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March 31, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #easter #rabbit headed #rabbit costume #rabbit men #bunny men #rabbit people #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 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 #murder #bible #biblical #cain and abel #men fighting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What the moon saw."  From The Progressive Composition Lessons, Fifth and Sixth Years by Brautigam, Harper, and Kidd, 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 #full moon #moon #man in the moon #illustration #what the moon saw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #moloch #illustration #train station
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The ladies dearly love their heated little post-mortems."  From The Bridge-Fiend by Arthur Loring Bruce a.k.a. Frank Crowninshield, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #card players #illustration #game of bridge #vintage ladies #bridge players #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Facing the subjects away frees the illustrator from drawing facial features.  From Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Ignácz Kúnos and illustrated by Celia Levetus, 1896.
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Old News (permalink)
If you ever wondered about how fashion models affect those still expressions, it's all done with motors.  The headline reads, "Expression of model's face changed by motor."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #bucket of water #fire starter #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Twisty electrical poles.  From Jugend, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #war #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #demon #death #deathbed #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Johnnykin and the Goblins, written and illustrated by Charles Leland, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #bird's eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In dark and light … a long day" -- two chapter titles from Electa by Jennie M. Drinkwater, 1881.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #cannon #war fund
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #blackbird #clock #1900s #illustration #art
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March 30, 2018

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's 59 seconds on how to make a physical reality of your imagination:
Mindful attention was the meditative practice of Portuguese philosopher Fernando Pessoa. His technique empowered him to make a physical reality of his imagination, through what he called a great act of intellectual magic. His Book of Disquiet demonstrates exactly how to do that, entertainingly. Pessoa kept notes on what happened around him, from a sudden thunderclap to what the office boy just said, and he allowed every occurrence to inform and illustrate his personal philosophy, that we can sift out what parts of reality are illusions and which illusions have reality, and that we can prevent any act from being in vain so as to conserve energy. Depending upon how you look at it, Pessoa said, anything can be either astonishing or an obstacle. His secret was to look at each thing that happened differently every time, as a way of renewing and multiplying it. He said a contemplative soul who never left his village could in this way have the entire universe at his disposal. Pessoa's meditation was a magical act of transformation. I'm Prof. Oddfellow.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Four Days' Wonder, by A. A. Milne:

***

They were great theatre-goers, and had missed the last five minutes of the Third Act of every play worth seeing since 1922.

***

Sturge's book was coming out next month, and Fenton had not yet decided what he was going to say about it. It depended upon certain unknown quantities, one of them being, of course, the actual quality of the book.

***

From their very first meeting Derek had had an offensive way of looking at him, and as soon as the kid had had any eyebrows to raise, it had started raising them.

***

[Re. two fictional characters, each of whom preferred to sleep outdoors.]

It would have been convenient, this being so, if they had married each other, but unfortunately they were in different books.

***

"I don't want a paper, I don't want a paper, I don't want a paper," said Mr. Watterson fretfully.

 

[Cf. the Goons, "Six Charlies in Search of an Author":

 

Grytpype-Thynne:

Nonsense, nonsense, you'd fall down without them. You'd fall DOWN without them.

Ned:

You'd fall down without THEM.

Grytpype-Thynne:

YOU'D fall down without them.

(falling about)

Peter:

Take yer choice.

(Ned breaks up)]

 

***

His hair was very short at the back--not at all what you expect of a painter, but perhaps he wasn't a very good painter.

***

[Aunts dept.]

"She has all the virtues. She is a mother to those who want mothers, and an aunt to anybody who likes aunts."

***

Though in these last two years he had become an enthusiastic cricketer, he excelled as a bad player rather than as a good one, doing so with the air of one who preferred it this way, as being more in the literary tradition.

[Isn't there a Stephen Potter subsection about upmanship through playing badly and losing? (If there isn't, there should be.)]

***

Outside the open windows starlings imitated themselves and other birds untiringly.

***

[Douglas Adams Precursing--and One-Upping!--dept.]

"Have you got two towels?"

"One," said Jenny, looking at the towel-horse.

"I'll have another ready for you. I've told Mrs. Bassett over and over again that the secret of a contented life is two towels."

***

Whenever Leslie Brand let fall an epigram, and he seemed unable to let fall anything else, she either trilled or else bubbled with happy laughter.

***

He looked at himself in the Queen Anne mirror, and found that once again it had no alternative to offer him.

***

[Which Is Pithier? dept.]

"But he's absolutely innocent. As innocent as a--"

"New-born babe," prompted Nancy.

"As innocent as a well, as a matter of fact I was going to say a 'babe unborn.' I don't know that there's much in it."

"Babe unborn," said Nancy. "Much better. Sorry."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 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 #demon #monster #giant #illustration #planted
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's how a snowflake is a table and a O is an unfamiliar notion.  From A Handbook of Phrenotypics for Teachers and Students by Major Beniowski, 1842.

