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March 31, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Great news: "It's a life of ease in five more days."  From The [Thornton] Courier, 1961.
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Bristol's Bearcraft for praising and publicizing our cover of his song "We Don't Deserve to Die."
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"UFOs end when Man's imagination ends."  From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 15.
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Old News (permalink)
"We're ready to go to Mars; book now for sometime in 2014."  From the National Post, 1999.
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#space travel #mars #vintage headline #fake news #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Things To Make and Do, edited by Josette Frank, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #mask #lion #robot #paper bag head #paper bag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An ostrich imagines an angel with a pitchfork and a demon with a halo.  From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1982.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1988.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #modern art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Canton Community College's 1967 yearbook.

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#spooky #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #boots #rocket #running #big boots #rocket boots #giant boots #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #smoking #tiny man #cigarette #tables turned
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
That's exactly how we are -- glasses? pig nose? neither? both?  From Emerson's 1980 yearbook.

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

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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
From Casserole, Oct. 23, 1970.
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#blank page #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Thoth tarot Universe on the cover of the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1978 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1952.
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Old News (permalink)
"Whiskers and men's clothing."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What is there to smile about now?"  From Chatterbox, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #optimism #smiling #pessimism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat #tabby
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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March 30, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bobby recognizes the ghosts of his groans."  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #pandora's box #groan
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #zodiac #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hell's mouth."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 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 #grotesque #hell mouth #eaten alive #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Yonder ridest a knight who playeth his pageants."  From Washburn's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #le morte d'arthur #thomas malory
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #suicide #noose #guns #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"So much by way of introduction."  From Mary Washington's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Poor kitty, but remember that according to the Schrödinger's paradoxical theory, the cat is simultaneously okay.  From Woroni, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #animal experimentation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caveat Emptor, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Old News (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost from Emerson's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Old News (permalink)
From The Getaway, 1974.
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#rat #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Imagine -- majoring in physics, singing in the Glee Club, playing various sports, debating and ministering ... and being remembered for having "sold maps."  What a thing, to be reduced to two little words.  From Park College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage man #marginalia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From City Sidewalks by Bank Street.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So often the caption is unhelpful.  "Roentgenographic application of the betatron."  Gesundheit!  From the University of Illinois' 1950 yearbook.

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

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#science #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #rooftop #illustration #lightning rod
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #camel #zoo #all wet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan of the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #animal attack #rhino #tarzan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #yarn ball #knitting needle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Astounded to see two lights twinking quite close to hand."  From The Fortunate Days by Ethel Gate and illustrated by Vianna Knowlton, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette
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March 29, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A better scan of this one.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #king #faces in things #illustration #pudding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack #sleigh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witch's Cat by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #cat #books
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Glass on the Stairs, by Margaret Scherf:

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"Isn't it funny how many attractive vices end in y?"

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"He'll begin by denying that he ever heard of her, but if you encourage him he'll give you a complete synopsis, from Cream of Wheat to gin and tonic."

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"He does everything from Hamlet to Red Skelton's mother."

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"I solemnly swear." She put her hand on the Manhattan phone book.

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[The protagonists have to move their art/decor studio on short notice, so all their friends drop by to "help," i.e., do nothing useful, take up time, and get in the way.]

In addition to the advice they came in to give, they seemed to think the crisis called for comfort in the form of stories, mostly pornographic, all lengthy.

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"She's involved in the sudden end of Mrs. Rhodes, or I'm a smoked codfish."
"I shouldn't be surprised if you were."

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The dust measurers went away, with the look of men about to write articles.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #earth #skull face #anthropomorphism
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ghosts #bats #germs #disease #common cold #viruses #light bulb #light in darkness #art #ad
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #muse #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #garden of eden #hand of god
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some big noises from Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fireworks #bomb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1963.
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#religion #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A mouse reflected in one eye.  From Baba Yaga's Geese, illustrated by Guy Fleming.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mice #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emerson's 1980 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #brick wall #vintage man #man #1980s
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
From The Getaway, 1974.
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#ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flower fairy #rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois' 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #owl #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Yes, yes, I'm all right."  From Time and Tigers by D. R. Amato. 
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#vintage illustration #astronaut #alien #spaceman
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March 28, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.  
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#vintage illustration #bird #hoopoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adventures in Child Land by Frances Lilian Taylor, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
It absolutely won't be a turkey, because turkeys are drawn by tracing one's fingers, as everyone knows.  It's a pet snowman.  From Shapes by Mary Tom Riley, 1991.
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#snowman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He found Fairy Dimple-dimple."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Focus on the future."  From The Film Daily, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #future #eye #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From East Carolina's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #rabbit man #rabbit costume #bunny costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #king neptune #trident #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #king #japanese #crowned head
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Millikin's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Meanwhile, in another Wonderland ...  From Quest, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I think chef hats are really fun. I mean, they're probably not the 'hat to end all hats,' but wouldn't it be great if we all wore chef hats more often?" (Cassandra, a midwife)
From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #chef #hat #1980s #paper bag head #paper bag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #falling #wallpaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kitty-Cat Tales by Alice Van Leer Carrick, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #marotte
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The Right Word (permalink)
The Big U says, quoting Tegan Quin:
"You are you because you are you and you were meant to be you so be you proudly."
The Big U is from Wid's Daily, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #letter u
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The opposite of a castle in the air is a Debussy-esque "Sunken (Submerged, Engulfed) Cathedral."  From Lebanon Valley's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Inside-out people."  From The Current Sauce, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #good and evil #inside out #ad
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March 27, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to My Little Pony (90 years earlier), and his name is Linus.  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#horse #my little pony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe #warning sign #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
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#vintage illustration #laughter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elves and Ellefolk by Natalia Balting and illustrated by Gordon Laite.
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#vintage illustration #elves #wee folk #violin #fiddle
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #feather #dandy #prince #hat #androgyny #gender fluid #pointed shoes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins' 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #carousel #merry-go-round #spinning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Aftre [sic] Rorschach."  From Coraddi 1960.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #rorschach #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Caricatura de Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro (1846-1905)," via Biblioteca de Arte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline #castration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #antlers #deer #gorn deer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899.
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#bathtub #vintage illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 1146.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#sleep #evil #insomnia #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#capybara #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Double Exposure, by Jack Sharkey:

***
"Is Jed up yet?"
"Well, someone is stumbling around his bedroom trying to find things. It's either him or a burglar who knows the same swear-words."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage book #mittens #cookies
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March 26, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #faun #apple #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #smoke #faces in things #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By John Vineburg for Bizarrism no. 5 (courtesy of Archive.org).
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#vintage illustration #giant #outer space #parallel worlds #on top of the world #multiple earths #many worlds #multiple worlds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1920s #telephone #s.o.s.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #biblical #deluge #the flood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #parthenon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #mice #mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mask #clown #vintage magazine #illustration #whiteface #offering #magazine #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #japanese art #vintage yearbook #yearbook #buddha
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage photo #winter #dancing #santa #rooftop #blurred
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elim Bible Institute's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #leaves #1970s
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Pfeiffer's 1961 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #christmas is ruined
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flower fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State University's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #smiling man #sign #protest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #hunter #stag #antlers #deer #irish deer
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March 25, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #penguin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ad
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#good and evil #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We don't know the elfin secret to perfect limeade, but we do know their secret to brewing sweet tea: they put the sugar in the water before boiling, and somehow that makes superior molecules when the tea bags are added.  From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves #limeade
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Old News (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1956.
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#vintage ad #cat #vintage headline #pussycat #purring #purr
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #devil #war #hell mouth #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 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 #feet #illustration #public transportation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #no #rubber stamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He rose up into the air and sailed away."  From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #fairy tale #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #giant #sword #giant killer #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #divine comedy
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #eye of god #1930s #being watched #embarrassment #surveillance society #feeling watched
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From You Better Come Home With Me by John Lawson and illustrated by Arnold Spilka.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #tree #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It usually happens at night."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.
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#ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Phone book letdown for everyone."  From The Gateway, 1974.
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#vintage headline #headline #phone book
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From I Am the Only Running Footman, by Martha Grimes

***
Ned Winslow looked at him as if Melrose were a magician who just might pull the right rabbit out of the hat.

[I didn't know there was a WRONG rabbit! But, of course, I'm not in the Magic Circle, so I don't know all the inside dope. (:v>]
***
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#magician #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #puss in boots
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March 24, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rat versus duck: which would you wager to win?  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #duck #rat #animal fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I have a grass spear that will hurt."  From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #exterminator #bee #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you wear a tiny grove on your head and/or have been exiled by your extraordinarily long hair.  From Exiles of the Stars by Andre Norton.
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#vintage illustration #crown #vintage book #book #long hair
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
A temporal anomaly in Edmonton, Alberta -- four clocks photographed around the same time in the university's student union building, whatever that time may have been.  From The Gateway, Nov. 6, 1973.
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#clock #1970s #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #circus #hippo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Journal UFO, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #hand of god #hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #weightless #blindfolded #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The tiger song.  From a rare book with a surprising price tag: Jeremiah the Cat by William Maurice Culp, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Discovering a brand new star.  From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #star #telescope #policeman #1900s #astronomer
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #cheshire cat #smiling cat #big eyes #ambiguity #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The voice shrilled in self-righteous indignation."  From The Martlet, 1966.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #self-righteousness #indignation #self-righteous
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Wesleyan's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #spider #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #seal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A monkey looking at a gopher centerfold.  From the University of Minnesota's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the apparently rare Southern Ghosts by Nancy Roberts.
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#ghost #vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shershen', 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 #bigfoot #ape man #hairy man #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #matchstick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #jester
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March 23, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

We're honored by Bonnie Cehovet's review of our Books of the Dead:
***** [5 stars]  This small (108 page) book is a gem in its own right, a distillation of twenty-four books of the dead from around the world and across the centuries. Books of the Dead are unique in that they act as guidebooks for transition and are filled with mythological archetypes. Somehow, when I think of books of the dead, I am reminded of late-night TV stories from my youth about Egypt and mummies. Scary stories that we all loved to watch! ... 

In his introduction, Professor Oddfellow notes many guidebooks for the dead presume that death is not an ending but a transitional journey, that requires attentive planning. He references Ptolemy Tompkins (from “The Modern Book of the Dead”) as noting that those who hate and fear death are unable to live happily, while for those who think the right way about death “life loses that gloom and becomes something entirely different: something larger, stranger, and infinitely more promising and positive than we might ever have imagined.”

Professor Oddfellow states that books of the dead are really action-drama-fantasies, with a cast of characters, theatrical journeys, and more. (Remember those late-night TV shows!) They are metaphysical in origin, rich with mythological archetypes that offer a wonderful window into human psychology.

This book is divided into four sections: Ancient and Classical Books of the Dead, Modern Books of the Dead, and “Fictional” Books of the Dead.  

In his afterword, Professor Oddfellow addresses the two most mystical manuals for guidance in the Otherworld: The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Egyptian Book of the Dead.

There is also what to me is a very magical appendix that addresses the Tarot as a book of the dead.

