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, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"Stop! Look! Loosen!"  From Jerry Todd and the Whispering Mummy by Leo Edwards, 1924.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1965.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hand #poked
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Princeton's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pilot Bails Out, written and illustrated by Don Blanding, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #airplane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1900s #vintage men #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1925.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
These ghost arms haunt Saint Mary's Junior College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round of Birthdays by Prescott Bailey Bull and illustrated by Eleanor Willard, 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 #halloween #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #water spout
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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 #mermaid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A gas mask for the peace angel.  From Nebelspalter, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #heaven #god #peace angel #gas mask
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #dollar sign #two headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 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 #fairy #fairyland
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #owl #king
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder to Music, by Margaret Newman:

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Simon sat so still that a nicely browned roast potato which he had been saving until last on his plate was whisked away by a silent waitress.
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[Bonus: The pianist says there are "three thousand and one" reasons why he shouldn't be a suspect, and it turns out he means it literally! The first reason is that he was occupied with playing the piano; the other three thousand are the audience members (a sell-out crowd, so he knows the exact round number), who were all potential witnesses to anything he might have done.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #lion #aesop
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April 29, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egg #giant egg #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #komodo dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An oldie but a goodie.  And this is why artists in ancient China began painting with tea.  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #tea #paintbrush
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tornado #mayhem
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
We spotted a temporal anomaly in this clock tower from Toike Oike, 1965.  It's simultaneously 9:00 and 3:00.
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#vintage illustration #clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "garbage photography."  From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage camera #photography #camera #garbage #trash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 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 #open grave #coffin #illustration #accident #tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Outermost magazine, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ufo #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #goya #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The bear comes to the aid of the maidens.  From A Book of Fairy-Tale Bears by Clifton Johnson and illustrated by Frank A. Nankivell, 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 #fairy tale #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 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 #monster #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Warding off cattle as a literary feat.  From Elon's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #god #animal fight #goddess of victory #nike
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rhode Island State's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We'd hoped that this was a precursor to the "mile high club," but it turns out to be 3 years late.  From Nebelspalter, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cupid #airplane #aviation #mile high club
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1995 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1970 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 #fog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #shadow
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April 28, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Raising more questions than they answer: flying horses with cowboy hats, in Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#pegasus #prof. oddfellow #flying horse #winged horse #music video #spirit radio #video #penetralia #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"My God, if I weren't so well integrated, I'd be out of my mind!" —Philip K. Dick, "Fair Game"
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#madness #philip k. dick
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Why is the four-piece band the most common configuration in rock and pop music?  It's because a guitar pick can hold four faces: a guitarist, a bassist, a drummer, and a frontman (pictured right).  From the cover of The Revolutionary Personality by Victor Wolfenstein.  
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #faces #guitar pick
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Ever begin a book and feel as though you arrived late, that it started without you?  This one's already open at the cover.  From Love and Death in the American Novel by Leslie A. Fiedler.
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#vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #bird #rattlesnake
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Old News (permalink)
"Police raid uncovers devices of torture at city piano school."  From Toike Oilke, 1976.
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#piano #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #bed of nails #fakir
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Study, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eye #1970s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #haunted mansion #mythology #haunted painting #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek mythology #childhood trauma #lifelike portrait #nymph #daphne
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #science fiction #monster #human headed #tentacles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #forest #horse #woods
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #dog #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1908 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#demon #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #hydra #three headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #bear #oz #illustration #living toy #pop gun
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Old News (permalink)
From Union College's 1973 yearbook.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From I Should Say So! by James Montgomery Flagg:

[Thank you, Abecedarian, for leading me to this!]

***
If everybody by the laws of chance happens to be silent simultaneously (such dreadful lacunae do occur even at the most carefully cocktailed and subsequently alcoholized dinners), then your party loses and the dinner-party next door wins.

***
Don't be absurd? Huh! One has to die quickly in order not to be, and even then one may be funny.

***
"That old woman gotten up like the sign for Spriggle's Nearmint Gum?"

***
in a very tense moment, when the flapper heroine is taking her nightie and her baby-grand piano out onto the moors rather than be a bone of contention between her father and his stenographer, and there is a hush in the audience as solemn as a British family looking over the comic papers
***

[Bonus: "ye gods and whitebait!" (which seems to be unique to JMF)]

[Bonus: "isadoraduncaning all over the room"]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Might and Magic (I) (II) Complete Book.
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#vintage illustration #castle #snake
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Old News (permalink)
"Old" may not be a four-letter word, but its pseudoarchaic variant "olde" is.  However, there's yet an olde-worlde charm to quaint four-letter "olde."  Old Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Ann E. Gerike. 
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#vintage headline #headline #four-letter word
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April 27, 2021

Old News (permalink)
Three guesses what this headline word means.  (Though, to be fair, the headline cuts off the final seven letters.)  And yes, "GWDanoBimsKBTDKDBGTBGHJBodaBCBWGenIrvJB" is a Googlewhack as of this posting.  From The Gateway, 1969.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Something, Defined (permalink)
A "sense of something" at the profoundly haunted, cursed, and doomed Collinwood estate.  It's the biggest understatement in over a thousand episodes.  From Dark Shadows episode 1086.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Yet Icebound Rivers Flow by Miervaldis Birze.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story-Book Tales by Mina Pearl Ashton, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #sheep #lamb #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Out where the trails of men are dim and far apart."  From The Lure of the Dim Trails by B. M. Bower, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #coyote #desert
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The nature of this UFO will be obvious to fans of the cult TV show The Prisoner: it's "Rover."
From Lumières Dans La Nuit, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #strange light #orb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #teddy bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flowers #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Trier for Lustige Blätter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #mountaintop #mountain climber #mountain #art #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rhode Island State's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Lenin, the Minion."  From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#grim reaper #death #scythe #skeleton #lenin #political cartoon #red sky #vintage illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Salem's 1930 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #divination #effigy #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fortune telling #gorilla #mannequin #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A forest of glowing trees spreads through time, seen most easily through the windows of old yearbooks.  From Methodist College's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #tree #streetlight #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #ghost #gas mask
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Cat Murders, by Karen Baugh Menuhin:

***
"We had our fait accompli'ed!"

***
[In which the author sets herself up for a zinger.]

"This is Miss Isabelle Busby," Caroline informed me. [....] I had no desire whatsoever to make small talk with Miss Busybody or anyone else.

