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March 31, 2026

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

Nobody Said It Would Be Easy, Not Even For Demons

Her hair, the color of flames.  Her eyes, wickedly gleaming.  Her demeanor, as mischievous as the little bat wings sprouting from her head.  Could a true creature of darkness ever be as comical as tv presenter Melevill, Puerto Rico's first horror host?  Could a true comedian ever be as demonically sinister?  Melevill sometimes describes herself as a "fictional horror character," but there's a problem with that.  Fictional characters in fact possess a special sort of reality.  Just as Shakespeare's witchy Weird Sisters are real characters who are taken on by actors, and even as a spirit manifests itself in the person of a Vodou priest, Melevill absolutely exists.  Melevill may not be a "real" person, but that doesn't rule out that Melevill is a fiendish entity.  She certainly has some grievances, stony-faced as a gargoyle.  

Speaking of gargoyles, the demonic life isn't all Hollywood glitz and glamor.  Just imagine someone like Melevill trying to get a beloved avian familiar through customs.  We might have told her not to be dressed in her best pirate garb while crossing borders, as it could easily send the wrong message, but then again we might have kept our opinions to ourselves and our eyes humbly downcast. Only a bona fide horror character, upon having her pet bird confiscated, would seize the opportunity to raise awareness about the plight of cryptids.  La Gárgola is a Puerto Rican monster with gargoyle-like features.  This red-eyed, winged humanoid is said to drink animal blood and scream like a 1980s metal head.  But it hasn't been seen in Puerto Rico since 2018, and Melevill deduced why: it was banned from returning due to the island's strict avian influenza laws.  Wasting no time in mourning, Melevill found renewed enthusiasm for taking over the entire Caribbean with the assistance of gargoyles and other winged creatures.  When you hear her blood-chilling maniacal laughter, you know she's serious.  

Melevill and her alter-ego Melanie Ramos can be seen regularly on Neo-Pulps, a venue promising DIY punk aesthetics for lovers of pulp, horror, fantasty, and the bizarre.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From First Lessons in Nature Study by Edith Patch and illustrated by Robert Sim, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Life, A First Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan & Vernon L. Kellogg, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #1900s #illustration #bluejay
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Where Our Ways of Living Come From by Howard Wilson, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's why a shadow puppet can do anything but turn around on the stage.  From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #puppet #illustration #shadow puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She wants to live as a rabbit but can't get into carrots.  From Good Times on Our Street by Gates, Huber, Peardon and Salisbury, 1945.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whitney's Choice of Emblemes by Henry Green, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #angel #emblem #trumpet
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Old News (permalink)
"Revision a nightmare."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#writing #vintage headline #revision
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon Colleges 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #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 #fairy #genie #djinn #arabian nights
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #liberal arts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1916.

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#vintage illustration #china #bridge #camel-back
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mermaid #merman #vintage yearbook #yearbook #king neptune #trident #illustration #king triton #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #fox #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Boy and His Daily Living by Helen Burnham, Evelyn Jones, & Helen Redford and illustrated by Iva Lou Wildey, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #daydreaming #1930s #illustration
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March 30, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dove #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #native american #1920s #illustration #cliff dwelling
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cow #1920s #fly #illustration #limerick #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Titania's Radio Fairies by The Sandman, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #starry night
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Old News (permalink)
"Magic carpet two miles above earth."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage headline #magic carpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 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 #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bunny #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"Shaving, waste of time and money, they decide."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#beard #vintage headline #shaving
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"All dancing is haunted" (Lincoln Kirstein, "What Ballet Is All About," 1959).  From Ohio State University's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #dancing #blurred #spirit photgraphy #1970s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #giant #twins #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #mask #pompeii
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dentist
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1931.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is perpetual morning.  Morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me" (Thoreau).  From Wheaton College's 1969 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #thoreau
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #playing cards #card game #cribbage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College'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 #bridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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March 29, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Creepie-Stool, an unusual "single-poet anthology for chidlren" by Elizabeth Fleming and illustrated by Hugh Chesterman, peppered with Scots words like "stravaiging."
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #kettle #faces in things #tea kettle #tea #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1940s #illustration #flower fairy #lily pond
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Everyday Foods by Harris & Lacey, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #table setting #1920s #diagram #illustration #dinner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #armadillo
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Old News (permalink)
"Death for telling ghost stories."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#ghost story #vintage headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Optimism is bogus."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.  
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#optimism #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lanier Technical Institute's 1985 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #faces in things #trashcan #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
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#vintage illustration #spoon #cow jumped over the moon #musical animal #nursery rhyme #cat and the fiddle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign #1950s #keep off the grass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #twins #phonograph #his master's voice #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mount Union College's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #window #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mister Bill by Albert E. Lyons, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #hat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dentistry #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #lion #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #melting #ice
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if lazy cooks fritter their time away."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #donkey #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Foxes and wolves are party animals.  From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #fox #1960s #illustration #party animals #party
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March 28, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1918.  
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#vintage illustration #effigy #newspaper #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#fog #vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #owl #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Road To Sleepy Town and Other Verses by Elizabeth H. Wilkinson and illustrated by Sarah McIlvaine Seely, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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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 #fog #in the clouds #vintage headline #illustration #the people could fly #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #painter #face paint
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Old News (permalink)
"Did you ever get shaken in a quake?  It is no fun to feel the earth heave, and you cannot run away from it."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#earthquake #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The talking mockingbird from The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #talking bird #bird #mockingbird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weston's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #moustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #bucket #1890s #water bucket
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Walking the goat with another clown.  From Georgia Teachers College's 1957 yearbook.

