CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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April 30, 2019

Old News (permalink)
"Say it with cauliflowers."  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage headline #headline #cauliflower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You knew that previous generations weren't as overweight, but they had one weird trick for not actually weighing anything.  From Flora Macdonald's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scales #weight #scale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #costume #bull costume #animal costume #cow costume
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Two methods of studying -- the first photo in Susquehanna's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #studying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the interests of health."  From The Doctors, A Satire in Four Seizures by Elbert Hubbard, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #mad scientist #doctor #knife
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Rhode Island yearbook of 1922.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #new year
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #transformation #fashion #vintage fashion #big hat #lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's (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 #horseshoe #centaur
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Nebuchadnezzar's vision of the image."  From Sketches of Universal History, Sacred and Profane, by Frederick Butler, 1818.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dream #vision #nebuchadnezzar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #lion #cowardice #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #ladder #red ladder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A boxer prays to holy gloves.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #prayer #boxer #boxing gloves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fear of insects #illustration #fear of bugs #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #mythology #folklore #horse costume #valkyrie #scandinavian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #witch #witchcraft #halloween #broomstick #october #walpurgisnacht #hallowe'en #when pigs fly #flying pig
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The mental image in the viewer's mind is more important than the photograph itself." --Minor White.  From Duke's 1973 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#photography #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder in the Bookstore, by Carolyn Wells:

***

Dr. Jamison, the Medical Examiner, was what the novelists call a strong, silent man. Two not indispensable traits for one of his calling, for his strength was seldom needed and his silence was frequently exceedingly annoying.

***

[Ooh la la!]

"As I sat there a few minutes waiting, I noticed it was twenty past ten. I shouldn't have noticed, probably, but there was a little clock on the table that had a quick, saucy little tick. I felt sure it was a French clock and I looked at it with admiration, it was such a pretty little piece of property."

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#vintage illustration
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
We formally call upon Unklejam to reunite and cover Jamiroquai's "Automaton."  See Unklejam's "What Am I Fighting For?" video for all the evidence you'll need to support this cause fervently.  Much as we adore Jamiroquai's original, imagining Unklejam on vocals is irresistible.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Spoon-fed owl imagery is all-too rare.  From Barnard's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 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 #falling #faces in things #lighthouse #tarot tower #airplanes
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April 29, 2019

Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Someone should craft a book on finding humor in seances via spirit slates: Jokes that Write Themselves.
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#humor
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You've heard chess called "the game of kings," but the original billiards cues were the staves of rulers' flags.  From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #billiards #flag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kliuv, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #crow #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #monk #hybrid #egg #bird person
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
> read more from Strange Dreams . . .
#vintage illustration #nightmare #anthropomorphism #horse #tables turned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Joan of Arc accidentally slices the angel Gabriel in two.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #sword #sliced in two #joan of arc #gabriel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage japan #top hat #modesty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #leopard #spotted cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A lily-white duck came and gobbled him up."  From Harper's Young People, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #duck #costume #duck costume #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat legged #faun #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #tiny man #impaled #illustration #fencing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
No captions or contexts were offered in Westminster's 1968 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#grotesque #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #makeup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #goat #crying animal #crying goat #goat tears
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duke university
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (1893).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #angel #winged man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1924 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We've always imagined it floating in a cloud of incense: our quiz deck of one-letter words from Pomegranate.  The dream is finally a reality, as the Tarotist and all-around wizard Holy Mountaineering unboxed the deck in his hallowed studio.  Delighted!
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#one-letter words
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April 28, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #protection #horse #armor #bucking bronco #personal space #personal protection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We've never heard a good explanation, but it's true that if comedy and tragedy masks are after you, a ukulele is the best defense.  From Kansas State's 1928 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #comedy and tragedy #ukulele
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nagaechka, 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 #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kliuv, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #harpy #explosion #hybrid #human headed #bird man #egg #exploding egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
There isn't any humane way to dispatch human-headed flies, but here's how they did it back in 1903.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #insect man #the fly #man fly #fly man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Muse of History wears a very dated dress.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #clio #muse of history
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #grim reaper #asphyxiation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A day in the dark time."  From Our Little Friends of Norway, Ola and Marit by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Curtiss Sprague, 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 #dog #sleeping #norway #illustration #dark time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexander Chodźko, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant #spirit #peace dove
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #chariot #geese #wooden shoe #tiny woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1933 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #divination #magick #occult #fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bug #insects #human insect
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyes #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, 1903.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #elf #fairy tale #exterminator #bow and arrow #bug killer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You might have thought, applying your knowledge of surface geometry and plate tectonics, that only half the world could be between any two people.  But, in fact, a whole world can separate us.  [Sad.]
From Purdue's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #globe #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #painter #self portrait
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, confound the actual and the fanciful.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life Magazine (1897).
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#vintage illustration #weightless #dentist #tooth pulling
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April 27, 2019

Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
"Mother, come back from the echoless shore."  From Rock Me to Sleep, Mother by Elizabeth Akers Allen, 1883.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #death #prayer #grieving #echoless shore
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Nice Mona Lisa smile!  From Greensboro's 1966 yearbook.  See our previous proof that the craters of the moon line up exactly with the Mona Lisa's facial features.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mona lisa smile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Komenata, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #mirror #skull #mortality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #caricature #face shape #face shapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
Can the world keep a secret?  From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #world #anthropomorphism #secret
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#angel #prayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Young Witch."  From Die Muskete, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #occult #illustration #witch trials
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #money #money bag #dancing #1920s #boxer #winnings
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #birds #musical animal #electrical pole
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Long distance.  From Hampden-Sydney's 1967 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #phone call
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcutter #fashion #vintage fashion #saw #derrière #derrière #sawing wood
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
The patron saint of pigtails.  From Queens College's 1971 yearbook.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #patron saint #yearbook #pigtails
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The Right Word (permalink)
Not a strange unit of measure, the "Ounce" is, of course, another name for a snow leopard.  From Tales About Animals by Peter Parley, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #big cat #snow leopard #ounce
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eye of god #endpapers #emerging
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nasby in Exile by David Ross Locke, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #queer
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Memphis State's 1991 yearbook.
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#occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fog
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Reblog if ponchos are unflattering and you need your hands free from an umbrella.  From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #fashion #vintage fashion #waterproof #rainwear #rain proof
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1951 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #genie #magic lamp #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pulemet, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #wheel #manpower
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April 26, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #piano #ocean of sound #sea of sound #flow of music #piano boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mortal fear of bad singing is a common theme in vintage magazines, but today's society seems to have lost that fear -- consider what's on the radio as evidence.  From Butler's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vocalist #illustration #singer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever felt like an inkblot in a hat and tie.  This dressed-up inkblot is from Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #anthropomorphism #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #giant bird #princess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #airship #flying bar #floating bar #bar in the sky #sky bar
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Taylor University's Gem yearbook, 1941.
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#reading #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #black and white photo #1940s #light and shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #hunter #tables turned
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Precursors (permalink)
VHS tape glitch art isn't merely nostalgic -- it was a thing even back in the ealry 70s.  From Duke's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vhs #glitch #video tape art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Ghost of a Chance, by Kelley Roos:

***

[Apple-Munching dept.]

"You know, that I solved six murders which baffled the best police minds in the city, solved them singlehanded while simultaneously practicing my hobby of earning a living being a photographer, whipping up exotic curries in my streamlined kitchen and munching an apple."

***

"What do you know?" he inquired.

"Not much," Jeff said.

The man shoved his hat back on his head and a smug look spread over his face.... "Twenty years," he said, "I been asking people what they know. Always get one of two answers. 'Not much' or 'You're drunk.'"

***

The bartender at the Belfast smiled a pleased welcome at us. He seemed to have won a bet with himself that we would be back again that evening.

***

[Rhetorical Questions Answered?]

"Why don't you mind your own business?"

"My business hours don't start until nine-thirty," Jeff said.

***

I threw myself into my part. I was Miss Somebody from Someplace, New Jersey, in town for a day's shopping.

***

"That's me, in a nutshell."

"Move over," May said, "and I'll get in the nutshell with you."

"You get a nutshell of your own."

***

"And, personally, in weather like this I don't blame the line for being down. If I were a line, I should be down, too."

***

In the center of the small room stood a fat-bellied coal stove. It was unlighted, cold, and black, but two men and an elderly woman had crowded around it, as if to get some warmth from its reputation.

***

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What I Now Know (permalink)
"I now know that the voice of man can reach to the sky."
—from a Squamish song
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon #fruit hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Our custom Uncanny Detector app caught a detail we would have missed: a dark, cloaked entity rising from the flames.  (See enlargement.)  From Wake Forest's 1952 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #occult #fire #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fire ceremony
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard the slogan, "Say it with flowers," but the "it" can be repulsion.  From Le Charivari, 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 #bouquet #flowers #say it with flowers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #silhouette #full moon #snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you're seeking the perfect combination library / picture window / bed.  From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maliar, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #owl #books
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Those born outside of the typewriter era may not realize the myriad ways typists could approach the machine.  From Winston-Salem's 1979 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Komenata, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #rabbit #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A mystery: did the writer or the recipient scratch out the signature?  The inscription reads, "Dearest Lover, Darling (even).  With all my love, I am writing this to you.  Love, ------."  Our guess: perhaps the recipient wished to hide the lover's identity but kept the sentiment intact so as to look back upon it.  From Concordia's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #handwriting #inscription
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rainy day #umbrella #horse
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April 25, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"King Prigio on the Flying Horse."  From My Own Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #flying horse #1890s #illustration
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're delighted that Dr. Rob Skinner, author of The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid, referred to us as "the imp of the internet" and tweeted a link to our curation of vintage imp imagery.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
You've seen Dalí's melting watches in "The Persistence of Memory," but did you know that's a real place?  From Mars Hill's 1953 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #Salvador Dali #melting watch #persistence of memory
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #Faust
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #elephant #animal trick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A centaur on a bicycle.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #demon #scissors #goya #toenail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The demon rum.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #demon #demon rum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #emblem #chariot #illustration
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #antelope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a library ghost from the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.  Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spooky #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #library #library ghost #haunted library
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to turn the ripped page. From Shut, 1907.

From Shut, 1907
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #gif #ripped page #magazine
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #ocean #waves #vintage magazine #drowned #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I would embrace the earth and know no fear."  From the University of Mary's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #offworld
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1899).
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#vintage illustration #angel #mythology #king #winged man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1914 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook #school spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you can't seem to get the lion's share.  From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #lion #lion's share
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
I wonder if she liked her yearbook portrait.  From Barnard's 1968 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #statue of liberty
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you're present in the Boob Dept.  From Valparaiso's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moi Pulemet, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #forest #autumn #woods #forest spirit #woodland #naked woman
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April 24, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
We've never before seen statistics likened to anti-bacterial soap:
"We repeatedly wash our hands in statistics, these being a cerebral equivalent of the germicidal hand-pumped gel." —Andrew West, Being With and Saying Goodbye
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#statistics
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is not a bagpipe.  From Presbyterian Junior College's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #pinecone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Paintings interact with your shadow, but that tends to happen behind your back.  From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #painting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Senoir [sic] mustaches."  From Purdue's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you would say it with flowers to a goat.  From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #bouquet #goat #illustration #say it with flowers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Goats will shine tonight!"  From the University of Mary's 1944 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magic goat #shining goat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #faces in things #tree face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pall Mall (1901).

