CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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March 31, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The cat is not looking directly at you but rather at what is looming just behind you, beyond your right shoulder.  From Der Guckkasten, 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 #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are denying the importunity of the blood.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Baraban, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #giant #illustration #pollution #smokestack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #political cartoon #uncle sam #monkey #cats #cheese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mannequin #self defense
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Dwarf by Lady Esther Hope, 1861.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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)
Reblog if you've seen this in a mirror.  From Welcome Guest, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #totem animal #fairy tale #haunted mirror #wolf #little red riding hood #animal spirit #heart mirror #animal self #animal guide #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #satan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #black cat #fortune teller #animal familiar #crow #palm reader #palmistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Have some supper,' said Rupert gently."  From Pearson's, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #despair #depression #eat something #you'll feel better
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
They Lived With Me by Helen Zenna Smith.  (Book cover via 54mge.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 Lustige Blätter, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #centaur #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if this might be a better way to view art.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #face mask #armor #personal protection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State College of Washington's yearbook of 1912.

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

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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #astrology #comet #vintage yearbook #celestial #yearbook #in the clouds #on top of the world
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Picture of Death, by E. C. R. Lorac:

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[A character's sort of lazy/unintentional "adjustment for inflation" of the "64-dollar question."]

"That's the eighty dollar question, or whatever the jargon is," said Macdonald.

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Old News (permalink)
"An apple a day keeps the goblins away."  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mustache #hearts #muscle man #strong man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1921 yearbook of Indiana University.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #nose to nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From K Svetu, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #boa constrictor
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March 30, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
They said it was utterly unfilmable, as unfilmable as William Burroughs' Naked Lunch.  A dictionary made into a movie?  And not just any dictionary — the Dictionary of One-Letter Words.  The script, illustrated with photos and storyboards, is finally available in print.  Yes, it's The Dictionary of One-Letter Words: The Movie.
> read more from This May Surprise You . . .
#one-letter words #film script #unfilmable
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
People are most engaged by art that looks back that them, according to the neurology of "cognitive attraction."  From Catawba's 1968 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gazeta Shebueva, 1906.
It's been said that "skeletons symbolize everyone's condition in the world, where we are all left abandoned and starving, longing desperately for union with and nourishment from heaven and earth": see my skeletons gallery.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #happy and sad #comedy and tragedy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bich, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune, 1866.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird people #bird woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #cemetery #graveyard #gravedigger #caretaker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #winged horse #horsepower #vintage car #car
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
By Gustave Doré.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1921.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #serpent #snake
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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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 #king neptune #trident #sailor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you have ever carried (or would carry) human-faced flowers in your dress.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #political cartoon #human faced #flowers #tiny heads
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Stanford Quad, 1920.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #giant skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Perhaps some subtle "sphinx winks" here?  From Otterbein's 1911 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat #vampire #human faced #1900s
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a 1972 precursor to the "Bob" poster from Twin Peaks.  From Butler's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #Twin Peaks #beware of bob #twin peaks precursor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy #moon #man in the moon #eclipse #faces in things #quill pen #moth
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Precursors (permalink)
Fifty years before the Summer of Love, we find these flower people in Greenboro's 1916 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower power #orchid #hyrbid #flower children
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
"The Black Cat," rendered into English.  From Wide Awake, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #cat #sheet music #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From K Svetu, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #flower people #hybrid #human headed #1900s #frog man #flower woman
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March 29, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Did you know that Blade Runner and Big Trouble in Little China are the same film, with only the tiniest of negligible differences?
  Blade Runner Big Trouble
James Hong obsessed with eyeballs X X
The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure X X
Antagonist who would be immortal X X
Protagonist narrates his own story X X
Asian crowds with umbrellas X X
Noodle shops X X
Series of tests X X
Ominous statuary comes to life X X
Disguised investigations of disreputable establishments X X
Historic architecture X X
Combatting aliens X X
California setting X X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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#blade runner #big trouble in little china #james hong
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to 1998's dancing flower toy.  From Mansfield's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dancing flower
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Reblog if you wish the gold coin angel to enrich you.  From Maski, 1906.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
> read more from Strange Dreams . . .
#vintage illustration #wealth #angel #money #coins #dreaming #gold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #devil #satan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wolverine yearbook of Michigan Agricultural College, 1922.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dogs #puppies #newborn dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Shrunken, emaciated, and carried in a little cage.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.  23-003
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.
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From Kladderadatsch, 1848.
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Old News (permalink)
"Exhaused dry batteries produce flame spectacle."  From Popular Mechanics, 1919. 
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From Jugend, 1898.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.

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Reblog if this gives you a sense of perspective.  From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #chaos #ape #ape costume #untidy
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Breathe Right nasal strips.  From Earlham's 1920 yearbook.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Step So Grave, by Catriona McPherson:

***

[Presenting northmanship--and the islemanship counterploy!]

I have never understood the one-upmanship of Scots regarding longitude [sic*]. Why should the most northerly-dwelling Scotsman in any gathering be the top dog?... I hoped these Rosses would not be the type of Highlanders who would look down on Hugh and Perthshire and thereby nudge him into endless accounts of his grandmother's childhood on Skye to even the score. For northerliness is only one of the winning cards in the game: an island carries a hefty bonus. Of course, Skye is quite a southerly island and the ferry journey to it is a brief one. If a Ross grandmother had come down from some speck in the Shetland Isles, Hugh would be trounced completely.

[*She means latitude, of course.]

***

Then the footman, disappearing out of the room with the empty fish plate, said, "Fuchsia cabin marmoset coal-cake." [This is the English narrator's transcription of how she hears the footman's Gaelic.]

***

"And here comes Lairdie with the lamb."

"Lairdie with the lamb" sounded like another harbinger, along with the coal yak [more mistranscribed Gaelic], but the dining-room door opened just then and the Gaelic-spouting footman backed in, turning to reveal an enormous platter.

***

Hugh, who had never in his life heard a rhetorical question he did not answer

***

"You got here all right through the drifts then?" I said, and was rewarded by his grin lessening from maniacal to merely insufferable.

