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, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satan #grotesque #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"I touched it and thought, 'Eeew, gross!' and wiped my finger off and went about my day.  I got pregnant not long after that." —Shari Haynes, Goo on car, porch.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #goo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There is no danger just now."  From Fables From Afar 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 #fable #crow #the end #no danger
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The grim reaper stands at the center.  From Medical College of Virginia's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #autopsy #medical students
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Recueil d'Antiquités by Antoine Mongez, 1804.
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#mythology #hybrid #serpents #snake legs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad for I Married a Witch, in The Film Daily, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #witch #vintage hollywood #hollywood #veronica lake #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phone lines are now open.  From Woroni, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #certainty #uncertain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Georgia's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #cupid #cost of loving #musician #saxophone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #egypt #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #pain #hand #crushed #vise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Happy but one-dimensional.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #flat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, March 1921.
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#vintage illustration #singer
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Piedmont's 1937 yearbook.
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#snowman #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Don Bolognese.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house #keyhole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.  
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #faces in things #native american
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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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #sword #samurai
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April 29, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wheelchair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #insect #big bug #giant big #big insect #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today, few tenured professors wear their crowns, and faculty meetings lack the solemnity that had in the 1970s.  From Pembroke's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#beard #king #vintage photo #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 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 #horror #egg #tables turned #egghead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #solitude #vintage man #man #lonely #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #rooster #folk tale
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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)
An owl sigil from Mansfield's 1919 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sigil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of the "loose characters whom the theatre tends to attract" (Laurie Magnus).  This might be one.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #blurred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #feather #quill pen #writer #ball and chain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you were looking for the culprit, here she is.  From Purdue's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #question mark #1940s #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #political cartoon #demon #ominous #gun #war #looming #evil spirit #cloud shapes #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grindstone #nose to the grindstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 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 #wolf #lamb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 1117.  "There's something evil about it.  I can feel it, vibrating things."
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#occult #evil #severed head #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A king-size nebbish, raised and lowered on a pneumatic cylinder.  From Michigan State University's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #1950s #nebbish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan of the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tarzan
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April 28, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #bat #owl #fairy tale #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Fairy-Tale Foxes, illustrated by Frank A. Mankivell, 1914.
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#fox #heathen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is how we, too, peek at the outside world.  From Michigan State University's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #duck costume #1950s
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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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#horror #cave #faces in things #hollow tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1990 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #collage #surreal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I won't hop out till Danny Fox goes home."  From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Buried once, Men want dug up again."  From Morris Harvey's 1970 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#cemetery #graveyard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
The secrets of Muzak.  From Woroni, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #muzak
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ancient egypt #egyptian #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1991.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
If you can't name the comic strip character they're painting, there's a clue in the lower right of the photo.  From Mary Washington's 1953 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #women #vintage women #pogo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Illustrated Chess for Children by Harvey Kidder.  This book says that to learn chess is to learn an international language.  Kidder does not mention If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary, presumably because it was published later.
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#vintage illustration #castle #chess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #illustration #donkey mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From DePauw's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"I just want a place to go to relax."  From The Gateway, 1970.
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#vintage headline #relaxation #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cat commandeered all of page 129 of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1973 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #lion #lollipop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vulture
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Old News (permalink)
"The immoral new morality."  From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#vintage headline #headline #morality #immorality
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April 27, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Strange alphabetic adventures, featuring music by Norway's Titania as channeled through our Tesla spirit radio and haunted grandfather clock.
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#alphabet #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1984.
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#vintage illustration #puppet #marionette #typist #ballerina #1980s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #broomstick #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goose #mother goose #nursery rhymes
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Could be over-intellectualization."  From Swarthmore's 1946.

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#spooky #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #horse #lightning #cape
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #costume #lion costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goose #broom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #timepiece #gagged #wristwatch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puppetry Today by Helen Binyon.
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#puppet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An alternative to "the dog ate my assignment," from the days of pens and inks -- "the cat stepped all over it."  From Henderson-Brown's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #cat #vintage yearbook #spilled ink #paw print
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #giant #harp #jack and the beanstalk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #ferret
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #fable #crow #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #paintbrush
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tailoring a bean.  From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #tailor #bean
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Municipal University of Akron's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #1920s #donkey man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#book design
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April 26, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #castle #architecture #diagram #sand castle
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"At last you awaken from endless nightmares and torments, mad with lust for revenge!"  From Wizardry Collection.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#revenge #computer game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #marriage #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #good and evil #ostrich
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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 #headache #migraine #mutant #overthinking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bird people #bird mask #1980s
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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, 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 #political cartoon #genie #djinn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #on fire #fire ceremony #burned alive #illustration #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"There are good times, there are bad; from here ..."  From Berea's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #kitten
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Old News (permalink)
"Puffing in peace denied demon smoker."  From The Gateway, 1979.
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#demon #vintage headline #smoker #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Medical College of Virginia's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #japanese #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A shame and a disgrace."  From DePauw's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #monocle #vintage man #man #disgrace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #wind #breeze
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Keuka's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #hooded figures
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Herring-Seller's Apprentice, by L. C. Tyler:


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He swilled the whisky first one way and then, in an experimental fashion, the other. It seemed there were only two ways to swill whisky, so he was forced to come to the point.