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#vintage illustration #mythology #hourglass #winged man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is one of the dangers encountered by urban explorers (Urbex) who investigate abandoned properties.  From Satirikon, 1908.  See our own Urbex adventure, here, which the acclaimed philosopher of magic, Robert E. Neale, praised as a new artform: "I cannot imagine a more striking example of how the human animal can cope.  In response to a destructive event, these animals create an expression that is uniquely original in style and content, moving, funny and thoughtful.  May we all try to do the same when life offers us the opportunity."
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #death #skeleton #grim reaper #abandoned #ruined building #urbex
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
If you have no umbrella, hold up your walking stick and experience the difference it makes.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rain #rainy day #umbrella #walking stick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbits #bunnies #rabbit headed #rabbit people #bunny people #half bunnies #half rabbits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mask #tragedy mask #mourning #two-faced #funeral #hearse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
What the photographer sees and what the camera captures.  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #photography #puget sound #old faithful
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1907.

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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #carried away #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #big ears #pierced ears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #lohengrin #trojan car
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An evocative image, from the Latin meaning "called forth."  From  Lehigh's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #evocation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if your beauty rest requires being carried in a nest of greenery by gnomes.  From The Fairy-folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft. 1895.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nagaechka, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #fire
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April 23, 2019

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You can guess what car he drives, just by looking at him.  From Montclair's 1978 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Noch, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat #starry night #rooftop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #artist #palette #eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you ever wondered where inkblots come from, they spurt from fountains.  This inkblot fountain from Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #silhouette #fountain #1890s
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #beetle #scarab
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Worshipping the god of cheap silver.  From The Judge, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #idol #silver #false idol #silver god #silver deity
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Old News (permalink)
"Realistic head on child's broomstick."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.
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#broomstick #weird headline #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Procession of the fairies on the first of May."  From Fairy Land by Villamaria, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Throwing confetti and donning masks for dogs.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #mask #dog #confetti
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The London Journal, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Boloto, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shield
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dead Man's Watch, by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole:

***

[Witty Typography dept. (i.e., the final use of all-caps in the excerpt).]

Next door but one to the post office stood one of those forlorn confectioners, with three or four plates of dismal buns and a notice, DEVONSHIRE TEAS. CREAM SENT TO ANY PART OF THE WORLD, of the kind with which wayside villagers make optimistic bids to stay the speeding stream of cars. In it were two rickety tables with vases of paper flowers, at one of which a non-descript man was facing a DEVONSHIRE TEA.

***

"Nice little tin Lizzie he's got, I don't think," said the girl. "Must pay being a whatever-is-it*."

[*Police doctor.]

***

[For those keeping score: I believe this is our second generic reference to "uncles" within the week.]

"Bittaford, when you were living with your Uncle Percy, had he got a beard?"

"No, of course he hadn't," said Ronald, as though uncles were soil upon which beards would not grow.

***

"The what sort of hoppers?"

"Pentecostal. They're the International Bible something-or-other, really; but that's what they're called. When the Spirit moves them, they hop--all at once."

[Later.]

"I like them even less when they're Pentecostal what-ever-it-is."

***

"He's got the loveliest head you ever saw, like pictures of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob all together, with a long white beard and long white hair that's very thick and curls over his collar.... When you see him sitting down you think goodness me, that's a real church saint and no mistake. And then he gets up and you see his legs are tiny...and his beard looks as if it would be tickling his knees all the time, and he just looks an old comic. And he's got a little squeaky voice like a young pig's."

[Now, that is one of the protagonists' description of a minor character called Mr. Cole; and Mrs. Cole is given a description that is no more flattering. When we recall that the authors of this book are a husband-and-wife team named Cole--who were cosmopolitan socialists who probably bore little resemblance to these small-town "Pentecostal Hoppers"--I think the humor gets taken to the next level!]

***

It was not well; it was very far from well, Wylie reflected crossly, as he tried to pick some coherent sense out of the confusion of Mrs. Devene's italics and her melodramatic mind.

***

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This ghost appears in the University of Rhode Island's 1966 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Melophobia is the fear of music.  From Nebelspalter, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #music #phobia #musician #fear of music #melophobia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's true -- twelve to six, day and night, can be very, very dark.  From Clarion's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #light and dark #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion #eaten alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #lion #donkey #animal fight
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April 22, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dancing #lobster #dancing animal #dnacing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #starry night #quill pen #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Is there art that you can really get behind, or is that merely a figure of speech for you?  From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #artwork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Still we went coupled and inseparate."  From Emerson's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lesbian #troilus and cressida
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pulemet, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #rabbit #cannon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kramola, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #gallows #violin #noose #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #champagne #venn diagram #alcohol #absinthe #nectar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #war and peace #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #human headed #bull #man bull #china shop #bull in a china shop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #peacock #illustration #royal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house #phantom #ball and chain #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #pan pipes #goat legged #faun
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Here's how to see the sunrise at the earliest moment, by actually turning your back on the east.  The text reads: “To see the sunrise at the earliest moment. If, instead of looking towards the east, you turn your back to the point where the sun rises, you will perceive the first gleams of light on the top of any tall object, as a spire, a chimney, or a tree, long before the rays will be apparent on the eastern horizon.”  From The Magician's Own Book, 1871.
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#sunrise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the NC State yearbook of 1940.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #laundry #clothesline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are content with playing cards and kings and queens.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Bath-tub Rowboat.  Exercise and shower combined."  From Illustrated World (1916).
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #exercise #bath tub #ad
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April 21, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you ever questioned the existence of the Easter Bunny, it is here revealed that it was a cat all along.  Now you can believe.  From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cat #easter bunny #bunny #easter #illustration #easter rabbit #1910s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Smile because you are uprooting what undermines you and replacing it with what uplifts you" (Shoshana Bennett, 2014).  From Queens College's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #balloon #uplifting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Spirit photography from National College of Education's 1937 yearbook.

