CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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February 28, 2025

Strange Dreams (permalink)
"I know what it's like to have strange dreams and terrible thoughts."  From Passions episode 92.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dreams #passions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 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 diagram #dancing #native american #1920s #diagram #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #vegetables
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley 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 #faces in things #trumpet #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pig #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The many shapes of the voodoo."  From the United States Air Force Academy's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #voodoo #vintage yearbook #air force #jet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's candle pushing a test tube up some steps is from Wilson College's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #candle #test tube
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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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#vintage illustration #zoo #giraffe #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jackal #hyena
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #clown #joke
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1945 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #archery #god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May corrosive slimes not be included in your day's worries (as they were in our previous encounter with them).  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #slime
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed photo haunts Kent State University's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #cursed #cursed photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Hand Magazine, 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 #long hair #foot worship
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Eating the cone first does have its disadvantages."  From Wheaton College's 1964 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #ice cream #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Veve-inspired art.  From Today magazine, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #artist #vévé
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"Sliced his cake and ate his chocolates in the search for diamonds."  From the Duluth Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #diamonds #cake #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)


Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From On the Road to Arden, by Margaret Morse

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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"America amuses herself."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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#vintage headline #headline
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February 27, 2025

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Cody Nicholas shares this sighting in Los Angeles at the intersection of 14th Street & Pico Boulevard.
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#temporal anomaly
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#prof. oddfellow #fog #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vanity Fair, 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #facial hair #1920s #mustache #illustration #moustache #whiskers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #winter #jack frost #window #freezing #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The worst of being at the seaside is that one loses touch with things."  From Punch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #seaside #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Mommy likes mud, too.  From Improvement Era, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #bucket #vintage headline #mud #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1925 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #princess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Pamela Colman Smith.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #stagecoach #pamela colman smith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941. 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #bird #bird's eye view
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1895 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #gong
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #jester #bubble pipe #blowing bubbles #soap bubble
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1899 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #devil #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nun
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Old News (permalink)
"Some folks like to ask questions.  Some folks like to answer them."  From The Film Daily, 1925.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1929 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #airplane
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Old News (permalink)
"'Alcohol free' drinks.  Those who drink them die quicker than regular topers."  From the Duluth Herald, 1906.
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#alcohol #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As wearers of genuine mop wigs, we confirm the authenticity of this photo.  From Ohio University's 1963 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #1960s #mop wig
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Old News (permalink)
"Dante was wrong."  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#dante #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1925 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #history
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Must life have meaning."  From McGill Daily, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #jester #meaning of life
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College's 1969 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#giant #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #1960s #photo
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Old News (permalink)
"Were fairies the aliens of the past?"  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2004.
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#fairy #wales #vintage headline #aliens #headline
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February 26, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#werewolf #vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #analog horror #indie comedy #indie horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #nature #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I am that which has been, which is, which will be, and no one has yet lifted the veil that covers me."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.  
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#mystery #goddess #vintage headline #headline #isis #unknowable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#ufo #abductee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #vintage magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"When all the people are made out of wood, they build their houses of bones" (Pearls Before Swine).  From the University of Houston's 1971 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1970s #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moving Picture World, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #world #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #faces in things #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1930 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #boar #boar man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Projection of the Astral Body by Sylvan J. Muldoon and Hereward Carrington, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #occult #astral body #astral travel #out of body #spirit body
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1918 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A continuous group of four figures."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin, in Essay de Papillonneries Humaines (1756).  Via LifeTakesLemons.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #butterfly people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's fairy tennis is from Greensboro College's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Trousers for married women, but spinsters may not legally wear them, says magistrate."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #cross dressing #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Texas State University's 1966 yearbook.

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#witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #hat #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #box office
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cinderella, illustrated by the Brothers Dalziel, c. 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #levitation #spoon #illustration
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February 25, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Healthful Living, Based on the Essentials of Physiology by Jesse Feiring Williams, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #posture #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #swimming #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889. 
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #china #carriage #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #tight space #trapped in a box
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat #elephant #dog
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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 #bear #three bears
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Richmond's 1922 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Human Skull, A Cultural History by Folke Henschen.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Shootin' the bull."  From Concordia Teachers College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bull #rifle #idiom
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Old News (permalink)
At first glance, we thought he was preaching to large red deer, not to the grand lodge of a fraternal organization.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #elk #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mice #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Meat-Eaters by Lucy Guernsey, 1858.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #butterfly #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"No one's out there."  Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seifeld to be the first show about nothing. 
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #cape
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Septimus, by William J. Locke:

***
She would plunge into the great swelling sea of Life. She would drink sunshine and fill her soul with laughter. She would do a million hyperbolic things, the mention of which mightily confused her mother.

***
"Why should you be happier if I took care of your money?"
"I shouldn't spend it. I might meet a man who wanted to sell me a gas-engine."
"But you needn't buy it."
"These fellows are so persuasive, you see. At Rotterdam last year, a man made me buy a second-hand dentist's chair."
"Are you a dentist?" asked Zora.
"Lord, no! If I were I could have used the horrible chair."
"What did you do with it?"
"I had it packed up and despatched, carriage paid, to an imaginary person at Singapore."
He made this announcement in his tired, gentle manner, without the flicker of a smile. He added, reflectively—
"That sort of thing becomes expensive. Don't you find it so?"
"I would defy anybody to sell me a thing I didn't want," she replied.
"Ah, that," said he with a glance of wistful admiration, "that is because you have red hair."
[...]
"What has my red hair to do with it?" she asked pleasantly.
"It was a red-haired man who sold me the dentist's chair."

***
"Why are you called Septimus?"
"I'm the seventh son. All the others died young. I never could make out why I didn't."
"Perhaps," said Zora with a laugh, "you were thinking of something else at the time and lost the opportunity."

***
"Some fellows have a gift for collecting Toby jugs. Everywhere they go they discover a Toby jug. I couldn't find one if I tried for a year."