***

I said nothing and kept my face as blank as a skating pond.

***

Hutcheson was looking at me with his eyebrows positively rippling. They looked like two lively caterpillars crossing a pathway.

***

Alec snorted. He has a marvellous menu of snorts and I had grown to recognise most of them, but this latest was something new.

***

His top lip almost turned itself inside out from the strength of his sneer. [I visualize Kenneth Mars as Hugh Simon!]

***

I caught sight of myself in the dressing-table mirror across the room and closed my mouth, but I could not do anything about my eyebrows. They refused to climb back down my face to where they belonged.

***

"I think a Wester Ross man putting out to sea [on Easter Sunday] would be as conspicuous as you or me walking down Piccadilly stark naked, playing bagpipes."

***

I knew it had distracted me from something more important. I tried to see past it to the back of my own mind.

***

"I shall just take her to Gretna Green and present you with a fait accompli."

"You don't have to go down to Gretna Green if you're already in Scotland," I said.

***

"You could promise now anyway," Donald said. "I'd be most awfully grateful."

I beamed at him. It was a non-committal beam and, besides, the most fervent beam ever hoisted onto a face is not a binding contract.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Yes, it's a bag full of severed heads.  From Greensboro's 1928 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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March 28, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This blessed and uncursed image may be reblogged to usher dancing ravens into every corner of the globe.  From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, would be interested in a squirrel orchestra.  From Le Charivari, 1849.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Did you already know that lobsters and spiders both have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin, which contains copper?  From Komenata, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #animals #zoo #allegory
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #clock #1900s #clock dress #behind the times #timely fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Absinthe with the devil.  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We've had days like this.  "With a roar the tiger and the bull and the black dog leapt upon him."  From Pilot, and Other Stories by Harry Plunket Greene, 1916.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Raining whales.  From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #rain #whales
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #upside down #projectionist #movie theatre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Yermah the Dorado by Frona Eunice Wait, 1897.
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#occult #vintage book #book #atlantic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#mummy #vintage illustration #egyptian #lion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #giraffe #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bureval, 1906.
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
You've heard of "blue rainbow" trout, but here's the blue rainbow they're named after.  From the West Chester yearbook of 1964.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spectrum #blue rainbow #blue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A sort of family tree of skeletons.  From Otterbein's 1911 yearbook.  To discover your own skeletal ancestry, see Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Signaly, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sleeping
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March 27, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #devil #good and evil #goat legged #piggy back ride
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you perplex and offend more, day by day, or if you are perplexed and offended more, day by day.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gazeta Shebueva, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Leda and the wind-up swan.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #rabbit man #bunny man #all ears #rabbit ears #half rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
They don't let you do this anymore, in the name of so-called safety.  And the music suffers.  From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #musician #eiffel tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #doom #grim reaper #vintage magazine #public transportation #death train #try walking #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is not How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #lion costume #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #pigs #painting #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #horned man #man with horns
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A book dedicated to Tootsy Wootsy Werner the cat -- Werner's Readings and Recitations No. 35 by Mrs. Frederick W. Pender, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage photo #vintage cat #kitty #book dedication #cat portrait #tootsy wootsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #two headed #vintage men #men #siamese twins #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 1906.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky's yearbook of 1977.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #juggler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #sphere #fairy tale #cinderella #fairy godmother
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1911 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spooky #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
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March 26, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #big hat #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #tattoo #1870s #cat tattoo
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the old joke about burning one ear when mistaking an iron for the telephone, and burning the other ear when the person calls back.  From Le Charivari, 1843.
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#vintage illustration #ironing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We were going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way."  From a yearbook on drugs: Union College's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From There Was a Crooked Man, by Kelley Roos:

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"Even his typewriter complains. It writes poison pen letters to Bruce's editor all by itself."

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[A running joke between two characters!]

She cleared her throat and affected the solemn whisper of a librarian. "How would you like your books, madame?"

"Rare!" I shouted, and we both laughed raucously.

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He didn't take courses at Columbia's Graduate School; he snatched them. I was sure that Vincent was responsible for at least fifty per cent of the absent-mindedness of America's professors.

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"Whoa, Professor, there is no time for maintaining, holding or contending."

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[A genericized hairdresser.]

Her hair at its worst would have inspired the most blasé Antoine or Antoinette to greater glory.

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"Mr. Girard, from now on...not a word. Even if I ask you a question, don't answer me."

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Garbed in a faded but not completely subdued dressing-gown, he was enjoying a large thick cigar.

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"What are you carrying around an empty box for?"

"It's lighter when it's empty."

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"He doesn't enjoy being a Huber. He wishes his name were MacClump or Squiffen."

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"Grodek is a city in Poland. And crossword puzzles."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dr. Stickum was sent for just in time.  From The Doctors, A Satire in Four Seizures by Elbert Hubbard, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #doctor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #goat #horns #mountain goat #head butting #antelope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gazeta Shebueva, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #ball and chain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #opera #cat eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #boa constrictor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You can be a foster sister to a cat even without learning How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Welcome Guest, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cat #foster sister #art
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd.  From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #hunter #tables turned #bugs bunny #elmer fudd
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A great, ugly, poisonous snake crept out of a hole in the wall."  From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #fairy tale #snake #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #insect #bug #insect bite
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #anthropomorphism #hydra
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Stanford Quad, 1920.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #naked man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The skulls on the poison bottles are looking at each other.  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull and crossbones #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A questionable mountain range.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #mountains #question mark #questioning
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March 25, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Own Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1903."Let me introduce myself."  From My Own Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #severed head #1890s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Excruciating as this text may be, reblog if you can relate.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #bad writing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #1870s #painter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dragonfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gazeta Shebueva, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #horror #face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's an excellent way to make a decision.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #top hat #yes or no
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #money #magician #coins #vintage magic #stage magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war #war dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #bathtub #in a fishbowl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #hell #hotline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #king death #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A tiger with a monocle loves sugar.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #tiger #monocle
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Old News (permalink)
"Z is smooth, clever, provocative[;] it is, in essence, very, very real."  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1970.
For many more things that Z is, see One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#letter z #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bug #housefly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
That feeling when Father Time traps you in his hourglass and sits back to watch you squirm.  From the University of New Hampshire's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Shadows thumb their noses as the devil plays pickpocket.  From Nebelspalter, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #devil #pickpocket #lantern #shadow #thumbing nose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Revealed: the Nipper dog of "His Master's Voice" was actually hearing a parrot's mimicry.  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.