***
"You old crum-dudgeon."
***
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
Great news -- "Life's a bed of roses!"  From The Film Daily, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #roses #vintage man #man in bed #bed of roses #ad
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April 26, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
There's no going back.  Plus, note that the sticker on the book cover constitutes a red nose.  From Once a Clown, Always a Clown by De Wolf Hopper, 1927.
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#clown #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Elves unaffected by a young wizard attempting to banish them.  From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #elves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May the harpy's claws already be occupied.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #harpy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Blossoms in the dust."  From The Film Daily, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #housekeeping #flowers #vacuum #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Japanese Buddha as a footprint of Satan.  From The Foot-Prints of Satan, or, The Devil in History by Hollis Read, 1873.
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#religion #vintage illustration #japan #buddha
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Travel anywhere in the world -- by mail."  From Toike Oike, 1964.
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#vintage photo #postage stamps
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Straight into the trash.  From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #artist #garbage #trash
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Emerson's 1982 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #goat #shoes #big shoes #giant shoes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Latin School Register (Boston), 1928.
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#vintage illustration #modern art #cubism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #anthropomorphism #faces in things #chair
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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 #on fire #effigy #vintage photo #vision #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cherubs #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford's 1942 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #magick #genie #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round of Birthdays by Prescott Bailey Bull and illustrated by Eleanor Willard, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #hallowe'en #illustration #halloween decorations
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat man #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #pigs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration from a 1904 issue of Life magazine.  The caption reads: "Guarding the Northern Passage."
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#sun #aurora #spirit #polar bear #vintage #north pole
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Wake Forest's 1974 yearbook.

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#grotesque #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A flaming snowman.  From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #snowman #carousel #illustration
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April 25, 2021

The Right Word (permalink)
What a mosquito says: "Zumphmeeeahmeeahmeeahmeeahmeeahmeeah!"  (A Googlewhack, as of this posting -- zero results.)  From Hizzoner the Mayor by Joel Sayre, 1933.
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#mosquito
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Cousin Itt going up and down the chimney (The Addams Family episode 220).  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #ghost #chimney #addams family #cousin itt
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Old News (permalink)
"Invisible object stirs sea."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#ufo #sea #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Starwind, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #clock face #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #suicide #gallows #blackbird #hanged man #noose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #brain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Plays For Players And Guide To Play Production by Verne E. Powers, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #monk #death #grim reaper #coffin #hooded figure #allegory
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #effigy #vintage photo #sword #vintage yearbook #wolves #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The history of our skeleton."  From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #crutches #support system
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eye #magnifying glass #surveillance society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Secret of Turkeyfoot Mountain by Eda Crist and Richard Crist.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #flying snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is uncannily what I looked like upon starting college.  From Wittenberg's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #sculpture #sculptor #amorphous
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #party
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1989 yearbook.

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Jeeves and the Leap of Faith, by Ben Schott:

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"I suppose there's a snag?"....
"Two, actually: Evadne and Lancelot."
"Eh?"
"Her Ma and Pa."
This sounded like one large, amalgamated snag, but Gussie informed me otherwise.

***
"We should strike while the whatnot is hot."

***
Jeeves permitted himself a riotous twitch of the eyebrow.

***
"Why don't you just make things up? I bet no one would twig if you invented a dowager duchess or two."

**
"I knew those cummerbunds were an incident waiting to happen."

**
"The garden looks like...a birthday cake!"

[The character who says this turns out to be Wittgenstein--and, according to Schott's endnotes (remember, his reputation rests on trivia, not fiction) a remark along those lines can actually be traced to real-life Wittgenstein's criticism of the grounds at Cambridge.]

***
A smile inched across Gussie's face, transforming it from lugubrious haddock to exuberant flat-fish.

***
"[I have] News. Pages of it. You might use me to wrap fish 'n' chips."

***
How Jeeves accomplishes his effortless omniscience is one of those eternal, unfathomable mysteries, like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, or Percy Gorringe's side-whiskers--which, now I picture them, also hang pretty Babylonically.

***
He unleashed the italics.
"Sir?"

***
The emotions that swept across Aunt Agatha's face--shock, bafflement, fury, doubt--wove a Bayeux Tapestry of indignation.
***

[Bonus: "Toe over kettle" as an alternative to "head over heels" or "base over "apex." Googling suggests that this is a Schott original.]

[Bonus: When Bertie gives a fake name and address to a constable (as of course is traditional in the canon), it turns out in the endnotes that Schott has used a "real" fake address--namely, the street address of a real-life London facade that was built merely "to conceal a venting area of the Metropolitan Railway."]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #writer's block #empty head
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From It's Your Fairy Tale You Know by Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #vintage book #book
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April 24, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the "tube man" inflatable advertising puppet.  From Life magazine, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #human headed #snake people #snake man #1880s #tube man
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Attaining one's own magical vision: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Steal back your own thunder!"  From The Film Daily, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #thunder #hands #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Out from dreams and theories."  From Wellesley News, 1939.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Humorist, reproduced in Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #handstand
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Let your light shine -- as the sun."  From Lenoir's 1912 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #anthro
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Old News (permalink)
"How to be happy though married."  From The Link, 1947.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#happiness #marriage #vintage headline #headline
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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 #rainy day #umbrella #chinese fashion #rain gear #chinese hat #chinese poncho #raincoat #umbrella hat #umbrella dress #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Erskine's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I feel awful, Old Man -- been seeing frogs and rats all the week!"
"Good Heavens!  Have you seen a doctor?"
"No -- only frogs and rats!"
An old postcard gifted to me by friends in Wales.  Undated.
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#alcoholism #vintage postcard #hallucination #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)

"You are not the only clown in this company, it seems" (Horace Porter).  We find our proof of that in Tulane's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #face paint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #masquerade #rooster costume #costumes #horned man #peacock costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pegasus Re-Saddled by H. Cholmondeley Pennell, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #lost at sea #boat #musician #stranded at sea #musical boat #bass #bass player
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pilot Bails Out, written and illustrated by Don Blanding, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #milky way #stars #starry night
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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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 #merman #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Because you've seen Him here, He need not otherwise show up and ruin your day.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #mask
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April 23, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #penguin
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Old News (permalink)
Q: "Who is copping out?"
A: [Looking around the room for someone else to raise a hand, hoping that the question wasn't directed at me.]
From Lighted Pathway, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #copping out
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #mercury #rollerskates
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Getting grasped by a soot-bearing chimney sweep is a good way to get dirty while you feed your chained goose.  From Alice and Other Fairy Plays for Children by Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker and illustrated by Mary Sibree, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #goose #chimney sweep #soot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmira's 1923 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #owl #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #winter #winter fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #gun #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's not always properly depicted, but the Grim Reaper's cloak really is see-thru.  From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #scythe
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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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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonfire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #green man #tree head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hybrid #rabbit man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book burning #burning book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #jewelry
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Wodehouse's Spring Fever:

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"Oh, very well, very well. Here is five pounds."
"Couldn't you make it ten?"
"No, I could not make it ten," said Lady Adela, with the testiness of a conjurer asked to do too difficult a trick.