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#ghosts #vintage photo #spiritualism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #pig #pig headed #butcher
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Of course the Easter Bunny does not lay eggs himself.  The eggs are obtained through coercion, bribery, and other closely-guarded methods.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #easter bunny #easter #hen #easter eggs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Baseball-wrestling" has changed over the years, but some might say that the original spirit of the game endures.  (We wouldn't, but some might.)  From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clubbing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat #armor #guns #personal protection #armed and dangerous #gun hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on the Lagoons by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown (1894).

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #human pyramid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #monster #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Leo Jordaan, from De Groene Amsterdammer, 1916.  Via TheFugitiveSaint.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #piggy back ride
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #treble clef #key #lock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Back when human-headed bugs made the front page.  From Diatel, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #vintage magazine #insect people #bug people #woodpecker #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #money #cigar #money bags
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #bunny #easter #easter egg
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April 20, 2019

Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
We don't know if they meant "memory's ship" (possessive) or if it's a ship full of memories (plural).  Either way, the phrase is a Googlewhack.  From Tri-State's 1924 yearbook.  See Your Ship Will Come In.
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#vintage illustration #memory #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate #sail away
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Nelson and Davey's adaptation of James Joyce's The Dead.
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#pillow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buket, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #serpent #snake #boa constrictor #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Josef Divéky, from Nebelspalter, 1923.  Via TheFugitiveSaint.
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #funny faces #making faces #silly faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #horse #cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #yoga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #angel #giant head #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #modern art #foot head #foot headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
She of many faces, the Lady of Mirrors, Mother of Madess, the Ever-Changing, is "the totem of enigmas" (Thomas Stratman, Laws of the Wild).  From Seton Hall's 1969 yearbook.
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#goddess #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dancer #many faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #long tail #wrapped up #entwined #coiled
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sower #sowing seed #sowing seeds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #reading #book
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Do you think this rain will ever stop?"  "Sure.  It always has."  From Earlham's 1920 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rain #april showers #umbrella #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden by Walter Crane (1899).

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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #flowers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if this is your day.  The endpapers from Peace College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #daily routine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you'll have some party spirit.  From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #devil #bartender #alcohol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Rockford's 1963 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Here's a simple way to shoo away the wee folk who pester you to wake up.  From Pulemet, 1905.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #wee folk
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April 19, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to David Lynch's "Six Men Getting Sick" installation (1966).  From Indiana University's 1905 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#horror #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #decapitated #gruesome
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Skomorokh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #death #skeleton #spooky #gun #horror
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.   See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do you hear?  He's out again."  From Welcome Guest, 1860.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #telephone #1960s
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"The man on the cliff again folded his arms and faced the gale, striving for a calmness which would not come."  From Everybody's Magazine, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #wind #gale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The inflation demon rides a dragon festooned with zeroes.  From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #monster #dragon #inflation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #exterminator #germs #pest control #insecticide #bugs #bug spray #i slay bugs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #gold #vintage magazine #magazine
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #musical note #singer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1965 yearbook.

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

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Copy for Crime, by Carol Carnac:

***

Joe's charwoman was named Mrs. Oaks, but as she always added an aspirate to her own name, "Mrs. Hoax" she became.

***

[Mixed Hat Metaphors dept.]

"I lift my lid to anybody who produces a home out of a hat."

***

"Why not co-opt me? Two fools are better than one."

***

"Curtains are much nearer my heart than uncles."

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern University's yearbook of 1931.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #gulliver #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #medusa #gorgon #snake hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Rockford's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #money #king #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The cover of Pfeiffer's 1971 yearbook, and the photo that inspired it.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #illustration #railroad tracks #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The landscape is out there, but they're interested in the art.  From Le Charivari, 1846.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #artist #painter #landscape
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snake hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Artwork by M. Eschle, 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 #vintage poster #winged feet #runner #poster
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April 18, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1905 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pitchfork #goat #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maliar, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #foodie #big hat #hat #weird hat #funny hat #food hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #alcoholism #chair #drinker #alcohol #rocking chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.  For the non-surgical way to achieve this by the weekend, see How to Be Your Own Cat.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #drummer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #fairy tale #dragon #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 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 #architecture #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #costumes
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
You've heard of tuning forks.  This one, "dolce," is for desserts.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #tuning fork #fork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A genie materializes in the dark laboratory.  From Washington State's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #smoke #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Given the bizarre imagery we tend to encounter through our research, we zoomed in on these moths expecting to find human heads.  But, weirdly, they're just regular moths.  From Zritel', 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #candle #moth to the flame #moth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Formal wear.  From Tulane's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #fashion #vintage fashion #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #vintage man #man #smiling man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #swimming #oil slick
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Homographia by William Stevens (1806).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #geometry #proportions #human figure #arm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you're outrunning the locomotive of "life and all its troubles" on a paper goat.  From Wake Forest's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #locomotive #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cheeky street cariacaturist did this to us once, and he couldn't believe that we actually paid him for the portrait.  From Le Charivari, 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 #severed head #headless #artist #decapitated
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Rockford's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pulemet, 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 #grim reaper #griffin #scythe
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April 17, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"With its stars of ink the book is a universe in motion which our eyes fix." —Edmond Jabès, "Counter Test" (via Gary Barwin).
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#reading #universe #stars #book #Edmond JabeÌ€s #Edmond Jabe?s #Edmond Jabès
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Sure, I can get 103 by adding two and two and two and two … but I have such trouble showing my work.  From Millikin's 1956 yearbook.
For incredible answers to seemingly impossible math problems, don't miss Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #math #blackboard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #pope #exorcist #casting out demons #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #devil #cannon #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A feather [-duster] in one's hat.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #costume #hat #feather duster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buket, 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 #owl #mountaintop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Propped up by books.  From Saint Leo's 1972 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to make the money disappear. From Nebelspalter, 1880.