“Books of the Dead” was intended to act as a book-reader collaboration, to inspire a deep intuitive understanding of afterlife guides, and to connect with what Jung termed the “both-and” philosophy of the Universal mind. It has accomplished this … and so much more!
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Chistopher Voss, of the band Volt 44, for writing, "The staunch citizens of Nothing are full of Hope, Faith, and Believe in the work ethic. Thru-the-years these dedicated people had faith in Nothing, hoped for Nothing, worked at Nothing, for Nothing." Thank you Jesse [of Nothing, Arizona] for continuing your work."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#fear #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pendulum Power by Greg Nielsen, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #pendulum
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Old News (permalink)
"Sheltered by a shadow."  From Ghost Stories, 1926.
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#shadow #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #woman #vintage woman #skin #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Don Bolognese.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #haunted house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #blackbird #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Julie Geoghegan, in Ethos, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #depression #personal demons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustration by J. Clinton Shepherd, for the film Wild Cargo.  From The Film Daily, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #animal attack #cobra
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goose #mother goose
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #goblin #anthropomorphism #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vegetable people #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Taylor's 1989 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1980s #tv
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Posing with two extraterrestrial creatures she met.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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#alien #extraterrestrial
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You might make out the cat facing the other way in the second photo.  From Pfeiffer's 1973 yearbook.
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#black cat #cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #dalmatian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A tool of hypnotism.  From Practical Lessons in Hypnotism by William Wesley Cook, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #eye #hypnosis
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Old News (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #bias
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #aging #vintage men #growing old
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rachel and Herman by Mina Lewiton and illustrated by Howard Simon.
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#vintage illustration #cat #up a tree #cat rescue
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March 22, 2022

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #broke #illustration #empty pockets #poor
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Old News (permalink)
"Drunk who denounces himself."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#drunk #vintage headline #alcoholic #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That's such a bizarre coincidence -- my face says I was born April 2, 1902 as well!  It's actually sort of flattering, though -- I'm 5,000 years old.  From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We find this to be true -- Mr. and Mrs. Scissors and Madame Pincushion form a very select company.  From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #scissors #faces in things #1920s #pincushion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The House of Hate."  From The Moving Picture World, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fable #nest #aesop #beetle #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An altered greeting from William and Mary's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trumpet #greeting
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #pollution #clothespin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901. 
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #cannibalism #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You could actually major in bubblegum blowing at Washington State in 1948.  The caption reads, "'You don't learn that in school,' but we do."

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blowing bubbles #bubblegum #chewing gum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #bat #black cat #superstition #thirteen #13
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Without zooming in on the caption, can you guess what this is a photo of?  From Abilene Christian's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lint
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Mattapoisett Presto Press, 1979.
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#pumpkin #vintage photo #hallowe'en
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Good Night, Sweet Prince by Carole Berry:

***
"Ahem!"
I looked up, startled. What kind of person actually says "ahem"?

***
And those grape centerpieces! Clashing with the tablecloths was the least of their problems.

[I like the projection of the event organizers' problems onto the grapes--as if the grapes could care less whether they clashed.]
***
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I never thought it would happen to me but then, a lot of things have happened that I haven't expected."  From Dark Shadows episode 1088.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Eagle versus antelope: which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #eagle #1890s #animal fight #antelope #eland
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Mikado's family crest."  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#japanese #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Finally!  An accurate depiction of a dragonfly.  From Wizardry Monsters Manual
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#vintage illustration #insect #dragonfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #baker #gingerbread man
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March 21, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the giant dictionary featured in Mister Peepers (1952).  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #book #giant book #big book #strong man #biggest book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
When someone sneezes and the Evil-spirit turns a new leaf in the sneezer's book of life, express your desire that it be a happy one and never forget to say, "To your wishes."  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
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#sneeze #superstition
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Irving Layton, quoted in The Martlet, 1965.
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#poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Park College's 1989 yearbook.

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#halloween #occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dragon and child."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #dragon #illustration #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Michigan's 1910 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #hand of god #warrior #war and peace #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #faces #leonine #lion and man #winner #people who look like animals #win or lose #loser
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1966 yearbook.

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#skeleton #skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stones Are Hatching by Geraldine McCaughrean.
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#stone #rock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Nice razorback hat.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1985 yearbook.

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#beard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig #hat #vintage man #man #razorback
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Old News (permalink)
"Beings from star Arcturus present plan to save earth."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"She was the first person I had ever met who could only speak in cliches."  From Processed World, 1982.
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#cliché
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Old News (permalink)
"Not everyone can play the guitar."  From Innis Herald, 2005.
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#guitar #vintage headline #musician #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The caption identifies this as a portal, and our custom Uncanny Detector App confirms it.  From Western Ontario's 1961 yearbook.
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#ghost #portal #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #chicken #jack and the beanstalk #beanstalk
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"'Any six-month-old kitten can talk,' the cat said. 'Why, then, don't they?'  "It just isn't done,' the cat said."
From And He Tells the Little Horse the Whole Story by Steve Barthelme, 1987.
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#cat #animal intelligence #talking cat
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March 20, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Storm Chasers by Tim Bowler.
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#lighthouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hot air balloon #airplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"What a fine place to put things!"  From Blacky Daw by Adelaide Palmer and illustrated by Dorothy Saunders, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #crow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #lion #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pan pipes #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #lamp post #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pen and ink #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
So a guy who paints reptilian aliens calls himself a "chameleon."  It's interesting how people will reveal their true natures when simply allowed to express themselves.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#alien #reptilians
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Washington State's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Caricatura de Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro (1846-1905)," via Biblioteca de Arte da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #fish man #fish bones
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wildcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Haunted House Tales by Corinne Denan and illustrated by Ann Toulmin-Rothe.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #monster #horror #eyes #window
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Western's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #no #protest #picketing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Grandmother of pearl."  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #watering can #grandmother of pearl
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion, in the Year 1764–1765, by Cleone Knox:

***

The conversation very Witty. Epigrams and Bon Mots flying here and there."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #no #living toy #yarn doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
So rare to see a cat in a hot air balloon.  From The Cat Who Wanted To Go Home by Jill Tomlinson.
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#cat #hot air balloon
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March 19, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Holding hands for magnetic healing. Pictued left, two right-handers. Pictured right, "if the person is left-handed and you are right-handed, hold their right with your right and their left hand with your left as shown."  From Pendulum Power by Greg Nielsen, 1987
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#vintage diagram #holding hands #diagram #magnetic healing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #angel #quill pen #winged man #illustration #the people could fly #art
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Old News (permalink)
He didn't believe in spirits until he witnessed ghost writing.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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#spirit writing #ghost writing #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad in B.A.R., 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #full moon #wolf #coyote #howling #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"When the sad hours come to you, and sorrows 'round you, play."  From Washington State's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #cougar
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question: "Am I is or am I isn't?"  From The Gateway, 1971.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #kangaroo #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #macbeth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #witches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #artist #painter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A skull-faced angel slides down.  From Henderson-Brown's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pandora's box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gold #deer #golden deer #glowing deer #gold deer
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1934 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #sailboat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The man who feared nothing."  From Which Was Witch? by Eleaore Myers Jewett, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fearless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The frost prince comes."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 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 #winter #frost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #four arms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #hunter
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March 18, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dancing with a duck.  From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 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 #dancing #duck #folk tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Boston College's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#radiation #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nuclear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #temptation #devil #good and evil #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #leopard #yearbook #giant cat #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat #japanese #cat #night #mouse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Fairy.  Good.  Step right up.  3 for 10 cents.  From Tufts' 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #carnival
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A circle is a simple thing."  From The Film Daily, 1930. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #geometry #circle #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Flying Red Horse, by Frances Crane:

***
Patrick said, "My kingdom for a flying red horse."

***
I was talking like a fish.

[Now, that took me by surprise. Sure, the narrator-protag uses "[oh,] fish!" as an oath on two or three occasions, but this is something else again. It seems to mean that she's talking like a fool. New to me! I see that Google Books brings up only a very few hits for talking like a fish; but at least one, by a different author, falls in with Crane's usage. Meanwhile, I was entertained to read a theatre-history account of how the line "You talk like a fish!" was cut from a J. B. Priestley work (though it's not clear to me what the line meant--maybe the character was talking foolishly, or maybe he literally sounded fishlike; cf. "Stop talking like an ostrich!").]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Kirchner's cat-bat from 1667.  From The Life, History, and Magic of the Cat by Fernand Méry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #hybrid #cat and mouse #cat headed #cat-bat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #caged bird
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If God were a man, He would have assigned me to the lowest job in the house."  From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elves #stepping stones
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1893 yearbook.   See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's shadowy ghosts hovering over a suspension bridge is from Conquerors' 1978 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bridge #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 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 #anthropomorphism #rainy day #turtle #ostrich
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March 17, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Waiting for him.  Sharks anxious to taste a Norwegian's blood."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#vintage headline #sharks #headline #norwegian
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
St. Giles and the hind.  From Chatterbox, 1889.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #deer #st. giles #saint giles #hind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Aren't you going to help me?"  From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #help
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the crawling kelps drift off with the tides.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#kelp #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #demon #vintage photo #woman #vintage woman #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I can no longer be both a man and an animal."  From Dark Shadows episode 918.
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#wolfman #werewolf #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cat Walk by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hiding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just getting on and holding the things.  From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 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 #anthropomorphism #turtle
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  From Woroni, 1978.
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#writing #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #chicken #folk tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mother Nature and dandelion seeds.  From The Wonderful Land of Up by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by Neely McCoy, 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 #dandelion #mother nature
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Montana yearbook of 1918.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #king death #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #demon #imp #witch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1943. See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Conquerors Bible College' 1978 yearbook.

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

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#fortune teller #vintage photo #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #swami
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to change his expression. From Coraddi, 1989.

From Coraddi, 1989
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#vintage illustration #before and after #gif #making faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of 38 Playboy bunny mascots in Thornton Junior College's 1959 yearbook (a phenomenon that goes unexplained).

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1976.
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#vintage headline #headline #standards #good
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #butter churn
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March 16, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tag yourself.  We're seven o'clock.  From The Improvement Era, 1964.
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#clock #1960s #mood #making faces
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
247
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#divination #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hunter caught by his own trap.  From Chatterbox, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #hunter #trap #tables turned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sled #elves #brownies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It seems rare to see a goose snow skiing, but we've seen migrating geese land on a frozen lake, and it's much the same thing.  From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage book #book #goose #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #sports
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1984.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #on fire #obstructionism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #eating its own tail #yin yang #self devouring snake
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: "Ever had an intelligent thought cross your mind?" (The Gateway, 1980.)
A: Only a contumnuous one.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cult of the Cat by Nicholas Saunders.
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#cat #cat mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #crow #blackbird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A tiny woman in a lantern.  From Susquehanna's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #fairy #cauldron
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tag yourself!  From Illinois Woman's College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #handwriting #autograph #signature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story Carnival by DeLancey and Iverson.
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#vintage illustration #heart #washed away
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #humor #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree #hollow tree
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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March 15, 2022

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Well it just struck nine, and it says 3:07, so ... [muttering calculations] it's 7:42."  From Mr Peepers episode 14, 1952.
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#temporal anomaly
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Normal School of Virginia's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"This man is an academic.  This man is your enemy.  Do not be mistaken by his scholarly guise.  His purpose in life is to wring every drop of creativity and interest out of you.  He believes himself to be the world's greatest living expert on everything.  If he finds your work satisfactory he will steal it. If he doesn't he will fail you.  Get this man before he gets you."  From Woroni, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #college #teacher #1970s #faceless #no face #scholar #academia
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Susquehanna's 1976 yearbook.
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#skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Be ever marching onward to the goal in life."  From Peace College's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #goal
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Old News (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.
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#ufo #cat #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #marotte
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #cosmic serpent #world snake #plumed serpent #cliff dwellers #arizona #red rock country #sausage #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Conquerors Bible College's 1978 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #monolith #1940s
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Precursors (permalink)
Ten years before Candid Camera, there was this candid cam.  From Texas Wesleyan's 1938 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #ram #yearbook #horns #candid camera
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Old Success, by Martha Grimes:

***

The rest of the area was hung with truly awful artwork, paintings whose subjects--owl, hare, human--shared expressions of surprise, their looks in a kind of stasis as if needing to react but hesitating, as if the paintings were about to sneeze.