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#vintage illustration #symbolism #illustration #mind mapping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #rooster #illustration #rooster man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'What is that?' he demanded in a strange voice."  From The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 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 #ghost #ghost story #supernatural #uncanny #horror story
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Satan cast out of heaven."  From Camera, A Practical Magazine for Photographers, 1903.
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#satan #falling #vintage photo #lucifer #fallen angel
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mythology #merman #water spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Key juggling attracts the demon of jangled nerves.  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage ad #demon #imp #devil #nerves #jangled #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #illustration #tickle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 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 #atlas #weight of the world #trumpet #war and peace #illustration #why the earth wobbles
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1943.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #lost at sea #illustration #plane crash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #masquerade #grandville #illustration #dancing animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She was taken to see all the chief cities of the world."  From Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 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 #fairy tale #cinderella #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #clowns #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #anthropomorphism #lion #tiger #illustration #art
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March 29, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted #demon #ghost #spirit
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precusor to comedian Minnie Pearl's famous hat with a dangling price tag.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #occult #candle #illustration #current mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #oyster #cannibalism #monocle #tiny woman
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The Right Word (permalink)
"I want to be well, to live a sane life, to have a little pleasure; but …"  [An ellipsis followed by an isosceles triangle of asterisks].  From Possessed by Cleveland Moffett, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #beard #pipe smoker #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hardly had he said this, before both the animals vanished."  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #ghosts #carriage #illustration #ghost horse
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Old News (permalink)
You don't even have to be a swimmer for this to work -- "Swimmer sees mistakes reflected in mirror."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flint Heart by Eden Phillpotts, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #cherub #quill pen #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This residence on Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, has been deemed "No Good."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mountaintop #in chains #illustration #naked man #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #bear #bear costume #bear fur #bear suit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #painting #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #lion costume #illustration #nein
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #bear costume
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March 28, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #snail #escargot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When jealousy goes out of the door, boredom comes in at the window."  From The Judge, 1916.  
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#vintage illustration #ghost #jealousy #bored #spirit of boredom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #pied piper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A terrible night.  How the man in the moon looked while he was being eclipsed."  From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #eclipse #illustration #lunar eclipse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You'll be tired of this thing up here before winter."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1900 and, in color, from Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #mythology #giant #dragon #many headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #celtic #tailor #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cowboy #motorcycle #harley davidson #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #winged elephant #illustration #elephant angel #animal angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #illustration #hedge clipper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Saga of Jarl the Neatherd by H. Escott-Inman, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's been said that "Some money is smart money" (Hill Harper, The Wealth Cure).  Smart money is educated, as we see in this piece from Jugend, 1923. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A night walk from Die Bühne, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #spooky #night #illustration #night walk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Then out of the valley a gren Deev arose."  From When I Was a Little Girl by Zona Gale and illustrated by Agnes Pelton, 1913.

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#vintage illustration #genie #spirit #djinn #illustration #deev
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The stranger vanished, and in his place she distinguished the form of an enormous dragon."  From Pall Mall, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #demons #hellfire #hell #torture #torment #illustration
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March 27, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Star Wars, in which Emperor Palpatine tempts Luke and Leia with a wreath of the dark side.  From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #star wars #emperor palpatine #sith #wreath
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From After the Exhibition, by Dolores Gordon-Smith:

***

[This genericized name has so many components, the hyphenation just gives up midway through!]

"The cleaner, Mrs. whatever-it-is the woman's called, from the village."

[Later on, a different character refers to yet another character as "Mrs. Whatever-she-was-called." And note the discrepancies in capitalization and hyphenation: clearly these two Mrs. Whatevers are no relation to each other. (:v>]

[By the way, I was recently reminded that there was a Boston-area 1980s band called Someone and the Somebodies.]

***

[In case it's not clear from the (lack of) context, the line below has the same intent as the one I recently shared from a Clason novel, "The first thing I knew was when that West broke into my room to ask some idiotic question about a bathing suit. I'll bathing suit him!"]

"Motion pictures, indeed! I'd like to give them motion pictures!"

***

The sofa and armchairs had seen better days. Lots of better days.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #demon #grotesque #illustration #motley crew
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #ghost #macabre #death #hooded figure #chills
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #peace #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales in Other Lands by Julie Goddard, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #genie #djinn #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage photo #mannequin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cupid lighter than a butterfly."  From Spirit Slate Writing and Kindred Phenomena by Chung Ling Soo, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #cupid #butterfly #magic trick #illustration #chung ling soo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Web of the Golden Spider by Frederick Orin Bartlett, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #death #ominous #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The expression of rage" by M. Maurice Heyman, in Black and White Budget, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #face #facial expression #rage #illustration #human emotion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At a glance, we mistook the electric light for a UFO.  From Ameli Electric Magazine, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #turkey #electric light #illustration #istanbul
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #snakes #illustration #specimen bottle #preserved
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #cello #illustration #cello costume
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's an anecdote about how a restless spirit was charmed into the shape of a fly and read into a bottle by 12 parsons standing in a circle.  Note how the parsons made a mistake when they threw the bottled ghost down a well: they committed it to lie for a hundred years, forgetting to specify "a hundred years and odd," thereby allowing the ghost the escape in due time.  From Chambers's Journal, 1866.
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#bottled ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #illustration #praying mantis
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March 26, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Panther versus boa constrictor: which would you wager to win?  From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #boa constrictor #animal fight #panther #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Let us, with an amused, incredulous smile on our lips, listen to God telling us that we exist."  —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Not everyone realizes that there are two rivers Styx and that they cross each other.  Also, not everyone knows that you can get vermouth made with water from the underworld.  It's all revealed in Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1920s #styx #vermouth #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What's behind door number one.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #behind the door #monsters inc
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Clouds changed into a milky sea.  From New Adventures of Alice by John Rae, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #clouds #illustration #the people could fly #ships
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #nest #bird's nest #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How part or all of [a] photograph may be made invisible by swabbing with special fluid."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #invisibility
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit orb hovers over a medium.  From 'Twixt Two Worlds by John Stephen Farmer, 1886.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairies #cheers #flower #wee folk #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The question."  From The Scarlet Letter yearbook (Rutgers, 1918).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #music #grandville #illustration #musical instruments
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Elephant Hotel, Margate City.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #architecture #vintage postcard #new jersey #atlantic city #themed hotel #illustration #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.  This illustration appears, in a surprising way, in our video about an urbex adventure in an old dark house
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#vintage illustration #owl #darkness #night #illustration #light in the window #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1773, courtesy of Archief Alkmaar.
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March 25, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The thrush suddenly became a goddess."  From Twenty-two Goblins by Arthur W. Rider, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #goddess #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
We peeked into the haunted mirror and gained a pupil.  (They say that when the teacher is ready, the pupil will appear.)  See our haunted mirror in action in our video about a lucid waking experiment gone wrong.
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#haunted mirror #prof. oddfellow #distortion #witch eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #top hat #head to head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #occult #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #crying #lyre #crying animal #orpheus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Line & Form by Walter Crane, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #death #hourglass #time #father time #hooded figure #light and shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #animal head #hybrid #surreal #illustration #chicken people #chicken headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #priestess #occult #incense #esoteric #smoke #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #two headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #road sign
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Old News (permalink)
"Big thrills from little negatives."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #occult #illustration #theosophy #annie besant #astral #charles leadbeater
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #under the sea #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Destroyer by H. Hetherington, 1842.
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#vintage illustration #genie #spirit #djinn #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #monument #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #excavation #giant head #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wesley's Ghost and Whitfield's Apparition by Scrutator, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #illustration
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March 24, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fancy dress party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #giant cat #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen M'oo and the Egyptian Sphinx by Augustus Le Plongeon, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #warrior #winged serpent #illustration #mayan
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
There's a fine line between ceremonious and unceremonious.  From The King of Topsy-turvy by Arthur Lillie, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #ceremonious #unceremonious
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #illustration #personal demon #sleep paralysis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #beast #illustration #jehovah
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #harp #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Her invisible lover.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #invisibility #invisible man
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #fists #why i oughtta
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #statue of liberty #illustration #lady liberty
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magia Teúrgica by Quintín López Gómez, 1899.