***
"I feel as if I had been talking to a typhoon," said Septimus.
[N.B. He really means a (metaphorical) typhoon--it's not the clichéd malapropism for "tycoon."]

***
When she came to examine the poor dragon in the cool light of her own reason it appeared at the worst to be but a pushful patent medicine of an inferior order which, on account of its cheapness and the superior American skill in distributing it, was threatening to drive Sypher's Cure off the market.
"I'll strangle it as Hercules strangled the dog-headed thing," cried Sypher.
He meant the Hydra, which wasn't dog-headed and which Hercules didn't strangle. But a man can be at once unmythological and sincere.

***
Thus it fell out that Septimus heard of Mordaunt Prince, whose constant appearance in Emmy's London circle of friends Zora had viewed with plentiful lack of interest.

***
Mrs. Middlemist, looking like a rose in June, had already irradiated the wan November garden. Miss Oldrieve he likened to a spring crocus, and Septimus (with a slap on the back) could choose the vegetable he would like to resemble.

***
"You always think of Zora."
"To think of her," replied Septimus, vaguely allusive, "is a liberal education."

***
[The cab] was haunted by the ghosts of a fourpenny cigar and a sixpenny bottle of scent which continued a lugubrious flirtation.

***
"The Vicar will be so shocked and hurt—and what Cousin Jane will say when she hears of it—"
She raised her mittened hands and let them fall into her lap. The awfulness of Cousin Jane's indignation transcended the poor lady's powers of description.

***
"'You know me.'—And I does, ma'am. The outlandish things he does, ma'am, would shock an alligator.—'I should forget the day,' says he. 'I should lose the ring. I should marry the wrong party.'"

***
Septimus, with his mild blue eyes and upstanding hair, looking like the conventional picture of one who sees a ghost....

***
They spoke in French, for only one word of English had Hégisippe and his aunt between them, and that being "Howdodogoddam" was the exclusive possession of the former.

***
"I also don't see how I can get out of the Hôtel Godet. I've been there some time, and I don't know how much to give the servants in tips. The only thing is to stay on."

***
"Humph!" said Cousin Jane.
If the late Rev. Laurence Sterne had known Cousin Jane, "Tristram Shandy" would have been the richer by a chapter on "Humphs." He would have analyzed this particular one with a minute delicacy beyond the powers of Clem Sypher through whose head rang the echo of the irritating vocable for some time afterwards.

***
"The atmosphere," said Rattenden, "is so rarified that the kettle refuses to boil properly. That is why we always have cold tea at literary gatherings."

***
She began to wonder whether she was not chasing the phantom of a wild goose.
[A *ghost* of a wild goose surely one-ups a plain old wild goose, eh?]

***
"[The baby is] in Paris just now."
"Paris?" she echoed.
"Oh, he's not by himself, you know," Septimus hastened to reassure her, lest she might think that the babe was alone among the temptations and dissipations of the gay city.
***
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Old News (permalink)
"Seven devils worse than the first."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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#devil #vintage headline
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February 24, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Earths in the shapes of diamonds, hexagons, and triangles leave shadows on the moon.  From Astronomical Myths, Based on Flammarion's "History of the Heavens" by J. F. Blake, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #vintage diagram #eclipse #shadow #faces in things #diagram #illustration #shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #ring #hand #magic trick #pistol #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #native american #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #snake #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Old News (permalink)
"They said they'd let us in now, dear, if we promised not to disturb them again."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wizard #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Read Heads by James Coates, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #baby #leaf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #mandala #buddhism #lucky charm #tibetan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Florida's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #tiny man #1930s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Yes, the "delicate geniuses" (as Seinfeld mockingly called doctors) make for scary Hallowe'en characters.  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1960 yearbook.

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#doctor #hallowe'en #costume #1960s #nurse
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Old News (permalink)
"Satan's art is what a clergyman calls hypnotism."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#hypnotism #vintage headline #satanic #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #living dead #horror #zombie #corpse
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Old News (permalink)
From Wayne State University's 1945 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The camera detects thought."  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#camera #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The effects of distraction upon achievement."  From Clarke Memorial College's 1954 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #illustration #professor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #king #blackbird #nursery rhyme #pie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #dog #onion #crying animal #illustration #poem
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February 23, 2025

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



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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #crystal ball #oracle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale #illustration #hansel and gretel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Old News (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #milk #raccoon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Pill Club.  We make you sick."  From Baylor University's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #medicine #pills
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"3 a.m.  Not a wink of sleep yet.  If I only had Zemo for that terrible itching."  From The Duluth Herald, 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 #vintage ad #insomnia #sleepless #itching #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #squash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #japan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A sock hop held in honor of Bigfoot.  From Otterbein College's 1961 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #bigfoot #1960s #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovni Presence No. 42, 1989.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #occult #devil's tower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"So you've learned to read!  Now what?"  From Improvement Era, 1966.
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#literacy #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia 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 #teacher #funnel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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Old News (permalink)
"When you play, play at the Masonic Temple."  From Wayne State University's 1945 yearbook.
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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #masonic #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"What do you think about when you're going to bed?"  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Life, Jan. 8 1903:

[I'm pretty sure this all a gag!]