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#goat #clown #vintage yearbook #vintage men #pet walker #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hat #1910s #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Fortunately for themselves, spirits don't depend on our belief for their existence."  From Dark Shadows, episode 167.
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#ghost #spirits #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon Colleges 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #all fours #ruler
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Just a sip — and you'll drink it always!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcohol #addictive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1984 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #human headed #musical note
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #horse #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
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#vintage illustration #insect #1890s #illustration #pupa
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March 27, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #oz #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #dancing #1930s #advice #illustration #manners
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration #tools
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Oct. 1993.
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#vintage illustration #living dead #undead #illustration #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #cat #rooster #1920s #illustration #pet walker #farm
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the (spotted, not striped) hyena this drawing is based upon. From Who's Who In the Zoo, 1937.

From Who's Who In the Zoo, 1937
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#gif #hyena
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Old News (permalink)
"Hypnotized cigar."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#cigar #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The people are panic stricken."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #panic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mermaid's Gift by Julia Brown and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #fountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1969 yearbook. 

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#vintage yearbook #lion #caged animal #zoo #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Alimentive type: "Well I enjoy myself anyway."  From How To Analyze People On Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #overweight #fat man #body type
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When she drove a nail it held things together."  From The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware by Annie Fellows Johnston and illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry, 1908.
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#hammer #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1976 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #physiognomy #diagram #forehead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Chicago Normal School of Physical Education's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawings by John Leech, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The voice from the skies.  15,000 people hear a flying man speak."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#vintage headline #the people could fly #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #smile #frown #happy and sad #happy face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bluebird.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1930s #illustration #bluebird
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March 26, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by W. H. Walker, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #1900s #playing card #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #beard #divination #1900s #seer #illustration #prophet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of Al-Sufi, 15th century.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #illustration #15th century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The old fairy's words cause all to weep."  From The Mammoth Story Book, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #crying #queen #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #wealth #money #coins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #torture #dungeon #vintage yearbook #government #yearbook #stretching #rack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #leash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 1865.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1860s
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Old News (permalink)
"People jumped at conclusions."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1984 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #music lover #cassette tape
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Picture Show Annual, 1919.
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#cat #1900s #vintage hollywood #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The mad Anthony."  From Waynesburg College's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #1950s #mad anthony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The start of every morning.  From Jackson Junior College's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We have the key from this skeleton hand and we now will solve the horrible mystery."  From American Indian Weekly, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #key
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horseshoe #vintage yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"It was a pity no one told him."  From Motion Picture Classic, 1923.
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#vintage ad #1920s #vintage man #man #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #buddhism #vintage yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #vintage headline #charlie chaplin #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mandolin #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"Candles grow on bushes."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#candle #vintage headline
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March 25, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #goat #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpine Architektur by Bruno Taut, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mountain #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Savage Folk by John MacLean, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #native american #1890s #illustration #blood indian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #cat #snake #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy queen #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #princess #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Combing the world for oddities."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Handbook of Phrenology by Cornelius Donovan, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #phrenology #hands
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #men fighting
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Old News (permalink)
"Berries are plentiful."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #fruit #berries
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #taken away #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Hypnotic tooth extraction.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis #dentist #tooth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #bucket #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pistols for two and coffee for one."  From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #duel #coffee #duellist
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't bother me, I can't cope."  From Indiana University's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #autumn #long hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #cannon
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Old News (permalink)
From Where Do We Go From Here? (1939).
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#vintage headline #headline
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March 24, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animals and Men, no. 15.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cat #illustration #cryptozoology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #sabertooth #saber-tooth tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #phonograph #oz #illustration #patchwork girl #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 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 #anthropomorphism #puss in boots #rooftop #mother goose #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 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 #horse #1920s #illustration #colt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fables In Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #fable #cow #dog #1870s #illustration #manger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, in which we hail the illustrations for bringing the underworld to life (as it were).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#owl #hell #hades
