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April 30, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Wolverine versus stag: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1892.
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"The catip man."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1915.
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Old News (permalink)
"Armless man likes his beer.  Ordered out of town."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's entangled wigs are from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Bombay Chronicle, 1928.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #mask #pollution #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She weaves a web of colors gay."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1967.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #flower #spring #fresh #ad
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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 #serpent #money #snake #evil #dollar sign #root
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The cat that was steaing milk."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #spider web #giant spider #caught in a web #green spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton #war #war dead #river of blood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An official yearbook portrait.  From Denison'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 #night photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sophocles the Hyena by Jim Moran and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I've spent my life doing the wrong thing. ... Leave me alone."  From Dark Shadows episode 269.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State Normal School's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Banana by Bonnie Bluh, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #hand #banana
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April 29, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Corrie Who? by Maximilian Foster, 1908.  (Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.)

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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #illustration #door
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two pencilled-in birds.  From Agriculture by C. C. James, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #bird #illustration #birdhouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #candle #1890s #candles with faces #candle face #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Not drunk or crazy.  'I really did see a kangaroo.'"  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#kangaroo #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ghost #fire #ghost story #vintage book #book #bear #forest fire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big hat #hat
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Seek better times that never were."  From Indiana State's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (1894).
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#vintage illustration #cat #boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #horse
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Old News (permalink)
"Daydreams and night duty."  From Simmons College's 1947 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #daydream #vintage headline #headline
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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 #wolf #aesop #sheep
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's double piano in the shadow realm is from Adrian College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#shadow #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #elves #insect #brownies #bugs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri at Kansas City's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #gun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #pistol #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adam, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #monster #troll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Aristomenes.  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 #beard #warrior #Aristomenes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #knitting #yarn ball #knitting needle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #airplane #engineering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dancing #clock
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't try to argue with a woman."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1964.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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April 28, 2023

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored to be remixed by Hungary's Dr-Rd:
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #neons gone mad
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Old News (permalink)
"Dirty powder-puff.  How to be ugly though young.  Who wants a clown's complexion?  The quick way to a wrinkled face."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#ugly #vintage headline #makeup #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click on this inky-black book cover to discover its secret.
From The Trouble with Moonlight by Donna MacMeans.

From The Trouble with Moonlight by Donna MacMeans
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#moon #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wish Fairy and Dewy Dear by Alice Ross Colver, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1977.
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#unseen world #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #faces in things #letter q #capital q #king q #vintage headline #claustrophobia #nowhere to run #headline #nowhere to hide #hemmed in
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #cauldron #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #mud #slide
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
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#vintage illustration #pet walker #penguin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy's 1928 yearbook.

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

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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.
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#burn after reading
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sibyl
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Old News (permalink)
"Insomnia.  'Oh sleep, oh gentle, how have I frightened you."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1934.
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#insomnia #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Rameau's Niece, by Catherine Schine:

***
She had forgotten those many things as thoroughly as if she swilled daily from the river Lethe, morning, noon, and night, gulping, gargling, brushing her teeth with the waters of oblivion.

***
Sometimes she thought about what it would be like to sit next to herself at a dinner party. She would have nothing to say. And neither would she.