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#vintage illustration #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #phonograph #his master's voice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #jester #chair
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March 24, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Few people have heard of the tiny sea creature called the "ploshkin."  A web search for "ploshkin betty wales" will reveal all, as will this fashion history blog post about it.  From Chowan's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mermaid #sea creature #vintage yearbook #yearbook #good luck #illustration #ploshkin
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor (by three decades) to the Doomsay Clock:
"Soon the world's clock will strike twelve; the number on its dial is red, is dipped in blood, and by that you will recognise it.  And a stormwind shall precede the new first hour." —Gustav Meyrink, The Green Face (1916)
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#doomsday
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness."  By the way, the large-eyed figures are identified as the sophomore class officers.  From Union College's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aliens
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
"Smile stimulator."  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #frog #spider #candle #foot #specimen jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gazeta Shebueva, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotist #eyes #pointing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When a peace angel costume doesn't hide one's cloven hoof.  (The sizes tend to run small.)  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #devil #cloven hoof #peace angel #angel costume #goat leg #peace costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #half and half
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #skeleton #coffin #living dead #horror #undead
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(
`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"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 #thumbing nose #under the sea #sunken treasure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #scissors #running with scissors #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1833.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairies #fairy tale #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What dost thou want of me, o man."  From A Book of Famous Fairy Tales, 1901.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale #dwarf #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bade him place it on his finger."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #ring #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #bat #bird feeding #pet bird
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Catcher in the Rye, from 1876.
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#book title
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse
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Old News (permalink)
"The demon ruler."  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1967.
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#demon #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you melted at your graduation like the Wicked Witch or Obi Wan Kenobi, reblog.  From the University of New Hampshire's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #graduation #cap and gown
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March 23, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Ah Life, my own Libido, my Despair, my Guilt, my Need, a Glory, a Mocking, a Hope."  The cover of Lenoir-Rhyne's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#despair #vintage yearbook #yearbook #guilt #ah life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #devil #devil's tail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, study the sunlit pattern on the floor.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #sword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #giant #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #giant insect
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He is the man who has really made you what you are."  From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #trumpet #blown away #blast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #distortion #warped #funhouse mirror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends and Stories of Ireland by Samuel Lover, 1834.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #dragon #ireland #legend #illustration #irish
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cake walk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #memento mori
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #keg #wine #cask #alcoholic #wine barrel
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You don't get to the fruit until Book II of Cherry Ripe! (1878).
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#old book #cherry
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Old News (permalink)
"Toothpaste called 'lust' fights 'smooch decay.'"  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1966.
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#vintage headline #lust #toothpaste #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of New Hampshire's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #skull and crossbones #fraternity #vintage yearbook #skulls #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The moon is more complicated than any one expected; it is not simply a kind of billiard ball frozen in space and time, as many scientists had believed" ("The Moon Is More Of a Mystery Than Ever," The New York Times, April 16, 1972).  From Nebelspalter, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #moon #1880
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The Phantoms."  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull #phantom #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #king #camel
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March 22, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #devil #illness #sickness #bronchitis #sickbed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #war #h bomb #hydrogen bomb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pie for everybody, by occult means if necessary.  From Le Charivari, 1849.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #pie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I gazed into a kaleidoscope once and juxtaposed there I saw everything I am and ever will be."  The photo isn't kaleidoscopic, and "juxtaposed" is the wrong word, but there are worse things about his yearbook.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"We now know that the soul (the mind, the will, the affections), is never in such good health as when the body is neither under-fed nor over-fed."
—Hugh O. Pentecost, 1889
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #reading #insomnia #up all night #midnight oil #candle
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1920.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #skeleton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Wolverine yearbook of Michigan Agricultural College, 1922.

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

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#vintage illustration #halloween #black cat #full moon #october #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #hallowe'en #cat fight #arched back
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Joyous Travelers by Maud Lindsay & Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairies #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #cherub #alcohol #saints
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #giant #pipe smoker #tiny man
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1932.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #iceberg #aurora borealis #glacier #1930s #sun dog #parhelion #sundog #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 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 #fairy tale #dancing #weightless #floating #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #chaos #parallel worlds #alcoholism #1900s #order and chaos #parallel universe #family life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #champagne #popping cork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1923 yearbook of the Presbyterian College of South Carolina.

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

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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Last Guru, by Daniel Pinkwater:

***

"This is the silliest thing I ever heard of," Harold's father said.

"You should see the hats we wear when we're at home," Dupdup Drng'pa said.

***

"When he returns to Rochester, New York, he will know more about the mystic East than any person in the West has ever known."

"Well, that will certainly be nice for him," Harold's mother said.

***

"They read Six Easy Steps to Nirvana, by Dr. Weary, or Hum Your Way to Enlightenment by Alan W. Plotz, or Your Feet Are Your Head by Brother Jimmy...."

***

The best that Hamish MacTavish could make of Hodie MacBodhi's explanation of Blong Buddhism was that if you spent twenty-four hours a day meditating, you aren't apt to get in very much trouble.

***

They made a long-playing record called Blong! You Are a Pickle! and offered it for sale in MacTavish's pickleburger stands. It was a record of instructions in Blong meditation, the first exercise of which was to make believe you are a pickle.

***

The hats [of the Silly Hat monks] were the silliest things anyone had ever seen. They were more silly than anyone could imagine. They were too silly to be described.