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From House Scraps by G. Duckworth Atkin and illustrated by Geo. Cruickshank, F. C. Gould, and Lucien Davis, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flower
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Old News (permalink)
"Dramatic instinct at present time is extremely rare among Englishmen."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Vassar College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #dinosaur #vintage yearbook #mastadon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Project Red Book, vol. 6, no. 9.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #bigfoot
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Old News (permalink)
"I shall forget you presently my dear, so make the most of this, your little day."  From Georgia Teachers College's 1957 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon Colleges 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hazing #spanking
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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 #fairy #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gloomy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Your favorite flavor, too!"  From Purdue University's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage men #in the face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Meat-Eaters by Lucy Guernsey, 1858.
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#vintage illustration #jaguar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #1930s #organ grinder #musician #illustration
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March 23, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#mystery #prof. oddfellow #venn diagram #WTF #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fright, terrifying sight.  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fright #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Readers Book III, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #poultry #illustration #farm #1880s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1919.
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#cat #vintage photo #1910s #photo
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Old News (permalink)
At first glance, we thought the headline implied that the rest of the world was smaller than England's sense of itself.  But of course it's referring to the protoplanet Vesta.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #halo #holy man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Furs as beachwear.  From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #fur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Times, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #weightless #alien abduction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pelted with mushrooms.  From Heidelberg University's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mushroom
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Waynesburg College's 1959 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #genie #djinn #sword
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's wood magic is fom the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #magic #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #sun
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Monday is Tuesday?"  From Indiana University's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline #temporal anomaly #monday
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #greek #shield
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #werewolf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #disease #hooded figure #illustration #scarlet fever
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You carry on conversations with bottles."  From I Dream of Jeannie, season one, episode 16.
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#i dream of jeannie
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March 22, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#comedy #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #standup comedy #standup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tip and Mitten, Teacher's Edition by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #magic lamp #vintage diagram #genie lamp #diagram #1930s #illustration #aladdin lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #greek #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #gun #magic trick #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Hiding in this image is the squirrel who stole the hen's lunch.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #hidden picture #jen
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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 #telephone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's levitating cathedrals are from St. Louis University's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goddess #levitation #cathedral #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #weightless #1930s #castle in the air
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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 #full moon #astrology #timepiece #night sky #clock #centaur #tiny man #pocket watch #archer #sagittarius #giant timepiece #time monster #time giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and illustrated by George H. Boughton, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin carving #sleepy hollow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't be afraid of anxiety."  From The Intercollegian, 1957.
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#anxiety #vintage headline #advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Alderson-Broaddus College's 1963 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #gallows #hanged man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From MacMurray College's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #negative #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Lively fight at church door.  Preacher carries out threat to 'beat the truth in.'"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon Colleges 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mountain climber #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
From Horizon, 1950. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #illustration #headline #nausea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wedding attire sure has changed over the decades.  From Purdue University's 1963 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #wedding #1960s #newlyweds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The soul-catching cord."  From Plum Blossoms and Blue Incense by James Bennett and Soong Kwen-Ling, 1926.
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#soul catcher #silver cord
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #1910s
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March 21, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#two headed #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1917.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #1910s #economy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Surprises, edited by McInnes, Belfry, Collins, Gerrard & Ryckman and illustrated by Smith & Bagshaw, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat by Rush Shippen Huidekoper, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #cat #manx #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Couple believe each other dead, both remarried."  From Editing the Day's News by Bastian & Case, 1943.
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#marriage #vintage headline #headline #till death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #roman #1930s #rome #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Laughing Horse, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #1920s #deer #illustration #fawn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Why of Fashion by Karlyne Anspach, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #zoot suit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Story House by Miriam Mason, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #tea party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Quietest.  From the North Carolina School for the Deaf's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #quiet
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Old News (permalink)
"Sports for scholars."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #snowman #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
From Snowflakes by Israel Perkins Warren, 1863.
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#vintage book #book #snowflake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1947 yearbook.