***
Across from her sat a man who looked familiar, but perhaps it was just his eyeglasses.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #health #weight gain #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal #singing frog #musical frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Simpson College's 1967 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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April 27, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 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 #aesop #rooster #henhouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Encyclopedia of Face and Form Reading by Mary Olmsted Stanton, 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 #physiognomy #1900s #face reading #making faces #eyebrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life by Sidartha, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jesus
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Old News (permalink)
We fact-checked this, and it's true!  If it's not one thing, it's another.  "There's always something," from Lighted Pathway, 1955.
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#vintage headline #something #headline #it's always something
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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 #world #old boston #tavern #sphere #ball #mothball
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Old News (permalink)
"What life deeply and honestly means."  From Olivert Nazarene's 1943 yearbook.
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#meaning of life #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dungeon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hazing #spanking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snail #insect
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A confession."  From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #confession
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Basketball has devolved from this to folks playing in their underwear.  From Northwestern College's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage men #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Act Well Your Part by Don Sakers.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#tragedy mask #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walrus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Matilda's flight from Oxford Castle."  From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hooded figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #smoking #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #smoke ring
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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 #siamese cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #balancing act #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Divorced!  Names in the paper!  Broken hearts and bewildered lives!"  From Moving Picture World, 1924.
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#1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #divorce #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1931 yearbook.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #cat people #cat headed #illustration #dancing animal #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grail, 1945
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goddess #halo #virgin mary #vintage magazine #magazine
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April 26, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"The darkest days will pass."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage poster #poster
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Old News (permalink)
How true those words are, even today: "The world in a trance."  From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#trance #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Erskine College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #powder keg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #political cartoon #hybrid #human faced #cat and mouse #art
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Young Harris College's 1974 yearbook.  See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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#unicorn #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No one dreamed that a lion was so near."  From Chatterbox, 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 #seaside #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #garden of eden #eve
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #monday #rushing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #sorority
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Damon and Pythias.  From Festival and Civic Plays from Greek and Roman Tales by Mari Ruef Hofer, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #greek #friendship #damon #pythias
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #teacup
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If anything happens!"  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bannister #accident #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's exhausted Pegasus is from Wheaton College's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #flying horse #exhausted
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Come, Sleep, and kiss my eyelids down; In thy twinklings of oblivion, let me forget."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #sleep #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Be fat, be lean, no drugs."  From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Jumbo is naturally interested in the big news events of the day and does not hesitate to point out with his trunk what he onsiders [sic] the mot [sic] important items. He is now searching for the latest kidnapping news."  From The Instructor, 1932.
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#anthropomorphism #elephant #vintage photo #fake news
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shaving #moustache
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Old News (permalink)
Just in time: The Steady Light That Is Strong Enough to Illuminate the Way of Life and to Guide Humanity In Days of Cloud and Darkness by Jeannie Folsom Morrill, 1907. 
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#light #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #false teeth #teeth #hunter #1940s #illustration
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
(Hat tip: the winsome Jonathan Caws-Elwitt)  A map of the Arctic Ocean or the White Sea.  From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.  An entire atlas of seemingly blanks maps: The Carte Blanche Atlas.
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#map #blank map #white sea #arctic ocean
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April 25, 2023

The Right Word (permalink)
Put an M before each thing that must be magic.  From Reading for Meaning: On We Go, Teacher's Edition by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #magic #flying horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #elephant #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941. 
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#flowers #vintage men #men #orchid
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Old News (permalink)
From Who Cares About Apathy? by Ludlow Porch.
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#vintage headline #apathy #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #life after death #afterlife #robot #next world
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2008.

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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #parrot #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pussy willow can you meaw?  What?  You don't know how?  Listen, if you wish to know, for this pussy will ,O!"  From Busy Hands by Isabelle Bowker, 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 #cat #pussy willow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Virginia Military Institute's 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 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 #crow #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Denison's 1985 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #spirit photography #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The mail-cart."  From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #mail carrier #postman
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Paper Lives, by Compton Mackenzie:

Sir Oliver turned the key of the Yale lock and pushed open his front door to stand in the hall and...perhaps yodel is not absolutely correct but to make a noise more like yodelling than anything else.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Newton Junior College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #injured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture News, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #spider #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #poem #boning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Old News (permalink)
"Mankind needs healing touch of Buddhism."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1952.
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#buddhism #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #hat #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"A coffin a day ..."  From New Sports, 1949.
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#coffin #vintage headline #headline
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April 24, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"Great city engages an insect."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#insect #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #cat and dog
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #galaxy #vintage headline #headline #lost in space
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Old News (permalink)
"It was a dark and froggy night."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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#frog #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivert Nazarene's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #war #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Or you can always say, 'Let's go "out west" for a couple of ... hours.'"  From Purple Parrot, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #go west
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Indiana State's 1969 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #1960s #kitten #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #money #penny #pixie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1906 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spider web #tiny man #caught in a web
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)

We tracked a temporal anomaly to the Simmons Bank in Bolivar, Tennessee.  It's difficult to make out, but the clock doesn't say 4:20.  "An hour that never passed: as if time were broken there and were opening a window: a hole through which to slide us toward the deep" (Pablo Neruda, "Enigma for the Worried").