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I should have been getting used to people talking to me in strange typefaces, but this last couple of italics threw me.

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She gave me another funny look, but funny looks only get you so far.

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Elsie . . . was now staring at me as though I had started to do a strip-tease while humming “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic.”

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We gave our condolences to Ethelred and Charlotte, on the groups that there was nobody else to give them to and we didn’t want to take them home with us.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration
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April 25, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #big bad wolf #little red riding hood
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We, too, are intrigued by the (seemingly) empty shelves at the library.  From The Gateway, 1971.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Recording imp."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #imp #grotesque #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her official yearbook portrait.  From Berea's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #camera shy
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Old News (permalink)
"The truth about love, Cupid, and sacrificing goats."  From the Innis Herald, 2002.
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#love #cupid #goat #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"As he drank, the room wabbled some more, and the Things grew bolder around him."  From Unknown, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #demon #drunk #hallucination #personal demons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Haunted House Tales by Corinne Denan and illustrated by Ann Toulmin-Rothe.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
Unsavory: "Our ancestors: alien sewage?"  Delicious: Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Sticking out one's tongue can be a sign of intense concentration, especially until age six.  From North Central's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sticking out tongue #1970s #vintage man
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Pearson's, 1900.
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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 #sea serpent #sea monster #under the sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #baby tiger #1923
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It doesn't hurt any more!"  From Park College's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #pain relief #woman #vintage woman #doesn't hurt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #yarn #knitting #living toy #yarn doll #yarn ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The imp of four o'clock.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #time #clock #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you not slip on the trail of a giant slug today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #slug
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Old News (permalink)
"Enthusiasm is on the decline."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#vintage headline #enthusiasm #apathy #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Busy Folk by Mary E. Laing & Andrew W. Edson and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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April 24, 2022

Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you sidestep carpets in the dreamworld tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #symbol #carpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 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 #rabbit
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Moon, Come to Earth by Philip Graham.
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#moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mattapoisett Presto Press, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #witch #broomstick #black cat #silhouette #hallowe'en #arrow #ad
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Old News (permalink)
The way of the world: "No-one wants it.  Everyone will have it."  From Woroni, 1985.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Her official yearbook portrait.  From Fisher's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#mummy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 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 #death #skull face #explosion #self destruction
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1964 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare (over $900 on Amazon) Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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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 #ghost #haunted house #spooky #prophecy #lantern #severed head #floating head #hermit #decapitated #vintage headline #prophet #tarot hermit #headline #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Texas Western's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #coffin #horror #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #vampire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #seeing double #baton #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1914 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fairy queen was ever so put out about it."  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 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 #fairy queen #queen
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Someone in the great somewhere hears every word."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1974 yearbook.
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#religion #silhouette #vintage photo #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #god
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1931 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A trick shot."  From The Gateway, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #magician #magic #alcohol #hat trick #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dover Goes to Pott, by Joyce Porter

[I have nothing to offer from this one except a character called Hereward Topping-Wibbley and a "Wonder cake-mix, my Aunt Fanny!"]

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #lion #hunter
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April 23, 2022

Old News (permalink)
"Are not kissers.  Populists in Kansas are afraid of germs."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1897.
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#vintage headline #kissing #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The bear was found to be James Chalmers."  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear #bear costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 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 #cat #deaf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Did you ever see such long ears, any how?"  From Scribner's 1879.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #donkey #long ears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
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#vintage illustration #pollution #gas cloud
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #pipe smoker
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Casserole, Dec. 11, 1970.
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#hand #teeth #fangs #poem #attacked
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1895 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Mitchell's 1965 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sporting Yarns by Andrew Haggard and illustrated by Griff, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #pipe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"O wonderful wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful!  And yet again wonderful..."  From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #wonderful
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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 #magician #vintage magic #tiny man #homunculus #vintage magician #magic trick #alien #hat trick
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Old News (permalink)
"Wide open and receptive to praise."  From The Martlet, 1972.
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#praise #vintage headline #headline #wide open
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is what we say every time a post of ours doesn't go viral.  From DePauw's 1911 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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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1963.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #rainy day #umbrella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Portion For Foxes by Jane McIlvaine McClary.
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#fox #old book
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Old News (permalink)
Frankly, we prefer self-explanatory headlines like this to the more cryptic, "teaser" style headlines.  From The Current Sauce, 1957.
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#vintage headline #headline #self-explanatory
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #all-seeing eye #eye #being watched
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant bug #beetle #giant insect #insect monster
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April 22, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #neons gone mad #pop musik
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1964 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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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 #devil #satan #good and evil #dreaming #sleeping #god #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #bookworm #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1978.
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#philosophy #vintage headline #satanism #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lees-McRae's 1989 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #zombie #pie in the face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #ancient mariner #rime of the ancient mariner #albatross
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"There is a Future, O thank God!" (Webster).  From Susquehanna's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One is reminded of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet, in which lovers are trapped within opposing stained glass windows.  From Florida Southern's 1969 yearbook.
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#stained glass #vintage yearbook #face paint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like this rare book is going for $1,500!  From Secret, Don't Tell, The Encyclopedia of Hypnotism by Carla Emery and illustrated by Corey Smigliani.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask #mouse #costume #mouse costume
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "A Bishop in the Ballet," by Caryl Brahms:

“And you do not tell a living soul?”
“Not a syllable to a sturgeon.”