From Nebelspalter, 1880
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#vintage illustration #money #gif
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fear of death #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard #automaton #mechanical man #toy maker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a dictionary of Latin and Greek (1849).

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #satyr #goat legged
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you're drinking from the keg of relative values.  From Wake Forest's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #keg #vintage yearbook #yearbook #relative values
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you currently sleep or incubate in a giant egg, or if you will likely seek to acquire a giant egg in the future.  From Le Charivari, 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 #egg #illustration #incubation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovod, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #1900s #many heads
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Isn't it weird when you're talking to a new acquaintance and the monkey on the wall is making a move while the fighter pilot in the poster only has eyes for you.  From Salem's 1974 yearbook.
Jonathan notes: "I also love the illusion that Lucy is hovering over the protagonist's right shoulder like an alternative to an angel or demon. (She looks like the spirit of holding forth, or something.)"

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For exactly how to get to this point, see How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #lion #cat people #cat headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's never too late to go to college in a castle.  We found this article ranking the top ten colleges with high towers, parapets, battlements, opulent rooms.
Our illustration is from Bryson's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #flying fish #sea creature
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April 16, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's rarely discussed, but it's true that the Earth itself must feed on what constitutes a fruit cobbler (apples, peaches, flour, shortening, and butter).  From the North Texas yearbook of 1917.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #cobbler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you would probably accept small biscuits and/or assorted nuts from kindly strangers.  From Le Charivari, 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 #anthropomorphism #animal headed #hybrid #donkey head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The history of furries.  From Emerson's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bears #bear costume #furries #three bears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #skeleton #living dead #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, keep tabs on what the fairies do and what the servants say.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Precursors (permalink)
This precursor to Mr. Potato Head is more of a pear.  From La Caricature, 1833.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #imp #elves #pear #tiny people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Our restoration of Claude Fayette Bragdon, "Snake Charmer," from The Chap-Book, 1895.

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

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#vintage illustration #serpent #cobra #snakes #snake charmer
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death in Seven Volumes, by Douglas G. Browne:

***

[X here is simply the classic "unknown" person in the mystery. But the protagonists' theorizing is getting overly complicated. Thus the caution...]

"We don't want too many Xs knocking about."

***

Wadeson's bushy eyebrows, which Fleurette afterwards likened to moustaches in the wrong place, rose slightly.

***

"Whew!--if that's how it's pronounced."

***

[Literary scholar H. J. Jackson wrote a fascinating 300-page book about the history of marginalia...but mystery author Douglas G. Browne sums the topic up in about twenty words]:

"But they don't find anything—or only the marginal scribbles that learned readers can't resist making. 'See page 42.' 'Bosh!' 'What about Poffenheim?'"

***

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Within a goblet, a crystal ball reader.  From Bethany's 1956 yearbook.  See our own crystal ball in our video about how to get a major book deal without connections.

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

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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
Reblog for the good news goose to deliver good news.  From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #goose #newspaper #news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Teachers Magazine, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #faces #cartooning #smiley
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scientific Amusements by Gaston Tissandier, 1890.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #weightless #vintage men #men #party game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #frog woman #frog person #half frog #frog headed
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #avalanche
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #fox #say it with flowers #pink fox #red fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #serpents #medusa #illustration #gorgon #snake hair
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #snow #clown #illustration #whiteface #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #angel #question mark #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #dragon costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buket, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #despair #mountaintop #birds
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April 15, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Unaware of the realities."  On a hunch, we analyzed this photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app.  Sure enough, this is a ghost.  From Catawba's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lost.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #precipice #night #on the edge #lost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Are caretakers propelling their children into an unsure world?
"Today's parenting trends are no more than a point on an evolutionary scale.  Over the centuries, parenting styles have undergone a number of drastic changes, and these changes continue to accelerate." —Robin Grille, Parenting for a Peaceful World
From Le Charivari, 1845.
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#vintage illustration #child rearing #the people could fly #parenting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Draw your own conclusions here."  From Salem's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #drawing #yearbook #octopus #tentacles #draw your own conclusions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you've been ignored by a big kitty.  From Zritel', 1905.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel by Thorton W. Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #weasel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Preachers League."  From Millsaps College's Bobashela yearbook (1907).

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puli, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #mushroom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #outer space #celestial #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Passing of Men."  From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #angel #vision #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sunrise, sunset.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #sunset #red sky
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #shackles #in chains
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #giant #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #spinning #twirling #ballerino #you spin me round
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Precursors (permalink)
Audience automation — a precursor to canned laughter.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #audience #automation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Can you see how he's in the process of learning How to Be Your Own Cat?  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.  
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#vintage illustration #psychology #cat man #cat eyes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Benumbed and stupefied by the intolerance of the mob, He wanders in utter loneliness of mind and heart."  From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #loneliness #yearbook #mob mentality #feeling numb #stupefied
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#truth
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April 14, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This one simple trick decreased my car insurance.  From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #giant bird #carried away
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Hey!  From Catawba's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #flower power #hey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #pear #fruit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #imp #fairies #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #elves #gnomes #tiny man #strange dream
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903. 
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#vintage illustration #angel #redhead #man with wings #illustration #the people could fly #icarus #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #muff #dogs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #animals #deadly #armed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #the people could fly #icarus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Apparently less controversial in 1956 -- wearing furs, smoking pipes, waving flags, and riding broomsticks.  From Bethany's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #broom #fur coat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Refusal to sell His art thrusts Him beyond the pale."  From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if passenger blimps should be brought back, tomorrow latest.  From Lambuth's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #zeppelin #blimp #city
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck Magazine (1888).
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#vintage illustration #beard #men's hair #half beard #half bald
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April 13, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"[Kasimir] Malevich described the material world as a reflected world, a finite form of reality, an image" (Evgenii︠a︡ Andreevna Petrova, Malevich: Artist and Theoretician).  From Greensboro's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photographer #spirit double
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moi Pulemet, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt #nose job #historic preservation #reconstructive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #witchcraft #occult #cauldron #knight #shakespeare #macbeth #three witches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #duck #literate animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #alcoholism #clown #drunk #alcoholic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #falling #suicide #upside down
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #eagle #war #1910s
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Werner's Readings and Recitations No. 35 by Mrs. Frederick W. Pender, 1906.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #birds #cats #mice #kittens #dreaming cat #cat dream #sleeping cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I think that she should not be at large."  From Ballou's Monthly Magazine, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #death #blindfold #grim reaper #illustration #firing squad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giant #fist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #watering can #section mark #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #giant fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #apocalypse #asteroid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wrestling, dragon slaying … same difference.  From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).