> read more from Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan . . .
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #illustration #boar
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February 22, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #squirrel #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The sponge which upsets all calculations."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
> read more from Old News . . .
#vintage headline #sponge #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #yarn doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sun #rooster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the masters of summer give you the warm fuzzies.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #summer
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The soup du jour is human.  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #turtle #tables turned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You dare not touch me, and you know it."  From Chatterbox, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #dog #talking animal #cat and dog
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Old News (permalink)
"Wore too many pants.  Young man claims too many clothes drove him insane."  From the Duluth Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Donkey versus elephant: which do you wager for the win?  From Barnard College's 1961 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #boxing #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #spear #tarzan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"In with the fish at the dam."  From Goshen College's 1918 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 #fish #all wet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"How your body can make you rich!"  From Tufts University's 1969 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #owl #bird #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1920 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Is love everything?"  From The Film Daily, 1925.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Introduces Schenectady No. 2."  From Purdue University's 1905 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #suicide #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It was a rather dull weekend."  From Wheaton College's 1964 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #yearbook #ice cream #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #horse #japan #ogre
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February 21, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #labyrinth #maze #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Give a toad a bad name."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1946.
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#toad #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Down Our Street 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1873.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #grotesque #beauty and the beast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"That light that has been given to me I desire to pass, undimmed, to others."  From Lucile the Torch Bearer by Elizabeth Duffield, 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 #campfire #light #fire ceremony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#chimney sweep #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1947 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't remember your name, but your fizz is familiar."  From The Old Line, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #effervescence #fizz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1961 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #globe #vintage yearbook #yearbook #geography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From To Be a Cat by Matt Haig.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 . . .
#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1915 yearbook.  See This Book is a Cactus.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cactus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gets rheumatism where he wants it."  From The Duluth Herald, 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 #vintage ad #rheumatism #spinning #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bogha-frois san Oidhche (Rainbow in the Night) by Fearghas MacFhionnlaigh, 1997.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #wizard of oz
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1920 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 Punch, 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 #leaping #1890s #hurdle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville's 1925 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Grief over near-beer.  From Picture-Play Magazine, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #crying #alcohol #near beer
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Old News (permalink)
"Why do we smoke?—"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#smoking #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From the Writers at Work (Paris Review Interviews) series:

***
[E. M. Forster talks about basing characters on real people.]
"The three Miss Dickinsons condensed into two Miss Schlegels...."
[...]
INTERVIEWER:
Can you say anything about the process of turning a real person into a fictional one?
FORSTER:
A useful trick is to look back upon such a person with half-closed eyes, fully describing certain characteristics. I am left with about two-thirds of a human being and can get to work.
[...]
To ask one and one-half Miss Dickinsons how Helen should comport herself...would have ruined the atmosphere and the book.

***
[Yonkers dept.]
"You can't get it except as the culmination of two hours of development. You can't get it by raising your voice and yelling, suddenly--because it's getting time to get on the train for Yonkers." [Arthur Miller]
[P.S. A day or two later, "Yonkers" showed up in a crossword puzzle I was doing.]

***
[Plural "Bloomsburies"! (I.e., members of the Bloomsbury circle.)]
"I met...all the Bloomsburies." [Aldous Huxley]

***
[The quips write themselves on this item.]
"My wife typed out the manuscript of Lady Chatterley's Lover for [Lawrence], even though she was a bad typist and had no patience with English spelling." [Huxley]

***
"[A generation of young writers] were not interesting in poems. They were interested in doing their thing. They did--and that was that." [Archibald MacLeish]

***
"The French appreciated it as I meant it to be: a combination fairy tale and joke." [Irwin Shaw]

***
INTERVIEWER: This book also contains another of your favorite characters, doesn't it?
KINGSLEY AMIS: Oh yes, George Parrott.

***
[James Dickey refers to an (unfinished) "lifelong work" by another writer called Death's Jest Book.]

***
"I must limit [the protagonist of Something Happened] because if he had all my attributes he wouldn't be working for that company, he'd be writing Catch-22." [Joseph Heller]

***
"I was skating on one galosh." [William Gass]

***
"Poets have gotten so careless, it is a disgrace. You can’t pick up a page. All the words slide off." [Gass]

***
"The only thing [her fictional protagonist] Maria and I have in common is an occasional inflection, which I picked up from her--not vice versa--when I was writing the book." [Joan Didion]

***
[Leonora Carrington vis-a-vis Mountains dept.]
"Emeralds--when you look at them closely--are always disappointing. The green is never blue enough. Ideally, if the green were blue enough you could look into an emerald for the rest of your life." [Didion]

***
[A sort of meta "Someone Should..." item?]
"I keep on thinking of fascinating ideas for books. I ought to think them up for other people to write rather than me." [Stephen Spender]

***
"A man [at a reading] asked, 'How many movies have been made of your poems?'" [Spender]

***
"If the poem is to go anywhere it has somehow to develop a subject fairly quickly, even if that subject is a blank shape." [James Merrill]

***
[Re. feedback from first readers]
"So-and-so thinks a passage is obscure? Good--it stays obscure: that'll teach him!" [Merrill]

***
[On the coining of the "lost generation."]
MALCOLM COWLEY: The [garage] proprietor said to Miss Stein, "These young men are no good--they are all a lost generation." Une génération perdue....
INTERVIEWER: Is it possible the garageman was referring to "a lost generator"?

***
"Some of the characters were derived from people living on the farm at the time, so it was a handy place to be. I would come for lunch and they would make remarks I had put in their mouths that morning." [William Maxwell]

***
INTERVIWER: Do you have an imagined audience?
MAY SARTON: It's really one imaginary person.
INTERVIWER: Would you talk a little about this imaginary person?
SARTON: Well, I don't mean that when I sit down I think, "Oh, there is that imaginary person over there I'm writing for"....

***
"Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can." [Ionesco]

***
"You have to wade through some three hundred pages in order to find out who Lady So-and-so's lover was, and then at the end you may guess that it was So-and-so and not What's-his-name." [Borges; and attached is a longer Borges snippet]

***
"I remember Stravinsky, so tiny, looking up at this enormous giant Sequoia and standing there for a long time in meditation and then turning to me and saying, 'That's serious.'" [Christopher Isherwood]

***
"I've written lots of stuff that I hate, but there it is, flapping around in the vaults of various motion-picture studios." [Isherwood]

***
"The notes in music do not denote anything." [Auden; he's simply saying they're not symbols, unlike words, but I like the apparent paradox of note/denote.]