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#occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #human headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon Colleges 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking the dog #pet walker
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A wedding veil mustn't be black!" "Yes, yes it must whne you're marrying death."  From Dark Shadows episode 739.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#death #horror #wedding #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1975 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #trumpet #1970s #musician #marching band
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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 #spirits #necromancy #fairies #ghosts #spiritualism #phantoms #the dead #moonbeam #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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#1920s #cross dressing #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect #cricket #bug
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March 20, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #oz #1900s #tin man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #goat #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #soap bubble #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1970s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"What is wrong with the world?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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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 #angel #life after death #near death experience #afterlife #tunnel #light at the end of it #light at the end of the tunnel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #crab #cancer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #knitting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #fraternity #vintage yearbook #initiation #hazing
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Old News (permalink)
"Every body is walking."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton Normal School's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #up a tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gleanings of a Mystic by Max Heindel, 1922.
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#occult #esoteric #vintage book #book #mystic #mysticism
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Old News (permalink)
"Why walk places?  Give me a ring—on the telephone, and if you are half-passable in appearance I will take you anywhere—and guarantee to get you back."  From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's peacock-lion is from The Film Daily, 1945.
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#vintage ad #peacock #hybrid #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Type of social exchange."  From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man #pie in the face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #occult #snake #esoteric #multiplication
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State University of Iowa's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #boat #1920s #windmill #perspective #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit #1930s #illustration
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March 19, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #banjo #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #japanese #deity #buddha #1900s #illustration #hotei
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #through the looking glass #unicorn #alice in wonderland #lion #1890s #illustration #lion and unicorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #pinocchio #illustration #1910s #slob
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars In Their Courses by Sir James Jeans, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #pole star #bear #illustration #little dipper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #boat #shark #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Appalled by the abyss."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#abyss #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana Technical College's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #astrology #zodiac #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Old News (permalink)
From Half Serious, edited by William Cole, 1973.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Auburn University's 1984 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #fog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy
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Old News (permalink)
"Missouri youth is waiting until he is old enough to wed."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage headline
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From Century Illustrated (1916).
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton Normal School's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit
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Shoot no arrows in a witch's domain.  From Punch, 1910.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Washington State College's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #pipe smoker #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Alone at night?  Frightened?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1947.
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#vintage ad #darkness #night #vintage headline #headline #fear mongering #ad
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March 18, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#shakespeare #spoof #satire #hamlet #vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy #mythology #1900s #illustration #pandora's box
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #ship #dolphin #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fly #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sat there and discussed important questions."  From "Little Miss Goosey" by Katherine Newbold Birdsall, in The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #dog #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Unshaven, unshorn, and unacceptable."  From Union College's 1969 yearbook.
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#beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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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 #anthropomorphism #rabbit #crying animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mount Union College's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #illustration #club
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghosts of the sea.  Harrowing experiences of sailors with the spirits."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #cat #parrot #vintage magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1973 yearbook.

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's tiny horse drinking milk from a straw is from the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #milk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Box of Delights by John Masefield, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #giant mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #submarine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The cat who "used to get into the place where the girl slept."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Where am I at?"  From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elfie's Visit to Cloudland and the Moon by Frances Austen, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #elf #soap bubbles #blowing bubbles
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March 17, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Subterranean World by George Hartwig, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #geology #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Marie: A Seaside Episode by J. P. Ritter, Jr. and illustrated by Coultaus, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1880s #horse carriage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #patchwork girl #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #silhouette #cat #capital s #cat and mouse #letter s #1870s #illustration #long tail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 1979.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #falling #monkey #grandfather clock #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Heaven was as coal, and each star a spark."  From The Martlet, 1963.
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#night sky #starry night #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wolf and the coyote with the toothache."  From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #coyote
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'it might have been.'"  From Swarthmore College's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snowball #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Hermits are on the way out."  From The Intercollegian, 1957.
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#hermit #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Spiral Way by Aldo Carotenuto.
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#spiral #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1986.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon Colleges 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the people could fly #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #crab #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Detroit's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1930s #construction #girder #steel beam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gobble!  Gobble!  Get out of here."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #turkey #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union College's 1991 yearbook.

