the beginnings of it all."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #circus #costume #butterfly costume #butterfly people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All by Edgar Dubs Shimer and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fox #crab
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shinto, The Way of the Gods by William George Aston, 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 #japan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #skull and crossbones #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 #tree spirit #faces in things #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Winter formal.  From Baptist Bible College of Pennsylvania's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#snowman #vintage yearbook #costume #snowman costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFT Folio, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #radio #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 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 #airship #dirigible #blinp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pulled by gunpowder.  From Lebanon Valley College's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sleigh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 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 #nightmare #moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun.
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#cat #backwards #animal intelligence #smart animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bird headed #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #bird man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing stars #illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From How the Old World Found the New by Barnard and Tall, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #ship #illustration #galleon
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February 14, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (1922).
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#vintage illustration #sled #1920s #illustration #horse sled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #1920s #tentacles #illustration #squid
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Old News (permalink)
"Danger is not now imminent."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #big mouth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #zipper #silenced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #chinese #valentine #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #valentine's day
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #mouse #puss in boots #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kak, the Copper Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Violet Irwin and illustrated by George Richards, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eskimo #igloo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Official UFO, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #intuition #psychic #mindpower #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A cross-dressing dancing club from the Estherian and Lanier Literary Societies of Anderson College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cross dressing #women #vintage women #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #heart
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The gray light of early morning brings no relief."  From Dark Shadows episode 5.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #cat people #tiger man #1910s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #bear #valentine's day #crossword puzzle
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The Right Word (permalink)
A spell to conjure a playfellow from the woods, from the equally delightful and rare The Unicorn with Silver Shoes by Ella Young and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
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#magic spell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #earth #cupid #faces in things #valentines
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"That handy 'three-finger rule.'"  From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Reverse universe."  From Astounding, 1936.
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#science fiction #mirror world #vintage headline #headline #parallel world
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February 13, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mill That Charles Built, A New Game of Forfeits, 1820.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #illustration #1820s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I feel like a spider."  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 #radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Picture Show Annual, 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 #vintage ad #dancing #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #broom #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Milwaukee Downer College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #feb. 13
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"When a grizzly charges."  From The Instructor, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear #grizzly bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern Illinois State Teachers College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where the Wind Blows by Katharine Pyle and illustrated by Bertha Corson Day, 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 #japanese #turtle #fishing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #prisoner #ball and chain #weight of the world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Luminous waves envelope pedestrians."  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #strange light #vintage diagram #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #humor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#book #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to overlay the Mikamwes within.
From Weaving Ourselves Into the Land by Thomas Parkhill.

From Weaving Ourselves Into the Land by Thomas Parkhill
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#native american #gif
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Private Secretary:

[A hat tip to farce scholar Huberman]


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 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 #scarecrow #oz #1900s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College'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 #artist #painter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Never give in."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"You know what you're doing, but nobody else does."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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February 12, 2024

Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the University of Tennessee, Knoxville's 1922 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh, shoot!"  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 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 #despair #frustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #satyr #faun
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the inner bat.
From The Mystery of the Night Explorers by Mary Adrian.

From The Mystery of the Night Explorers by Mary Adrian
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#bat #vintage book #book #animated gif
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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.
86586 20777
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#vintage illustration #mythology #fire #castle #on fire #hybrid #walter scott #conflagration #burning castle #burning up #dog headed #dog man
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The Right Word (permalink)
Bird calls, cat calls, moose calls, wolf calls, phone calls.  From Joplin Junior College's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pen Drawings and Pen Draughtsmen by Joseph Pennell, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window #abandoned #tiny window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sports #football
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1932 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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Old News (permalink)
"I can sleep when the wind blows."  From The Instructor, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #wind #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1921 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Raphael's Witch!!! by Jonathan Blewitt, 1831.
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#vintage illustration #witch #occult #vintage book #book #oracle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoe #out of the ordinary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #shakespeare #cape #illustration #king lear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A labeled "ah," apparently.  From Salve Regina College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage diagram #vintage yearbook #ah
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We like fat men in little round hats."  From Welcome to Our City by Julian Street, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #cigar #fat man
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Old News (permalink)
"Appointment for parting."  From Improvement Era, 1942.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1892 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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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#religion #vintage illustration #harpy #batman #human headed #bat man #illustration #arrow pierced #art #anti-religion
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February 11, 2024

Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"700 miles an hour towards the sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#sun #end of the world #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Shall We Draw? by Adrian Hill.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #many armed #fourteen arms
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Falling through a hollow tree.  From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 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 #falling #up a tree #hollow tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Golf and card games combined.  From Motion Picture Classic, 1930.
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#golf #1930s #vintage hollywood #lawn game #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ontario Agricultural College's 1947 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seed #farming #sowing seed #sowing seeds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1954.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #world #earth #oil can
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #giant bottle #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
From "A Demon's Nightmare" by J. T. C. (1972).
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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #comedy and tragedy
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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 #bear #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1917 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #transformation #metamorphosis #evolution #bottle
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You see, the gods told him the secret magic number of the universe, the number which unlocks all the rules that bind you mortals to your daily dull lives.  The number is whispered so deeply into the soul that no one can remember it without using the magic."  From Dark Shadows episode 358.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College'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 #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Irish Fairy Book by Alfred Perceval Graves and illustrated by George Denham, 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 #fairy tale #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1914 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)

The street is named after this clock tower which doesn't tell time in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee.  "As if time lost all sense of itself and forgot to move forward, a man caught in thick fog arguing with himself over what day it is" (Linda Nemec Foster, Talking Diamonds).

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#temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #bear #1930s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We've seen figures cut out of photographs, but too often we forget that the cutout reveals the figures "light body" that continues to thoughtfully dwell in the scene.  From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #cutout
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #boat #illustration #anti-coloring
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February 10, 2024

Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
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#neons gone mad #wunderfish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #falling #diving #seasons
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1979 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #unemployment #get a job
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess Belle-Etoile by Walter Crane, 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 #mirror #dragon #knight #shield #hydra #man headed
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Woman's College of Baltimore's 1899 yearbook.
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#vintage ad #photography #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #vintage man #man #multigraph #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #imp #elf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Joseph's College's 1969 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #rude awakening #snoopy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales of Tricksters by Pleasant DeSpain.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #alligator #jackal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1912 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #boat #drawbridge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University's 1926 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #throne
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 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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#vintage illustration #wind #long hair #1960s #vintage hair #woman #vintage woman #hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's Platonic cactus is from the University of Arizona's 1953 yearbook.  See This Book is a Cactus.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cactus #plato
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 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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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1913 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #whisper #tree spirit #silence #secret #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #tree face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A lover's lament written in Siberian ideographic script.  From The Unesco Courier, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #symbolism #ideograph #siberian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rollerskating as the earth turns below.  From Earlham College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rollerskates #on top of the world
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #automaton #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1900 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 #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"By 2030 two or three simple costumes will have been devised for men—one for formal occasions , one for all workaday purposes.  Each will be as rational, as well-suited to its purpose, and as healthy as the clothes which women wear to-day."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage fashion #prediction
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February 9, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Giraffes "borrowing" acacia leaves.  Wonder if they'll return them next season.  From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giraffe #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We should immediately ...
  • cover ourselves in camouflage nets
  • apply a dozen or more leeches
  • take action to undo the contorted posture of inaction into which we have been twisted by events of the past few years
  • bring forth a mind of respect 
  • confess our faults
  • pull back our forces
  • think of the Buddha's name
  • establish a modern communication policy
  • recall the faults of anger
  • get a truer glimpse of the inner struggles
  • set up a complete blockade
  • reduce our unnecessarily large consumption of butter and condensed milk
  • engage in prayer
  • stress that there is no better fuel than uncertainty to promote speculation
  • end the chaos
  • create a file folder
  • consult with our allies
  • tune the transmitter to that frequency and answer when the calling station gives the invitation
  • change the basic equations of both kinematics and dynamics
  • extricate ourselves
  • recognize the necessity of making plain the ambiguity of the terms as the very first step in our explanation
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.]
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#list
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
"Alice blue and dormouse brown."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1947.
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#alice in wonderland #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Woman has long sleep.  Dozed off five days ago and is still slumbering."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#sleep #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old and New Japan by Clive Holland, 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 #boat #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Kabbalistic Tree of Life in Field Radio Relay Techniques (1957).
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #radio #diagram #kabbalah #tree of life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bandage #first aid
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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 #pumpkin #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #swarm #bugs #insect attack
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #bear #hidden picture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
Lost words from a prayer are hovering about you.  From California Sunshine by Lillian Hinman Shuey, 1888.
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#prayer #lost words
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #processional #musician #marching band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #globe #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magnifying glass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unesco Courier, 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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#sculpture #three faces #three faced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kirksville College of Osteopathy and Surgery's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 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 #halo
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Late Victorian Farce, by Jeffrey H. Huberman:

***
The windows and especially the doors of an enclosed set (in contrast to the open pathways of flat wings) provided a physical and audible mechanism for allowing characters bearing complications to appear or disappear with a literal bang....The doors of a box set...served as concrete representations of suspense through which a character might burst at any moment, sending the plot off in a new, frantic direction.
***

[A few more snippets attached--as you'll see, the farce scholar likes to do the math! It's also fun to encounter new-to-me terminology for familiar devices, e.g., "object-chase" and "parrot speech." Btw, I sought Confusion online and began reading it, but imo it didn't live up to this synopsis. As with Victorian farces I've explored in the past, the dramatis personae (including, in this instance, Mortimer Mumbleford, Christopher Blizzard, and Miss Lucretia Tickleby) were pretty much the highlight.]

[Bonus: I notice that a play called The Great Pink Pearl debuted, appropriately enough, at the Strand.]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Arm in arm she and the Dreamer would often walk along the shaded dream-paths."  From Collier's, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #dream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 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 #eagle #vintage book #book #native american #1930s #illustration
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February 8, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #jonathan caws-elwitt #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Classic Myths In Art by Julia de Wolf Addison, 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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#statue #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss In Boots and Reynard the Fox by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Louise E. Norris, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #lion #illustration #lion king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Joey and the Pig by Arthur Gates, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #illustration #measuring
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #cat people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myself and I by Helen Van Valkenburgh and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 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 #easter bunny #rabbit #tree #bunny #egg
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The Right Word (permalink)
The title page of *** [Asterisk Asterisk Asterisk] by Michael Brodsky, 1994.
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#title page #asterisk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College'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 #yearbook #sculpture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #up a tree #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Who's in all those saucers?"  From Flying Saucers International, 1966.
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#ufo #martian #vintage headline #headline #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #yearbook #book #midnight oil #tiny man #oil lamp #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This time we knew it was the last one and felt elated and a little sentimental too."  From Tufts University's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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 #moon #cat #reflection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #outer space #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 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 #gun #mustache #desperado
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Old News (permalink)
"Ideal."  From Susquehanna University's 1898 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ideal #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage magazine #illustration #1950s #magazine
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February 7, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored to be epigraphed in I Don't Know How to Behave by Michael Blouin.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#wolf #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #advice #illustration #face shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hunter #moose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Whither goest thou?"  From Tufts University's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poetry magazine, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The World of Wonders, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #flying machine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 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 #horse #clown
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
"A horseless elopement."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene College's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #mule #strange law
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Machine World, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat #phonograph #record #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I know that sounds tactless, but I said it deliberately."  From Dark Shadows episode 463.
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#dark shadows #tact
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #blindfold #fraternity #vintage yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Excuse me!  Inner cleanliness is important too."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #shaving #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Facing life, death, heartbreak, pain."  From Walla Walla College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Application of Art to Manufactures by George Mason, 1858.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #chandelier
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Missouri Southern State University's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #path
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn 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 #monster #asher
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1942.
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#cat #vintage photo #1940s #photo
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February 6, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in Trigger Warning by Mick Hume.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 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 #insect #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Even drawings of trees mysteriously glow in old yearbooks.  From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
All the rage: a combination lamp and phonograph.  The Lampagraph, Modernola, Retola, and Fairy.  From The Talking Machine World, 1920.
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#vintage ad #phonograph #1920s #lamp #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate
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Sundials (permalink)
From The [Montreat] Sun Dial, 1927.
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#sundial #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas University's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world
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Old News (permalink)
"You can't trust women," says Gary Cooper in Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mystery and Lore of Apparitions by C. J. S. Thompson, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #illustration #white lady
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Boa constrictor versus wild boar: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #boa constrictor #animal fight #boar
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Old News (permalink)
"Rah-rah and so forth."  From Valparaiso University's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #rah rah #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Best candle boat surprise we've seen all week.  From St. Nicholas, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #candle #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #tornado #waterspout
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine #dope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rainbow String by Algernon Tassin and illustrated by Anna Richards Brewster, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #throne #queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1942 yearbook.