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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dragonslayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zhgut, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #alligator
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #starry night #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tomahawk (1869).
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion #dandies #umbrella hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, have chosen to stand thru storms and uncertain days and nights to broadcast faith and wisdom.  From Lambuth's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #radio #antennae #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sastrel'shchik, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #mythology #animal attack #skull and crossbones #prometheus #1900s
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April 12, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #japanese #japanese art #illustration #hammer #japanese man #1910s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Palmists can see all sorts of things in the lines of one's hand.  From Greensboro's 1972 yearbook.  Speaking of weird palmistry, don't miss Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #palmistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#religion #vintage illustration #devil #confessional
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you are (or support the inalienable rights of) a powder room rabbit.  From Middle Tennessee's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny #costume #rabbit costume #make up artist
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"Yes, many of them were what I now know to have been pit bulls."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Ruhleben Camp Magazine (1916).
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#vintage illustration #face #men's hair #half beard #half bald #half mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poedinok, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bird #bird of prey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #lion #porcupine #human faced #animal fight #lion's mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #living dead #undead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #hell #knife #illustration #head wound
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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 #emblem #occult #jester #cupid #vintage book #book #marotte #atlantic #art
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #spooky #severed head #headless #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #ghosts #windy #acrobatic #clothesline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how a hair style will affect how a hat sits.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #top hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #hand
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Off With Her Head! by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole:

***

[I love this. It's sort of the opposite of an omniscient narrator—a narrator who, like an omniscient, is a disembodied device rather than a character, and yet who seems to have just wandered onto the scene without knowing much more about anything going on than the reader does. (An approach more commonly found in children's books, I suppose.)]


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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This image is entitled "Science" in Taylor University's Gem yearbook, 1937.

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#vintage illustration #science #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #collage #1930s #skyscraper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zhgut, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #phantom #vintage car #car #vintage automobile #automobile #detah
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April 11, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if this describes what you're wearing.  From Atlantic Christian's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hat #woman #vintage woman
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #spirit #muse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolfman #werewolf #bear costume #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fish #surreal #fish out of water #drink like a fish
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1908.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #snowman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #angel #saint #moose #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Playing cards with the devil.  From Round the Yule Log, Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #cheating at cards #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #faces in things #heart #blood purifier #heart medicine #blood medicine #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Who are you really, and what were you before...?"  From Oglethorpe's 2005 yearbook.
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#rhetorical question #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #zen #what was your face before you were born #koan #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Znamia, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #sword
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #goat #horns #lobster #mountain goat #giant lobster #antelope
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
By John Francis Knott for the Dallas Morning News, 1945.

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#vintage illustration #nightmare #dreaming #barrel
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"She taught them to shape images of their dreams."  From Salem's 1940 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dreams #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #owl #scissors #1870s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Satan in the form of a cat presents an entire Western Carolina yearbook of 1953.

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

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#vintage illustration #satan #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #bird man #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Their lost secret has been recovered: How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Chowan's 1915 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #cat people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #typewriter
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April 10, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Assume there is a guardian spirit standing at each threshold--one must be respectful of the special life it represents." —The Trumpeter, 1988. 
From Greensboro's 1972 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From Lustige Blätter, 1903.

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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #birds #bird pope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #automaton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #pig farm #pig costume #pig mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #falling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#religion #vintage illustration #political cartoon #buddhism #statue #buddhist
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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.
42585 40139
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #hell #centaur #cerberus #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #angel #prayer #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Chemistry with two Y's (as in the Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz). From La Salle's 1990 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#occult #vintage yearbook #alchemy #yearbook #hooded figure #chymical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This little imp was surprised to be part of a rebus in Zatmenie, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #imp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #masks #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Isosceles legs.  From "Rhyme of the Three-Cornered Lady" by Isabella Brant Meredith, in Wide Awake, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #geometry #angular #triangles #isosceles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poedinok, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #bird #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are irresolute and selfish, misshapen and lame.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman #selfish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #strength #weight lifter #strong man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Turned her mind upon itself, and spoke with her mother."  From Salem's 1940 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adskaia Poctha, 1906.
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April 9, 2019

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

We're honored by this review of our restoriation of a bizarre, rare book nearly completely lost to a fire, The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board:

"Sometimes the most interesting bits of knowledge turn up in the places you least expect them to. Unless you are reading Professor Oddfellow. With an impish delight that belies a serious tone, Oddfellow always manages to amuse while imparting forgotten wisdom.  The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board is a smart and delightful education." —Adam McFarland

Pictured is a tip from the book on how to use “spiritum sylvestre” to relax the dualistic tendencies of a ouija board.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So many yearbooks are never graced with autographs, and this particular yearbooks comes complete with ready-made cobwebs where signatures might have gone.  From Weaver's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cobweb #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1843.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #actress
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Our custom Uncanny Detector app froze up while trying to analyze this photo from Olivet Nazarene's 1975 yearbook.

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#spooky #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Man from the River, by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole:

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The conversation descended into such abysses of allusiveness that Michael gave up the attempt to understand.