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#wizard #phrenology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #phrenologist #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Wings mended while you wait."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #weather #animal fight #illustration #prehistoric
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March 16, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #evolution #diet #1900s #illustration #up a tree #devolution
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Those things which are said to be done by Nature are done by Divine Art."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars by Carl Garrison, 1901.
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#sentence diagram #creation #nature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #flower #spring #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #imp #wizard #occult #cauldron #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A silk cotton-tree, from Scribner's, 1877.
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#tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Week with Christ by Emeric Lawrence.
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#vintage book #book #star
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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 #orbit #spaceship #satellite #big guns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Two figures stumbled on the steps of "Warning" and "Flunk notice."  From Chicago Teacher's College's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lawrence University's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Lost his hair, beard and mustache."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#beard #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pharmacist #pharmacy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #pioneer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Detroit's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #banjo #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #moon #native american #moon goddess
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Old News (permalink)
"If you are not ambitious, come around and see us some time."  From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1967.
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#vintage photo #typewriter #toilet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #mouth #illustration #making faces
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March 15, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #duck #1930s #illustration #unhappy #duckling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #shoe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#grave mood rings #moons in retrograde #video #WTF #horror comedy #sheet ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #tree #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic trick #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #dirigible #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's scarab within the solar disk, upheld by Horus, is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #illustration #scarab #horus #dung beetle #falcon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mount Union College's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #vintage yearbook #winking cat #winking animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Fights devil-fish and wins thirty feet under water."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#animal attack #vintage headline #devil fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales, edited by Jean Cothran and illustrated by Clifford Geary.
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#vintage illustration #horse #bear #pet walker
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1962.
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#vintage ad #last will #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1889 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fox #duck
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Old News (permalink)
"Greek god Bacchus honored."  From Southern Illinois University's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #greek #deity #bacchus #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Muskingum College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #timepiece #father time #clock #1920s #illustration #march of time #march 15
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New People and Progress, Teacher's Edition by Gray et al., 1955.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #quill pen #mouse #illustration #smart animal #literate animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #lion #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #dog #fox #circus #1890s #illustration #trained animal
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March 14, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #spring cleaning #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #bear #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #tarot #wand #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Second Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #slipper #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No story to-night" was altered to "A real good story to-night."  From Number Stories of Long Ago by David Eugene Smith, 1919.
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#vintage headline #storytelling #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I hooked my little spirit machine to an amidship beam."  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower #ex libris #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
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#vintage illustration #burma #walled city
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #drinking #toast #bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Beloit College's 1889 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #organ grinder #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #faces in things #mountain spirit #poem
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Old News (permalink)
From Always Too Soon to Quit by Nancy Bramlett.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you embarrassed sometimes?"  From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage headline #embarrassment
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the [Weymouth] Reflector, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #king #jester #crying
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #lawyer
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Old News (permalink)
"More give up."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.  
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#giving up #vintage headline
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #oar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #interior design #interior decorating
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chicken #duck #1900s #illustration #march #salt #march 14 #mar. 14
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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March 13, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #king #oz #scepter #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #1930s #advice #illustration #manners #accessories
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #farmer #illustration #farm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Feb. 1993.
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#vintage illustration #grimoire #illustration #1990s
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1984.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dragon #meditation #illustration #buddhist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #pig #illustration #farm #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Menagerie by Carolyn Wells and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mother goose #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #dog #fox #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio by C. Collodi and illustrated by Attilio Mussino, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #spooky #1920s #pinocchio #hooded figure #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #white rabbit #rabbit #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
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#vintage illustration #cat #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1987 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage man #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
"Days of miracle not yet gone."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#miracle #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sounds almost like an alternative to "Go take a hike."  "Go and catch a falling moose."  From The Gateway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #falling #moose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's very tiny head is from the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiny head
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Old News (permalink)
"It takes a slip on a banana peel to jar loose a thought."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #banana peel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #pipe smoker #1900s
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Sundials (permalink)
A sundial in a cave showing midnight.  From The Addams Family, 1965.
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#sundial #addams family
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1968 yearbook.