***
[Gratuitously Quantifying Things dept.]

“Don’t you see what a wonderful opportunity this will be for you to become hep to my hidden depths?”
“You haven’t any.”
“I have, too. Dozens.”

**
[Nonsense dept.]

Nobody, of course, who enjoyed the pleasure of intimacy with him, expected him to talk anything but nonsense, but he need not, she felt, have descended to such utter nonsense, as that of which he had been guilty last night.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #sun #fable #weather #wind #aesop
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
No wonder we're so tired!  "It may surprise you to learn that you also work during recess and at lunch.  Playing and eating are work too!"  From Put Screws to the Test by Sally Walker, 2012.
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#work
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #deity
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April 22, 2021

The Right Word (permalink)
Synonyms for a monocle:
glass wafer
patch of crystal
third eye
eyeglass
one-eyed eyeglass
eyepiece
pendulum
ribbonless, ingrowing affair
his disguise
magic ring
ring of invisibility
shiny object
shiny bauble
magnifying glass
disk of crystal
the glass
the token of ceaseless interrogation
Picadilly window
glass onion

“The monocle is everything.  Man.  A crystallization.  A gel.  A micella.  God.” —Blaise Cendrars, Dan Yack (1927, translated by Nina Rootes, 1987)

“The monocle at his eye was like a veil to hide the soul, a defence against inquiry, itself the unceasing question, a sort of battery thrown forward, a kind of field-casemate for a lonely, besieged spirit. It was full of suggestion. It might have been the glass behind which showed some medieval relic, the body of some ancient Egyptian king whose life had been spent in doing wonders and making signs—the primitive, anthropomorphic being.” —Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way (1901)
[snippets collected through the course of our research]
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#monocle #list
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Old News (permalink)
Adjusting for inflation, that's $8.08 in today's Canadian dollars.  "Spent a dollar lately and can't remember where or why or on what?"  From The Gateway, 1966.
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#vintage ad #money #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #witch
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 907.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A skyscraper like a lighthouse, proclaiming, "Satan saves."  From Unknown magazine, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #satan #lighthouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #yarn #knitting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Kansas State yearbook of 1932.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #watermelon #fruit #juicy image
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #pollution #smokestack #industrialization #hay
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #sword #looming #illustration #sword of damocles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Christian Waller’s "The Lords of Venus," 1932 (via ArtBlart).
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#vintage illustration #love #venus
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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41141
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #butter churn #toy #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Glowing trees from West Virginia Wesleyan's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Owls and bats, with young mosquitos, mice and fire-flies, dance and hop."  From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #dancing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #precipice #ball and chain #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When a photo spans two pages, the binding bends space and may open portals.  From Swarthmore's 1995 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #vintage car #car #hood ornament #vintage automobile #automobile #yellow car
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Chapel Hill's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #wheelbarrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #long nose #elephant man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #siamese twins
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April 21, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The excitement of Bilbil the goat."  From Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Rage and terror."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #illustration #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #shadow #pig #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage car #car #vintage automobile #automobile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magnifying glass #small world
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #horse #narrow path #goal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Rain Crow Club."  From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #crow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rain crow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #father time #pandora's box
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #piano #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #musical animal #musical cats
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Reblog if you've gone out with a smoker.  From Emerson's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #photo
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the theory that the earth is shrinking.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #world #diet #belt tightening #slimming
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Update, 1981.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #strange light #winter #light in the sky
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Those who cannot afford to keep a pet rock may yet care for an unlimited number of "pet moments."  From Pet Moments by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow, 1877.
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#book title
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #drunk #lamp post
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #monster #bull
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Middle Temple Murder, by J. S. Fletcher:

***
He waited at a corner of it wondering what he was going to see, and intensely curious about the owner of the queer voice, with all its suggestions of he knew not what.

***
[Well, I Suppose It's an Improvement dept.]
"At the boarding-house yonder, young man, they call me Mother Gutch," she answered; "but my proper name is Mrs. Sabina Gutch."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who knows?"  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cat #who knows
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April 20, 2021

Old News (permalink)
If our own local newspaper had front pages like this, we'd renew our subscription.  From The Gateway, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #princess #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We find that some of the most interesting eggs have keyholes.  From Zork I Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #keyhole #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #war and peace #peace angel #gas mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Faith often involves a step into uncertainties."  From Florida Southern's 1977 yearbook.

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#faith #mask #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #poison #scythe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1982 yearbook.

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#giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snail #hybrid #human headed #snail people #human snail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #horse #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Co-educational University for Rodents."  From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #rats #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #rodents #rat college #rat university
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #witch #bat #darkness #night #flying horse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The 1980s seem so long ago.  A glowing tree from West Virginia Wesleyan's 1980 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fortune cakes from The Link, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #chinese #illustration #fortune cookie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you have "parents."  The headline reads, "Circus time brings enjoyment to 'parents' and children."  From Elmhurt's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus #weird headline
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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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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Wodehouse's Something Fishy:
***
[From the "Longest Distance Between Two Points" dept.]:

There are few more pleasant spots on the outskirts of England's metropolis [than Valley Fields]. One of its residents, a Major Flood-Smith, in the course of a letter to the South London Argus exposing the hellhounds of the local Rates and Taxes Department, once alluded to it as "a fragrant oasis." He gave the letter to his cook to mail, and she forgot it and found it three weeks later in a drawer and burned it, and the editor would never have printed it, anyway, it being diametrically opposed to the policy for which the Argus had always fearlessly stood, but--and this is the point we would stress--in using the words "fragrant oasis" the Major was dead right.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psyche by Louis Couperus and illustrated by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #satyr
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #closed
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Old News (permalink)
Very sad news: by 1983, Cinderella's fairy tale happy ending had dropped the ball.  From The Daily Universe, 1983.
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#fairy tale #cinderella #vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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April 19, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored by this 5-star review of our Young Wizard's Hexopedia over at Amazon:
5 stars.  Another excellent offering from one of the giants of Magick & Mysticism writing in English today, Professor Oddfellow, brings us a humorous and yet wise and tempered practical guide to Sorcery both ancient and modern and fresh!  As always, the Good Professor reaches back in time to make the Wisdom of the Ages accessible to modern readers in a way unique and yet as American as a Mark Twain short story. That isn't to say that an individual from anywhere else in the world wouldn't understand or like this fine book, but to say there is a breezy, almost casual style with which our Sage Professor takes complex ideas and practices and makes them easy for the layman or Neophyte to grasp. Professor Oddfellow has outlined here a neat system of Magick and Mystical thought that could stand alone, or be added to the accomplished Wizard's repertoire for a Greater understanding of The Hidden Mysteries of Life and also the complexities of the English Language, which the Good Professor uses with a graceful ease that soothes and awes the reader.  So, whether you are a Neophyte, yet to enter the Ancient Halls of Knowledge, a seasoned Magi ready to add to your vast understanding of the intricacies of the Universe, or just a man amongst men (or woman among women, or just a person among people, as thou wilt) the book will thrill you with interesting excercises, wow you with new perspectives, and keep you coming back for more!  So, three cheers for The Good Professor and his Book of Wizardry, Wonders, and Wise Words! —Holy Mountaineer
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#prof. oddfellow #hexopedia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #scissors #1920s #rose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #costume party #masquerade #masked ball #gas mask
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Old News (permalink)
"Bleeding again?"  From Toike Oike, 1960.
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#vintage photo #1960s #vintage headline #vintage man #man #black eye #headline #bow tie
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Something, Defined (permalink)
From City Life by George Winslow Pierce, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you're barely making it in Massachusetts (or your own private Massachusetts).  From Emerson's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #massachusetts #woman #vintage woman #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #cannibalism #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1943 yearbook.