***

Worse still was an enormous Early Victorian atrocity in yellowish-grey, with bands of Palladian ornament, which stood beside the Queen Anne block, and just succeeded in overtopping it with an obvious and ludicrous effort. It was as if one's grandmother had decided to stand permanently on tiptoe.

***

"Who are all those people?" Michael asked [....]

"Oh, nobody in particular." [But she immediately proceeds to give specifics about exactly who each of them is!]

***

"That man's like a revolting Greek chorus, always turning up and moralising where he isn't wanted!"

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A labyrinth from Millikin's 1977 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #labyrinth #maze
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to progress time. From Nebelspalter, 1875.

Smoking doctor from Nebelspalter, 1875
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#vintage illustration #chaos #gif #disorder
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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 #corkscrew #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prometei, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #mythology #prometheus #1900s #vintage magazine #naked man #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maliar, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #cobweb #spider web #it's a trap
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mask #faun #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #knight #bats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's Young People, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #tiny man #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #airplane #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #witches
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's not so easy to make out, but that's a phonograph in bed with him.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #phonograph #music lover #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you would wear a sprinkler suit and climb to a rooftop to be used in this way.  From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #firefighter #sprinkler
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April 8, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you are a delicate flower in the lily pond of your life.  From Poedinok, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #beard #flower man #1900s #illustration #lily pad #lily pond
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The 1970s seem like another time, another world.  From Mount Olive's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #creature #costume #alien #tin foil hat #silver man #silver demon
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Lars von Trier's Melancholia.  From the State Teachers College (Farmville, Virginia) yearbook of 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #planet #melancholia #lars von trier
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #heart #flaming heart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bich, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #violin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #frog #hybrid #human faced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Codex yearbook of Beloit College, 1893.

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#vintage illustration #hatchling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hatching #egg #giant egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #dandy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #lobster man #lobster claws
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #target practice #stranded at sea #refugees
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #boxing #money bags #knocked out #k.o.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The wicked virgin."  From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration #many legs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Boy's Own Paper, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #illustration #fangs #wild animal #fearsome
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to 1958's hula hoop, from Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #hula hoop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sochineniia N.G. Shebueva, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #ominous #darkness #vampire #looming #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Inspired by the holy grail.  From Chowan's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #inspiration #1920s #holy grail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wide Awake, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirik, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #giant #mesmerism #tiny man #surveillance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard the song "Eight Days a Week," but did you know that each of the eight days has its own imp?  From Barnard's 1907 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #imp #demons #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eight days a week
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April 7, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's yearbook of 1947.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art #surreal #jazz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #human headed #rooster man
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Daft Punk, Deadmau5, and the many DJs who wear masks in concert.  "The masked marvels of the keyboard," from Anderson's 1948 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #keyboardist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lizard peeked over the edge of the Magic Chest!"  From Tell-Me-Why Stories About Color and Sound by C. H. Claudy and illustrated by Thomas Wrenn, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #magick #folk tale #lizard #magic box
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's Index yearbook, 1926.

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's ice-skating fish are from Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #fish #ice skating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gvozd', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giants #row boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #eiffel tower #topsy turvy #collapsing #sinkhole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #scissors #censorship #censor #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #cat #piano #musical animal #piano playing cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #grindstone #beaver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #the people could fly #icarus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #memento mori #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #giants #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #spirit
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate a shift into an alternate universe.  From the University of Maryland's 1988 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #long exposure #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zanoza, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #jack-in-the-box #queen #giant egg #demon egg
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April 6, 2019

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

It's been said that avid readers always have books at their fingertips, but the real die-hards have books on their fingertips.  Our champion on the other side of the world just snagged five of our publications.  That one pictured at the bottom left is extraordinarily rare, and we frankly can't imaging how he got it: Armchair Time Travel: How to Alter History, Today.  He also got The Care & Feeding of a Spirit BoardA Snowball's Chance in Hell, If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary, and the little-known Six Degrees of Jubilation (a.k.a. Posted Chestnuts).

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#books
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1935 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 #musical animal #musician #saxophone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1877.   See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wedding #cross dressing #bearded lady
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's rare to find an airplane and a locomotive within an hourglass.  "Now buried forever in the rapidly shifting sands of time."  From Colorado College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #locomotive #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sands of time #airplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pantomimic travelling, 1840.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #pantomime #piggy back ride
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pliuvium, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Gudok, 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 #hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The devil, from inside a mirror, watches a man escape from the rheumatism spirit.  From The Devil's Bride by Milton H. Stine, 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 #devil #mirror #haunted mirror #rheumatism #christian science
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #duck #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you haven't had a pipe carved into your own image.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #pipe smoker #pipe #pipe face #carved pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #political cartoon #serpent #human headed #specimen jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #mushroom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #levitation #frog #walking on water #weightless #long hair #hair pulling
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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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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A hundred-acre skeleton is how Saint Leo's college is described.  From Saint Leo's yearbook of 1972.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skeleton #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zabiyaka, 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 #hybrid #human headed #tentacles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dark night #starry night
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What's In a Name (permalink)
The forbidden sandwich.  From Living Alone by Stella Benson, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #forbidden #sandwich #chapter title
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April 5, 2019

Uncharted Territories (permalink)
When in the midst of clouds and nothingness, ask a goat for directions.  This we learn in Wide Awake, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #nothingness #ask a goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's Debris yearbook, 1910.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #occult #goat #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hazing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Perets, 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 #practical joke #fountain #human fountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dachshund #long dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #animal headed #hybrid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dancing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #father time #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #dentist #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #spirit #alcoholism #illustration #forced to drink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The turtle outwitted."  From The Elf Maiden and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #turtle #tortoise #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Got your eye on better things?  From the 1960 Blenheim District High School 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 man #man #better things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #fire #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #costume
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #frozen sea #shipwreck #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Death of a Trouper," by Kelley Roos:

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He was vastly surprised to see us; never had I seen surprise so vast.