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#temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #heart #1920s #collage #two faced #book of love
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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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#bear #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Stratford Normal School's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #sword #vintage yearbook #murdered
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture Show, 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 #vintage ad #violin #fiddle #musician #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #coyote
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #earth #outer space #airplane #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Spelling Program 6 by Thomas and Braun, 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 #bookworm #illustration
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April 23, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Weasel versus shrike: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 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 #nest #animal fight #illustration #weasel #shrike
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Old News (permalink)
"Needless worry."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The caption says they're "inseparable off as on the screen.  They are of the same height and have the same tastes. They even smoke the same brand of cigars at the same time, and one match does for both of them."  From Picture Show, 1920.
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#cigar #vintage gay #1920s #dandies #vintage magazine #gay #vintage hollywood #vintage men #men #hollywood #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes by Edna Walter and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 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 #fox #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Like-To-Do Stories by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy #horse #elves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #anthropomorphism #giraffe
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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 #elf #wee folk #morality
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Old News (permalink)
"Pretty names for ugly sins."  From Together, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #sin #alcoholism #alcohol #vintage headline #alcoholic #red eyes #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna'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 #pipe smoker #walking the dog #long neck #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Odd intervals."  From Brevard College's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #odd #headline
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
St. Sebastian by Giovanni Bazzi, c. 1576.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #angel #arrows #st. sebastian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1928 Ole Miss yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories of Early England by Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton, 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 #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Don't be silly!  There's nothing wrong with organic chemistry!"  From Lambuth College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monster #mad scientist #vintage yearbook #chemistry #organic chemistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #inkblot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #fairy tale #long nose #big nose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Stagger Inn."  From Hampden-Sydney College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage automobile #automobile #inn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #squirrel
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April 22, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Tell me mentally where Cincinati [sic] is?"  From the endpapers of Agriculture by C. C. James, 1899.
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#mentalism #handwriting #endpaper #1890s #cincinnati
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"With a leap he landed in the sky land."  From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #native american #squirrel #illustration #flying squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #cat #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
Fake news?  "Children actually save you money!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1920.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #newspaper dress
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Old News (permalink)
"Does the Lord expect research work of me?"  From The Instructor, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline #research
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The magician began a powerful invocation."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult #magician #magic
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Old News (permalink)
"Is the universe friendly?"  From The Link, 1963.
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#sphinx #egypt #vintage photo #pyramid #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #pipe smoker #vintage headline #lopsided #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ottawa's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #harpy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #human headed #birdhouse
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Old News (permalink)
"The quivering corset."  From Purple Parrot, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #corset #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Belmont Abbey's 1974 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Kissed by a cloud.  From Harper's, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cloud #kissing
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Old News (permalink)
"Period of great trials."  From St. Procopius College's 1953 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #hard times
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s #wolf mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From An Alphabet of Old Friends by Walter Crane, 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 #alphabet #lantern #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson College's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #phonograph #tiny people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #midnight #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #oz #flying monkey
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April 21, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #bigfoot #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #monkey #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"We are not afraid."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#fearless #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 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 #fox #aesop #stork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The monkey seemed much interested in her remarks."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey #good listener
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #astrology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull #taurus
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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 #pitchfork #crocodile #hybrid #vintage headline #ink #red ink #lobster man #red crocodile #claws for hands #pen #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telephone
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Old News (permalink)
We have quite a few mistakes in our refrigerator, too.  From Lighted Pathway, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #mistakes #refrigerator #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Broome County Technical Institute's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #outer space #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rocket #endpapers
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Reblog if hypnosis is the only avenue left.  From Dark Shadows episode 1117.
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#hypnosis #dark shadows
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Calvin College's 1988 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #shadow #vintage yearbook #night photography
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Sundials (permalink)
We, too, use soap as a sundial, which is why we look so amazing for 5,000 years old.  From Black and White Budget, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sundial #soap #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Bachelors Anonymous, by P. G. Wodehouse