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#occult #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
All-too-rare are jesters depicted with winged horses.  From Duke's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #jester #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The key hole is in the knob."  From Cosmopolitan (1911).
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #keyhole #key hole #door knob #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #cow #crying #farm #barn
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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 #political cartoon #giant sunglasses #blue glasses #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wellesley's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #knitting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skulls
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #gas mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If you encounter a vorpal bunny today, may a carrot be stuck on its sharp fang.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny #fangs
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the novelty singing flower with a face.  From Beloit College's 1895 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower #human headed #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do bumblebees have faces?"  From Together, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #bee #bumblebee
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April 18, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Poor old Frank."  From Prince Prigio by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #indian
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
The original alien crop circles were garden labyrinths.  From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The dedication page from Three in the Jungle by Karena Shields and illustrated by Harold Petersen.
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#book dedication
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage car #car #hood ornament #vintage automobile #automobile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You know what happens under the mistletoe, but what about under the inverted cross?  From Taylor's 1961 yearbook.

*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 #1960s #inverted cross #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #snowman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A singing fountain pen from Barnard's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #fountain pen #yearbook #singing pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #costume
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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 #wizard #hourglass #reincarnation #vintage diagram #shakespeare #esoteric #magic #wheel of life #diagram #henry v #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #war #dread #paranoia #surrounded #targeted
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #wig #ship hair #french fashion #boat hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1934 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #tall ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sailing ship
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Old News (permalink)
Great chapter title: "In Which I Salute the Statue of God and a Psychic Expert Explores My Brain and Finds Nothing."  From City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, 1920.
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#vintage headline #old book #headline #empty mind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #monster #bull #bullfighter #giant bull
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blotto, Twinks, and the Stars of the Silver Screen, by Simon Brett:

***
"When it comes to wicketkeeping, you're the absolute panda's panties."

***
Shopping wasn't really his length of banana.

***
"His name's professor Gervase Blunkett-Plunkett. He's the Egregious Professor of History at Oxford University."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hold that ghost."  From The Film Daily, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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April 17, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That feeling when your ghostly professor lights your shoe on fire.  From Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #illustration
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Precursors (permalink)
Before House of Dark Shadows (1970) there was the House of White Shadows (1903)
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#vintage book #book #dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Using flapdoodle poetry to encourage a "Psychomanteum" experience:
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#occult #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #psychomanteum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #psychic #psi #psionic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to look up there for god."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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#angel #god
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We'll worry about September in September."  From The Film Daily, 1941.
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#september
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Construct, within the heart, mystical cathedrals."
—Iwan Gilkin, "Litanies and Prayer," 1885
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#cathedral #heart #mysticism #mystical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #dog #tail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Greensboro's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#witch #halloween #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Smoking fright."  From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #smoking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The two-pronged approach to a tin-foil hat.  From Greensboro's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage men #men #blond man #smiling men #tin-foil hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #flying saucer
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Old News (permalink)
"The mysteries of the supernatural come alive."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #supernatural #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Developing a Character in Depth (ERIC ED128867, 1976).
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#vintage illustration #faces #1970s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rare to see someone praying to the letter A, in hopes of earning a good grade.  From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #letter a #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #witch #halloween #broomstick #harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #bird man #bird people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The wayfarer.  From the University of Washington's 1923 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ornate #vintage yearbook #yearbook #paisley #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
To this day, it's still never free to have tiny airplanes circle your bottle.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #airplane #bottle #tiny airplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #yoga
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April 16, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They thought I was asleep."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
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#vintage illustration #monster #insect #moth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Married after death."  From Ghost Stories, 1926.
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#ghost #marriage #spirit photography #ghost wedding
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #sun #umbrella #rainbow #faces in things #changeable weather
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #fashion #vintage fashion #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #winged man #monocle #the people could fly #butterfly man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #bunny
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The sky reflects back to us some fundamental questions about the nature of the world and our role in it" (The Great Canoes in the Sky: Starlore and Astronomy of the South Pacific). 
From Tulane's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ballads Weird and Wonderful by Richard Pearse Chope and illustrated by Vernon Hill, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #grotesque
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume
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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 #full moon #levitation #esoteric #astral travel #the people could fly #tree of life #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #puppet #marionette #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magazine Of Horror (1971).
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#vintage illustration #demon #horror
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #devil #war
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oxford Seminary's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #halloween #occult #jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figures #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Wodehouse is in his nineties, and he's no longer standing on ceremony:

"The intelligent reader will recall, though the vapid and unreflective reader may have forgotten..."

This from The Plot That Thickened, which also gives us the following:

"[She was] always insisting that their position demanded that they entertain as dinner guests people whom, if left to himself, he would not have asked to dinner with a ten-foot pole."

AND... a nightclub orchestra called Herman Zilch and His Twelve What-Nots!
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Watch your own pulse."  From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #pulse #self care #ad
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April 15, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The best well-dressed rabbit riding a stag we've seen all week.  From With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales, edited by Jean Cothran and illustrated by Clifford Geary.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #stag #deer
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #biblical #raven
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A plague frog from the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #frog #plague
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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 #bear #puss in boots
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"The moment anyone sends for me, it rains."  From Dark Shadows episode 475.