***
"How marvelous that the essential bifurcation which is man is expressed in trousers that carry Lévi-Strauss's name." [Anthony Burgess, who sees Structuralism as a theoretical bifurcation, and is thus doing an expert-level version of the hackneyed joke whereby the two Levi Strausses are conflated.

[Burgess also talks about the "punning chord," which was new to me.]

***
"I wrote to Shaw who immediately received me and gave me a discourse on how good James's plays would have been if he had written them like Shaw plays." [Leon Edel]

***
"[Lionel Trilling] returned the paper with a wounding reprimand: 'Never, never begin an essay with a parenthesis in the first sentence.' Ever since then, I've made a point of starting out with a parenthesis in the first sentence." [Cynthia Ozick]

[Ozick also, apparently, has an idea that writers live in a world of "as if."]

***
"It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market." [Anita Brookner]

***
[On the topic of how important it is or is not for a writer to live in New York]
"Personal contacts, acquaintances, visibility, all have practical usefulness. But they are not now as absolutely essential as they were then. The principal danger is that, like a character in a radio play who says nothing for a minute or two, you may disappear." [Wallace Stegner]

***
On Thursday afternoons--when I was on my day off from the Albany Times-Union and waiting for the muse to descend and discovering that it was the muse's day off too....
[William Kennedy]

***
Damon Runyan's style...just leaped out at you and said, "Look at me! I'm a style!" [Kennedy]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jolly Family by Nikol Nosov and illustrated by V. Y. Konovalov, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #bee #up a tree #beehive
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February 20, 2025

Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
"Much has been written about the Carpathians, mostly nonsense."  The first line in Carpathian Ghost Hunter by Edward O'Toole, 2008.
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#nonsense #carpathians
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Say it with a scythe!  "We must make the prediction in the ancient tome come true!"  From Passions episode 129.
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Old News (permalink)
"You are skepticla because you are afraid!"  From The New Liberator Weekly, 1931.
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#skepticism #skeptic #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 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 #medieval #king #illustration #twelfth century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vanity Fair, 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#1920s #vintage men #vintage gay #vintage ad #vintage illustration #men #gay #ad #illustration #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dominion Language Series Book Two by Daniels, Hall, Matthews & MacKenzie, 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 #frog #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #yearbook #cursed photo #cursed image #haunted photo #video #penetralia #cursed yearbook #haunted yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Young ladybirds.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insect #ladybug #1930s #illustration #ladybird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stage Costuming by Agnes Brooks Young, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #toman
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Old News (permalink)
"At last, I'm part of it all."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1967.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to a photo from St. Procopius College's 1964 yearbook.  Depending upon how you rotate the illustration from 60 years earlier, he's an acrobat, taking a nap, feeling bored, or a plague victim.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down #handstand #acrobat #rotational
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I managed to keep all my illusions until I was 35, at least."  From Dark Shadows episode 798.
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#dark shadows #illusions
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein 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 #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The hell-benders.  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 #sea life #lizard #salamander #hell-bender #aquatic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1899 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 #giant book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #modern art #cubism #riding backwards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 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 #dog #handstand #pet tricks #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1972.
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#long day #vintage headline #temporal anomaly #headline #25 hours
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Western Reserve University's 1941 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #dreaming #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #monocle #illustration #rowboat #ad
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February 19, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Words are cocoons in reverse.  "At last they break up into their letters—Out of them jumps the worm that was—His hairy feet tremble upon them." —William Carlos Williams, The Great American Novel
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 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 #babylon #1930s #illustration #babylonian #clay tablet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Book About Mary and Bill by Felton & 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 #cat #fish #1940s #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From She, The Woman-Man by Aleta B. Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1935. At Archive dot org.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astrology #zodiac #esoteric #vintage book #book #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #halo #1960s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The [Thornton] Courier, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #invisible man #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #balancing act
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard 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 #bear #honey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 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 #cat #long haired cat
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Old News (permalink)
"A controlled fury."  From Santa Clara University's 1991 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From The Picture Book of Symbols by Ernst Lehner, 1956.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #disease #arrows #st. sebastian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1899 yearbook.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #scissors #yearbook #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 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 #incense #smoke #faces in things
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton 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 #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An ant-bear from The Duluth Herald, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #anteater #aardvark #ant bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We lend power to the things we fear."  From The Conquest of Worry by Orison Swett Marden, 1924. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #oz #illustration
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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 #camera #photographer #illustration #1910s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Reblog with the last time you were given celery as a gift.  (Our last time was never.)  From Improvement Era, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vegetable #celery #ad
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February 18, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Friends and Neighbours by Gray & Monroe, 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 #elephant #hole #bear #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Heroes of Science by Cottler & Jaffe, 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 #egypt #camel #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #flat earth #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dolls who had been dancing, walked around the room."  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dolls #living toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From B.A.R., 1985.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #telephone #1980s
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Sundials (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1918 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 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 #nest #easter bunny #rabbit #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1927 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 #1920s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2001.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 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 #moon #1910s
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Army and Navy Weekly, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Love is not enough."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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#love #vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Canterfell Codicil, by PJ Fitzsimmons:

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Both wings are two stories high and in the Perpendicular Gothic style, so a lot of frightful gargoyles perched on top of vertical beams, looking down on one as if the whole affair is somehow one's fault.

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Between the wings is...a granite statue long since worn to a nub by the elements, depicting either George Slaying the Dragon or the Birth of Venus.

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"May I offer you my condolences, sir"....
"You may, Carnaby, so long as you don't mind me pocketing them for later consumption. I barely knew the man."

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very much in the mould of...your Friars Tuck

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"We called him Fiddlesticks, for Fairfax."

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His aged face...was a pastiche of emotion ranging from insouciance to indifference.

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"You look enough alike to be close friends or acquaintances."