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

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Eagle Mystery, by Geraldine Bonner:

***
[Writes a first-person narrator:]
She's important in this story—I guess you'd call her the heroine—for though the capital "I"s are thick in it, you've got to see that letter as nothing more than a hand holding a pen.

***
"Bully!" I cried out, forgetting my language in my excitement.

***
My heart gave a leap and then began to fox trot.

***
Teetering from his heels to his toes, a grin on him like the slit in a post box....

***
"Not a thing to do with it, hasn't a suspicion of it, no more involved in it than that sparrow there," he pointed to a sparrow that had lit on the step near-by. "I've had setbacks in my profession before—but this!" He stopped, stuck his hands into his pockets and stared blankly at the sparrow.

***
Babbitts spent the morning on the davenport looking like he was in a boat floating through a sea of newspapers.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #oz #1900s
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February 5, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited in the Encyclopedia of Mythological Objects by Theresa Bane.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Discreet agreement."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 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 #king #king arthur #queen #kissing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 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 #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #limerick #poem
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Old News (permalink)
"A house is not a home without a lion."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1955.
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#lion #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nipper (of "his master's voice" fame) is forced to walk the plank by music bootleggers.  From The Record Changer, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #his master's voice #pirate #walking the plank #bootlegger #nipper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle #vampire #1890s #letter v
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rat versus cobra: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #cobra #rat #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Adelbert College's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"Dead body tells all."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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#living dead #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Concordia College'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 #vintage yearbook #harp #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #food
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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 #dragon #wyvern #heraldry #lindworn
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1925 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Charles Viewer, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #moon #tarot #lobster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling skull
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Old News (permalink)
"The world we view, we take with us."  From The Aberree, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #reincarnation #mirror #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s
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February 4, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Fly with us up and down Ober Mountain in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
81
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#tennessee #video #ober mountain #ober gatlinburg #gatlinburg #tram
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
Here's a strange prayer about canned beef.  From Ohio State University's 1894 yearbook.
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#prayer #meat #canned meat #canned beef #potted meat #potted beef
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 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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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#anthropomorphism #book #faces in things #faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fairy #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #quill pen
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #barbed wire #pronunciation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #needle and thread #the end #sewing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #bird #night #nightingale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern State Teachers College's 1929 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 #sculptor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 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 #inkblot #dog #1900s #illustration #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #advice #safety
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hidden agenda."  From String Puller Philosophy by Peter Schumann, 2009.
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#vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From short pieces by Julian Barnes:

[from "Experiment"]
Uncle Freddy was indecently foursquare: he seemed to have his thumbs in his waistcoat pockets even when wearing a two-piece suit.