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#rainy day #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #gargoyle #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
There have been some setbacks in the ensuing years, but back in 1949 Science And Religion Agree! by Milton Jenkins Jones.
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#religion #science #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles.  From Oxford Seminary's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #small world #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #gun #rifle #self defense #armor #personal protection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect #magnifying glass #germ
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see a grandfather clock mistaken for a cuckoo clock.  From Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Lyle Stevenson Cummins, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #grandfather clock #1920s #cuckoo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A rough route to oblivion, charting the course taken by the victims.  From Barnard's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doom #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #strange map #oblivion #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #grim reaper #war #scythe #cannon #four horsemen #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Rockford's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #leaves #endpapers
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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 #horse #pegasus #winged horse #horsepower #vintage car #car #slaughterhouse #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #giant bird #goose #hot air balloon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fireworks #firecracker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #earth #horse #why the earth wobbles
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April 14, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Seventy years before Mr. Bill the clay figurine, there was Mister Bill, "A Man" by Albert E. Lyons (1905).
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#mr. bill
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A gift pairing for the person who has everything but time: 30-Second Ancient Egypt and The One Minute Mystic.
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#egypt #esoteric #mysticism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Something--some dreadful thing--like a mummy escaped from its tomb."  From Collier's, 1915.
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#mummy #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Might and Magic (I) (II) Complete Book.
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#vintage illustration #mask #candle
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1998.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The hypnotic suggestions of this book cover really did get us to look inside.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#spiral #hypnotism #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Atlantic Christian's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #dracula
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The eleventh labor of Hercules.   From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #atlas #mythology #weight of the world #hercules #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cupid's Cyclopedia by Oliver Herford, 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 #love #map #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is the official yearbook portrait of graduate Columbus Cochran Keith.  (His field of study was not specified, but we presume Wildlife Forensics.)  From Northern Illinois' 1902 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #money #golden calf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skulls #weight of the world #crushed #boulder #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An angel is never late.  From Spellbound, 1977.  (Courtesy of Archive.org.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tirra Lirra Rhymes Old and New by Laura Richards and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 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 #boat #seagull #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 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 #statue #illustration #tail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #artist #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #anthropomorphism #human headed #ink pen
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Whistling Legs, by Roman McDougald:

***
"He's a nice little man, but I think he has an awful lot of imagination. All his reasons for believing anything are terribly complicated, and he counts them off on his fingers. He holds up one finger and says, 'Point 1'; and then, when he has explained that, he holds up another finger and says, 'Point 2.'"

[Later]
"Now!" Carlo [the "nice little man"] paused, and Cabot knew without seeing it that he had raised a forefinger in the darkness. "Point 1...."

***
"She sits there staring at me through those big glasses, and the glasses seem to get bigger and bigger."

***
"I want you to give me the dope on that in something flat."

***
"And Mr. Carlo Pugh....peering down into cupboards or drawers through a big round glass, like a man who was spying upon a pixy or sticking his nose into a leprechaun's business."

***
"Everything seems impossible before breakfast." 
[I note that if everything is impossible before breakfast, then the White Queen doesn't have to be selective when deciding which impossible things to do before breakfast--anything at all will meet the case!]

***
"She whirled around and darted in here and had the door locked before I could say Jack Robinson--"
Kroll snapped, "Why the hell did you want to say Jack Robinson?"

***
[Conclusions as a Physical Place dept.]
"I know what conclusions you're coming to, Cabot," he drawled. "I got there in time to welcome you."
[Bonus: The protagonist avoids a dangerous accident by dodging a bust of Socrates that has been sent plummeting down from the top of a bookcase.]
[Additional scanned snippet attached.]

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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #witch #vintage headline #headline
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April 13, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great opening paragraph!  From The Cocoon, A Rest-Cure Comedy by Ruth Stuart, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cocoon #rest cure #sanitarium
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Delightful to see our The Young Wizard's Hexopedia in the mirror world, under the light of a fireball, courtesy of the Holy Mountaineer, who says: "In which the protagonist burns away certain impurities, including the hair on his right hand, in celebration of the Great Work of one Professor Oddfellow, famous Sorcerer, Electronic Musician, Expounder of Ancient Mysticism, and Wise Sage to the Lawless, Wild Interweb."
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#prof. oddfellow #hexopedia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #wapiti
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #caterpillar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #hobby horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wonder Tales from Russia by Jeremiah Curtin, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle #pearl
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

“Time is said to be irreversible. And this is true enough in the sense that ‘you can’t bring back the past,’ as they say. But what exactly is this ‘past’? Is it what has passed? And what does ‘passed’ mean for a person when for each of us the past is the bearer of all that is constant in the reality of the present, of each current moment? In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight only in its recollection… Time cannot vanish without trace for it is a subjective, spiritual category; and the time we have lived settles in our soul as an experience placed within time.” —Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

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#time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Werewolves and Vampires (1962).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #wolfman #werewolf #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #winged horse #crying animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pulemet, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #walking dead #living dead #scythe #zombies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A player piano powered by an exercise bicycle.  It's the "Cyclianola," from Indiana University's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#piano #exercise #bicycle #player piano #invention #vintage yearbook #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #wings
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Old News (permalink)
While a picture is famously worth a thousand words, a thousand pictures are worth only two words.
From Elizabethtown's 1967 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #grim reaper #pit and pendulum #scythe
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Old News (permalink)
"People in Wisconsin are very, very special."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1982.
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#vintage headline #wisconsin #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1970 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)
The power of ballet to chase the cholera away.  From The Wasp, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dance #disease #cholera #ballet
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

I think my excursion down the Victorian-farce rabbit hole is complete, for now. But we mustn't leave before the credits have rolled!

[Also appearing, but not screen-captured: Taraxicum Twitters, Doctor Rhododendrum, Lotty Fringe, and Mr. Hopkins Twiddy]