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"He didn't mean two bits, twenty-five cents, one quarter of a dollar to her."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 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 #ball and chain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)

"These two bodies, simultaneously perceived, seemed completely at odds with each other—and, thus, not knowing which one to talk to, I found myself literally at a loss for words, and walked away" (Vivian Sobchack, "Being on the Screen," in Acting and Performance in Moving Image Culture).

Our image is from Lenoir-Rhyne's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #two bodies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #vegetables
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April 4, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Turns out that none of our books are about what they seem to be.  This we learned from a friend in Australia, who has a special perspective on things (as we all know, everything in Australia is upside down).  So imagine our surprise upon re-reading the world's unlikeliest script, The Dictionary of One-Letter Words: The Movie.  Mind blown!
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#one-letter words #film script #screenwriting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae's 1971 yearbook.  The secrets are contained within: How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tag yourself if you are the poodle.  By Carlos Vazquez.  From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #butler #poodle #pampered
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If anyone ever does a search for "dental jousting," here's what it looks like.  From Le Charivari, 1847.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #teeth #jousting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #skeleton #graveyard #coffin #living dead #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thou shalt not kill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review, 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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#vintage illustration #ladder #swirling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pchela, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #vulture #blood #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #infestation #bedbug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you can relate.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spooky #depression #bats #darkness #drunk #candle smoke #depressed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satyr #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #poison #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cycle of life #grim reaper #father time #1920s #stork #birth and death #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #clown #faces in things #passed out #balloon #illustration #drink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dollhouse #tiny castle
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"He was sitting on the back of the East Wind," from Danish Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Christian Andersen, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #east wind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #demon #angel #good and evil #cerberus #heaven and hell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a library ghost from the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.  Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #library ghost #haunted library
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 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 #political cartoon #death #earth #outer space #gallows #1900s #blood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #rabbit costume #cosplay #costumes #furries
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"Only now do I realize how incredibly absurd and exciting this all is."
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April 3, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is most of what we remember from college.  From Duke's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #chalkboard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alligator
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are one who went his own way.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman #go your own way
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovod, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sunset #vintage man #red light #man #red sky #red night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic by John Henry Anderson, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #demon #magick #necromancy #occult #spiritualism #seance
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #peg leg #amputee
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hallucination #illustration #alcoholic #giant bottle #delirium #wino
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #boxing kangaroo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #bear #photobomb #hunter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #demon #ghost #politician
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #long horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #money #coins #miser #gold #gold coins #illustration #king of coins #in the money
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #hell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #lightning #mood #ennui #slump
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #sun #clown #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we fear the doorbell, too.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #shadow people #ghosts
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The magic world of idiots."  From the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.

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#wizard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #throne #idiots #wizard of id #tall chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Svobodnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #beard #faces in things #men's hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You can't beat a John Courage."
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcohol #liquid courage #john courage #inner man #ad
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April 2, 2019

Unicorns (permalink)
We discovered this secret to hearing unicorns when we found a key to a locked library during an urbex exploration of a ruined wizard's manor.
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#unicorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Peace, Peace, and yet there is no Peace."  Canned peaches with faces, from the Peace Institue's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #peaches #canned fruit #fruit #no peace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The shadow of worry hovers."  From The Business of Life by A. B. ZuTavern and A. E. Bullock and illustrated by Leo Thiele, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #worry #anxiety #shadow
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "She'd Make a Lovely Corpse," by Kelley Roos:

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Still-lifes that ran the gamut from bowls of soup to bowls of nuts.

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[RQA dept.]

"You'll look silly walking in with that! What will people say?"

"They'll say, 'There's a man who doesn't mind looking silly.'"

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"I'm a drink-upsetter, too," Sara said. "But I only do tall ones."

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Mrs. Tollman, a short, stout woman in her fifties, gave the impression that she considered these goings-on nonsense and poppycock, not to mention highly irregular.

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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.
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#sun #silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The rest that remains."  From Prophetic Lights by Ellet Joseph Waggoner, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #prophecy #rest #remains
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #castle #architecture #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Novogodnii Orakul, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #devil #goat legged #behind the curtain #curtain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #costume party #yokai #creatures #1900s #illustration #costumes #cursed image
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Baraban, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #crown #fish #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #drinking #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A frightful little skeleton of a woman hung in the cupboard."  From The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #strike a pose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #spooky #faces in things #scythe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #cigar #giant cigar #cigar boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From More Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #giant hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #illustration #bust
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #electricity #power line
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I shall pass thru this."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #getting through #this shall pass #passing through
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The Right Word (permalink)
What words make you want to die?  Here's one, in an entry from The Dictionary of Ugly Words, a book attributed to us.
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#dictionary #panties #ugly word
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April 1, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #owl #bear #oz #living toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've no doubt heard assorted things about Miss Ellaneous.  Here's what she looks like.  From the Peace Institue's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #miscellaneous
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #inhale exhale #inhale #exhale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
April.  From Colorado College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #april #vintage yearbook #yearbook #falling down #april fool #slipping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #anthropomorphism
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Apropos of Nothing (permalink)
"Apropos of nothing, the full moon is in my home."
Leticia Gossdenovich Feldman
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#night photography #interior moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Plamia, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #owl #book #red eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human faced #dog man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #snail #pet walker
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #april #two-faced #ink #specimen jar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of California's Blue and Gold yearbook, 1885.

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#vintage illustration #wizard #yearbook #alchemist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #top hat #antlers #horned man #horned hat #antler hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #practical joke #spooky #horror #skeleton puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #mask #marriage #affection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #knight #two of cups #art
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #angel #dove #prayer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #motorcycle
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Fairy Tales, written and illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1857.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #murder #unlucky #doomed #shot #stabbed in the back
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war dead #verdun #art
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