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March 21, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #cats #faces in things
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Precursors (permalink)
The blind driver labeled "begger man" is a precursor to the extremely nearsighted cartoon driver Mr. Magoo (who debuted 32 years later).  From Akron's 1917 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mr. magoo #rich man poor man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #grave #graveyard #peace #tomb #tombstone #skul
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #piano #monkey #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Don't keep asking what time it is.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #clock #1900s #what time is it
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From The Judge, 1918.

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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #measuring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #human headed #illustration #milkmaid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #headache #migraine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #seashell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Walking the dog, the lamb, and the fish.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #walking the dog #lamb #pet fish
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Old News (permalink)
"Scientist probe[s] into sex life of cabbage."  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1966.
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#cabbage #vintage headline #vegetable #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #living dead #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"What right do I have to think...?"  From Oglethorpe's 2005 yearbook.
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#rhetorical question #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thinking #vintage headline #rights #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Listopad, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The street light and full moon may be used as coordinates for astral or time travel.  From Wake Forest's 1973 yearbook.
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#moon #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light and dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #watering can
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March 20, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #disaffected #worried parents #they wouldn't understand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One wonders whether the deeper meaning of this cartoon was intentional, that republics and monarchies are actually two heads of the same body, that the powers that be go on profiting in any case, that the seeming helmsen are powerless to move anything, that all politics is a sham.  From Le Grelot, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #two headed
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #stars #starry night #night #stargazing #look up #staring into the depths
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
What does a yearbook on drugs sound like?  "Focusing yesterday's indelible recall in silhouette with eternity while playing the game of my own undoing."  Just say no.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From K Svetu, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #monster #dragon #sledgehammer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #mirror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #explosion #exploding #crowded train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #headdress #antelope
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #halo #bored #illustration #waiting #bad date
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #mist
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #melting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #killer carrot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Merry Measure by Thomas Masson, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #money #money bag #big pharma #pharmaceuticals #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Basketball has changed over the years, but some might say that the original spirit of the game endures.  (We wouldn't, but some might.)  From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #basketball
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
When we celebrate the arrival of Spring, we overlook the brutality endured by snowmen.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #spring #change of seasons #springtime
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Signaly, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #donkey #piggy back ride #tables turned #weighted down #red sky
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is what we think when critics attempt to mar our workmanship.  "Could it be dissemination of some wicked defamation of our blameless reputation by some imp of hell's creation?"  From the Ole Miss yearbook of 1898.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem #defamation #criticism #haters
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #if you had wings #the people could fly
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March 19, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #owl #graveyard #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #geometry #blockhead #head in a box #square head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, bear the heavy burden of a growing soul.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#soul #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars, by Daniel Pinkwater:

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The signs all had slogans like Talk is Cheap--Action is Expensive; and Think Before You Think; and Today is the Yesterday You Won't Be Able to Remember Tomorrow.

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They had titles like Harold Platt, New-age Seer of Rochester; and Blong! You Are a Pickle....

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"The Order of the Laughing Alligator--a very old mystical brotherhood, said to have originated in Tibet or India or California, or one of those places."

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"You have powers now that you didn't have before--even if they're boring powers."

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"I met a Saturnian once, but we never got to be friends. He kept trying to eat my wristwatch."

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"Don't we have any cities? Hee hee. Hoo hah. Ho ho." He didn't sound as though he was laughing--he just said the words ho ho, and so forth.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #paranoia #surveillance society #eavesdropping #watched
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He's a little teapot.  From Nebelspalter, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #teapot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Arbutus yearbook of Indiana University, 1906.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #occult #incense #yearbook #censer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #mask #carnival
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #trashcan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sometimes I think of sandpaper sandwiches chewed cautiously.  Wouldn't you hate to be my brain?"  From The Judge, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #weird thoughts #sandpaper sandwich
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #demons #hell #skulls #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #death #open grave #paris #grave digger #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #cow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #smoke #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #clown #upside down
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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 #optical illusion #eye #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The gift of a severed head gives her the shivers.  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #umbrella #snake #boa constrictor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A confluence of parallel realities.  From East Carolina's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #parallel universe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It wasn't easy, but we identified exactly what star is this.  It's "the Lion's-star, ambition's rage" (Abraham Cowley, "The Delights of a Garden").  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #star #boat #navigation #ship's wheel #ambition #pilot
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March 18, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is what can happen if you lend your copy of How to Be Your Own Cat to a friend.  From L'Eclipse, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #cat people #two headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #hell #duel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
I wonder if this cat is losing the first of its nine lives.  From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #cat #nine lives
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If there's anything worse than yearbook writers trying to sound deep, tell me, because it'll be news to me.  "Praying for voiceless cannons silenced by golden hopes of distant realities."  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #cannon #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #kite
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Komenata, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #faces in things #moth #death's head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #rabbits #bunnies #overtaken
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of California's Blue and Gold yearbook, 1885.  For instructions on how to use vintage spiders for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobweb #spider web #the people could fly #insect people #winged people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rock Me to Sleep, Mother by Elizabeth Akers Allen, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
*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 #fashion #vintage fashion #umbrella dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #skull #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Showing him a ghost.  From Welcome Guest, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pilot, and Other Stories by Harry Plunket Greene, 1916.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #fairy tale #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of the exploding cigar gag, but here's a sprouting one.  From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #cigar #spouting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A macabre card reader from Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #divination #skull face #occult #fortune teller #card reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You know that feeling.  From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #being watched #surveillance society #too many cooks #over your shoulder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #big dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Revealed -- it's the Devil who collects the coins from automated life.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #devil #automaton #robot #coin operated #automation #automated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1911 yearbook.  Previously, we saw the preferred, calligraphic way to write "excelsior."