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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #pentacle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #under the sea #seahorse #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Apparition by Arthur Montagu Brookfield, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #apparition #hand lettering #ghost story #vintage book #book #old book #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Studies for Pictures by J. Moyr Smith, 1868.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Overalls force plane to make landing."  A headline from Popular Mechanics, 1920.
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#weird headline #vintage headline #overalls #headline
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March 23, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
The original hot pants.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #pipe smoker #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #father time #scythe
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Corpse Diplomatique, by Delano Ames:

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He was wearing a beret I'd forgotten he had. A copy of a French Communist newspaper was folded beside his saucer and he had bought a packet of Gauloises cigarettes. He gesticulated in a very Latin way as he asked the waiter to bring me a Dubbonet. He looked essentially, unmistakably English. I'd never noticed it before.

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Mrs Andrioli... bustled in with a kind of well-that's-that air about her.

***

[I love the wealth of meaning and intensity of feeling that the phrase "I mean to say" can have in the mouth of a Brit (and how--Incomplexpletives Dept.--it's not even necessary to specify what one means to say).]

"Not that one's superstitious or any rot of that sort, but... I mean to say!"

***

As the question was not only cryptic but also rhetorical I smiled back vaguely and said nothing.

***

Midday cocktail parties usually take me like this at about five-thirty in the afternoon, especially when I have missed tea. I glanced through a footnote in Hugo's Simplified Grammar and learned that the imperfect of the subjunctive is almost never used in contemporary French conversation; but even this did not cheer me greatly.

***

Dagobert ordered a bottle of Veuve Cliquot, though he does not normally like champagne, and attacked the Anglo-Saxon heresy that champagne ought to be very dry. Like all silly things it should be slightly sweet and, as it is not supposed to chill, it should not be too cold. It ought to go off with a resounding pop, the cork preferably bouncing from the ceiling on to someone else's head. It ought to have a reckless label designed by, say, Raoul Dufy, and the neck of the bottle should be festooned with plenty of gold and silver tinfoil.

***

"It is pointless celebrating when there's something to celebrate. You need to celebrate when there's nothing in particular to get excited about."

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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#prayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #mountains #painting #vintage magazine #alps #painter #oil painting #landscape painter #magazine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#vintage photo #piano #piano player #artistic piano
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Revolted Woman, written and illustrated by Charles George Harper, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #eden #eve #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Rainbow seen from plane is circle of color."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #rainbow #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1919. 
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The Right Word (permalink)
For activity read acting.  For "It is" read "His description of the belief which compelled him to give up his belief in Christianity is."  From The British Friend, 1898.
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#erratum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Devil Stone."  From Pall Mall, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #germs #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Master Mystery by Arthur Benjamin Reeve & John W. Grey, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult #escape artist #tied up #illustration #houdini #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The flying machine of the future will probably be based upon the structure of a flying bird, the louvers in the wings corresponding to the action of the bird's feathers," from Harmsworth Magazine, 1900.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #beard #umbrella #illustration
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March 22, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz.  From Le Courrier Français, 1887.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #armageddon #apocalypse #war #four horsemen #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #monster #spider #trapped #yokai #illustration #many legs #many eyes
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"There she was, all alone, looking out on the quicksand and the sea."  From The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, 1868.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea #illustration #current mood #alone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Spirit of the Oak.  From Holiday Plays for Home, School and Settlement by Virginia Olcott, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #nature spirit #tree spirit #forest spirit #oak spirit #spirit of the oak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #camping #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An extraordinary cat."  From Twenty-five Ghost Stories by West Bob Holland, 1904.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #elves #bones #seesaw #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #rhino #illustration
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
The Fairy Story that Came True, Showing that All Modern Inventions Were Foreshadowed in Fairy Stories by Annie Pupin, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #fairy tale #illustration #importance of myth
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1884.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage magic #tiny man #homunculus #vintage magician #magic trick #illustration #hat trick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #lion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)

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#vintage illustration #boat #illustration #strongman #strong man #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Russian Story Book by Richard Wilson, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #russian fairy tale #slipper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #conductor #illustration
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March 21, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #tiger #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's proof that I'm not merely a "friend and pal" of Cinderella, but I'm a friend and pal of her friends, too.  (Tip: having annual passes for both Disneyland and Walt Disney World really helps.)  The text reads, "With greetings and best wishes to our friend and pal, Craig.  —Cinderella and friends."  It's been theorized that friends of friends invite one to "harness the power of loose ties," and sadly that doesn't mean neckties that aren't knotted too tightly but rather casual acquaintanceships.  If you'd like me to put in a good word for you to either Cinderella or any of her friends, as a token of your seriousness just put a penny in my tip jar: paypal.me/profoddfellow.
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#cinderella #fairy godmother #friendship #disney #disney art #vintage disney #friend of a friend
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to bars and restaurants allowing patrons to bring in their "comfort animals."  From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #monkey #cockatoo #sailor #comfort animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #chariot #tarot chariot #vintage magazine #turtles #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vampire bat #1920s #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #phonograph #illustration #record player
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The room seemed full of circling wings."  From The Strand, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #birds #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #giant #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #bathing suit #swimsuit #fits two #big clothes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #keg #faces in things #barrel #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"A blow-out!  Will it be your turn next?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #blowout #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1919. 
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#vintage illustration #devil #illustration #pollution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #mountain climbers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #illustration #homoerotic #men holding hands #hypnotic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #dragon #Hypnerotomachia Poliphili #illustration
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the tinted version.