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"So, how are you holding up?" I asked. "Anything a vacuous young bachelor with little to no life experience can offer in terms of comfort and support?"

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"It was a cherished gift," said Laetitia, who had recovered her composure and gathered it into a state of high dudgeon.

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"I was referring to the painting, about yay big..." I held my hands up, indicating a rectangle the size of a "yay," whatever that may be.

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He put his drink on the table between us, freeing up his hands to fidget independently.

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"Mr. Boisjoly," called List Porter, the landlord, with equal parts pomp and circumstance.

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Porter occupied the organic centre of a rhizomatic information network, the dichotomy of which was that he somehow knew more and knew it sooner than any of his sources.

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"Stick to them like glue, Vickers," I said. "The inspector will be requiring their presence in the conservatory this afternoon, tea-ish. Stick to yourself like glue as well, you will also be required."

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I tapped on the door and, sure enough, I was greeted with an amiable "Go away."

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Ivor glared at me with an intensity that required his eyebrows to join forces.
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Old News (permalink)
"A bird with a right to live."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#bird #animal rights #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1890s #vintage men #illustration #men
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Our Fourfooted Friends and How We Treat Them, 1904.
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#cat #vintage photo #1900s #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #airplane #illustration #seaplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1860s #illustration
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February 17, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 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 #drawing #1920s #illustration #mechanical drawing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #snake #1920s #pinocchio #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #misery #despair #anguish #grief #1920s #sorrow #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you play your knight on a third date.  From Improvement Era, 1960.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #chess
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Old News (permalink)
"Nature lovers suffered soppy, soggy sneakers."  From The [Thornton] Courier, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fire #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toronto's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #decapitated #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Birds robbing child's nests!"  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #carried away #1870s #tables turned #taken by animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1891 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #scissors #yearbook #quill pen #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Own Readers, Book Four by Mary Pennell and Alice Cusack, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #elves #gnomes #dwarfs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #monocle #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Sometimes the only way to see in the dark is to shut your eyes."  From Mr. Baboomski and the Wonder Goat by Richard Joyce, 2016.
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#vintage headline #seeing in the dark #headline #dark
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Old News (permalink)
"A soft roar of mumbles."  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1956 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A butterfly who says "Howdy, howdy" to a fairy.  From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #butterfly #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1910 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #monster #chinese
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pet walker
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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 #magick #serpent #occult #snake #crowned serpent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #explosion #1890s #illustration
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February 16, 2025

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to playwright Fred Bitter for comparing Grave Mood Rings: The Novelization to Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Don Quixote, Tristram Shandy, and Finnegans Wake
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, His Book by Eva March Tappan and illustrated by Charlotte Harding, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #robin hood #wedding #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's centaur Cheiron carrying Eros is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #illustration #cheiron
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Old News (permalink)
"Echo of a great stupidity."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#stupidity #vintage headline #history repeating #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #science #dummy #dirigible
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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.  See Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #queen of hearts #croquet #flamingo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Cute that this poem ends with a cat-purr-sounding "myrrh"!  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1930.
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#cat #poem
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1790s #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She lost no time in telling him of her woes."  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's raccoon washing a mouse is from Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #raccoon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A diploma weighs more than midnight oil, hourglass sand, and library fees?  From Indiana State Normal School's 1919 yearbook.  See our video about how we got burned by our own degrees, here.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scales
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any no-see-um swarms form a new colony in distant lands.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #infestation #insect #swarm #no-see-um
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1926 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 #seeing double #wagging tail #tail wagging
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #symbolism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1921 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 #dandy #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #skiing #personal protection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia Teachers College's 1928 yearbook. 

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #contortionist #1920s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Corvi Chronicle, 2008.
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#vintage illustration #evolution #bird man #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Queen's University's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #discus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #robin #nursery rhyme
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Woman in the Library, by Sulari Gentill:
"Everything's connected after all...but I've come to the conclusion it does not need to be connected by string."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #1910s
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February 15, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #nutrition #1930s #illustration #strength #strong man #food
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #1920s #perspective #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #rooster #1920s #animal fight #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #seeing double #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if judges find life full of trials."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #judge
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You're right -- he's a ghost.  From The American Annual of Photography, 1913.
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#ghost #vintage photo #night photography #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #crow #bo peep #little bo peep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland.
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#vintage illustration #occult #two headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magician's draught."  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #potion
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Old News (permalink)
"Four-legged smoke eaters."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1951.
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#smoke #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College’s 1931 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 #stilts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #vampire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiger
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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 #anthropomorphism #bear #rocking chair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The average brain."  From Goshen 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 #brain #sieve
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #mole #digging #burrowing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #phrenology #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #camel #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #genie #letter a #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Japan, Home of the Sun by Dearmin & Peck and illustrated by Kikuko Mori, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #illustration
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February 14, 2025

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Dare-g, who calls Grave Mood Rings: The Novelization "delightful and witty—a must read for fans of the show." 
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Knicknacks, tchotchkes, mementos, souveniers of places I’ve been, things I’ve seen, people I’ve traumatized." From Passions episode 85.
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#passions #collection
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
101
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #standup comedy #chocolate cake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #1960s #illustration #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #animals #illustration #bremen town musicians #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #cupid #bow and arrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1926 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #evolution
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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 #spiritualism #afterlife #out of body
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #devil #cowboy #branding iron
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1879.
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#vintage illustration #goat #lasso #lariat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1893 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 Picture-Play Magazine, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #genie #incense #smoke #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1892 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cherub #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banjo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Know Thy Neighbor by Lida Keck Wiggins, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #lazy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
This heartless valentine can be folded in such a way to reveal a heart.  The solution was never printed.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #cupid #valentine #paper folding
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Nymphs and Satires, by Rachel Ferguson:

***
Nearly everyone [in The Scarlet Pimpernel] said "Lud," at least twice--the hero nearly all the time.

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Her voice is like a Transatlantic penny whistle.