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#bicycle #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoe #1960s #photo
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Old News (permalink)
"The mystery of a box of snakes."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bees and bluet flowers.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #flower #bee #1930s #illustration #bluet
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March 12, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #potato #beet #1970s #illustration #vegetable people #vegetable
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English In Action 1 by Tressler & Shelmadine, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #cat #monkey #1930s #illustration #animal friends
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #wind #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How You Look and Dress by Byrta Carson, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #sewing #1940s #illustration #pin cushion #pincushion #pins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The endpapers from The Rainbow Cat by Rose Fyleman and illustrated by Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #anthropomorphism #cat #endpapers #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"I had a dreadful dream about soap and water."  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #anthropomorphism #dream #soap
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The trunk of death.  From the University of Akron's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lucky Cat by Frances and Richard Lockridge and illustrated by Zhenya Gay.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Nose Brotherhood."  From Baylor University's 1950 yearbook.

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#nose #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"Ape's body with human face."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#hybrid #vintage headline #apeman
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #ship
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #bubblegum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily Cavalcade, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #rooster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #football #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Loses his equanimity and ruins a dress suit."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mystic World, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #necromancy #skull #occult #open grave #1930s #ghoul #necrophage
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University (Saint Louis)'s 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #bear #1920s #sandwich board #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #cliff #1920s #illustration #over the cliff #dangling
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March 11, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #buffalo #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #king #1920s #illustration #persia #cyrus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lewis Story Method of Teaching Reading and Spelling Manual, illustrated by Bess Bruce Cleaveland, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #elf #illustration #letter r #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pen and ink #pig #illustration #ink #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's turtle drawing a bear.  From We Can Read Surprises by Gerrard & McInnes, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #turtle #1960s #artistic animal #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.
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#vintage illustration #barber #pig #illustration #nursery rhyme #poem #1850s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss In Boots by Josiah Wood Whymper, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #sea life #fish #under the sea #seashell #deep sea diver #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Indian Antiquary, Vol. IV, 1875.
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#religion #vintage illustration #serpent #snake #hinduism #snake worship
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Old News (permalink)
"Social leaders in London look upon the [tango] craze with abhorrence."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#dancing #vintage headline #tango
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Current mood -- "No, no I'm not ready for that yet."  From Dark Shadows episode 1046.
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#dark shadows #not ready
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1920s #milkshake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Consult the Oracle by Gabriel Nostradamus, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cat people #illustration #bobcat
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1935.
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #daydream #1900s #illustration #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #invisible man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #vintage man #man #athlete #shot put
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #dove #rainbow #1920s #biblical #illustration #noah
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1992 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish #illustration #goldfish #fish tank #1990s
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Precursors (permalink)
Before Eat, Pray, Love, there was Hop, Ride, Look, Eat.  From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration
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March 10, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #goddess #oz #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1910s #substitute
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starting Points in Reading Revised, B by Patricia Chesterman, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #illustration #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #horse #drawing #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ostrich.  From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #capital a #letter a #1920s #ostrich #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #bear #1940s #illustration #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Do This Do That Wookbook by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1928 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #all-seeing eye #eye of god #1920s #penny farthing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Herne, in Chatterbox, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #horned man #herne
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #cat #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pembroke State College's 1985 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #makeup #vintage man #lipstick #1980s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1902.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #artist #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We're sick of trouble-makers."  From Southern Illinois University's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #sign
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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 #fairy #shakespeare #tree #midsummer's night dream
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #donkey #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Which will be your smile?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #smile #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fashion comes to tin foil hats.  From North Georgia Technical and Vocational School's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tin foil hat #1980s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Faust by Goethe and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #angel #winged man #if you had wings #Faust #illustration #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #whale #1900s #animal fight #illustration #squid #sperm whale #cuttlefish
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March 9, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #horse #1890s #cowboy #illustration
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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 Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #walking on water #illustration #bodhisattva
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #1970s #illustration #hat #cat in a hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The horns of a "Dilemma."  From Three Hundred Games & Pastimes by E. V. Lucas, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #rescue #precipice #cliff