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #excelsior #goose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel of death #end of the world #sword #apocalypse
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March 17, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There's an ironic subliminal message in this book cover — the middle of the word "exposed," "pos," is highlghted by the box behind it, suggesting "positive."  Spirit Rapping Exposed by John Henry Anderson, 1860.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#demon #imp #necromancy #magic #spiritualism #seance #vintage book #book #spirit rapping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #deer
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the superior horror/sci-fi film Slither.  From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #horror #slug #slither
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Moments for searching for answers."
Moments?  To quote from Cornell Woolrich's marvelous I Married a Dead Man, "The other moments come, the hours, weeks, and, oh God, the years."
From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #searching for answers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rats #pied piper #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #lantern
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snowstorm #old man winter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
 There's a way to use "holy smoke" like this to your advantage: see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  From the Record of the Class of 1891 of the University of Pennsylvania.
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#vintage illustration #magick #witchcraft #occult #cauldron #yearbook #smoke #secret societies #fraternities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #candles #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #pan #goat legged #faun #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #angel #garden of eden #adam and eve #paradise lost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's a fine head, whatever."  From My Own Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #dragon #severed head
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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 #fish #folk tale #persian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's the demon of taxes, from Le Rire, 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 #demon #taxation #taxes #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #king death #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #temptation #serpent #snake #eden #illustration #apple
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #laughter #1920s #smiling dog #laughing #laughing dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #demon #bicycle #dog #hunter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The 1960s seem so distant now, like a whole other way of life.  From Tennessee Wesleyan's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Rustling End, by Douglas G. Browne:

***

He looked again at Stephanie, his faintly freckled face, with its pointed nose and sandy eyebrows, suddenly sharpened, as though, she thought, it were some sort of pencil.

***

"Nobody here knows a binomial theorem from a turnip."

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March 16, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Delving through yearbooks across the decades, we're constantly reminded of how the names for the political parties flip back and forth about every 60 years.  In 1901, the democratic party fought for "free beer, free lunch, no work," whereas in the 1960s and 70s, of course, the democratic party fought for worker's rights: as in the yearbook page pictured here, "I vote democrat because I work for a living."  Today, it has all flipped again, with the democratic party again promising free beer, free lunch, and no work.
From Purdue's 1901 yearbook (top) and Southwestern's yearbook of 1973 (bottom).

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #politics #democratic party #democrats
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1877.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #rainy day #umbrella #snail #giant snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #outer space #moon #man in the moon #faces in things #the people could fly #1950s #spacemen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, leave disordered papers in a dusty room.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #gallows #1900s #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An eerie romance in the cemetery.  From Satirikon, 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 #ghost #cemetery #spirits #graveyard #spectres
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From The Oregana yearbook of the Univeristy of Oregon, 1920.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #yearbook #star #six pointed star #memoriam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #severed head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #birds #avalanche #biblical #under rocks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #earth #hand of god #swept away #brushed off
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From La Baïonnette, 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 #spirit #cheers #deity #bacchus #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's Young People, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant bug #grasshopper #giant insect #insect monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wedding #marriage #illustration #androgyny #unisex
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rooster costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shield #devil face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I now call upon the spirits."  From Gilbert Chemical Magic by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, 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 #spirits #necromancy #occult #magic #magic trick #holy smoke
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #smoke #fire breather #fire breathing #child smoker #breathing smoke
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Precursors (permalink)
You know that the "What, me worry?" mascot of Mad Magazine is named Alfred E. Neuman.  But here are some much earlier incarnations.  Our favorite, of course, is "G. Daddleskink."  From Colorado College's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mad magazine #alfred e. neuman #what me worry
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#yours
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March 15, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Jacques Tati's masterpiece Playtime.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #glass houses #jacque tati #playtime
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you have taken on chocolate.  From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #chocoholic #chocolate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not knowing there'd be olives and pickles, we foolishly turned down two invitations to college banquets.  From Castleton's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #banquet #pickles #olives
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fat fairy" from Daphne, Or, The Pipes of Arcadia, Three Acts of Singing Nonsense by Marguerite Merington, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fat fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The grain is ripe."  From The New Age, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe #harvest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #horned car #rhino car #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #bear #alcohol #ad
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #piano #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #potato face #potato head #potato people #safety pin
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Peter's very little island."  From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(
`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"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 #fairy tale #illustration #tiny island
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #tarot #swords #war and peace #illustration #six of swords
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance we thought he had brought a collection plate to receive a bounty from a gargoyle's mouth.  It's more likely a pie-eating contest (no less grotesque).  From Atlantic Christian's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#grotesque #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pie eating
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Sailor, Take Warning! by Kelley Roos:

***

There were other questions I wanted to ponder aloud, but Jeff's face was set in a contemplative silence, that "Do not disturb" sign was hanging on his nose.

***

"That's what's called baring one's soul, isn't it?"

"More," Jeff said, "of a soul strip-tease."

***

"How is your alibi?" Jeff asked.

"Fine, thanks."

[...]

"So," Jeff said, "it looks like you have an alibi."

"And am I proud of it! It's my first alibi! It just goes to show...this is indeed the land of opportunity. Ten years ago I came to New York empty handed. And now I've got a job, a bank account, three charge accounts and an alibi!"

"Good alibis are hard to get nowadays, Tony. Take good care of it."

"Oh, I will! I'll keep it in a cool, dry place."

***

A chilling gush of wind and rain met us at the front door; even the weather was trying to come in out of this dismal night.

***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #spider #giant spider
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photo may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Wake Forest's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #light and dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #skeleton #dance of death #graveyard #living dead #dancing skeletons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #popping cork #tiny man #bottle #giant bottle
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you 'in' or 'out'?  It depends on camp."  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1966.
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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March 14, 2019