***

From "A Brabble in the Ballet," by Caryl Brahms:

Stroganov erupted into the rehearsal hall with his prospective backer in tow, like the tail of a well-upholstered comet.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #aesop #buckethead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #cat #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Because you don't talk about a thing does not mean you don't think about the thing."  From Cat Walk by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.
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#vintage illustration #ancient egypt #egyptian #pyramid
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April 21, 2022

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the rare (going for over $500, last we checked) Paper Faces by Michael Grater, 1968.
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#mask #vintage photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cowboy #lasso
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mock turtle #gryphon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #frog #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A New England farmouse, could it shelter a poltergeist."  From Weird Tales volume 42 number 4 (May 1950).
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#vintage illustration #demon #ghost #horror #poltergeist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #cat #submarine #stranded at sea #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage magazine #magazine #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #Latin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #crown #king death #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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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.
75540 40720
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #grim reaper #swan #time's up #iceberg #folk tale
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Old News (permalink)
"Money is no object if it's all the same to you."  From The Distributor, 1928.
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#money #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #king #marotte #insect #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #angel #occult #soul #esoteric #eye
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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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#mummy #vintage illustration #cat #cat mummy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-County Technical's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trepanation #drill press
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves #dancing #brownies #mushroom
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Innuendo poking fun at the cast of Dark Shadows?  Today, it's common knowledge that the cast was gay (the show has been called "the gayest in television history," and the scene in which Count Petofi mourns the death of his unicorn has been called "possibly the gayest thing in all of human history").  Back in the day, however, the lines collected in these stills would have sounded subtler than they do now.
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#gay innuendo #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any priest of Fung you meet today offer good tidings.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #priest
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April 20, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Recreating a bizarre skit from the trailblazing Gong Show: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #rhino
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #owl #graveyard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #gravestone
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Cult of the Cat by Nicholas Saunders.
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#leopard #glowing eyes
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #snowman #vintage yearbook #yearbook #imagination
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Old News (permalink)
"Crazy or not, here come [unidentified flying] onions."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#onion #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #blond man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the apparently rare Southern Ghosts by Nancy Roberts.
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#horse #vintage photo #ghost horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Western's 1964 yearbook.

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#beard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #bear skin #bear rug
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't quash the Sasquatch."  From The Gateway, 1974.
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#bigfoot #sasquatch #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner.
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#druid #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
Q: How old must one be?
A: Ask again next year.
From Lighted Pathway, 1981.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #creature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Not dry reading."  From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #reading #book #under the sea #diver #deep sea diver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Black oak bed made from an old staircase and wainscot found in an English castle."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cinderella's Mouse by Rosalie K. Fry.
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#vintage illustration #rabbits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #earth #god #illustration
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April 19, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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#vintage illustration #norway #cliff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He has a great name -- the Lion of Yaitopya.  From Dungeon Master: Perfect Guide.
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#vintage illustration #beard #wizard #lion man
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The New Building Better English 9, Teacher's Edition, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #sculpture #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Time Cat by Lloyd Alexander.
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#vintage illustration #time travel #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #giant #jack and the beanstalk
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #darkness #vintage yearbook #yearbook #three headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #skating #wind power #sail #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #swinging #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poo and the Baby Bunny Rabbit by Edwin Megargee, 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 #rooster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Enlarge the figure's face to verify that it isn't human.  From Duke's 1973 yearbook.

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

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"If every driver had a private road."  From Coraddi, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #pig #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Body Snatchers by Susan Reed.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien abduction
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Six Curtains for Stroganova, by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon:

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[Re. the ballet audience on a dazzling opening night.]
Not a monocle remained in place.

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[A Russian Anglophile gets it slightly wrong.]
"For he's a jolly good sparrow," he carolled.

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"If I were a horse I'd eat that hat."

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"And," she eyelashed, "he can deny me nothing."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They looked down upon us."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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April 18, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The cat waits."  From Adventures in Child Land by Frances Lilian Taylor, 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 #cat #nest #waiting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An offering of tiny white feathers."  From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus Macmillan and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #feathers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #monster #hydra #hercules #many headed #heracles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art #night #creatures
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Who wore it better?  From National-Louis' 1988 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #artist #camera
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Berea's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weightless #bull
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's a good answer from Marian Engel on where ideas come from.
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#inspiration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #palette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #dizzy #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"People can swallow strange things and live."  From The Current Sauce, 1962.
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#vintage headline #headline #swallowing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sign #no way to turn
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
How transition animals work.  From Teddy Jo and the Magic Quill by Hilda Stahl.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dreaming #mouse #transition animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May this hereby assist you in telling the master of the west wind to go fly a kite.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #wind
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A cherished beard."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #beard #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The cat was making friends with the waiting-maids."  From The Fortunate Days by Ethel Gate and illustrated by Vianna Knowlton, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chalkboard
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not dream of marmalade tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
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#dream #symbol #jam #marmalade #preserves
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April 17, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #devil #easter #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Strange keys to the powers of the universe."  From Weird Tales, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #occult #esoteric #hand of god #symbols #rosicrucian #strange signs
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Daily celebrations of quiet desperation."  From Happy Cruelty Day! by Bob Powers, 2007.
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#desperation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1905 yearbook.  See Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #palmistry #illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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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 #silhouette #anthropomorphism #anvil #blacksmith #double bass #human insturment #playing with himself
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 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 #umbrella #fashion #vintage fashion #parasol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kitty-Cat Tales by Alice Van Leer Carrick, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1907 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unruly Robin, written and illustrated by Dorathea Dankovszky.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bird #robin #spaghetti
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Killed by bees."  From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #swarm #insect attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Melancholy women.  Always afraid something dreadful is going to happen.  Why should women have the blues more than men?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #vintage ad #depression #melancholy #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny #easter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century Illustrated, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #knight #jousting
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Murder Room, by Jack Sharkey:

***
ABEL: Does forgetfulness run in your family?
SUSAN: I don't remember.

***
BARRY: But I'll be damned--
LOTTIE: [Shocked.] Oh!
BARRY: --darned--
LOTTIE: [Puzzled.] Eh?
BARRY: --dashed--
LOTTIE: [Contented.] Ah!

***
EDGAR: You'll never find the secret safe with all the emeralds in it.
BARRY: Secret?
LOTTIE: Safe?
JAMES: Emeralds?
SUSAN: In it?
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witch's Cat by Ruth Chew.
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#cat
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1918 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #somnambulism #sleeping #vintage women #1910s #drowsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Gingerbread Man by G. H. P. and illustrated by Robert Gaston Herbert, 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 #silhouette #gingerbread man
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April 16, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #severed head #medusa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#devil #silhouette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twinkle Toes and His Magic Mittens by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by F. R. Morgan, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 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 #cat #pet walker #walking the cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #earth #insect #bug #beetle #on top of the world #dung beetle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"What's it to ya'?"  From Charleston Southern's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #peg leg #vintage yearbook #wooden leg #yearbook #pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #candle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #king #literature #scribe #vintage yearbook #yearbook #literary
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #hypnosis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales from Story-Town by Mina Pearl Ashton and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 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 #silhouette #rabbit #easter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What Happened to Wigglesworth by William Oliver Fuller and illustrated by E. D. Allen, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mayhem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ink pen #pen is mightier than the sword
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #rabbit #puss in boots #animal trap
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You knew that, for efficiency, the grim reaper's scythe has to be enormous.  From Nebelspalter, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #giant #grim reaper #skull face #scythe #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Every morning feels this way.  From Swarthmore's 1941 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #alarm clock #1940s #rude awakening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Magnetic Healing by M. T. Santwani, 1981.
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#magnet #magnetic healing
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Monmouth College's 1918 yearbook. 
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#vintage yearbook #one eyed #everybody's doing it #1910s
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
The importance of mop wigs is documented in this mop wig gallery.
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#prof. oddfellow #mop wig
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April 15, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"No rock is too much trouble to lift if underneath it we may find a friend."  From Mr. Peepers, season 3, episode 4.
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#mr. peepers
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
A haunted clockwork sing-a-long: it's Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #haunted clockwork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #forest #dark forest #shadow land
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mayan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pchela, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #lizard #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elves and Ellefolk by Natalia Balting and illustrated by Gordon Laite.
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#vintage illustration #elves #wee folk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From the University of North Carolina at Charlotte's 1973 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
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You may have wondered about this.  Here's what happens to mascots between games.  From The Gateway, 1971.
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#bicycle #vintage photo #costume #mascot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull
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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 #bat #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #finger puppet #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Neither of them will ever get a piece of the pie.  Why?  They're using the wrong type of chart.  From Western Michigan's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #line graph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hedgehog #surrounded #on top of it #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Signs in the sky."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.
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#outer space #night sky #stars #starry night
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Casino for Sale, by Caryl Brahms and S. J. Simon:

***
“Madame,” said Citrolo in tones of a refrigerator salesman referring to a rival make...
[I like the implication that a salesperson whose product is frigid is especially icy when disparaging something.]

***
Prince Alexis Artishok’s monocle was clearly disclaiming all responsibility for the table’s flower scheme.

***
"Without me Vladimir is an empty 'O.'"
[Google Books, at a glance, didn't give me any evidence that the "empty 'O'" has any currency beyond this book. (N.B. The O in that sentence appears typographically identical to other capital O's in the book, so I'm assuming it is indeed an O and not a zero.) Does One-Letter Words: A Dictionary have anything to say about the "empty 'O'"?]