***
The other sings contralto and deals in ballads which give superfluous advice to Nature [e.g., "sink, O sun"].

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"Where the h-heavenly twins is my dressing-gown?"

***
Titles of books, plays, songs and pictures should also be given [in an index] and in italics.
[Some of her examples]
Ay, Ta-ra-ra-ra-boom de.
Lavender, Sweet.
London, Lights of.
Uncle, Tommy Make Room for Your.

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The sphinx was smiling like Monna Lisa. Things happen like that in Egypt. She was a woman who had lost her nose but never her illusions.

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[He was] tall, overstrung and upright, more like a grand piano than a grand duke. [But I note that Ferguson has mixed her piano metaphors, i.e., "upright" vs. "grand."]

***
Lord Groyneogh Minges-Thynne (pronounced "Greenwich Mean Time")

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Messrs. Glaring and Pillow

***
The brilliantly successful author of These Charming Hats, being the guest of the evening, did not turn up at all.

***
She is the authoress of those serials of Gripping Human Interest, If, Why?, Yet------, Nothwithstanding and (her latest) Nevertheless.

***
What is the use, when Prendergast Pope, who wants your opinion on his latest picture, bids you to his lair, if you cannot throw off with appositeness such words as Rhythm, Middle-Distance, Brushwork, Atmosphere and Values?

***
Though London seethes with the brothers of my parents, not one of them is of the smallest good to me....
I can do nothing with them. They are merely so much cubic uncle. Gladly would I exchange them for a folding camera, pair of zip galoshes or, as they say, "anything useful."
Oh, well....I can't, in sanity, suppose I am the only sufferer from this form of Avunculitis.

***
[spoofing Margot Asquith]

Of my childhood, I remember how the Baron Pumpernickel...once sprang into our play-room and said (addressing myself), "How do you do?" This bon-mot, I am told, went the rounds of the clubs. I became known as The Girl Who Was Asked How She Did.
[...]
Lord Scribblesdull....Dear Scribbly! as we all called him.
[...]
My father was a great wit, a really gifted raconteur. He would keep a whole dinner-table in a roar. Even the sideboard groaned....We called my father "Flopit"--I don't know why.
[...]
I was acting as hostess to Lord Buttonhead.
***

[Bonuses!]

[a short play called "Parrots Sometimes Speak"]

[In a J. M. Barrie spoof, a roster of forest fairies includes one called Spindrift and one called Spendthrift.]

[an outline of a nonexistent farce called You May Telephone from Here]

[a location called Upseyed Down]

["dark hyena" as an apparel color]

 

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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #heart #valentine's day #crossword puzzle
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February 13, 2025

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Grave Mood Rings: The Novelization actually exists!  A reader in Detroit kindly shared a snapshot.
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#grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't be a dead pigeon."  From Improvement Era, 1960.
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#pigeon #vintage headline #advice #headline #don't be
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the New Yorker, 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
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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 #fish #fishing #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Language Skills B by Moore & Kleitsch, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #lion tamer #lion #1970s #illustration #eaten alive
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Old News (permalink)
"King speaks through time and space, across the world and into the future."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#king #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #shadow people #shadow self
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grindstone
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1912 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #daydreaming #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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#vintage ad #everybody's doing it #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grasshopper's Hop by Zitella Cocke and illustrated by Joseph J. Mora, 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 #king #cat #dog #round table
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wartburg College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #winking owl #winking animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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#vintage illustration #map #norway #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Juniata College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #running #track team #track
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #boxing #lion
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Honours, like impressions upon a coin, may give an ideal and local value to a bit of base metal; but gold and silver will pass all the world over without any other recommendation than their even weight" (Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy).  From North Texas State University's 1964 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life Science by Benedict, Knox & Stone, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #mouse #diagram #genetics #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald and illustrated by Maria Kirk, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #moon #starry night #night #illustration #up a tree
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February 12, 2025

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



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#dark shadows #grave mood rings
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
This may be the world's simplest dot to dot puzzle, with all 94 lines united in a single point.  We think this must be a picture of a dice that handed on One, but we'd have to solve it first to be sure.
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#dice #dot to dot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #boat #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #modern art #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"No more preaching from bed."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1960.
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#preacher #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you."  From The Essentials of the English Sentence by Elias H. MacEwan, 1900.
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#sentence diagram #light and darkess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #smoking #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #constellation #zodiac #ram #aries
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Old News (permalink)
"A ghost with size 3 boots."  From The Sun, April 1972.
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#ghost #boot #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1912 yearbook.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #potion #steam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #chipmunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camel
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Mediumship of Jack Webber by Harry Edwards, 1941.
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#spirit medium #spirit photography #ectoplasm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's vintage selfie on a rocking horse is from The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #camera #photographer #rocking horse #selfie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Cosmic!"  From Ohio University's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbit #animal friends
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hood College's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #grave #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bobbed hair and sausages."  From The Strand Magazine, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #barber
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #writing #quill pen #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #oz
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February 11, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This boxer sees not stars but black circle bullets.  From The New Yorker, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #1920s #boxer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #sled #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Building My House of Health by Jessie Lummis, 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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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Horror host Count Cat introduces this special episode of Grave Mood Rings.  Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV. 
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #analog horror #indie comedy #count cat
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Indeed, you shall have dragoon trousers!"  From "Victor's Dragoon Trousers" by Janet Thomas, in The Children's Book, 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 #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Before Why Paint Cats? there was Why Paint Turtles?  From Reaching Our Goals by Horn, Goodykoontz & Snedaker and illustrated by Cleveland Woodward, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #china #turtle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fur coat was walking away."  From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #fur coat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #fairy #beetle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Centenary College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fable #hare #turtle #tortoise and the hare
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Accomplishment simply means finding a way."  From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Abeniki Caldwell by Carolyn Wells, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy
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Old News (permalink)
"All of a sudden, you're a wonderful cook!"  From Improvement Era, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage headline #cooking #headline #monosodium glutamate #msg #ad
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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 #pancakes
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Old News (permalink)
"You are going somewhere."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1942.
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#vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Visits of Emily, by Elinor Glyn:

***
They asked me stacks of questions.

***
She talked to him across me, and she called him "Harry" lots of times, and she always says things that have another meaning. But they all do that—repeat each other's Christian names in a sentence, I mean.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 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 #earth #jesus #war and peace #illustration
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February 10, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Indiscretion is the better part of literature." —George Sylvester Viereck, The House of the Vampire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 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 #1920s #puppet #illustration #jack sausage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #political cartoon #hybrid #human headed #1920s #illustration #man dog #dog man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 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 #bow and arrow #native american #1920s #hunter #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 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 #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal ride
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell, 1911.
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#ghost #portent
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bhavan's Journal, 1990.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bigfoot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Old News (permalink)
"Wandering in strange roads."  From Improvement Era, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1930 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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Old News (permalink)
Haunted for weeks by a night funeral.  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#vintage headline #funeral #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Calgary's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage ad #witchcraft #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #hairdresser #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Safe at last."  From The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes by Harrison Adams and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal mask #native american #buffalo mask #buffalo headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"How'd you like to wake up some morning in Boise, Ida hoe?"  From Ohio University's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #drugs #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They seldom had anything on the Table except Chicken with Gravy, Salt Rising Bread, Milk, Seven or Eight Vegetables, Crulls, Cookies, Apple Butter, Whortleberry Pie, Light Biscuit, Spare Ribs, Pig's Feet, Hickory Nut Cake and Such Like."  From Hand-Made Fables by George Ade and illustrated by John T. McCutcheon, 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 #table setting #banquet #feast #dinner table
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarke Memorial College's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #vintage book #harp #yearbook #book #illustration #1950s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You don't know the way I suffer!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #headache #migraine #suffering #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 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 #smiling animal
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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 #snail #nursery rhyme
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February 9, 2025

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Already it is yesterday." —William Carlos Williams, The Great American Novel
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#william carlos williams
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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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 #robin hood #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #chicken #rooster #s-shaped #squirrel #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Once upon a time — it was just the other day."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #sheep #horns #illustration #argali #wild sheep
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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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Old News (permalink)
The front and back covers of Davinci magazine, 1973: "Important: read caution notice and instructions on the back.  Caution: read important notice and instructions on the front."
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Leap of the Lion by Curtis Norris, 1988.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #sun #bow and arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Howzat for luck?  My brand!"  From The Old Line, 1955.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#toilet #vintage illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Now what reason is there for us to be frightened anymore?"  From Dark Shadows episode 800.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Linfield College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #babylon #wall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A little smattering of books, and they are ready for business."  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 #book #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Belmont Abbey College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #holy grail #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An amateur widow."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #widow #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield State College's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #man #personal space #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #watering can #birdhouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #people who look like dogs #pet trick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #knowledge #love #personification #costume #health #work
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From You Can Die Laughing, by Erle Stanley Gardner:

"The property is in the desert where a jack rabbit can't make a living."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #music #dancing #illustration
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February 8, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 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 #paper craft #windmill #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #1930s #illustration #laughing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What is the exact temperature of Hell?  From Punch, 1923.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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#vintage illustration #hell #priest #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #scullery #rainouart
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Old News (permalink)
"Why do the stars twinkle?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#night sky #star #vintage headline #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #turtle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Guide to Japan (U.S. Navy, 1945).
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #japan #bridge
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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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers 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 #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #king #cat #thor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #fireplace #aesop #fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1944 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bumpy ride
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From South Western Normal College of Pennsylvania's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #tickling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stick figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How could a seance parlor floorplan be applicable to one's own living space?  The surprising answer is within Seance Parlor Feng Shui.  From The Medium and Daybreak, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #occult #seance #floorplan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #holland #milk #1900s #illustration
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February 7, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#witch #humor #macbeth #prof. oddfellow #WTF #wyrd sisters #video #penetralia #grave mood rings #analog horror #indie comedy #indie horror
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1947.  Answer: DAMSON.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration #word puzzle
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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 #griffin #hybrid #heraldry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #safecracker #get rich quick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's cello as a bow and arrow is from The Old Line, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #robin hood #musician #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #face #alcohol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cradle #oratory
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sitting on air.  From Improvement Era, 1960.
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#vintage ad #1960s #smiling man #no chair #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College's 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 #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Where there's art there's still-life."  From The Tangent, 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 #coffin #artist
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Mansfield State College's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bigfoot #1970s #door
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Old News (permalink)
"Yesterday was once tomorrow."  From Marion Theater News, 1924.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the North Carolina 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 #milkmaid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1825.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 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 #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Test of Time (Ostermoor Mattress), 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 #vintage ad #museum #illustration #mattress #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Married Miss Worth, by Louise Closser Hale:

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"The smell of the theatre--the smell of it all! Were you ever friendly with odors?"