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Beyond Reality, No. 27.
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#occult #esoteric #supernatural #new age
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Reno's gay days are over."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Pursuing his studies."  From the University of Arkansas' 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A satyr from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1876.
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#vintage illustration #fountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #orchestra #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Farmer's Magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #spirit #teapot #mother elder
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Cove of Mistakes and the Swimming Pool of Tears.  From Barnard College's 1911 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The scent of the hay."  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Patterns for Writing 2 by Dashwood-Jones, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #native american #illustration
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March 8, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #vintage men #illustration #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #illustration #light bulb #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #bird #1900s #illustration #apple
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The Right Word (permalink)
"I'm in the graduating class.  This is a pun.  Can you see through it?  The graduate is made of glass, and so you easily should do it."  From Youth's Companion1904.
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#vintage illustration #pun #1900s #illustration #kitten
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #elf #spring #cheerful #1930s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fish #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic trick #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Sparrows will be sparrows."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dick's Parlor Exhibitions by William Brisbane Dick, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Musician, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #violin #musician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sheep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Magazine and Marvelous Chronicle, 1793.
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#vintage illustration #statue #colossus of rhodes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1987 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #candle #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #basketball #spectators #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There never were any giants!"  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gift of the River by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft and illustrated by Katherine Dewey, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #animal fight #illustration
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March 7, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #greece #greek #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"There are better ways to waste time."  From The Omen, 1995.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Beautiful Joe's Paradise by Marshall Saunders, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Bear comes to lunch."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Buchtel College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Good for him: "Though he may miss the applause, he still has everything else he could want."  From Duquesne University's 1981 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Celestial visions.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #prayer #hypnotism #visionary #celestial vision
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An owl rides a broomstick.  From Helps and Hints for Hallowe'en by Laura Rountree Smith, 1920.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #1930s #insect people #firefly #lightning bug
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Science loses."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #gong #big science
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goose #if you had wings #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Serapina by Anne White and illustrated by Tony Palazzo.
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#cat #vintage 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 #haunted mansion #haunted portrait #haunted painting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #burned alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #projector
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #chicken #vintage headline #poultry #chick #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #clock #1930s #athletics
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You make me remember feelings I had forgotten for 100 years."  From Dark Shadows episode 801.
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#dark shadows
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March 6, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #oz #antlers #1900s #illustration #trophy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1916.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#puppet #puppetry #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #cat #chicken #1930s #illustration #kitten #animal friends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #insect #bug #1920s #grasshopper #illustration #ant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Geometry of Biological Time by Arthur Winfree, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #time #geometry
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Old News (permalink)
"She signed a bond with Lucifer in her own blood."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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#devil #lucifer #vintage headline #satanic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Is your Bible a snack bar?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1966.  (Turns out there's a whole book of edible Bible recipes.)
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#bible #vintage headline #edible #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The saxophone of apt quotations.  From Saint Mary's School's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #saxophone
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Old News (permalink)
If he sats insane long enough, he will be a millionaire.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Effesseness (pronounced F - S - N - S), Farmington State Normal School's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #happy and sad #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1984.
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Old News (permalink)
"Bring out your spooks."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1920s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A spirit at a seance (hovering right) says, "I don't like death at all."  From Dark Shadows episode 797.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #limerick #poem
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
"Roses, roses all the way."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #makeup #illustration #rouge #face shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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March 5, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sefer, Spring 1981.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Saturday Evening Post, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #bear #porcupine #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #medieval #capital t #letter t #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers, Second Book by McIntyre, Dearness & Saul, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #fish #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Cities a menace.  They present grave problems."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.  
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From On the World's Roof by J. Macdonald Oxley, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #mountains #book #himalayas
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Snow White (written and illustrated by various), 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Brevard College's 1936 yearbook.