***
“Schwolotz [“swine”],” screamed Dyrakova....
“Schwolotz yourself,” retorted Buttonhooke. He did not know what it meant but it sounded good.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#witch #mushroom #toadstool #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1908.
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#monkey #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tour of Doctor Syntax In Search of the Picturesque, illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #all wet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rachel and Herman by Mina Lewiton and illustrated by Howard Simon.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves #ladder
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April 14, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Holland is a floating hat.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #holland #illustration #hat
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The Right Word (permalink)
We can't find a dictionary anywhere that hasn't left out at least three colorful meanings of the little-known, quaint old nautical term spitcher.
It's commonly acknowledged that this Maltese derivation from the early 1900s means to be finished or done for, sunk (as in a downed submarine), demolished, permanently lost, damaged beyond repair, gone forever.
But who else will tell you that spitcher is also a piece of tile used in hopscotch?  (Gleanings Revisited: Nostalgic Thoughts Of a Bedfordshire Farmer's Boy by E. W. O'Dell, 1995).
Or that a spitcher is a canal boat's quant pole?  ("I was born on a canal boat, and often tumbled in and had to be fished out by father with the spitcher" [Fire Island: Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track by George Manville Fenn, 1894]).
Or that a spitcher is an assassination?  (Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night, 1949).
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#spitcher
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #picture puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May d'placer beasts not cross your path today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beast
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #ostrich #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #genie bottle #djinn #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Panzer College's 1936 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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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 #waterfall #fashion #vintage fashion #clown #circus #tiger #rapids #swimsuit #swimwear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #devil #angel #good and evil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A mummy, R2D2, big baby new year, and the grim reaper -- if you ask us, they're all winners.  From Southeastern Community College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#mummy #grim reaper #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #baby new year #1970s #costume contest
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Haven't had our evening pickmeups yet."  From The Cougar City Gazette, 1970.
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#mask #horror #zombie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Michigan's 1932 yearbook.

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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #moses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1958.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A light for warning or guid ____ ing [sic]."  From Valparaiso's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lighthouse #beacon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #king #bear #running
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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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 #ship #poseidon #hand of god
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This unnamed snowman is identified as a member of Phi Kappa Sigma.  We tried looking him up, but his records have been frozen.  From Spoon River's 1973 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The sorceress and the pearl.  From Sandman Twilight Stories by Abbie Phillips Walker and illustrated by Rhoda C. Chase, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale #frog #frog king
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April 13, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goats by Frank Wright Noxon, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #boxing #uncle sam #map #ohio #illustration #indiana
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
The Tesla spirit radio picks up a mysterious signal from “Regions Beyond.”
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Mind.In.A.Box's original is here: World of Promises
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
We analyzed this photo of Bigfoot and can find absolutely nothing inauthentic about it.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.
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#bigfoot
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1982.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1998 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #full moon #wolf #vintage yearbook #howling #yearbook #animal tracks #wolf tracks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Kate Mahoney, in Ethos, 1971.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Third Reader by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fable #wolf #winter #native american
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage #creature #robot #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #devil costume
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How true those words are, even today: "We must do everything and everything and anything we can."  From Dark Shadows episode 282.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weaver's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #hunter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 13 Danish Tales by Mary Hatch and illustrated by Edgun.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Florida Southern's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trumpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1971.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #door #gates of hell #gate of hell
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montclair's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #blurred
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #tiger #tiger costume #animal costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shinto, The Way of the Gods by William George Aston, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.  See One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #alphabet #anthropomorphism #letters #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.
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#ufo
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April 12, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We haven't gone anywhere, and it's never too late to tune in" (Radio Laurier).
From The Old Line, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #mausoleum #cemetery #graveyard #crypt #1950s #antenna
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hypnosis, The Wakeful Sleep by Larry Kettelkamp, 1975.
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#hypnosis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dungeon Master: Perfect Guide.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #japanese #yokai #long tongue
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
""You may find it hard to believe, but I couldn't sleep if I didn't finish singing the song in my head."
The Venus Project Magazine, 2013
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #knight #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From UNC Asheville's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Little Incas have long ears, may they sleep a thousand years!"  From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #swan #iceberg #folk tale
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion
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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 L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cone of silence #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fear #fairies #darkness #horror #cornwall #whirlpool #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's ultra common in old yearbooks to see a student's childhood Raggedy Ann doll brought along as a transition object.  Here's Raggedy Ann in a dorm refrigerator.  From Valparaiso's 1982 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 #refrigerator #raggedy ann #ketchup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of 38 Playboy bunny mascots in Thornton Junior College's 1959 yearbook (a phenomenon that goes unexplained).

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny
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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 #crow #blackbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unfamiliar Magic by R. C. Alexander.
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#cat #magic
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Mystery of the Hated Man, by James Montgomery Flagg:

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It was the property of an old spinster who had moved to Putney and had resolutely refused to rent it to any one. She had left her furniture and belongings. Everything but her mongoose. (The mongoose is put in to sound like a clue. It isn't, believe me!)

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His Lordship. What do you mean by suspicious manner?
Sprowch. Well, he had no expression on his face!
His Lordship. That was not suspicious — that was English — but proceed!

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Counsel for Defence. I object, m'Lud, on the grounds that it is iridescent, non-corrosive and slightly perfumed--
His Lordship. (To court officer) Remove G. K. Chesterton!

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I read them with a sympathetic quiver, with the tears of complete understanding gushing from my left eye while my right eye smiles with glowing rapport!
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #eye #vintage headline #headline
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April 11, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to illusionist George Parker, who wrote: "I watched it five times now and keep discovering new gems."
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#magick #occult #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #thumble #beeswax
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
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#vintage illustration #fox #chicken #folk tale
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1900.
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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 #king neptune #trident #seahorse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth's 1985 yearbook.