Jean Gabin
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#vintage portrait #portrait #vintage postcard #jean gabin #gif #postcard
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #shipwreck #illustration
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March 20, 2018

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
I found a pressed 6-leaf clover hiding in an expensive rare book.  A few years ago, I purchased, for an exorbitant $128, what was promised (original typo: primrosed) to be the most unusual travel account ever published -- the surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun's exploration of the eerie magic of the Irish countryside, The Crying of the Wind.  (It hadn't yet been republished in softcover; I was a year too early!)  I'd been sufficiently impressed by Colquhoun's dreamy occult novel Goose of Hermogenes to trust that the travel book would beguile me.  It did!  And though I can't help but wonder why the Universe tricked me into spending $128 just before the softcover came out, I do know that a new softcover wouldn't have had a pressed 6-leaf clover, so perhaps it all somehow works out in the end.
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#vintage book #book #ireland #lucky clover #Ithell Colquhoun #old book #clover #six leaf clover #rare book
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"Let me sleep, let me forget myself, Our Lady of Uncertain Intentions, Mother of Caresses and Blessings incompatible with my existence."  —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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#sleep #pessoa #existence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Spring has came!"  From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #dancing #spring #dancing elephant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #horror #oracle #delphi #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #gallows #hanging tree #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #insect #cricket #grasshopper #laughing #laughing animal
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Granny's Wonderful Chair by Frances Browne, 1910.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sirens #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In case you were wondering where Humpty Dumpty went after his great fall.  From Life, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #humpty dumpty #illustration #st. peter
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #anthropomorphism #onion #illustration #art #onion man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Norse Fairy Tales Gathered From the Swedish Folk by George Stephens and H. Cavallius, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #burned alive #illustration #oven
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #owls #illustration #giant owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #juggler #illustration #math #inflatable suit
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Ulk, 1922.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sailing #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Splitting headaches—for no reason at all."  From The Judge, 1916.
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#headache #migraine #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #faceoff #mountain spirit
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Murder of Gonzago, by R. T. Raichev:

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"It will be some time before Lord Remnant is forgotten."

"Roderick's personality may have been more forcefully colourful than those of the bland and timid masses, but one does tend to forget people the moment they stop coming to dinner, Provost. Certain people one even forgets during dinner. It's most disconcerting. You look across the table and you wonder, who the hell is that?"

***

"Recordings of various amateur theatricals. So tedious. Everybody dressed up as dentists or minor émigré royalty or organic vegetables or Christmas tree decorations."

[N.B. Dressing as the decorations is a nice twist on the "disguised as a Christmas tree" theme, eh?]

***

[Bonus: In the context of a tale about King Midas and the anthropomorphized (female) earth, someone refers to the latter as "Mrs. Earth."]

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March 19, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
A vintage fortune-telling weight scale -- its penny vault unlocked for the first time in years or even decades. Can you guess how many pennies will cascade out? Or how many rare coins will be among the loot? All the surprising details are revealed, along with some mind-bending esoteric secrets of copper pennies.

If you'd like the machine to tell your own fortune, leave a penny in Prof. Oddfellow's tip jar and he'll send you a snapshot of the answer that comes up:

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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Some haunted wallpaper from Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #shy #illustration #undercover #strangers when we meet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The ancient Grofulus."  From Kaspar and the Seven Wonderful Pigeons of Würzburg by Julia Goddard, 1876.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh! Dear!"  From Half-Hours With Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs, 1893.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
"From Darkness Into Light."  From The Life Beyond the Veil by George Vale Owen, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Join the knights of the highway."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1919. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #capital punishment #electricity #illustration #electric chair #public execution
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Delirium of a drinker of wood alcohol!"  From Cartoons Magazine, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A tree with nests of sociable weavers upon it."  From Robert Merry's Museum, 1842.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #time #clockface #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #horses #illustration
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March 18, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #spooked #sheet ghost
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant bird #lightning #god #giant vulture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #public speaking #eyes #audience
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
No attempt has been made to prove anything.  From the preface to The Anatomy of Negation by Edgar Saltus, 1889.
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#unproven
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Alone on the island."  From Vermont Hall, or Light through the Darkness by M. A. Paull, 1888.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Grasped something -- it was something hairy."  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The jangled nerves of a pencil chewer.  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Iron Butterfly.  From Ulk, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #demons #imps #spooks #illustration #tormented
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The two enchanters."  From The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter by Padraic Colum, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #demon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #weightless #flying horse #illustration #flying dog #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A sort of goblin-fellow, who mocks me with his tricks."  From Queen Mab's Fairy Realm, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #goblin #fairy tale #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"The rain descended, and the floods came."  From Sentence Analysis by Diagram by Henry Copp Edgar, 1915.
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#rain #sentence diagram #flood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #lion #illustration #tightrope
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March 17, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What's in your purse?  From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #tiny dog #grown up toys #what's in your purse #what's in your bag
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The Right Word (permalink)
Crinita draconibus: having dragons for hair; haired with dragons.  From Four Books of the Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidius Naso, Expurgated and Freed From Everything Objectionable by Nathan Covington Brooks, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Persian Tales, translated by D. L. R. and E. O. Lorimer and illustrated by Hilda Roberts, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #beard #long beard #folk tale #persian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Harry's Big Boots, written and illustrated by S. E. Gay, 1873.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"He was in a strange mood and he thought about weird and unnatural things."  From Teaching, 1919.
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#weird #edgar allan poe #strange mood #unnatural
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #pigs #musical animal #illustration #singing pig #pig choir #singing animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #costume party #costume #illustration #animal costume
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #illustration #rubble
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A gorilla romance."  From Among the Freaks by William Livingston Alden, 1896.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a dragon frame from English Illustrated, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rabbits sitting on a diamondback.  From Jugend, 1899.
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Old News (permalink)
"Tiny windmills serve as eyes."  From Popular Mechanics, 1929.
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March 16, 2018

Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
"Waiting for his ship to come in."  From The Judge, 1921.   See Your Ship Will Come In.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Note the little imp who turns the pages for him.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Green Shiver, by Clyde B. Clason:

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She was as lovely as Yang Tai-chen, that celebrated court beauty of the T'ang dynasty.

And as modern as Rockefeller Center.

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"Mrs. Kroll told Rawley that she had driven over in the station wagon to spend the afternoon with one of her friends, Charlotte somebody-or-other."