[Btw, I see that Google images brings up plenty of artwork depicting sneezing, including some fine-art paintings...but what I was hoping to find, yet didn't, would have been cartoonish sneezing paintings in the vein of what you've called "haunted paintings"--where the painting on the wall isn't *normally* sneezing, but sneezes because someone in the room is shaking out a carpet, or whatever.]

***
"Never mind about us."
It looked as if she would mind all over the place.
***

[Bonus: A minor character called Amy Dudgeon.]
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The Right Word (permalink)
We would change only the second word.  "Use EVERY opportunity to talk about the many interesting things about cats."  From Shapes by Mary Tom Riley, 1991.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's balancing elephant being pelted with equations is from Tufts University's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #elephant #vintage yearbook #math
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Old News (permalink)
From The Lighted Pathway, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #cry for help
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald College's 1928 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #wolf
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March 14, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#worry #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Plauge flog."  From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #frog #plague #plague frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There's no feeling like discovering a tiny door on a tree.  From The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #cat #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A haunted house from Ares Magazine No. 15.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #demon #grotesque #mask #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unruly Robin, written and illustrated by Dorathea Dankovszky.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #witch #witchcraft #halloween #broomstick #black cat #october #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #playing cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Women in the Wall by Julia O'Faolain.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #nun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From From Nowhere to the North Pole by Tom Hood, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Chatham's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #witches #light and darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #giant #horse #tiny man #war and peace #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We, too, must dance to keep our figure.  From Photoplay, 1932.
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#dancing #posture #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Before the mirror."  From Elizabethtown's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack and the Bean-Stalk by Hallam Tennyson and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #giant #jack and the beanstalk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Surely you must have realized it, just as I did, that neither of us has any chance for a normal life."  From Dark Shadows episode 955.
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#abnormal #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1971 yearbook.

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#halloween #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Mesmerise: A Manual of Instruction in the History, Mysteries, Modes of Procedure, and Arts of Mesmerism, or, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Clairvoyance, Thought Reading, and Mesmeric Entertainment by Hames Coates, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism
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March 13, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #magic wand #magic #faces in things #streetlamp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Wake Forest's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #donkey costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #masks #faces #facial expressions #cartooning #making faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rensselaer Polytechnic's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #horror #vampire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #1960s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #drummer #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny #drum worm #worm #easter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we thought a very large, long-haired house cat sitting on her shoulders was looming toward the popcorn.  From Chatham's 1988 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #big hair #vintage woman #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #tea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #animals #fauna
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1997 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #ape costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghosts and Goblins by Wilhelmina Harper.
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#vintage illustration #swan
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Travels with Alice, by Calvin Trillin:

***

It almost goes without saying that D. H. Lawrence once lived there. Having had D. H. Lawrence residences pointed out to me all over the world, I can only wonder how he got any writing done, what with packing and getting steamship reservations and having to look around for a decent plumber in every new spot.

***
Most of the production numbers had people in feathers moving in unison on the stage—dancing in the sense that Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady was singing.

***
Some people spoke rapidly and used a lot of slang and double-entendres. I explained to Anya that I was working, at best, with single-entendre Spanish.

***
I knew that what was close to [restaurant-guide author] Veronelli’s heart was likely to be close to my own—even though I still made occasional errors in translation, such as confusing the weekly closing day with the wine specialty.

***
I’ve always referred to all flowers as marigolds. Marigold sounds like a flower, and it’s easy to spell.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Holding one's breath while buried in the sand with a witch.  From The Sociable Sand Witch by T. L. Sappington, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #witch #holding one's breath #breath control
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This one waited."  From Tulane University's 1942 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #waiting room
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cling to the palm tree until it becomes uprooted.  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #storm #advice #hanging on #hang in there
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sad Fate of Poor Robin, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #robin
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March 12, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #animal attack #war
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat #musical animal #singing cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #king #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elf #rabbit #bunny #mushroom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic or Not? by Edward Eager and illustrated by N. M. Bodecker.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Yet he flunked feminology."  From The Purple Parrot, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"His Majesty's temper."  From The Fables of Aesop, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #king #lion #aesop #lion king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #dog #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #butcher #cleaver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "What If a Witch," in Ethos, 1964.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Delta State's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #genie lamp
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #boots #tom thumb #ogre
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The haziest ghost, with an elongated arm, is on the far left.  From Duke's 1974 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #forest
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Gone are the days."  From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

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#music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #past #nostalgia #yesteryear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1983.
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#vintage illustration #devil #overworked #slack
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Old News (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  "Why is an atom?"  From Purdue's 1917 yearbook.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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March 11, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've kissed a bear today.  From The Bunny and Bear Book by Laura Rountree Smith, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"To reveal secrets and satisfy hunger."  From Due West's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #night people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #women #vintage women
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #atlas #mythology #weight of the world #hercules #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institute's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #aliens #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #hybrid #cobra
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Sunset: now the summit has been won.  'Farewell, kind master,' -- as the old man once more starts down toward the plain."  From the Carthage yearbook of 1916.
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"It was dark, mysterious, and rainy."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1977 yearbook.
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#rainy day #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Siren, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #lion #vintage magazine #dentist #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Due to the rise of online sales, underwater shopping has hit new lows.  From Santa Clara's 1997 yearbook.