Strange Dreams (permalink)
Easily the rattiest sheet-ghost we've encountered.  From Le Charivari, 1849.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #spooky #phantom #sheet ghost #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #death #winter #shrouded #top hat #absence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #automaton #robot #big feet #big hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #edible book #eating a book #devouring a book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania State College's La Vie yearbook, 1920.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fraternity #yearbook #walking on hot coals #walking on coals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #harp #long nose #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #armor #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #knight #art
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
*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 #umbrella #faces in things #autumn #illustration #falling leaves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #sphinx #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 #chess #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #clock #1900s #illustration #passage of time #fullness of time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #frog #hybrid #human headed #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #horse #heart #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Budilnik, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #monster #hybrid #human headed
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March 13, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of a "walking encyclopedia," but have you ever seen a walking set of encyclopedias?  From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #books #walking encyclopedia #bookcase #1840s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, fear the warm reality, the offered good.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's the proper way to hold a question mark.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #tooth #giant tooth #tooth extraction #pull the tooth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The House of Dreams."  From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough, 1910.
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #leapfrog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #destruction #ruins #impermanence #buddha #ruined temple #fallen temple
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Little Red Riding Hood recommends a facial massage to her wolfen grandmother.  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #big bad wolf #little red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #demon #cauldron #pitchfork #hell #damned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #cat o' nine tails #1920s #statue of liberty #lady liberty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #weeping #crying animal #crocodile tears #tears #sadness #alligator tears #crying man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #haunted forest #faces in things #tree spirits #tree faces
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From Springfield's 1955 yearbook.
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#full moon #vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strely, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if your flair for entertaining has ended with tears.  From the Morris Harvey yearbook of 1958.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1891.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #imp #ghost #spirits
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
The sun captured in a lantern may trigger a sudden flash of insight.  From Wake Forest's 1973 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #hell
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March 12, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven.  From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #shoes #shoe soup #eating a shoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The seam cuts down to the central figure into just a head and one arm in rainbow.  As for that word "achiment," this predates V-E Day by a dozen years.  The endpapers to Park College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #exterminator #bug killer #insecticide #bedbug #bug powder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pitchfork #skull and crossbones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When decapitated people shoot each other.  From Diatel, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #headless #duel #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle accident #stunt bike #bicycle stunt #safety net #loop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #toppling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are prone to catch fire during the chant.  From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #ritual #candle #fire hazard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #demon #tiny man #meat #spaceman #food
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe #vintage car #car
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #animals #lion #giraffe #1920s #ostrich #ice skating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oddities of great men."  From Welcome Guest, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #peacock #dandies #balancing #stunt #stupid human tricks #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You were right -- they do have an inflated sense of themselves.  From Ohio Wesleyan's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #ego #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is a good first test for identifying non-haunted mirrors.  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #self portrait #yourself
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky's 1975 yearbook.

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#outer space #vintage yearbook #yearbook #space #rocket #planets
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Have you done clean forgot me?"  A spirit message from 1930.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We'd say that our alma mater had one of these watching over it, but the truth is that it didn't — we had to bring our own.  From East Carolina's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Seven Dead by J. Jefferson Farjeon:

***

[Turnabout Is Fair Play dept.: Wind be blowed!]

"There ain't much wind," commented Bob Blythe.

"Wind, be blowed!" retorted Hazeldean. "We're using petrol."

***

"I felt as if he was looking at a ghost!"

"The ghost of a cricket ball," murmured Hazeldean. "Why not? That ball was dead enough to have one."

***

"Well, I suppose [a ship's loud horn is] necessary in a noisy age," muttered a passenger next to Kendall.

"Probably the Ichthyosaurus made a worse noise," answered Kendall.

"Pardon me," retorted the passenger, "but there is no specific evidence that Ichthyopterygia made any noise at all!"

***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For Floridians, this is every day.  From Signaly, 1906.
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#sword #naked man #overgrowth
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March 11, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You knew that beards make an impression, but here's the science of it.  From Park College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #beard #science #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #bird headed #anthropomorphism #alchemy #plague doctor #alembic #crow headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #demon #owl #murder #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #human sacrifice #monster #sacrifice #yokai #black lagoon #feeding the beast #creature of the black lagoon #blood sacrifice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #cat #pattern #dizzy #disoriented #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #ancestral spirits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1942.
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#sarcophagus #vintage illustration #egyptian #illustration #bathtub #egyptian bathtub
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #satyr #pan #faun #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #cat #giant cat #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #guillotine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #question mark
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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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 #skull #sea monster #war #mines
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dumskii Al'manakh, 1905.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #fountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Toronto yearbook of 1953.

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#vintage photo #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sculpture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vampir, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #volcano #circle dance #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1898).
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#vintage illustration #lion #lion's den
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Semicolon's Dream Journal (permalink)
I dreamed of my alma mater.  [From Colorado College's 1928 yearbook.]
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #exclamation point
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #robot #winged robot #weird robot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institute's 1928 yearbook.  To comprehend bizarre imagery like this, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #giraffe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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March 10, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everygirl's Magazine, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #campfire #camping #campfire girls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #beard #wolfman #porcupine #1900s #hairy man #bristling #bristles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #hybrid #kangaroo woman #kangaroo legs #half kangaroo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #circus #hippo #gymnastics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #boat #lyre #water spirit #rowboat
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#prayer #sigh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things
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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 #emblem #blackbird #bell #breaking bread #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #war and peace #peace dove #talons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #anthropomorphism #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #fish people #fish headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An inkblot doodle from Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Slinky toys are not manufactured but rather molted.  From National-Louis's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #slinky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sochineniia N.G. Shebueva, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Old News (permalink)
Every year has been the end of the world, since the world began.  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1972.
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#end of the world #apocalypse #vintage headline #fake news #sensationalism #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This photo may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Wake Forest's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #darkness #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night #light and dark #streetlight #light in darkness #foggy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #comet #faces in things #shooting star #falling star #asteroid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1924 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage illustration #church #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #under a spell #hypnotized #sorcerer #body paint
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March 9, 2019

Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sun #sunrise #illustration #walking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Nice magnification of his eyes.  From Elon's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gazeta Shebueva, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fountain #toilet #bidet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #spiral #hippo #twisted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #quill pen #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #coffin #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #flood #tsunami #tide #man against nature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #angel #prisoner #in chains
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #two headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #coffin #illustration #strangled #choked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #pitchfork #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hermes of Praxiteles.  From Nature's Harmonic Unity by Samuel Colman, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #sacred geometry #geometry #hermes #illustration #harmonic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cesare Ripa, 1669.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #emblem #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"Seeing double becomes common on campus."  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.
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#twins #seeing double #double vision #vintage headline #headline
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
Today's octopus guarding its skulls is from Sprut, 1905.
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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 #skull #octopus #under the sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of ideological "baggage," but exchange students from Lower Slobbovia bring along long-held debris.  The sign reads, "Don't say a word, just brush aside the debris and come on in."  From Eastern Kentucky's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign #dorm life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From London Society Magazine (1866).
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#vintage illustration #mirror #shaving #razor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's not just you and it's not just our troubled times -- they were looking for decent art back in 1911, too.  By Florence Deborah Wyman for Ohio Wesleyan's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thawb #thobe #kandoora #dishdasha
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March 8, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The devil wears a low-rise, "performance" men's bikini, with no-fly construction providing maximum support.  From Illinois State's 1898.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #crying animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #lantern #question mark #chickens
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #dog #lion #pet walker #pet lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mobile home #moving building #walking building #walking architexture #moving architecture #walking architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #knight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #devil #Faust #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hidden Treasure of Rasmola by Abraham Mitrie Rihbany, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #smoking #illustration #pipe dream #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #vintage car #car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Wake not the dead."  From Welcome Guest, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull #mustache #waking the dead #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #money #skulls #skull bouquet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #headstand #head soak
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Best skeletons making a toast that we've see all year.  From the Wabash yearbook of 1895.   See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.  Also, don't miss How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #bats #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Look Alive Out There, by Sloane Crosley:

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When the Gossip Girl producers encouraged me to bring what I might wear to "a typical fictional publishing cocktail party," I was disappointed.... I had never attended a typical fictional publishing cocktail party before. I don't own any hypothetical dresses.

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[The anthropomorphized moon in reverse?]

He has a face like the man in the moon.

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I had not imagined there would be catering on the set of adult films. Though it makes sense--sex requires more energy than a monologue unless you're doing both wrong.

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Tuesday is essentially a less popular version of Wednesday.

***

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Cap and Gown yearbook of the University of Chicago, 1917.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark #siamese twins
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"If I knew then what I now know I would have died of embarrassment."
Pauline Smart, Love Crosses the Pond
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Yes, the gates of hell have been opened.  From The Devil's Bride by Milton H. Stine, 1910.
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March 7, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Music.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #music #conductor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #flower pot #pipe hat #pelted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #wolves #thrown to the wolves #eaten alive #wild beasts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #king #marionette #danse macabre #1900s #puppet master
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The witches' island."  From Whispers from Fairyland by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #giant #on the town
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She's not wicked but merely bad.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #big hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #love meter #heart meter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #streetlights #streetlamp #night time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #horses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #lantern #candle #contortionist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #birds #hanging tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Cerberus toothbrush and pig perfume.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1912.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #1970s #submerged #floating building
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Old News (permalink)
It's as true today as it was in 1922: "Characters from books have a high old time."  From Dry Goods Economist, 1922.
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#literary characters #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch (1858).

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#vintage illustration #mirror #dandy #short pants
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard the expression, "My eyes are up here," but it's not always true.  From Yeshiva's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyeglasses #vintage man #man
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
This says that smoking is a "sexist killer." From Stoutonia, 1979.
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#smoking #death #skull face
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March 6, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are unable to fare forward or retreat.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fonar', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #animal trap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Régiment, 1912.  Tip: you can get away faster if you learn How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #cat #chased #pursued #giving chase
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cherub
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #music #musicians #winged man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale #cave #snake monster #serpent woman #monster cave #half snake #half serpent #serpent monster #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #medieval #knight #bow and arrow #dentist #tooth extraction #pull the tooth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #corn #corn on the cob
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A piece of Harry's large picture."  From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #animals #musical animals #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #lion #costume #lion costume #lion skin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #north pole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #insect #bug #fly #housefly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #eye of god #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky #eye in triangle #butterfly dress
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
These three suns through tree leaves may be used to trigger a new insight.  From the La Salle yearbook of 1979.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #three suns
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Would have been very intimate with Virginia, had she not repulsed him." From Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat (1897).
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#vintage illustration #confirmed bachelor #man's man #repulsed #not the marrying kind
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We knew a guy like the one on the far left.  He had some sort of endless scholarship and was acquiring every degree the univerity offered.  From Ohio Wesleyan's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe
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Precursors (permalink)
Putting the basket on the hood is as good a way as any to show the world that you're the sort of person who goes on picnics.  From Lustige Blätter, 1916.  We're designating this a precursor to Mrs. Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances driving around with snow skiis sticking out of her car to show the neighbors that she's the sort of person who might go skiing.
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#vintage illustration #picnic basket #vintage automobile #automobile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bookplate from Northeastern's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #hell
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March 5, 2019

Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook #tree
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Yobgorgle, by Daniel Pinkwater:

***

[Who Needs Context? dept.]

"I notice you're wearing a chicken suit. Is there any particular reason for it?"

***

[Fanciness Quantification dept.]