***

[Who Needs Context? dept.]

"Auxiliary verbs may make a tremendous difference."

***

From 

from The Good Thief's Guide to Venice, by Chris Ewan:

***

Victoria dabbed her lips with her napkin and backed away from me with a palms-up gesture, like I was a stack of playing cards she'd carefully balanced and was loath to upset.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #oarsman #ferryman #vintage magazine #fancy hat #on a boat #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #demon #cauldron #hell #damned #torment #boiled alive #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of a "kernel of despair."  One finds it "When the corn is ripe."  From The Temperance Mirror, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The snake's bride."  From Simla Village Tales or Folk Tales from the Himalayas by Alice Elizabeth Dracott, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The demon of gold and hate.  From Tales of the Samurai, Oguri Hangwan Ichidaiki by James S. De Benneville, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles, illustrated by G. H. Clements, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mushroom #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #putting back the pieces #cracked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #demon #imp #headache #migraine #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #illustration #art
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Old News (permalink)
"Wrapping the world in furs."  From Popular Mechanics, 1923.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fairy Tales, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella #illustration #glass slipper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #lion #crying animal #tarot strength
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March 15, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Bugs Bunny, Wile E. Coyote, and Acme inventions.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #fox #rabbit #bunny
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
Even though the presumed reading of this is that no woman can keep a secret, we see it as depicting a superlative secret keeper so stealthy as to be neither seen nor heard.  From Judge's Library, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #cheers #snake #illustration #bubbly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Broma: Órgana Política Liberala, 1881.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skeleton #wizard #alchemist #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Who wants to buy caterpillars, cocoons, chrysalides, pupae cases, butterflies, moths, and Indian relics of all kinds?  The Bird Woman, of course.  From A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"All of the fairies were out."  From The Fairy who Believed in Human Beings, written and illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #full moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A map of the Atlantean city of Tlamco (now San Francisco).  From Yermah the Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #vintage map #map #1890s #san francisco #atlantis #tlamco #atlantean
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #chair #haunted chair #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It was no longer a flask."  From Fairy Tales in Other Lands by Julie Goddard, 1892.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #king for a day #cats #winter sports #skiing
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Ulk, 1917.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #giant #illustration #strangled
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #shipwreck #octopus #under the sea #shark #tentacles #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Tis my business to get you humans into a mess in these here bogs."  From The Flint Heart by Eden Phillpotts, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Device for smuggling intoxicants."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #liquor #alcohol #illustration #intoxicants #smuggler
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
"The two roses."  From Tales of Magic and Meaning, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1856.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The over-attentive waiter.  From Jugend, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #looming #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #palm reader #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The enormous giant Col. Chang Yu Sing and his diminutive companion, General Tiny Mite.
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#vintage illustration #giant #dwarf #vintage poster #circus poster #colonel chang #illustration #poster
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March 14, 2018

Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"Our Lady of Last Things, Carnal Name of the Mystery and the Abyss—reassure and comfort those who seek you without actually daring to do so!" —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #demon #death #serpent #poison #hypochrondria #paranoia #art
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Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to animal rights activists' beef with John Waters' Pink Flamingos.  Waters explains: "Animal rights acitivists always say to me, 'How could you kill a chicken for a movie?'  Well, I eat chicken and I know the chicken didn't land on my plate from a heart attack.  We bought the chicken from a farmer who advertised freshly killed chicken.  I think we made the chicken's life better.  It got to be in a movie, it got f*cked, and then right after filming the next take, the cast ate the chicken!"
"A film without chickens."  From The Judge, 1921.
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#chicken #vintage headline #john waters #pink flamingos #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That horses see ghosts is apparent in their expressions.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #horses #illustration #ghost horse #horse ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from a Harry Clarke illustration for Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #beard #1920s #homoerotic #edgar allan poe #harry clarke #men's jewelry #men's ring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
God's headphones.  From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #god #illustration #headphones #he listens
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #muse #singing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #camel #faces in things
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Open your eyes wide and look at me."  From Stories of Enchantment, Or The Ghost Flower by Jane Pentzer Myers, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #fairy godmother #open your eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #giant hands #illustration #skeleton hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #forest #faces in things #trees #illustration
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
Here's a note written on the endpaper of Violet: A Fairy Story (1855), calling it "the most exquisite book of all" and explaining how mutual appreciation of books of fairy tales united 488 young people into the "Ark-adian Brothers and Sisters of California."
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Rune stone at farmstead in Törnby, Skå, Uppland, Sweden, 1934.  Courtesy of Swedish National Heritage.
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#vintage illustration #sweden #viking #monument #illustration #rune stone #runes
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.  (Individual cards are available from Zazzle, and deep discount bulk orders of 10 or more are available from Vistaprint.)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #non-circulating #library book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #death #illustration #factory
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #genie #djinn #drunk #vintage postcard #the thing #hallucination #moonshine #art #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Goggles saved both his eyes on the same day.  From Popular Mechanics, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #safety goggles #safety poster #eye protection #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1930s #illustration #skiing
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March 13, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a Prince Charles from 1910, in Le Journal Amusant.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #monkey #pet walking #prince charles
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #redhead #floating #springtime
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Hanging Around Until, by David Hadley:

***

‘Not that way.’ I pointed in the opposite direction. ‘That way.’

‘Why the fuck didn't you say so?’

‘You seemed so happy going that way. We didn't want to disturb you,’ I replied pleasantly. ‘Besides, it's a much nicer walk that way. Don't you think so, Guy?’

‘Oh yes, very nice. I think you get a much better view of the... er... the road... pavement... houses that way.’

‘In fact, if I ever feel the need to go in the exact opposite direction to the one I originally intended, that would be, in fact, the way I would most definitely go.’ I said.

***

I have a vivid recollection of that look on Guy's face. A frown so tight, it seemed as though he was trying to push his eyes around to look inside his brain to find the elusive memory.

***

‘I always mean what I say,’ I said. ‘Even if I can't always say exactly what I mean.’

***

I picked listlessly at the knee of my jeans. My knee poked like a bald head out of the hole; strands of wispy denim material flapped uselessly from the tear. I arranged the strands like a man covering up his bald patch with his remaining hair.

***

‘All right, I'm going. Thanks for the complete lack of help.’