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#eagle #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #1980s #eagle costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King of Cats by Eileen O'Faolian and illustrated by Vera Bock.
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#vintage illustration #flying horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #cauldron #father time #fraternity #vintage yearbook #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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#vintage illustration #ghost #ufo #spectre #phantom #sputnik #satellite #hitchhiker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An entire dorm with bags over the residents' heads.  From Valparaiso's 1982 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #paper bag head #bag over the head #paper bag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic or Not? by Edward Eager and illustrated by N. M. Bodecker.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #parasol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ink pen #ink bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #artist #nature #queen nature
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We cried."  From Spoon River's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #crying #1970s #vintage man #man crying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Happy-Thought Story Book by Bertha Hall and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Manual of Cheirosophy by Edward Heron Allen and illustrated by Rosamund Brunel Horsley, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #astrology #ram #aries
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #constellation #fish #pisces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #faces in things #yarn doll #yarn ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #goose
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Forgotten Wisdom (permalink)
This is a guest piece we created for DJ Misc's [now defunct] blog, showing how diamonds throw out miniature northern lights, inspired as we wre by a de Chirico quotation: "Priceless stones threw out in all directions their iridescent darts and their miniature northern lights."
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#aurora #northern lights #diamond
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April 10, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tale as old as time.  From Cine-Mundial, 1920.
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#punctuation #visual poetry #wordless
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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 Jugend, 1904.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #hunter #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #grizzly bear
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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 photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #starry night #witching hour #tower #castle in the air
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblogging is restricted to trashy people.  From Catawba's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #trashcan #vintage woman #trash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hello and goodbye.  From Doctor Rabbit and Ki-yi Coyote by Thomas Hinkle, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #coyote #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  Was he was making some sort of statement, or did the photographer simply not know what he was doing?  From Central Carolina Technical's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faceless #no face #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Folks rarely look deader than when they're waiting for their life masks to dry.  From Spoon River's 1973 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #face mask #1970s #faceless #no face #life mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychopathy, or Spirit Healing by the spirit of Benjamin Rush, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #dancing #alcohol #collage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Very rare to see a cat surfing.  From The Cat Who Wanted To Go Home by Jill Tomlinson.
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#cat #surfing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How to use a hand "telescope."  From Chatterbox, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #telescope
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Old News (permalink)
Ghosts in boxing gloves, resurrected to fight again.  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#ghost #boxing #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The House That Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Strong feelings about pie.  From Harper's, 1879.
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#pie #vintage illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Corpse Grows a Beard, by Margaret Scherf:

***
Doc Morrow chipped the word deliberately from the very small stock he keeps for the public.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #wolf #ad
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April 9, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #zebra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #elves #brownies #snowball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #sun #fairies #anthropomorphism #stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The awful fight between Theseus and the Mintotaur."  From Myths From Many Lands by Eva March Tappan, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #minotaur #theseus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #bats #ornate border #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #harp #yearbook #musician
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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 #ufo #outer space #astral travel #out of body #alien abduction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Color fading pays off for him."  From Bradford Durfee's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lizard #chameleon #color changing #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This book is rare, if its surprising price tag is any indication: Children of the Black Sabbath by Anne Hébert.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #nun #black sabbath
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Old News (permalink)
"Tears bring mixed emotions."  From The Gateway, 1977.
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#vintage headline #tears #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From George Fox's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #no #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snail #antennae #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume party #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer, 1936.
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#vintage photo #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It is written that only those who can find a kitten in this array of photographs are entitled to a better day.  From Spoon River's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook #1970s #kitten #i am not a number
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #flag #pirate flag #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The talking cat from The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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April 8, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #doughnut #donut #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #giant hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #chinese #toy boat #parasol
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We, too, don't know and don't know anything, but all we know is that we must find a way, and we must do it within these next three days.  From Dark Shadows episode 1114.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #depression #springtime
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Wonderland, A Dramatization by Alice Gerstenberg, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mock turtle #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Drunk: The Definitive Drinker's Dictionary.  Can you guess which entry this illustration is from?
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#shamrock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #saturn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy's Rabbit Stories by Mary E. Calhoun and illustrated by E. Warde Blaisdell, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals
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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 #angel
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #laughter #stocks #1920s #illustration #ticklish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton key #skull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The lost art of standing behind furniture and thereby becoming invisible.  From North Carolina Wesleyan's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage man
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Old News (permalink)
"Screaming in the heavens."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1998.
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#heaven #ufo #vintage headline #screaming #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Looks like the book on the table is Deliverance by James Dickey.  From Spoon River's 1973 yearbook.
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#umbrella #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #bad luck
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A cute gift pairing idea: To Be a Cat by Matt Haig and How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#cat people #shapeshifting
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Tomb of the Chatelaine, by Karen Menuhin:

***
"Butlering one-up-manship, old chap?"

***
"No-one had ever heard such a godawful name as Godolphin."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How the stock market actually works.  From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #magic #stock market
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April 7, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #queen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lincoln Lore by Ray B. Browne.
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#vintage illustration #devil #abraham lincoln #shadow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kentucky College for Women's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #insect man #bug man #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #horse #chariot #vegetarian nightmare #eaten alive #horse meat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institute yearbook of 1914.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #illustration #expression
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The "Bobo."  From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #monster #japanese #horns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #world #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eye #illustration #surveillance society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #horror #severed head #treasure chest #decapitated
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Sure, you might think that one doesn't need to read a book about doing nothing, that not reading it would be the whole point.  But that's the genius of this: those not quite ready to do nothing will need to read a book about it as part of their process.  From Doing Nothing by Steven Harrison.
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#doing nothing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aquarius #water bearer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #apron #1950s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Saint Augustine's College's 1981 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #prayer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A Chicago florist's automobile.  From Colliers, 1916.
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#florist #flowers #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#stag #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you hereby be protected against today's fiends.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #fiend
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #boat #moth
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Sigfus of Sweden for saying of our audio version of The Minimalist Coloring Book: "What a mesmerising video you’ve created! And I love your way of bending the language into magic words of visions, lots of pictures are floating through one’s inner eye. Superb, professor!"
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#prof. oddfellow #minimalism #video #anti-coloring
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April 6, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #ice #polar bear #thin ice #advice #illustration
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored that Austria's Mind.In.A.Box was interested in a haunted clockwork version of their song "World of Promises."
Thanks to MerelyGifted, who said: "Oh, now this is Gorgeous.  Bright and dark, sweet and sad, hopeful and [ ].  Genius, godly."  
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Mind.In.A.Box's original is here: World of Promises
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #mind.in.a.box
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
"Don't go to any pub named after authors (Dickens) or characters (Sherlock Holmes).  When in doubt about a pub, find open water (river, lake) and you will find good pubs there!"  This London pub map from 1994 was drawn for Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#map #london #pubs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Open Court, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #egypt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #castle #bonfire
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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 #ufo #beer #alcoholism #temperance #teetotal #magnification #microscope #vintage headline #aliens #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goat legged #faun #ex libris #illustration #bookplate
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1987.
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#vintage illustration #headache #surreal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1992 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #invisible man
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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 #rabbit #lion #lion king
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Get in line behind the vulture.  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vulture #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Separations by Marilyn Hacker.
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#hole #door #separation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wolves of Heaven by Karl Schlesier.
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#vintage illustration #native american #cosmogram #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #night photography
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You've heard of (and perhaps tried) opening a Bible at random and resting a finger on one verse as a form of divination.  A more advanced practice is to do that but not look at the verse that comes up but rather attune to the answer that presents itself in your mind.  Photo from Taylor Magazine, 1974.
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#vintage photo #bible
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard the motto "Keep on truckin'" and may have assumed it involved the open road.  However, the truckin' actually takes place on the roof, in the snow, on the lawn, or out the window.  From Assumption College's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #motto #keep on truckin'
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs) and illustrated by W. Fletcher White, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #native american #iroquois
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #mushroom
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April 5, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #hollow tree #mother nature #1910s #tree door
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
"I haven't read any papers in a week. Well, why concern myself with other disasters when I have got one going on right here?"  From Dark Shadows episode 145.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pig, dog, duck, or rooster: which would you wager to win?  From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #dog #pig #animal fight
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #dog #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Get a Clue—Read by Montana Family Reading Program, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #sleepless #all-seeing eye #eye #vigilance #surveillance society #awake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ironically, this depicts the unevolved mind of the artist more than it does humanity at large.  The caption reads, "If men looked like their minds, what a frightening world this would be."  From The Martlet, 1972.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #hybrid
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #smart animal #intelligent animal #clever animal
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From a German election poster, 1928.  Courtesy of the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science Library.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #election poster #1928 #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft and Sorcery, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #castle
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The moon was full and everything was just right."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1977 yearbook.
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#full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Quest, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skull face #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to look back there for god."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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#angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ornamental design
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From When Winter Comes by Russell Freedman and illustrated by Pamela Johnson.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1939 yearbook.

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#bow tie #vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #vintage man #mustache #dandy #yearbook #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #decapitated #illustration #blood fountain #art
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Burglar in the Closet, by Lawrence Block:

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If [the bar] had been any more frivolous it would have floated away.

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"King Street is in SoHo, but just barely. It's one block So of Ho." She laughed mechanically, as if she used this play on words frequently and was getting sick of it.
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April 4, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you're a doll that needs to be wound up.  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #doll #wind-up doll
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#riddle #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Old News (permalink)
"The 'go-somewhere-else' attitude."  From The Improvement Era, 1958.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy-Folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fairies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #ostrich
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad from If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fish #ad
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to The Rocky Horror Picture Show.  From Lighted Pathway, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #rocky horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #pine tree #up a tree #wood nymph
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Sociable Sand Witch by T. L. Sappington, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #raining cats and dogs #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Remorse.  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #remorse #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1965 yearbook.