Captain Van Straaten... [was] wearing a really fancy bathrobe with gold embroidered dragons on it. It was five times as fancy as the bathrobe Professor McFwain had given Uncle Mel.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"You that are watching the Gray Magician with eyes of wonder."  From the 1921 Southwestern yearbook.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #magician #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two-headed eagle/phoenix taxidemy.  From Signal, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #two-headed #taxidermy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mice #cat and mouse #boxing animal #fighting animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #nest #bird's nest #bird #loom #weaving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fair God by Lew Wallace, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #deity #Quetzalcoatl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #moon #clown #drunk #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #spooky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1946.
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#sarcophagus #vintage illustration #skull #cannibalism #bone eater
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #sword #war #tiny people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.  The principles in How to Be Your Own Cat can apply to other transformations, too.
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#vintage illustration #costume #animal costume #feathered hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #mannequin #dummies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #brutalism #cubism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The sun has gone down for the night.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #sleeping #faces in things #sun face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #halloween #october #fashion #vintage fashion #cobweb #hallowe'en #spider web #1890s #spider woman #cobweb dress #spiderweb dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #angel #spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of the South's 1891 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fire ceremony #crematorium
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This says that time is limited, yet in the Bushmen's sacred dream-time, no time exists so as to be limited.  A contradiction not dealt with here!  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #time #father time #scythe
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March 4, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double #double vision #oz #many legged
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Old News (permalink)
This entire magazine is bullsh*t, but here's one headline we can actually believe.  One ship in 200 commits suicide.  From Illustrated World, 1922.
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#ship #suicide #vintage headline #headline #sinking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are shadow of your own shadows, spectre in your own gloom.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
We seek to avoid preservatives now, but books once consisted of nothing but preservatives.  That's why the "classics" have had such a shelf life.  From 1708.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #handshake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #self defense
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #cello #musician #cheating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #triple face #three faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two types of plunging, only one of them a sport.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #plunging #diver #dirty dishes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #donkey #A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig man #hybrid #pig headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #birds #dandy #mustache
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Old News (permalink)
Circles of confusion.  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #newspaper #news #vintage headline #vintage newspaper #confusion #circles #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if this is the sort of thing you see in the moon.  From Signaly, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #moon
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Precursors (permalink)
Today's sheet ghost menacing a precursor to Marilyn Monroe appears in Northern Illinois' 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marilyn monroe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prophetic Lights by Ellet Joseph Waggoner, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #prophecy #babylon #winged lion #biblical
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae's 1998 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #makeup #chess #human chess #face paint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #skeletons #walking dead #living dead #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the University of Montana, Missoula's 1966 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#devil #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #devil mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #spider #cobweb #spider web #loom #weaving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration #pollution #curtains #factories
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March 3, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard the expression, "My eyes are up here," but not in every case.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #eyes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you're able to literally fly out of bed.  From Wesleyan College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #witch #flying #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weightless #alarm clock #1920s
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Always Remember (permalink)
"Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else."
—Cheyenne McCray, Demons Not Included
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #artistic animal #smart animal #clever bird #protractor #circles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The minotaur Mahish Asura and his club for overcoming all things, from Nimrod by Algernon Herbert, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #minotaur #hybrid #bull headed #mahish asura
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #mountains #bear #switzerland #mountain bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #flying horse #king death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #1920s #clock tower #out of reach #bread basket #government handouts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #palette #musical color #tone color #art and music
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #infestation #human headed #biting insect #bug men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Obese shadows.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #fat #obese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He put out one foot."  From The Literary World, Seventh Reader, 1919.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #tiny man #dentist #eaten alive #giant tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mask #severed head #big head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #angel #peace angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1921 Southwestern yearbook.  Whether for payback or simple peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #1920s #defaced
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Attila the Pun, by Daniel Pinkwater:

***

"I've seen Frank Sinatra on television," I said, "and you're not him. Besides, I don't think he's even dead."

"Look," the ghost said, "why did you summon me if you just want to argue?"

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Illustrated (1896).

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#vintage illustration #weathervane #rooftop #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Occult anchovies.  (What a joy to stumble upon this image!)  From University of the South's 1891 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #cauldron #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #anchovies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adskaia Poctha, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #processional
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March 2, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to electronic music pioneer Michael Iceberg, whose "Iceberg Machine" was once a fixture at Disneyland's and Walt Disney World's Tomorrowland.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #musician #electronic music #michael iceberg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adskaia Poctha, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #demon #vocano
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May flying clowns not haunt your dreams tonight.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #the people could fly #flying clowns
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Due to heightened security, angels are no longer allowed on the Eiffel Tower (but shouldn't it be the opposite?)  From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #music #vintage poster #eiffel tower #poster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #coffin #living dead #buried alive #stay down
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Welcome Guest, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #mountain spirit #giant bull #bull mountain #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #faces in things #potato #onion #queer #potato head #onion man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pearson's, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horror #reanimation #hand #dead hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #disgusting #fountain #illustration #vomit #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crocodile #alligator #crying animal #crocodile tears #illustration #alligator tears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #transformation #hybrid #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #halloween #skeleton #candle #snuffed out #candles with faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #tongue #cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tell-Me-Why Stories About Color and Sound by C. H. Claudy and illustrated by Thomas Wrenn, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drummer #ritual dance #fire dance #men dancing #tribal dance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if "oh heck" is your boyfriend.  From Queens College's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem #oh heck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #moon #big bad wolf #red riding hood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We've never encountered this before -- education as a perfume.  From Elon's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #perfume #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gvozd', 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #illustration #red sky
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March 1, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
We spotted the band Ghost's frontman Cardinal Copia in St. Joseph's 1973 yearbook.
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#halloween #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cardinal copia #ghost band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From K Svetu, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil #angel and demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #occult #goat #baphomet #sabbatic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you wish your money bag to grow antlers and attract butterflies.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #money #money bag #butterfly #antlers #1870s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A tiger in rabbit's clothing bites the head off the peace angel.  From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #tiger #1920s #rabbit costume #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #kettle #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The title is technically for a piece that appears below the illustration, but it's more interesting this way.  From St. Nicholas, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #butterfly
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #looking up #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 #dwarf #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rooster costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #goya
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #cherub #illustration #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Talk to the pipe.  From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #faces in things #pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Anchar, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #sword #beast
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The hoodoo.  From Lewis Institute's 1913 yearbook.   See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #occult #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hoodoo
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "I Wish You Were Braille," by Louise Lagris:

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Sometimes you circle the same people for years until your Venn diagrams bump into each other.

[She goes on to talk about how "sometimes the planets configure themselves into origami shapes..."]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An amulet against the Evil Eye, found on a late Greek vase in Capua.  From The Evil Eye by Frederick Thomas Elworthy, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #silhouette #occult #talisman #horse #greek #magic charm #conjoined
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Shrunken, severed heads are the "third ingredient" of his diabolical elixir.  From Greensboro's 1928 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alchemist #shrunken head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad for a nuclear power protest in Stoutonia, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #hooded figure #nuclear #radioactive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The supreme authority within a horn -- this is why we listen to seashells.  From Elon's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horn #supreme authority
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Windsor Magazine, 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 #ship #being watched
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