‘Any time,’ Ron said. ‘Whenever you've got a problem, don't hesitate to not come to me.’

***

‘Sometimes it all feels so absurd though,’ I said. ‘I'm too old for teenage angst and too young for a mid-life crisis.’

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Have you ever seen an Ineptitude?"  From The Westminster Alice by Hector H. Munro a.k.a. Saki and illustrated by F. Carruthers Gould, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #hybrid #human headed #cheshire cat #illustration #ineptitude
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #space travel #comet #space capsule #shooting star #meteor #illustration #tardis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #vintage camera #photography #camera #say cheese #1890s #photograph #illustration #vintage photography #mona lisa #leonardo da vinci
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #frogs #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's a magic word that is not in Magic Words: A Dictionary.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.  Speaking of gas candelabras, in the mid-1940s, the American Gas Association advertised "the magic flame that will brighten your future."
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He crouched on his throne and imagined he saw angels and demons and fairies."  From Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1928.
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Old News (permalink)
"An elephant made of walnuts."  From Popular Mechanics, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pitzmaroon Or The Magic Hammer by Charles A. Beach, 1874.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Beauty and the mask," from London Magazine, 1903.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Akedia glided forth."  From Allegories by Frederic W. Farrar, 1898.
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March 12, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's a dinner table game involving a sharp knife, with points awarded for breaking dishes and soiling the table cloth.  From The Judge, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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Old News (permalink)
"How's your 'purp'?"  From Illustrated World, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Alice encounters three bears (not the same three bears of Goldilocks fame).  From Malice in Kulturland by Horace Wyatt, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From One Hundred Easy Window Trims, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Comic English Grammar, A New and Facetious Introduction to the English Tongue by Percival Leigh and illustrated by John Leech, 1852.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whispers from Fairyland by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pitzmaroon Or The Magic Hammer by Charles A. Beach, 1874.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Scarlet Letter yearbook (Rutgers, 1918).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1882.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Turning wild eyes towards the shore / To a face that shall haunt him for evermore."  From The Idler, 1894.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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March 11, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Long, long ago the stars used to sing together."  From At the Open Door by Louise Robinson, 1913.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Here's a precursor to what one sees with X-Ray Spex.
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to redress the scene. From Le Rire, 1902.

From Le Rire, 1902
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Daylight saving time and standard.  From The Judge, 1921.
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Old News (permalink)
"Are our feet turning to hoofs?"  From Illustrated World, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa, 1921.
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Old News (permalink)
Weather changes explained -- "Chicks turn heat on and off."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Punishment masks of the 18th century.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The spirit of the air.  From The Sketch, 1897.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Peter chooses a light character."  From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Death (hiding in a keg) displays his hourglass.  From Jugend, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bath robe in the bath.  From The Judge, 1922.
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March 10, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A naval ship as a rowboat.  From The Judge, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In mighty cosmic rages."  Woodcut by Wharton H. Esherick.  From Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk by Mary Marcy, 1922.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"The town's gone dryer than the deuce, so I don't need these, 'cause what's the use?  Lansing is Dry."  From 1910, courtesy of UpNorthMemories.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Phantom Friend by Margaret Sutton.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"35 -- but out of date!  He's young; a few years ago his friends and associates predicted a great future for him.  But something happened.  The world got ahead of him.  He didn't realize it until the business procession was almost out of sight.  He is not alone in his predicament."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1943.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Ur Mother."  From Jugend, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A tall, graceful figure, dressed in flowing silver draperies."  From Pall Mall, 1895.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1938.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Norse Fairy Tales Gathered From the Swedish Folk by George Stephens and H. Cavallius, 1882.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1907.
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Precursors (permalink)
A precursor to Dr. Strangelove.  From Jugend, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Dweller on Two Planets by Phylos the Thibetan, 1920.
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March 9, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Vowel-mouthed dames.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Proper muzzle for a bird dog."  From The Judge, 1916.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Nick Hornby's Funny Girl:

***

She liked the leading man, a French pop singer named Johnny Solo, presumably by his manager rather than by Monsieur and Madame Solo.

***

"Where have I been? Nowhere. You, meanwhile, have been lounging around in your underwear in Wales, while Johnny Foreigner ogles."

"You could have ogled, if you'd come to Wales."

"Who goes all the way to Wales for an ogle? Especially a secondhand ogle."

She didn't want to have a conversation about second-hand ogling, and she certainly didn't want a conversation about Johnny Foreigner.

"What did you do instead, then?"

"Oh, you know," he said airily. "Thinking. Reading. Taking stock."

She wished he'd chosen any three other activities--space exploration, say, and needlework and coal mining. He wasn't a thinker or a reader or a stock-taker.

[....]

"I was actually phoning to ask you out to dinner," he said eventually.

[....]

She shrugged down the phone, but he couldn't see her, so in the end she had to say yes.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The artist's studio (top) and the approach to the studio (bottom).  From Centaur or the Turn Out by Edward W. Gough, 1878.
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's part of a deliberately unfinished sentence (or, rather, a sentence finished with dashes).  From In the World of Signs, Essays in Honour of Professor Jerzy Pelc, 1998.
"What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention?  A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone." —Eckhart Tolle
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#curse #fill in the blank #dashes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When you're a coin collector, the whole world is numismatic.  From Le Rire, 1901.
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Old News (permalink)
"Music turns to color."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The guiding spirit of the game of Chess, from The Tomahawk, June 12, 1869.   See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Russian Story Book by Richard Wilson, 1916.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the original photo.