[from the preface to Essays on France]
From Cany-Barville to Thury-Harcourt: did all French villages have such solemn hyphenation? None of that Something-upon-Whatsit, Thingummy-in-the-Tum-Tum.
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Old News (permalink)
"'Doomsday' book closed.  Ancient volume discarded."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #doomsday
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seesaw #illustration #1910s #fulcrum
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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 #buffalo #illustration
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February 3, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Year-Round Fun by Gates & Riordan, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #camp #summer camp
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Old News (permalink)
"If the world grows sane again.  Almost impossible."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage headline #headline #mad world
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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.
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#vintage illustration #beard #oz
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Old News (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dungeon Master: Perfect Guide.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #insect #potato bug #farmer #pest
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1903 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #cowgirl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Assumption College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #chalkboard #star #teacher #1960s #professoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 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 #comet #star #shooting star
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein'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 #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #hunter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pembroke's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art #cubism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pola Negri.  From Shadowland, 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 #caricature #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #noah's ark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 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 #barn #hayloft
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1970s #half and half
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February 2, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's game of "hide and sheep" is from Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sheep #1900s #illustration #hiding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #living toy #toy
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The Right Word (permalink)
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#sentence diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #umbrella #vintage yearbook #yearbook #professor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 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 #father time
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college  From Memphis State's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #monocle #1920s #muffler #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #animal attack #tiger #hunter #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nursery rhyme
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A favorite household dog, to shield from harm,
A maiden kind, has knit some stockings warm.
Wishing to keep his dog-ship warm and neat,
She closely draws the stockings on his feet;
Growler feels awkward as he walks about.
He needs them not—he’s well enough without.
From The Handbook of Illustrated Proverbs by John Barber, 1857.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #mittens #dog clothes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #letter s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Bewitched" by J. T. C. (1972).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #dungeon #cruddy #creeping crud
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pen Drawings and Pen Draughtsmen by Joseph Pennell, 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 #drinking horn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'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 #illustration #footprint
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Old News (permalink)
"Wives are unsatisfied."  From Woroni, 1959.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Highlights from Vanity Fair, December 1916:

Harry Grant Dart (who it seems was better known as a cartoonist) has a humor piece about being a perpetual "extra man" for formal dinners. Two snippets attached, and here's a bonus: "Mrs. Effington-Smith" (which I'd call an effing good made-up name).

Then Wodehouse (if my guess is correct as to who the pseudonymous author really is) does the math on reading from left to right. (Cf. moments in the PGW canon such as, "Reading from left to right, the contents of the bed consisted of Pauline Stoker in my heliotrope pyjamas with the old gold stripe.") Three additional snippets come from PGW's theater pieces.

The snippet about literalness was the highlight, imho, of a full piece in defense of literal-minded people; but if you want to view that in its entirety, it's here:
https://archive.org/details/sim_vanity-fair_1916-12_7_4/page/160/mode/2up?view=theater

I thought you might enjoy seeing a bit about books arranged by spine color in the 1916 wild; finally, my own math tallies three Franks in Colby's headline: his name, his confessions, and (via the historical Franks) the French.

 

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Egypt of the Past by Erasmus Wilson, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #statue #colossi
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February 1, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #doughnut #innuendo #video #penetralia #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Easy Growth In Reading Workbook to Accompany I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Roy, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if men of letters are men of few words."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's what "preface" actually means.  From Ohio State University's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #preface
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1927.
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#headdress #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #sleigh
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From London Bible Institute's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #jesus #bees #honey #beehive
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Bradley Tech, 1928.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #winter #fur coat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reincarnation Now by James Bryce, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #giraffe man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1825.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #butterfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Down the well.  From Mysteria, 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 #well #ladder #descent
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's book in ballet slippers is from Wilson College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #ballet
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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 #anthropomorphism #horse #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill'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 #chicken #rooster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 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 #castle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 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 #tree spirit #rabbit
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Old News (permalink)
No news is good news: "Quiet reported in Mexico City."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #no news is good news
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people #cat headed #illustration #smart animal #literate animal #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #owl #quill pen
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