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#underwater #vintage yearbook #shopping cart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
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#vintage illustration #elf #living toys
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dead Easy for Dover, by Joyce Porter:

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[One-upping Whistler's Mother dept.]
"Who the hell is she?...Whistler's bleeding grandmother?"

***
["I'll give YOU...!" dept.]

"Starting from Barford-in-the-Meadow, you see, and then widening out in ever increasing circles."
"I'll give you ever increasing circles!"

***
Ermengelda's Kitchen (Gifte Shoppe & Café) was an aggressive pastiche of what a middle-European set designer for an American film might have thought an eighteenth-century English coffee-house looked like.

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Miss Ermengilda waited until Doris had gone on her way in a flurry of indifference.

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Even day-dreaming about work seemed to tire him out.

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Dover knew who it was....That--he would stake his life on it--was What's-her-name!
***

[Bonus: The action takes place in a village called Frenchy Botham. Another place, referred to in passing, is Lesser Wibbley.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Barnes Readers, Book One, First Year-Second Half by Herman Dressel, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #bear #gingerbread man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #constellation #lion #leo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There's an imp for every moment, and here's the one for 2 p.m. on June 15, 1775.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #imp #anthropomorphism #timepiece #clock face
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #wrecking ball #caving in
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Inverted pentagrams discovered in an old yearbook can be put to use.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  These advent stars are from Fairmont's 2001 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stars #inverted pentagram #advent star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fox #native american #turtle
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March 10, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#ghost #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #animal intelligence #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You're very, very good and kind, and I want you for my granny."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #grandmother #grandma #granny
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
To read a wicked book in your dreams is to court shame and disgrace.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
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#dream #book #symbolism
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Some innuendo from Dark Shadows episode 1215.  A man named Gabriel's "drinking buddy" Tim is found in Gabe's bed, wearing Gabe's clothes.  As others begin to realize, Tim hadn't been invited into the bedroom for oral discourse.
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#innuendo #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's an enduring question.  From Why Does My Cat ...? by Sarah Heath.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #wyvern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #1910s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Then fox untied the bag and let rabbit out and got into the bag himself."  From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fox #rabbit #tables turned #bag
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Old News (permalink)
"Though most swear it isn't there, they all wish it would go away."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sooty by Ambrosina Hurcum and illustrated by Eleanor Mussey Young, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #candle #secret society #sororities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #severed head #lovecraft #decapitated #reanimator
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Ethos, 1932.
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#cat #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #goat #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #horseshoe #black cat #superstition #ladder
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"So spins the flying world away."  From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spinning wheel #poem #longfellow
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ship #drunk #see no evil #vintage car #car #vintage automobile #automobile #bottled up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #cradle
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March 9, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #goose #geese #migration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This celebrated colonial four-post bed (note the curious old hand made counterpane) if the one upon which Henry Clay slept and died."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pyramid Power by Max Toth & Greg Nielsen.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #pyramid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #gnome
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened Then Stories by Ruth Dyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #big bad wolf #red riding hood
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #faces in things #wind #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The bear proceeded to walk across the pond."  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #father time #cupid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Do little, know little."  From the Peace Institue's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lobster #illustration
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Unicorns (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #satyr #unicorn #pan
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #horned man #cuckold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #salt #quail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Woodcut by Dennis James, from Rockingham's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #woodcut #vintage yearbook #face #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #king #cat #puss in boots
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #musical animal #accordion #singing animal #singing tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales from Story-Town by Mina Pearl Ashton and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #owl #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #spilled ink #yearbook #writing
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #bigfoot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblogging is restricted to nameless nymphs and their admirers.  From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #nymph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Worm's eye view of the Rock Gardens."  From Siren, 1930.
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#worm
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March 8, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This song is a spinoff of two we wrote for Ken Clinger back in 1996, "Indoor Kitty" and "Farmyard Kitty."  Here's the "Crimson Kitty" version with lyrics by Dan Fioretti and references to early King Crimson.
By the way, the kitty we hired for the video is technically cinnabar (though it identifies as vermilion), but since it's all in black-and-white, we thought we could get away with it.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #reading #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A strangler vine from the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.

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#vintage illustration #horror #thorns #vine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #elves
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The Right Word (permalink)
There's really no other way to say it: "butterflyflutterby and flutterbybutterfly."  From Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #the end #smiling animal #smiling tiger
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #spooky #horror #guilt #night #eyes #vintage automobile #automobile #relaxation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This charming lady is completely upset."  From Siren, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #upside down #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #flying elephant #illustration #elephant angel #animal heaven #monkey god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Doctor Rabbit and Ki-yi Coyote by Thomas Hinkle, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fox #corn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mountain climber #1930s #oil lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary.  Can you guess which entry this illustration is from?
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#vintage illustration #horse #drunk #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #anthropomorphism #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is how the scan came out, including a black bar where a caption might have been.  From The Martlet, 1971.
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#1970s #faceless #no face
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Dictionary of Catch Phrases, ed. by Partridge et al.:

[We knew about people disguised as Christmas trees; but did we know that "all dressed up like a Christmas tree" was an alternative to "all dressed up like a dog's dinner"?]

[And how about this, for a nifty trick: an index that (seems like it almost) makes room for itself! From the preface...]