***
[And again! (With a happy ending this time.)]

"It was obvious that a great weight had been lifted from her mind and that the sun had--"
"Come smiling through?"
"The very phrase I was about to employ."
***
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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 #owl
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Old News (permalink)
"More cakes are needed."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#vintage headline #cake #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #broom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #falling #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1920.
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#cat #1920s #vintage hollywood #vintage man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins 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 #candle #processional #secret society #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
"I'll be running in the light all the way."  From The Instructor, 1970.
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#vintage headline #headline
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April 20, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's like every time we open our own window.  From Canadian Children's Own Readers: Fun and Frolic by Mary Elizabeth Pennell, et al. and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbit #gingerbread man #window #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click 4 times to see the autumn colors.

From Alms For Oblivion
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#vintage book #book #autumn #animated gif #fall colors
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #donkey #costume #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #footprint
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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 #dog #vintage headline #dating #headline #going too far #going all the way
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Old News (permalink)
"You don't get beat for too much sugar."  From Together, 1966.
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#sugar #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Look About Us by Gerald Craig, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#snail #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Most ambiguous."  From the University of Chattanooga's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #crossed fingers #fingers crossed #ambiguity #ambiguous
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Old News (permalink)
"Hold a shattered star."  From Lighted Pathway, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #star #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From an ad in Sacred Heart College's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dalmatian #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R 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 #baboon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #hunter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State Normal School's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dandy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippis 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodsman #bear #lumberjack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #jackass
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by Mary Cowles Clark, 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 #elf
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture Show, 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 #vintage ad #long hair #ad
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April 19, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if airmen like windfalls."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Open the door and see all the people."  From Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls by Lina & Adelia Beard, 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 #fingers #hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ships That Have Made History by Gregory Robinson, 1936.
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#vintage book #book #compass rose
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Ray, after being laughed at for using the expression, 'To get 'shet' of particularism."  From Wake Forest College's 1922 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #violin #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Forest by Stewart Edward White, 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 #anthropomorphism #polar bear #north pole #card game
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 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 #anthropomorphism #rat #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #operation #surgeon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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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#elephant #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #hooded figure #in chains
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Two hidden items, the names of which are placed together to form a word, will give this man's name.  From The Duluth Herald, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #map #1900s #explorer #hidden picture #navigator
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1930 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #riverboat #paddleboat
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Old News (permalink)
"French perfumes to drown oil smell."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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#perfume #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #history
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Squiggle-inspired drawings.  We once attained glory by tracing the devolution of a squiggle through the centuries.
From Three Hundred Games & Pastimes by E. V. Lucas, 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 #drawing #squiggle #doodling #sketching
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #smiling dog #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 25.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #folklore #cauldron #cyclops #yokai
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Temple University's School of Medicine's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Midnight Madness and How It Grew" in Purple Parrot, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #up all night
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April 18, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #on fire #burned alive #illustration #burned at the stake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 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 #telephone #1900s #illustration #hose
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Old News (permalink)
From Cats Prefer It This Way by Carole Wilbourn.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Artful Anticks by Oliver Herford (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 #giraffe #tea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"There we will find whether we are of rock or of sand."  From Assumption College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #statue
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1970.
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#vintage photo #upside down #1970s #tire #half buried
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One owl with a book of crossword puzzles, the other with a crossword puzzle dictionary.  From East Tennessee State Normal School's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #mirror #reflection
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

More snippets from James Thurber:

***
[from "My Fifty Years with James Thurber"]
His gold-rimmed glasses forever needed straightening, which gave him the appearance of a person who hears somebody calling but can't make out where the sound is coming from.

***
[ditto]
One has the disturbing feeling that the man contrived to be some place without actually having gone there.

***
[from "The Cane in the Corridor"]

"You remember Reginald Gardiner's imitation of wallpaper...in which he presented a visual image as making a pattern of sound?"