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#silhouette #vintage photo #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From All About Kisses by Damocles and illustrated by Halbott Brown (Phiz), 1876.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #onion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The League of Death."  From Lebanon Valley's 1905 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #death #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Computer Age, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #overwhelmed #bureaucracy #paperwork #entangled
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We folded our blankets and silently crept away."  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #moonlight #lake #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #balancing act #flea #illustration #tightrope #flea circus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #illustration #apple
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Afore side behind."  From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #backwards #1920s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I detest apologies.  People so rarely mean them."  From Dark Shadows episode 487.
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#apology #dark shadows
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March 4, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Liberty Cap at Mammoth Hot Springs.  From Cubby in Wonderland by Frances Joyce Farnsworth, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #geology #1930s #illustration #yellowstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Apollo.  From Wee Wisdom, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #solar deity #chariot #flying horse #deity #sun god #1920s #illustration #Apollo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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#vintage illustration #1890s #flowers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How nice not to be afraid of injuring stockings."  From Youth's Companion, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1920s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From By the Roadside by Dunn & Troxell and illustrated by Nell E. Hukle, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Long Ago by John Waddell, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #woodsman #1930s #lumberjack #illustration #pioneer #woodman
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Letters in the mail are superstitious when they find themselves in the same bag as a postcard undelivered for 32 years.  From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage headline #headline #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #automaton #robot #diagram
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Sundials (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Less cause for worry."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mercury, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #occult diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And did you make up your mind to sacrifice?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1958.
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#sacrifice #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #cat #spinning #top
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpha, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #mask #making faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Time marches on!"  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1937 yearbook.

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#despair #worry #vintage photo #depression #vintage yearbook #1930s #vintage woman #march of time
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Maybe for tonight -- an orb of dream.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #dreams #orb
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bowdoin College's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 1936.

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#vintage illustration #underwater #illustration
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March 3, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #1940s #organ grinder #illustration #dancing animal #dancing monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Treats and Treasures by McInnes et al., 1964.
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#vintage illustration #native american #1960s #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #picture puzzle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #sun #bird #1920s #robin #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #WTF #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #pony #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #1910s
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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 #dog #animal attack #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Understanding the Arts by Helen Gardner, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #italy #illustration #florence #1490s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #knight #illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #spring #flowers #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern College's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Fairy Tales by May Showler Groves and illustrated by Mary Crete Crouch, 1914.
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#bird #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #harp #yearbook #greek #lyre #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"Not probing any scandal."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#the more things change #vintage headline #history repeating
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #golf #1900s #march
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1880s
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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 #flamingo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 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 #dog #1920s #eskimo #illustration #musk ox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stage and the School by Katharine Anne Ommanney, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #theatre #costume #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know where tomorrow is coming from."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #tomorrow #illustration
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March 2, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1945.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #wind #pinwheel #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phonic Primer, 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 #chicken #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"My only childhood memory of you was reading those ugly books and illustrations of witches and demons and potions."  From Strange Paradise episode 178. 
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#occult #strange paradise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Whenever the tiger perspires large drops of whisky appear all over his body."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiger #whisky
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Old News (permalink)
From Buchtel College's 1919 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte #the end #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #caveman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1900s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Looks like the ballet alphabet has six additional characters, all in tutus.  From Lincoln Kirstein's "Ballet Alphabet," 1939.
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#vintage illustration #alphabet #vintage book #book #1930s #ballet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A gift of tongues in a world of misunderstanding."  From Walla Walla College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage headline #speaking in tongues
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #political cartoon #hybrid #human headed #moth
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Old News (permalink)
"Lost false teeth and nearly lost life searching for them."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#dentures #false teeth #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Record Changer, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #music #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #astrology #tibetan
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Old News (permalink)
"Absence makes the marks grow rounder."  From Armour Institute of Technology's 1926 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The chickadee's "Spring soon" call.  From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#music notation #bird call #bird song #chickadee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Microcosm, 1990.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #spilled ink #illustration #ink #1990s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration #hiccup
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Today — March 1, 2026

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Consolation magazine, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #rain #rainy day #umbrella #1930s #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Comic Birthday Book, undated.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #wind #1900s #illustration #hat #march
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Youth's Companion1918.
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#vintage illustration #native american #illustration #march #poem #woodchuck #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 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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#king #george the first #1880s #vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 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 #1900s #fishbowl #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Trésor des Jeunes Conteurs by J .E. Poirier, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse #cinderella #1900s #illustration #coach
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Music revolution.  Its conquest of mankind.  Wondrous gift to all.  Sweet sounds everywhere."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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#music #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There it is again!"  From Collier's, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1915).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #dandy #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gun #suicide #target
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic #vintage book #rabbit #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #penguin #admiral byrd
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Locked Book by Frank Packard, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1949.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#money #fire #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage man #money to burn
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Old News (permalink)
"Mind is a blank."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #silverware #table setting #1930s #illustration #manners
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wind #illustration #march #poem
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