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#skull #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #sculpture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"All h--l can't stop me."  From Wid's Daily, 1920.
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#vintage hollywood #vintage man #hollywood #man #can't stop me
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #cat #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story Carnival by DeLancey and Iverson.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #owl #cow #barn
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
The patron saint of senior classes.  From Oberlin's 1905 yearbook.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #stained glass #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twenty-two Goblins by Arthur W. Rider, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Augustine's College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bird headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #bird man #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Car Busters, 2010.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cyborg #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #feathers #dandy #headdress #peacock feather
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April 3, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king
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Old News (permalink)
"Authority expounds upon the perils of a short manhood."  From The Martlet, 1972.
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#mad scientist #vintage headline #headline
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From La Lámpara Maravillosa, Ejercicios Espiritualis by Ramón Valle-Inclán, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #sun #occult #esoteric #eye of god #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Feel close to nature."  From Concordia's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #toilet #close to nature
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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 Mothers News, 2012.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #searchlight #light and darkness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1906 yearbook of UNC Chapel Hill.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine #rocking horse
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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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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
A quartet from Swarthmore's 1909 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #circus #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #bobcat
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1939 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#skull #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
We find this to be true -- every time we see a dog, the next day a cowboy swaggers in.  From The Current Sauce, 1957.
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#dog #cowboy #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #egypt #temple #ramses #statue #luxor
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Old News (permalink)
"Den of snakes in a cabin."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#snake #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#devil
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Charing Cross Mystery, by J. S. Fletcher:

[Re. tracing someone from a torn label, where only the initials and the "Esq." remain.]

"I'll soon find out who C. A. blank, Esquire, is!"

[Bonus: A club called the Junior Megatherium. (As you may recall, a different author once gave us a theatre called the Megatherium. Doing the math, I find this is two Megatheria namesakes more than I expected from old literature. Two thus far, mind you!)]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The equator making off.  From The Runaway Equator by Lilian Bell and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #mountaintop #equator
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April 2, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #dog #rabbit #animal friends
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Johnson Journal, 1930.
*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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Always good to see a wampire lord who knows how to use his cape to best advantage.  From Wizardry 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vampire #cape
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"In the dark."  From Outdoors, Indoors, and Up the Chimney by Charles McIlvaine, 1906.
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#darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Barnes Readers, Book One, First Year-Second Half by Herman Dressel, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #gingerbread man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Indoors by Eric Broder.
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#woman #vintage woman #housewife #indoors #spray can
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 940.
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #giant skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #mushroom people #pillow #clothesline #cocoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Your weight is 120 lbs.  Your height is 5'2".  You will have a good day.  And if you don't mind, earthling, you're stepping on my toe."  From the [Thornton] Courier, 1973.
Not quite so alien: the vintage weight scale we acquired that was literally overflowing with pennies: video.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #alien #weight scale
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1988 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fire #castle #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #bat #airplane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A glowing shadow from UM Amherst's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #inverted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The twelfth labor of Hercules.  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mythology #cerberus #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1979 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #torch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Film buffs will already have recognized this as being an ad for Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby.  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #leopard #vintage hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1873.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #fire spirit #fire #fireplace #puppet master
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fancy hand lettering.  From Oberlin's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #hand lettering #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #frog #predator
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April 1, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tiger In the House by Carl Van Vechten, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #frog #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maoriland Fairy Tales by Edith Howes, 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 #bird #maui
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights
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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 #black cat #giant cat #window #sign
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #horse #lion #tied together
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Old News (permalink)
"Aliens may have created universe."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
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#vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan's 1919 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #sign
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Said to be immortal, this is "James T. Dooley" and his bodyguards.  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#death #skull face #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #fish
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Abroad at Home, by Julian Street:

***

After a time he suggested that we make up a list of the things we had been warned of.... It required about two hours to get everything down, beginning with Aches, Actresses, Adenoids, Alcoholism, Amnesia, Arson, etc., and running on, through the alphabet to Zero weather, Zolaism, and Zymosis.

After looking over the category, my companion said:

"The trouble with this list is that it doesn't present things in the order in which they may reasonably be expected to occur. For instance, you might get zymosis, or attempt to write like Zola, at almost any time, yet those two dangers are down at the bottom of the list."

[...]

This time we made two lists: one of general dangers—things which might overtake us almost anywhere...another arranged geographically, according to our route. Thus, for example, instead of listing Elbert Hubbard under the letter "H," we elevated him to first place, because he lives near Buffalo, which was our first stop.

I didn't want to put down Hubbard's name at all—I thought it would please him too much if he ever heard about it. I said to my companion:

"We have already passed Buffalo. And, besides, there are some things which the instinct of self-preservation causes one to recollect without the aid of any list."

"I know it," he returned, stubbornly, "but, in the interest of science, I wish this list to be complete."

So we put down everything: Elbert Hubbard, Herbert Kaufman, Eva Tanguay, Upton Sinclair, and all.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The bonhomme cosmopolitanite."  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Fear created by cancer fund drives is labeled on par with the disease."  From The Aberree, 1962.  
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#fear #disease #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1986 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #gargoyle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Hobbies; or, A Guide to Happiness by Charles Taussig and Theodore Meyer, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #magnifying glass #vintage men #men #stamp collecting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If a man has waved his booty at you, please register it with a reblog.  From Chatterbox, 1909.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #booty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #angel #harp #star
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