When I had compiled the index to keywords, I found that it threw up quite a noticeable amount of previously unremarked duplication which I was then able to remove: it would be unfair to say that the index thus almost made room for itself--but it sometimes seemed like it.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The [Thornton] Courier, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bookstore #ad
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Devil by Tom Schouweiler, 1992.
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#devil
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March 7, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're delighted by Bonnie Cehovet's review of Ghostology: Soul Division:
This is not a book that can be easily put down. ... The content is accompanied by incredibly interesting illustrations. ... This is a learning book (a book that teaches), but the reader will see it as interesting information that presents itself as many different ways of looking at the soul, and how it is defined.  It is a tool of growth and a tool of personal power. The reader needs to come with an open mind to be able to experience the joy that is to be his within these pages. ... I recommend this book for readers that are interested in how the soul is interpreted by many different cultures – it is eye-opening, and a very gentle read.
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#soul #prof. oddfellow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #talking bird #bird #phonograph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #crocodile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Runaway Equator by Lilian Bell and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #elf #ox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Rudolf Koch.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #castle #mountains #wanderer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King of Cats by Eileen O'Faolian and illustrated by Vera Bock.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Seventies fashions seem a world away.  From Tulane's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage photo #vintage fashion #clown #vintage yearbook #1970s #face paint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's disconcerting to see through one's hand, unless via X-Ray Spex.  From Ethos, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #hand #transparent #ghost hand
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
They're all posing against their wills, in hypnotic catalepsy.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three From the Legion by Jack Williamson.
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #monster #giant bug #insect #giant insect
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1971 yearbook.

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#halloween #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy-Folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gambling, or Fortuna, Her Temple and Shrine by James Harold Romain, 1891.
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#truth #philosopher's stone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Old News (permalink)
Reblog if you're "narvous," too.  From Together, 1972.
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#spooked #nervous #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flood #swept away #1920s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's rare to find an anti-dedication / non-acknowledgment in a book.  This one disrespects the Canadian Council for refusing a grant application, putting the author onto the street for an entire winter.  From Incurable Trucks & Speeding Diseases by Crad Kilodney, 1986.
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#writing #book dedication
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March 6, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #ghostbusting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
As with emergency exits, the nearest lion may be behind you.  From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion #bicyc
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #poison
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian Junior College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scottish #bagpipes #musician
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Queens College's 1962 yearbook.
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#occult #vintage photo #darkness #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She was once a dryad belonging to a beautiful tree."  From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #dryad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Michigan's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #snowmen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rocking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Doctor Rabbit and Ki-yi Coyote by Thomas Hinkle, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Take life by the strings; it swings -- when you stand aside."  From Ethos, 1967.
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#poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost from beyond the veil, from DePauw's 1905 yearbook.  For an explanation, see The Ghost in the [Scanning] Machine.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The early worm gets the bird."  From The Purple Parrot, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #bird man #ink pen #bird legs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pig and whistle."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #musical animal #pig #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1964 yearbook.

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#giant #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #tall woman #elongated #1960s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'It talks!' he shrieked.  'I'm mad--mad--!'"  From Astounding Science Fiction, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #mad scientist #talking plant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#magick #shaman
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blotto, Twinks and the Maharajah's Jewel by Simon Brett:

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[A novel way of saying "thanks for nothing"--and original to Brett, as far as I can tell.]
"Thanks for a manx cat's tail!"

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"Not on your nuthatch[!]"

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In spite of Em's blandishments (and she was very handy with a blandishment)...."
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[Bonus: When the aristo protagonist is menaced by a tiger, he gets the tiger to retreat by boring it with interminable stories from his cricket-playing.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.
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#wolf
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March 5, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1956.

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#vintage illustration #night sky #starry night #night #spiral galaxy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #falling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #tusk #mastodon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #animals #swimming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bear #werebear
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
I'll have what astral twin she's having.  From Dark Shadows episode 1082.
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#astral body #spirit double #dark shadows #astral twin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lucky Cat by Frances and Richard Lockridge and illustrated by Zhenya Gay.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage man #soda can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"One down—two to go."  From Siren, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #drunk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1916 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #memento mori #illustration
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #sun #occult #beetle #scarab
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Fox's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #1970s #cursed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy's Rabbit Stories by Mary E. Calhoun and illustrated by E. Warde Blaisdell, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #melon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1920 yearbook of Illinois Woman's College.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
To what lengths do you go to get a response?  From Response: Rhetoric For Action by Charles Sanders.
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#mask
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Plays in themselves have neither hopes nor fears.  Their fate is only in their hearers' ears."  From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #ben jonson
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale #long hair #illustration
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March 4, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#clockwork music #neons gone mad #michael ash sharbaugh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat
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Old News (permalink)
"The look that is out of this world."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The Devil wants you back."  From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#devil #vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's not true that there's no such as fairies, but Jack Frost's family tree here is accurate.  From Outdoors, Indoors, and Up the Chimney by Charles McIlvaine, 1906.
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#jack frost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nice face in the flames of notoreity.  From The Film Daily, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fire #vintage hollywood #hollywood #notoriety #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"What's a girl to do?"  From The Rotunda newspaper of Longwood College, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #question mark #vintage headline #questioning #what's a girl to do #headline #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #crow #jackdaw #hybrid #giraffe #kafka #parables #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #frog #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In many ways, I'm getting there."  From Weird Trips, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #faces in things #vegetables #eyes #tomato
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Ground the Griffon."  From Missouri Southern's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#griffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gryphon #mascot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mothers News, 2012.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A relief to our pent-up feelings."  From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 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 #kilt #crying #vintage men #men crying
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilmington College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Curse of the Dream Witch by Allan Stratton.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #curse
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"As one lamp lights another, nor grows less, so nobleness enkindleth nobleness" [James Russell Lowell].  From Mary Washington's 1916 yearbook.
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#hand lettering #vintage yearbook #nobleness
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

[This weird but well-written mystery novel was sort of "screwball gothic."]