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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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April 12, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's a phenomeon we see time and again on title pages.  Note that those two names, Louise Jamison and James M. Gleeson, are the same!  "Jamison" and "James M." are obviously both James-based.  "Louise" and "Gleeson" are both dominated by the "ees" sound.  And both last names end in "son."  Shift one syllable in the illustrator's name, and you have "Glees James M. Son," which tidily echoes "Louise Jamison."  We regularly see collaborator names that mirror one another, as if people choose their workmates based upon such affinities.
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #insect #dragonfly #illustration #1910s
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Unicorns (permalink)
We're honored that recording artist and DJ Heather Perkins, on Sonoma County KOWS FM Radio, said, "Just Google Craig Conley.  His books will blow your mind.  It's pretty incredible stuff."  Perkins played several tracks from Cuddlebot's soundtrack to our Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.  Here's the complete radio show: You Are Here.  And here's the snippet in question:
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#unicorn #heather perkins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bubbles #blowing bubbles #soap bubble #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#biblical #vintage headline #kissing #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan," in Flora Macdonald's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem #kubla khan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #clown #long nose #costume party #masquerade #big nose #costumes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
He receives "the mark of forgetfulness."  From Mount Olive's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marked man
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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.
68841 56288
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #animals #top hat #horns #antlers #illustration #cows #head to head #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
Rare to see an inkwell as a boat and a pen as its mast.  From Salem's 1930 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #illustration #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Her sleigh is made of glistening frost."  From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #winter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #peace angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #headless #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #giant #war and peace #peace angel #armor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's some visual poetry from Barnard's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #visual poetry #vintage yearbook #yearbook #symbols #visual poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #giantess #tarot #wheel of fortune #ferris wheel
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
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#open secret
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vinatge yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This adage is a Googlewhack: "The peaceful mind is like a running treasure among the Spaghetti."  From Toike Oike, 1955
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#spaghetti
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April 11, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'You mean dim irreligious light!' she whispered naughtily and wittily."  From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.
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#vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #informer
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #raccoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse #goose #prince
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You'll have noticed the wavy hands of this clock that interpenetrates a cemetery.  You'll rarely see unbending hands on clocks that interpenetrate cemeteries.  From Virginia Commonwealth University's 1974 yearbook.
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#cemetery #graveyard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #time bending
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Pardon my asking if you like to read."  From Hoenshel's Complete English Grammar, 1897.
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#reading #sentence diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The ghostly white words read, "Afraid to attempt the unknown, afraid to fumble, yet afraid not to try, afraid to regret -- so we examine ourselves, timidly at first, and finally we perceive a shadow of our inner selves."  From Saint Mary's Junior College's 1963 yearbook.

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#shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shadow self
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #costume #illustration #sweet william
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Haverford College's yearbook of 1909.

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #vintage yearbook #yearbook #paint
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #teddy bear
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Saint Joseph's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #open air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Every day can be tree day.  From Wellesley's 1918 yearbook.

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#arbor day #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #nature lover #tree day
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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 #edinburgh #vintage postcard #new york #illustration #pipe dream #castle in the air #skyscraper #vision of the future #art #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #constellation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #starry night #faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #angel #money #spirit #afterlife
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From An Ideal Husband, by Oscar Wilde:

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NANJAC: I read all your English newspapers. I find them so amusing.
GORING: Then, my dear Nanjac, you must certainly read between the lines.
NANJAC: I should like to, but my professor objects.

***
And then the eldest son has quarrelled with his father, and it is said that when they meet at the club Lord Brancaster always hides himself behind the money article in The Times. However, I believe that is quite a common occurrence nowadays and that they have to take in extra copies of The Times at all the clubs in St. James’s Street.

***
Shall I see you at Lady Bonar’s to-night? She has discovered a wonderful new genius. He does...nothing at all, I believe. That is a great comfort, is it not?

***
During the Season, father, I only talk seriously on the first Tuesday in every month, from four to seven.

***
Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore.
***

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#oscar wilde
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pie in the sky?"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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April 10, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Well, I agree with you, but I don't know what you mean."  From The Addams Family, 1965.
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#addams family
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1973.
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #ninja
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Communicating a striking idea."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #church art #chiseling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #lion #stuffed #fat animal #fat lion #overeating
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Two beautiful fairies bowed before her."  From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #witch #black cat #hallowe'en #illustration #chocolate #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #meat grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice and Other Fairy Plays for Children by Kate Freiligrath-Kroeker and illustrated by Mary Sibree, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Saint Joseph's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #distortion #endpapers #illustration #melting architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Auntie Coffee coupe of 1927.  From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #coffee #vintage car #car
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #devil #violin #fiddler
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
An old postcard gifted to me by friends in Wales.  Undated.
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#wales #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage postcard #hat #red cloak #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cats at war.  From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #war #cats #cats fighting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some stacked animals from Colorado College's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stacked animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bottle with a "family entrance."  From The Wasp, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #alcohol
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April 9, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
An historic manor "transmogrified"?  It's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#prof. oddfellow #historic preservation #video #penetralia #house tour #home tour #historic tour
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Duality of the physiognomy.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #monk #saint #st. paul
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1976 yearbook.

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#halloween #mask #vintage photo #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dame Wiggins of Lee and Her Seven Wonderful Cats, Written Principally By a Lady of Ninety, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #smart animal #literate animal #clever animal #literate cat #clever cat #smart cat #cats reading
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pyramid
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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 Kladderadatsch, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #peace #lion #tiger #lamb #war and peace #national animals
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
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#elf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Codex yearbook of Beloit College, 1893.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #satan #skeleton #hellfire #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret societies #fraternities #college hazing #fraternity hazing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nice how the arrangement of the UFOs forms a face.  From UFO Review, 1979.
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#ufo #prophecy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cavern
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The web and the diamonds and the big spider himself all fell to the ground."  From Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #spider #spider web #diamonds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #chinese dragon
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Woman I Adore," by John Maddison Morton:

***

Green: T. might possibly stand for Thomas—indeed, on an emergency, I think T. would stand very well for Thomas.

***
Judkins: I went to the concert at the theatre to hear the renowned Tenor, who, by the bye, didn't sing after all.
Green: Of course not—for my part I've been served that trick so often, that, for the future, I mean to go only to the Marionettes—they never disappoint the public—they never have colds and sore throats.

***
Mrs. Smiler: There is a daughter, eh? Miss Timpkins, I believe!
Green: Or Simkins—but as I invariably get bothered as to whose daughter she is, I always call her Miss Timkins and Simkins.
***
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Night school.  From MacMurray's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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April 8, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Legends of Japan by Hiroshi Naito and illustrated by Masahiko Nishino.
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#vintage illustration #japan #tug of war
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Distrusting music."  From Dark Shadows episode 910.
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#distrust #mistrust #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fable #cave #lion #aesop #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #sewing
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
We double-checked, and there's actually nothing funny about being on the wrong side of eighteen.
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#vintage book #book #eighteen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spider web
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #sprouting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And rushed out into the night, a ruined, broken man."  From Indiana University's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #seeing stars
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
postcard from our personal archives.
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#scotland #vintage postcard #cottage #lothianburn #postcard
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1924.
*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 #deity #god #in the clouds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #smiling cat #cartooning #making faces #cat expressions #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #pen
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #hand #light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #astronaut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spooky #shadow #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Dance clubs have changed so much over the last century.  From Barnard's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #full moon #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #dance club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #dice #absinthe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #leech
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From West Georgia's 1959 yearbook.