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[More than a Duck dept.]
"Isn't he a duck?"
"He's more than that."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 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 #illustration #chipmunk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #spoof ad #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
His fiancee "has everything a man needs—broad shoulders, muscles, a moustache—"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1958.
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#vintage illustration
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February 6, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 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 #medieval #knight #thirteenth century #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Swallows.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #swallow #1930s #illustration #birdhouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cobweb #illustration #nursery rhyme #poem #1859s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #fairy tale #cupid #little mermaid #statue #illustration #1910s
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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
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Old News (permalink)
"Another cat that knocked at the door."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#cat #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #silhouette #king #barber #hair pulling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #phoenix #yearbook #bird
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Awakening of a sleeping giant within us."  From The Improvement Era, 1958.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #dream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #immolation #on fire #burned alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #surrealism #vintage book #yearbook #book
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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 #witch #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 charmer #fakir
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1930 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Demon Worship and Other Superstitions in Ceylon, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #seeing stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fables of Aesop, illustrated by Harrison Weir, 1859.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #fox #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If your personality were distilled down to 4 words, what would they be?  From Wyoming Seminary's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #forest #tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I'll have to think about it for a while."  From Otterbein College's 1986 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 Punch's Almanac for 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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February 5, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
"Tchacasipapyagoos" is a Googlewhack as of this posting.  From The Lord of the Manor by Thomas Hall, 1849.
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#monkey #vampire
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From By the Roadside by Dunn & Troxell and illustrated by Nell E. Hukle, 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 #toad #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the New Yorker, Jan-Mar 1927.  [Via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #1920s #illustration #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #egypt #moses #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"All set for a life of bliss."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1960.
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#bliss #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vulture #1900s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A veil pieced by lightning."  From Dark Shadows episode 1130.
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#lightning #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Take home an alphabet in a box."  From St. Nicholas, 1892.  See One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #alphabet #1890s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem 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 #1920s #sunflower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lover's Baedeker and Guide to Arcady by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by A. D. Blashfield, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #boat #canoe #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #lion #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1931.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book
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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 #man in the moon #faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spy Who Drank Blood by Gordon Linzner, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #bat #upside down #vampire bat
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you still naive, buddy?"  From the University of Mississippi's 1947 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #donkey #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara College's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #stained glass #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I have found the stone tablets on which are engraved unpublished lyrics."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #stone tablets
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February 4, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #owl #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Outdoor Book by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Design Your Home for Living by Mabel Barbara Trilling, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #color theory #illustration #1950s #color wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #smoking #smoke #1920s #airplane #illustration #skywriting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #winter #moonlight #night #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mon Livre de Français by Frères du Sacré-Coeur, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #goddess #prayer #virgin mary #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #maze #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"My million thrills."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Four by William H. Elson & Edna R. Kelly and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rube goldberg
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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 #dragonfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #giant #boar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1956.
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#two-headed #1950s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Late Widow Twankey, by Rachel Ferguson:


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  
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#vintage illustration #bee #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #taxation #taxes #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sharing Experiences by McKee & McCowen and illustrated by Corinne Malvern & Sylvia Haggander, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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February 3, 2025

The Right Word (permalink)
From Noreascon 3, 1989.
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#advertising #1980s #blurb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The was no full moon during the month of February in 1915.  From the Fort Wayne Sentinel.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #outer space #moon #man in the moon #rum #starry night #abstinence #illustration #1915 #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy and His Daily Living by Helen Burnham, Evelyn Jones, & Helen Redford and illustrated by Iva Lou Wildey, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #nutrition #1930s #illustration #food
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #horse #1920s #illustration #colt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #greece #greek #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I call on Heaven to witness!"  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #eyes #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #musician #illustration #musical instrument #organette
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #automaton #robot #teacher #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 #mask #native american #illustration #thunderbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Raven and goat.  From Chatterbox, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #goat #raven
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville, Va.)'s 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #cauldron #hell #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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1790s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #lasso
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Magazine and Marvelous Chronicle, 1793.
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#vintage illustration #witch #soothsayer #deer #mother shipton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's monkey on a marotte is from Clarke Memorial College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #jester #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Know thyself."  From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Boston mouse waits in terror of the mountain-cat, under the shadow of the storm-rose."  From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #1920s #rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #keg #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #1900s #illustration #lemonade #february #feb. 3 #february 3
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #cat #piano #musical animal #illustration #poem #1880s
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February 2, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#groucho marx #socrates #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #exterminator #pest control #bug killer #insecticide #illustration #pesticide
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rhinoceros versus panther: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #rhino #animal fight #panther #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Where it was not right for the kittens to go."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #1920s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1966.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"In photographs only can yesterdays live."  From Linfield College's 1931 yearbook.
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#photography #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories From the Faerie Queen by Mary Macleod and illustrated by A. G. Walker, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #castle #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wildlife #naturalist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The mouse of day and the rat of night watch the dragon of eternity.  From Lighted Pathway, 1935.
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#religion #vintage illustration #dragon #lion #pit #ladder #down a well
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1980 yearbook.

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#devil #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #costume #vintage women #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #map #octopus #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #distraction #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The crested hen dance.  From Folk Dances of Scandinavia by Anne Schley Duggan.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #scandinavian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 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 #bugaboo
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Little Things," by Isaac Asimov:

"I'll bet anything she's got a décor in her apartment like a French I-don't-know-what."
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
A snowflake society emblem (bottom left), conjoined twin snowflakes (bottom right), a reunited broken flake (top right), and a freak snowstorm's freak crystal (top left).  From Water Wonders Every Child Should Know: Little Studies of Dew, Frost, Snow, Ice and Rain by Jean M. Thompson, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #illustration #snowflake
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February 1, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"It's been so long since I played with fire.  I miss it."  From Passions episode 71. 
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#playing with fire #passions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 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 #fable #spider #bird #1890s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 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 #chair #1930s #illustration #furniture #jacobean
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 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 #drawing #bird #1920s #illustration #stork #heron
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Old News (permalink)
"Humans—yes!  Aliens—no!"  From The Omen, 1998.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if a golfer has a driving licence."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #golf #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Man's next 'jump': the coming race will possess faculties that we now regard as supernormal."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline #supernormal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #poem
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Old News (permalink)
From the University of Cincinnati's 1938 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #february #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #grasshopper #ant
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Oklahoma A&M's 1927 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 St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #picnic #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #snail #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A British Columbian potlatch.  From Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fire ceremony #potlatch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1931 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cinderella
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Old News (permalink)
"Insane man has peculiar garb."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1920 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #mask #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dog #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #bookworm #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Trésor des Jeunes Conteurs by J .E. Poirier, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #bird #swallow #1900s #illustration
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