Town Hall, Batavia, Ohio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swedish Fairy Tales by Herman Hofberg, 1890.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1938.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Holme Lee's Fairy Tales, 1869.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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March 8, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The madame might be overcharging him.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's how we know that the language spoken in heaven is Gaelic, and that the entrance to heaven, hell, and purgatory is in Ireland.  From the sublime novel The Demi-gods by James Stephens, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A goat eats a magazine while operating heavy machinery.  From The Judge, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"The surprising truth is that there is no lock on the door.  We can reach through the bars anytime we want and lift the latch and let ourselves go free."
Kent Shifferd, From War to Peace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do you know what your 'Self' may contain, besides what physical science can tell you?  From The Mystic Self by Rayon, 1900.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.  There's also this sleepwalker who sleep-skiis on snowy rooftops.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A donkey with a Ouija board, before the Sphinx.  From Life, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A dangerous confessor."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The trumpter of evil."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Illustrated, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #reflection #architecture #england #country home #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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#vintage illustration #windy day #grandville #bellows #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Fashion requires zoo to clothe woman."  From Popular Mechanics (which very often glamorized and actively encouraged the poaching of endangered animals; utterly disgusting), 1931.
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#vintage headline #fur coat #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #roller coaster #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #illustration #current mood #sun allergy #cold day
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March 7, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the bunny ears prank in photographs.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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Precursors (permalink)
Before people looked at cat pictures on the internet, cats looked at people pictures in museums.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how to use a purse of monies to attract eligible fairies.  From The Judge, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #imp #fairy #otherworld #owl #blowing bubbles #surreal #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
Be careful whom you call a messerschlucker.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If the surprisor and the surprisee are mutually astonished, then, indeed, there is a tangle out of which anything may emerge, for two explanations are necessary at the one moment, and two explanations can no more hold the same position in time than two bodies can occupy the same lodgment in space."  From The Demi-gods by James Stephens, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #shoe #vintage car #car #illustration #leg #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #dematerializing #fading away #dissolving
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From El Tío Clarín, c. 1867.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The silver knight and the river fairy.  From Belgian Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis, 1919.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We're often asked how we find the vintage gems we post.  Pictured is one of our many tools for navigating the past.  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #death #end of the world #apocalypse #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
We've had dreams just like this.  From The Harvard Lampoon, 1884.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Satan in bonds."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Some bewitching clouds from Die Muskete, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #witch #full moon #clouds #illustration #cloud shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #blackbird #tom thumb #tiny man #illustration
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March 6, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever used your brain to snuff out a candle before drinking poisoned river water.  From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Apparently, cannibals are born, not made.  "Sometimes, Bill, I sorta wish I'd a been born a cannibal."  From The Judge, 1922.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Magic Mirror, by Mickey Friedman:

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Jack had decided to make much of my being Southern, and I had been "Honeychiled" almost to death.

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[Incidentally, the "magic mirror" of the title is an art objet that is said to have once belonged to Nostradamus.]

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From Blood from a Stone, by Dolores Gordon-Smith:

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"Here we are, Aunt Constance," said Terence Napier. "One doctor, as prescribed, to be taken regularly before lunch."

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It wasn't, he thought, necessary to pump Mrs. Mountford. She wasn't a pump so much as a tap.

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"Yes, Mrs. Paxton's sapphires. A big picture it was, with Mrs. Whoever it is--the lady who's got them now, I mean--all dressed up, with them on."

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[Time-Space Continuum dept.]

The dinner gong wouldn't sound till eight and she had acres of time on her hands.

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[During a séance]

"You'll have to be rather more precise with your instructions," said Mary Hawker, addressing the spirit of Barita as briskly as if it were on a committee.

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"Please say you'll forgive me."

"Of course," said Jack, with a reassuring gesture of his beef muffin.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My dear young people, you outrage the laws of mechanics."  From My Laughing Philosopher by Eden Phillpotts, 1896.
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Old News (permalink)

If you have trouble remembering what day it is, imagine living in the year 17 and fifteen sixteenths.  From An Account of a Surprizing Meteor, Seen in the Air, March the 6th, 17 15/16, at Night by William Whiston, 1716.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Castle of Grumpy Grouch by Mary Dickerson Donahe, 1908.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Excitation of firmness," from The Illustrated Practical Mesmerist by William Davey, 1854.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hunter College's Wistarion yearbook, 1913.   See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hunter college #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The dragon's story.  (Guaranteed strictly untrue.)"  From Imaginotions: Truthless Tales by Tudor Jenks, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Sphinx, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1913.
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March 5, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Arrested Development's "Mommy, What Will I Look Like?" photo-aging service for parents who wish to see what their children will look like in 50 years.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ultra-reclining seats.  From The Judge, 1916.
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)

"I once attended a convention of vaudevillians and nightclub performers.... It was nonsense atop nonsense. Though the members constantly referred to Roberts' Rules of Order, they seldom followed or even understood them. If a member got the floor by claiming a point of privilege--whatever that meant--another actor-member, well aware of theatrical billing precedence, would call for special privilege, and another would claim extra special privilege." --Bill Smith, The Vaudevillians

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#vaudeville
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #earth #outer space #mars #venus #1930s #love and war #venus and mars
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Tears in the fabric of space, described in Cosmopolitan, 1912.  "Many of the nebulous objects recently photographed have strange black holes, or gaps, in them, as distinct as drops or splashes of ink.  Some of them look like luminous veils, gemmed with thousands of stellar points, and torn in places as if the stars had lacerated them."
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#outer space #black hole #space photography #tears in space #nebula
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Opportunity always goes topless and is incurably exhibitionistic.  That's the origin of "windows of opportunity."  The caption to this piece reads, "To opportunity's topless towers."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Guide to Palmistry by Eliza Easter Henderson, 1893.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fairy Tales, 1861.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #tiny man #illustration #eaten alive #giant tiger #tiger's mouth
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
The unknown is uncentered.  (Note how the word "the" is an entire letter's width too far to the right.)  From The Unknown by Francis Lathom, 1826.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy's Search by Emeline S. Smith, 1847.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1914.
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March 4, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How true those words are, even today.  "God's country ain't what it used to be."  From The Judge, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #spirit #illustration
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
Do you know the mysterious colors and strange melodies of serpent enchantment?  If you don't know, now you know.  From Whittier's Legends of New England.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"But George, everyone will be dressed in all sorts of funny children's clothes."  From "The Bug in His Butter" by Scammon Lockwood, in National Magazine, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sharpe's London Magazine, 1846.
Here's my collection of vintage angels.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1895.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
All the best travel guides include the imaginary.  Japan, Real and Imaginary by Sydney Greenbie, 1920.  See our own unusual travel guide to what many consider the most unusual village on earth: Puzzling Portmeirion.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Devil's gifts."  From The Shoemaker's Apron, A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales by Parker Fillmore and illustrated by Jan Matulka, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How are YOUR nervers?"  The devil of jangled nerves, from Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1938.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1944.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Every moment the witch cast something fresh into the cauldron."  Illustration by Laura Trowbridge Hope for English Illustrated, 1891.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales From All Nations by Anthony Montalba and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1850.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #apparition #ghost ship #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #illustration #red dress #art
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March 3, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #phonograph #his master's voice #photograph #illustration #head stuck #master's voice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A day of omens.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#omen #superstition
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
How to swim.  From The Puritan, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Brightener by Alice Muriel Williamson & Charles Norris Williamson, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #staircase #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #apocalypse #asteroid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Help me, hound, and hawk, and horse!"  From Fairy Tales from Afar, of Sven Grundtvig, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"How long?  How long?  This heart-breaking monotony?  This wretched pay?"  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage ad #despair #depression #success #vintage headline #monotony #wretched #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #illustration #flasher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #world #atlas #snail #weight of the world #illustration #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Scranton, Miss.  An early settler of the Pascagoulas."  Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
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#skull #vintage postcard #mississippi #pascagoula #postcard
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Old News (permalink)
"Cameras are much too well behaved."  From Popular Mechanics, 1933.
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#photography #weird headline #vintage headline #cameras #well behaved #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter by Padraic Colum, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #illustration #enchanter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From On a Pincushion by Mary de Morgan and illustrated by William de Morgan, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #elves #gnomes #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Last Tenant by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #angel #spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad in Die Muskete, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #giant ear #ink pen #big ear #ad
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #national animal #art
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March 2, 2018