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#death #shakespeare #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #romeo and juliet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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April 7, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables From Afar by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #owl #fable #elephant #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From For Men Only, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #phrenology #snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but the sword pen is mightiest of all.  From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #sword #vintage magazine #magazine
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Judson's 1987 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage man #blond man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Sea Horse by Isabel Anderson, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #dragonfly #lily pond
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1916 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #letter a #geometry #eyes #illustration #human alphabet #shapes #art #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that "The spirit of the theatre makes one want to go behind the scenes" (Robert Beum).  Here's what's going on backstage and where the spirits of the theatre are stored.  From Barnard's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #genie #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #comedy and tragedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double #hallucination #illustration #escheresque
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wellesley's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pumpkin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gardening #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And suggesting the ethereal …"  From Muhlenberg's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #yellow #ethereal
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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 #owl #goya #giant owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"'The first sunrise / there is a cloud / like a cloud in a picture.' —Shusai."  From St. Joseph's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#sunrise #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cloud #poem #shusai
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #horn #speaker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Might and Magic (I) (II) Complete Book.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #cave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #owl #fairies #fairy tale
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder at Morrington Hall, by Clare McKenna:

***

"She's lovely....Like a Gibson girl."
"A gibbon?" Mother said. "How ungenerous of you, Alice."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This poem is a Googlewhack.  "Black stones a-blazing!  What shall Susan do?  Crack a dozen gray stones and make a little stew."  From St. Nicholas, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #poem #stone
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April 6, 2021

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 #earth #anthropomorphism #faces in things #pet walker #red paint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Incise freely."  From Tulane's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #surgeon
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Old News (permalink)
"Really.  No need for panic."  A headline from Medium II newspaper (Mississauga), 1978.
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#vintage headline #keep calm and carry on #headline #no need for panic #don't panic
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Welcome to the roof.  From East Carolina's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #candle #rooftop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There a price on your head.  And you can 'up' it!"  From Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #question mark #price tag #smiling man #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An effigy from Holy Cross' 1962 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The cloud fairies.  From Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #oz #illustration #cloud fairies
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From University of Montana's 1907 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #silence #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A poor scan, but we liked the "Hypnotist & Ghost Chaser."  From the University of Montana's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost hunter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus #sideshow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #skull #money #can't take it with you #coin purse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bowman Gray's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gray matter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #monster #moloch #film
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "A Regular Fix," by John Maddison Morton:

***

De Brass: The property had to be divided; but unluckily in the meantime—(very rapidly)—Jacob marries; Alexander disappears; Jonathan dies, and up starts Timothy. I don't know why he should, but he did, and what does Timothy say? Why, Timothy says, “Oh, oh!” says Timothy, “thirty days hath September, April, June and November” but if this is the way the cat jumps, up goes the income tax, and then what becomes of Aunt Sally? Don't you see? (Poking SURPLUS in the ribs.)

***
Mrs. Surplus: (L., aside, and coquettishly). A strange gentleman! Can it be the pale, interesting youth who upset the lobster salad in my lap at the supper table last night, from excess of emotion?

***
Mrs. Surplus: (tenderly to SURPLUS). Oh, Barnaby!
Surplus: Don't Barnaby me!
***
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Berea's 1966 yearbook.

*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 #cousin itt
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Your thought is a fortress that neither gale nor the lightning can skake [sic]."  From Belmont Abbey's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #monster #earth #strangled
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April 5, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's eerie, in spite of not even playing this game, how many of the command options apply to what we're doing today.  From the Lords of Time game manual, 1985.
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#gaming
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#sin #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1915.
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#lion #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May a wight not be the thing today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #wight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #fear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #cheshire cat #smiling cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #modern art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwest Mississippi Junior's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spaceman #1970s #tin foil hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Mine is the thought of him who is lost in his own country, of the alien in his own nation, of the solitary among his kinfold and friends."  From Belmont Abbey's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #man #alienation #solitary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Meanwhile, in Germany...  From Winthrop's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbits #bunnies #yearbook #dancing animals #dancing rabbits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wearing a newspaper dress while dancing on eggshells.  From Nebelspalter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #newspaper dress #eggs #newspaper fashion #newspaper clothing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #ship #pollution #smokestack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #temple #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It always seems like a lark to take a kangaroo to a party, but the truth is that someone invariably gets hurt.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #mayhem #masquerade #illustration #party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #political cartoon #demon #imp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birminghan-Southern's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #break the chain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Jabberwock, from The Study Chronicle, 1930.
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#jabberwock #jabberwocky #lewis carroll #monster #vintage illustration
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April 4, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Fortune telling with invisible dice, and why everybody's goat looks better than mine: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
We're honored that film critic Grumpy Andrew said: "So much to enjoy here. Hands down one of my favourite Penetralias. Two genuine laughs out loud (which I don't tend to do in real life, only on text, lol) - a song which spoke to me - and a fortune telling. A meal for the mind in five minutes!"
And Pilfering Apples wrote: "Thank you for introducing me to surely the most effective means of fortune-telling yet devised!  As always , your approach to the mysteries of life is unequalled. Thank you also for the introduction to the finest of goat society! While I noted many familiar faces, there were even more delightful new acquaintances. Always a joy!"
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#goat #prof. oddfellow #fortune telling #video #penetralia #invisible dice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #hyena
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You surely knew that rabbits paint chicken eggs so as to pass them off as more exotic specimens.  Here's a trickster making a faux robin's egg.  From Making Up with Mr. Dog by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Paine, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #easter egg
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Old News (permalink)
"Chocolate eggs, marshmallow bunnes and eternal life."  From Woroni, 1981.
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#easter #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Inarticulate and vanquished."  From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mask #inarticulate
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scandinavian Legends and Folk Tales by Gwyn Jones, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #horses #winter #scandinavia #sleigh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A lazy snake charmer benefits from tech.  From Nebelspalter, 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 #serpent #cobra #snakes #snake charmer #record player
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's toast from an extraterrestrial.  From Spacemen, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#alien #spaceman #extraterrestrial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #hedgehog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The imagination will find a constellation even in a row of stars.  From American University's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #eagle #constellation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stars #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The appearance of those two corpses hanging in the air was as ghastly as it was inexplicable."  From Weird Tales, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horror #weightless #airplane #the people could fly #corpses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 
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#vintage illustration #constellation #orion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The dream of mascots uniting in peace can become a reality when they identify the source of their anxieties and then feel and give love instead of anger.  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #mascot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #chef #men dancing
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"The sea-serpent."  From Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by James William Buel, 1891.
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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 #monster #sea serpent #sea monster
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Camosun, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny #easter
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Grave Maurice, by Martha Grimes:

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She laughed the way some people sneezed, an ah-ha-ah-ha-ah-ha that segued into a brief explosion.