***
"My past life has come up before my eyes so often it's beginning to look like a non-stop revue."

***
She...walked towards him with short, rather plodding steps, as though she was crossing an expanse of suet pudding.

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[Who Needs Context? dept.]
"Oh, if you're going to make a scene about pepper," Prudence said, "I'll oblige by leaving the room."

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Talking to him was like discussing the scenery with a fish, or a bird.

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He was a grocer, and his appearance suggested that his shop was very small, and that the articles wanted by customers could only be reached by ladder.

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"We can't describe them," Smith said in a voice that whined on a high note, like the wind in a chimney.

[By the way, this Smith (the grocer) is paired up with a drinking buddy called Benson. One of them is obsessed with his hobby of astrology, and one with his hobby of numerology, and they are perpetually scoffing at each other's hobbies.]

***
[This silly tangent from the protagonist's eccentric 16-year-old sister is probably my favorite passage in the book.]

"Harry keeps saying [Maurice is] trying to get Father's money"[....]

"Harry seems to know a lot about crime. Let me try curling my lip. Do you suppose when people curl their lips it's convex or concave?" She went to the glass over the mantelpiece. "It looks queer both ways. If I curl it up towards my nose it's worse, don't you think? People in those books must look odd, most of the time. 'She curled her lip. Her lip twitched.' Oh, I twitch better than I curl. I'll practise that one. Do you really think I should be twitching and curling at Maurice?"

***
It was a good shop, smelling of incompatible foods.

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"My mind's moving now like a circular saw. I'm not sure now what I'm cutting. It might be monotony. It might be the branch I'm sitting on."

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[Also from Prudence, the 16-y.o.]
"I'm sure this doesn't happen to other people getting ready for parties."

***
Hester smiled as though her face was being worked by electricity, while she wondered if real people ever said By Jove.

***
[Prudence again]
She was so glad that he had gone that she forgot she couldn't tango.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 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 #fairy tale #whirlpool
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Startling Stories volume 24 number 3 (1952).
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #devil #occult #horror #sleeping man
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March 3, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Faith in dark art shaken."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#dark arts #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #polar bear #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #spear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vampire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #three little pigs
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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 #anthropomorphism #cat #snow #winter #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sandman Twilight Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker and illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #cat #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #pegasus #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #flying horse #winged horse #rattlesnake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #north pole #arctic #eskimo #polar #dog sled
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1895 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #murder #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
An old postcard gifted to me by friends in Wales.
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#wales #vintage postcard #criccieth #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University Of Washington's 1921 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage ad #germs #woman #vintage woman #handkerchief #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #equestrian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Athanasius Kircher, 1653.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #cosmogram #diagram #Athanasius Kircher
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bobcat from West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #halloween #skeleton #walking dead #living dead #undead #red sky #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The mysterious "James T. Dooley."  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#death #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like this rare book is going for $1,500!  From Secret, Don't Tell, The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism by Carla Emery and illustrated by Corey Smigliani.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 costume
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March 2, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #ghostbusting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit #gold
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse #pursued
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giantess #architecture #faces in things #human headed #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tongue of Time by William Harrison, 1857.
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#timepiece #clock #wake up call #six o'clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry: The Return of Werdna: The Fourth Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #knife
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cinderella's fairy godmother begins transforming a rat into a coachman.  From History of Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper by Joseph Crawhall, 1852
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella #rat #fairy godmother
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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 #sea serpent #sea monster #horror #loch ness monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Never quite learning how to sleep out in the cold."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Holding a bust of the alien who abducted her.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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#alien #bust
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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 #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #severed head #decapitated #football
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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 #fable #aesop #grasshopper #ant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant cat #drunk #hallucination #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1990 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #collage
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Your complexion is poisoned!"  From Photoplay, 1932.
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#vintage ad #doctor #bandages #complexion #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The reason for being here??"  From George Fox's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #existentialism
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #cat in the hat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Goshen's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satyr #spring #springtime #rites of spring
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Old News (permalink)
"Waiting for the fat lady to sing."  From B.A.R., 2004.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mine's in the wash."  From The Old Line, 1950.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #sheet ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ate nine oyster stews apiece without thinking, and were very unhappy."  From Billtry by Mary Kyle Dallas, 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 #oyster #overeating
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Old News (permalink)
"It takes 2 to telepath."  From The Aberree, 1962.  
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#vintage headline #telepathy #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hyena versus baboon: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal fight #baboon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Teddy bears abducted by the March Hare.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #levitation #rabbit #march hare #weightless #teddy bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May Murphy's ghosts be laid to rest in Murphy beds.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Broadway and Hollywood Movies Magazine, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing #musicians #1930s #band
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Circles by Villamaria, 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #flower people #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A gypsy palm reader from A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gypsy
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1844.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #up all night #midnight oil #candle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #shackles #break the chain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Oddly, no foresty or aboriculture program studies the mysteriously glowing trees that spread through old yearbooks.  From Millikin's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing tree
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Cat, by Martha Grimes:

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They moved with their torsos slightly inclined, not bent, just forward, as if trying to get somewhere ahead of themselves.

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[Who Needs Context? dept.]
Melrose was saved from reciting "The Owl and the Pussycat" by the return of Dora.

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Melrose found himself talking to a dead phone. He shook it, as if Jury might fall out.

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"Nearly twenty years and Kate Muldar hadn't changed, not by..." He looked around as if searching for some measuring device to explain to Jury how much she had not changed by.
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[Bonus: In the spirit of Perry Mason's phone receiver slam-ups...]

"Jury smashed down the receiver."

AND!

"He mashed the receiver into the cradle."
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Old News (permalink)
"Are the aliens checking us out?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1989.
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#ufo #stars #starry night #night #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Old News (permalink)
It seems that demons have always delegated to the imps.  From The Current Sauce, 1957.
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#demon #imp #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 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 #physiognomy #forehead
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