This May Surprise You (permalink)
You've heard of the elephant in the room, but did you know he wears spectacles?  From Le Rire, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #illustration
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
Here's an author's apology for letting a couple of fairies slip into the pages of her book.  From The Primrose Ring by Ruth Sawyer, 1915.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#preface #foreword #author's note
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Death conducts jazz.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #jazz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #october #jack-o'-lantern #autumn #bear #hallowe'en #pumpkin head
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From She Shall Have Murder, by Delano Ames:

***

[Fictitious Books Mentioned in Actual Books dept.]

It [the book the narrator-protagonist was going to write, but she wrote this one instead] was going to be called "Waking--No Such Matter."

I am sorry about "Waking--No Such Matter." It would have been a significant book.

***

Dagobert's wife.

I ought, I suppose, to go into all that, but to tell the truth I have a headache, and perhaps she won't be necessary to the story. If she should intrude later on I shall describe her fully.

***

"You are very naughty, Jimmy, and Babs is very cross with you." The italics are her own.

***

The dramatic effect of the above break is admittedly phoney. I was interrupted. But on re-reading I decided to let it stand. It makes a kind of chapter, and I like plenty of chapters, so that you can stop reading with a clear conscience and do something useful.

***

[As the protagonist is enlisted by her boss to help him with a crossword clue about Fidelio.]

"Wasn't there someone in the opera," I said, getting interested in the thing in spite of myself, "who dresses herself up as a man?" My memory of the opera was vague; in fact I'd never heard of it.

***

Before dealing with the vagaries of Dagobert's imagination I'd better put down the unvarnished facts. They can be varnished afterwards.

***

It was a lovely evening and I'll not hear a word against it.

***

Then he began the "Prelude in C Sharp Minor" so quietly that you could almost hear the quietness.

***

"Good Lord!" He glanced at his wrist-watch and jumped to his feet. "I'll miss the Mickey Mouse--I hope."

***

[While dining in a restaurant]

We concentrated on something à la Valenciana.

***

And yet to-night as the cold and darkness reclaimed their nocturnal reign over the premises of Number II Mandel Street I was oppressed by the atmosphere. It had never occurred to me before that the office had an atmosphere.

***

"I could get fond of painting," he said, and I realised with horror that he meant it.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #fishbowl #starving #hungry #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How the spell was broken."  From Stories in Precious Stones by Helen Zimmern, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #magic spell #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Pipes on pigeons bring music from the skies."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#vintage photo #bird #pigeon #vintage headline #bird music #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #man bathing #bathtub #reading in the tub #man in a tub
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #compass #transformation #mathematician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fairy of the spring."  From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #water sprite #illustration #fairy of the spring
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"A thick vapour advancing towards them."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #smoke #arabian nights #illustration #vapor
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a call for disarmament from the Netherlands, exact date uncertain.
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#vintage illustration #vintage postcard #illustration #disarmament #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A restless spirit."  From The Prisoner of Chiloane, or, With the Portuguese in South-East Africa by Wallis Mackay, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hammock #nap #restless spirit #illustration
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hose #squirting #spraying #art
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1938.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #illustration #walking bed #mobile bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The witch and her victim."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #witch #goat #illustration
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March 1, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #hypnotist
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You've heard conflicting stories about who discovered America, but in fact it was a young rooster called Happy-Go-Lucky.  From St. Nicholas, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #hatching #egg #chick #illustration #discovered america #columbus' egg
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #illustration #giant devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #king #cat #puss in boots #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1936
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #gardening #vegetables #farmer #vegetable people #dancing vegetables
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #giant scissors
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From First Principles of Theosophy by C. Jinarājadāsa, 1922.
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#vintage diagram #diagram #the arts #creative art #buddhic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #mad hatter #rabbit #march hare #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.  Speaking of literate cats, was How to Be Your Own Cat written by an actual cat?  See for yourself.  See for yourself.
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#vintage illustration #cat #literacy #illustration #smart animal #yellow eyes
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Old News (permalink)
"Pious miners worship at depth of 500 feet."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.

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#religion #vintage illustration #church #cave #underground #vintage headline #illustration #subterranean #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magical Land of Noom, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #all wet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Scarlet Letter yearbook (Rutgers, 1887).  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #alchemy #yearbook #chemistry #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Immediately the genie appeared."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899
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#vintage illustration #giant #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration #horned
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1919. 
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#vintage illustration #life after death #skull #illustration
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Non-Circulating Books (permalink)
Non-circulating book.  See our artist’s statement here: https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?c=NonCirculatingBooks.  (Individual cards are available from Zazzle, and deep discount bulk orders of 10 or more are available from Vistaprint.)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #library book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #temptation #angel #good and evil #pipe smoker #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(
`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #tentacles #illustration #diver #art
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