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An apology dialectic, you could say, laying the groundwork for future apologies, if need be.

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[Who Needs Context? dept.]
"But it's such a good nothing. The design is good."

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[Who Needs Context? dept.]
"Meat loaf in the collective unconscious? Why doesn't that sound right?"

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Diane actually spilled a few drops of her drink, bringing the glass down on the table in martini applause.

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She was essence, all residue left back in the bottom of the bottle, a girl decanted.

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The Little Chef version was merely a shadow on the wall of Plato's cave.

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All of this leaving Melrose feeling the evening hadn't so much as [sic] ended as collapsed around him, collapsing and elongating like a bellows or in a wind tunnel with some Proustian crazy.

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When Jury walked into the breakfast room the following morning, time had been restored to its familiar sequential meanderings.

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"I'm taking a page from Diane's book."
"There's only one page in Diane's book....Take it, and there won't be any book."

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"You're obsessive about obsession."

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These were probably not all of the [answering-machine] messages; they were the ones selected by Carol-anne, those of which she approved and out of which she fashioned her short list, as if the messages were competing for the Booker Prize.

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Was she splurging on non sequiturs tonight?

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Even her toes shrugged.

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"We'll beef tea him!"

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[In which Grimes puts the "op" in onomat-op-oeia. See, it's not a champagne cork, so it's not a "pop." It's Bridget Riley, not Roy Lichtenstein.]

The action of pulling made a pleasant little op and he poured the wine into the glasses.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #easter bunny #rabbit #easter basket
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April 3, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's horse using a giant book as a levitating chair is from Purple Parrot, 1937.  We're reminded of that time we built legless, self-levitating chair for two.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #horse #levitation #1930s #book horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #easter bunny #easter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's some dim, stone-walled place, with opened coffins placed about.  And there's a Thing that comes."  From Unknown magazine, July 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #coffin #dungeon #horror #crypt
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Old News (permalink)
"Rabbit goes all the way."  From The Erindalian, February 9, 1970.
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#rabbit #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've seen the optical illusion asking whether it's two faces or a vase.  Actually, it's a bottle, and it's a drinking problem.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #optical illusion #silhouette #alcoholism #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #serpents #hydra #1930s #constrictor #many headed #strangled
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #world #earth #vintage yearbook #it's a small world #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1950.
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#vintage illustration #triangle #illustration #record #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We implore."  From Wake Forest's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #implore
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #lion #hunter #vintage magazine #tables turned #magazine
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #theatre
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Are you an enslaved god?"  From Weird Tales, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #occult #halo #deity #god man #enslaved god #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork #falling #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #over the edge #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Discontented Cat."  From Kitty-Cat Tales by Alice Van Leer Carrick, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #cat #discontented
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's so much less stuffy when a class is held out-of-doors.  From Butler's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1848.
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The influenza demon.  From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #demon #disease #influenza #flu
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Saucers, Space & Science, No 63, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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April 2, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink."  From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser, 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 #illustration #nursery rhyme
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This detail hanging on the wall of a comic panel, with the caption "Willy and the Danger," is a Googlewhack as of this posting.  A possible band name?  From The Gateway, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #band name
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A rare insight, that both the Garden of Eden and Noah's Ark were labyrinths.  From Toike Oike, 1940.
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#labyrinth #garden of eden #noah's ark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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#vintage illustration #alchemy #alchemist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
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#religion #vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #gosling
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That's a handy pointer at the bottom, directing potential readers to the flyleaf.  From The Thing At Their Heels by Harrington Hext, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage book #book #looming #old book #menacing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #insect man
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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 #bees #insects #swarm #red sky #insect attack #stinging
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1908 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cross dressing #lesbian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat man #horror #goat legged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dancing cat #dancing animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This dress was named "West Virginia on the Go-Go" and won first place at a state convention for student nurses.  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1967 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 #west virginia
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Old News (permalink)
"The overpowering urge to communicate."  From Awake magazine, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #communication #telephone #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #spider #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if your locomotive hat gets you no dances.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 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 #locomotive #dancing #masquerade #hat #party #train hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1905 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #monster #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "We All Have Our Little Faults," by William E. Suter:

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Rollick: What's that you are trying to read?
Goosey: It's either a petition, or a Christmas carol.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blue Planet Project: Alien Technical Research - 25 (undated).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #reptilians
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April 1, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The only way forward is:
  • politely but firmly to refuse.
  • to forget the past.
  • to first move backward.
  • not to capitulate.
  • to default and exit.
  • acknowledgement and acceptance.
  • to find the means to get out.
  • through dialogue and reconciliation.
  • to restore momentum.
  • partnership.
  • a lasting ceasefire.
  • to disrupt.
  • to depoliticize and demystify.
  • mutual respect and understanding.
  • to find a path that starts in the middle.
  • to start walking.
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]
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#progress #moving on #list
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
Today's rabbits looking at the sunset are from St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #sunset
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the admirable approach to joke illustrations in Count Draculations by Charles Keller and illustrated by Edward Frascino.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #tattoo
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the meme, "I'd rather be dead in California than alive in ___."  It's "I'd rather be sick in Kansas."  From Together, 1963.
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#kansas #sick #clipboard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #japanese #rabbit #canoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Modern Cinderella by Amanda Minnie Douglas, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dancing #cinderella #fairy godmother
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Mr. Nobody, from Dark Shadows episode 910.
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#mr. nobody #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"One by one she drew from his cupped hands a score of brilliant, living birds."  From Hearst's, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #dove #magician #magic #birds
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1934.
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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 #hybrid #mermen #soldiers #fins #aqua man #fish men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
With the latest technology, you can be your own cat without a mask.  (All is revealed in How to Be Your Own Cat.)  From Chatham's 1968 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #ghost #vintage magic #magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1988.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #ufo #cow #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1929.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #april showers #weather #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Point at rainbows only with your thumb.  From a teacher training guide to Navajo cultural beliefs, 1986.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #rainbow #native american #navajo #pointing #thumb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1948.  (Courtesy of Archive.org, with our own restorations.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #haunted #demon #ghost #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Thought pictures turned into realties.  From Weird Tales, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage ad #occult #imagination #mind power #mental powers #thoughtforms #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Print title & author please.  Use pencil.  Use pencil."  From Tulane's 1962 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #library #1960s #sign
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"April."  From Nebelspalter, 1921.
*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 #walking the dog #windy #pet walker #changeable weather
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1932 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #buddhism #elephant #mongolia
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