[What? No, as a matter of fact, I *don't*!
But apparently he did!
"He delighted Broadway audiences in 'An Evening with Beatrice Lillie and Reginald Gardiner,' performing a series of witty impersonations of various inanimate items, such as lighthouses and wallpaper."
https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/99826
Bonus tangential search result: Everybody Sing, which you may recall was one of our Film-ictionary items, and in which Gardiner appeared. (If he imitated wallpaper in it, the Wikipedia article doesn't say so. Perhaps he did, but the wallpaper ended up on the--wait for it--cutting-room floor.)
Meanwhile, though I couldn't find the wallpaper sketch on YouTube, I did find this, which seems to promise a few chuckles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjx-353y4AI
You'll also be glad to know that the third search result for "reginald gardner beatrice lillie imitations" (after two versions of the sketch I've just linked to) was, for some reason, Ed Begley's Yiddish scene from A Mighty Wind.]

***
[ditto]

"Here's to the Washington Bridge," she said. "Here's to some big dam or other."

***
[from "Sex ex Machina"]
His wife explained that it was a card table, but that if you pressed a button underneath, it would become an ironing board. Whereupon she pushed the button and the table leaped a foot into the air, extended itself, and became an ironing board....The thing finally became so finely sensitized that it would change back and forth if you merely touched it--you didn't have to push the button. The husband stuck it in the attic (after it had leaped up and struck him a couple of times while he was playing euchre), and on windy nights it could be heard flopping and banging around, changing from a card table to an ironing board and back.

***
[from "There's an Owl in My Room"]
Nobody and no animal and no other bird can play a scene as far down as a pigeon can....When it comes to emotion, a fish, compared to a pigeon, is practically beside himself.

***
[from "The Curb in the Sky"]

[Finishing Other People's Sentences dept.]
"When William Howard Taft was--" some guest in Dorothy's family's home would begin.
"President!" Dorothy would pipe up. The speaker may have meant to say "President" or he may have meant to say "young," or "Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States." In any case, he would shortly put on his hat and go home.
***

[Bonus: A passing reference to Canarsie. And since this anthology is The Thurber Carnival, we might say (or sing) that the carnival went to Canarsie.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #snake #swimming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture News, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage hollywood #footprints #hollywood #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's so true: one cannot ever forget the first time wearing a mop wig.  From the University of Washington's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #mop wig
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Old News (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #fishing #vintage headline #carefree #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera #photographer #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#grotesque #vintage yearbook #1970s #ugly man
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Two Sides / Same Coin (permalink)
"The Difference Between You and Me" by Vernon Howard (via The Internet Archive).
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#two sides of the same coin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From "Is College Training Useful On the Farm?" in Lebanon Valley College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bull #polo #rodeo
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #pen #headline
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April 17, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"New music.  The fear of being left behind."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1965.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #telephone #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #jellyfish
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Old News (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1919.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #hair removal #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton
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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 photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #isolation #pencil
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers by Lilian Jackson Braun.
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#cat #whiskers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alo Man, Stories of the Congo by Mara Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rollin Crampton, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rhino
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Now you will be happy."  From the University of Montana's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #teddy bear
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #evil #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chatham College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#horror #severed head #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #decapitated #1970s
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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 #dog #dog and cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Boston College'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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Oxford by James Morris.
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#vintage book #book #faces in things #vintgae book #door handle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Bazare Records."  From Calvin College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #album art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1965.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #quill pen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #engineer #surveying
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Old News (permalink)
"Did you ever stop to think why you feel lazy, moody and tired?"  From The Duluth Herald, 1908.
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#vintage ad #fatigue #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook #symmetry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Singhalese theatrical mask, from Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 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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#mask #vintage illustration
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April 16, 2023

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 #illustration #mink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An introvert's shadow.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 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 #shadow
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1902.
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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 monster #animal attack #octopus #whale #under the sea #tentacles #diver #submarine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #leopard #hermit #panther #1880s
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Was Alice's Adventurs in Wonderland a nightmare?  We consulted an old book of dream symbolism, The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899:
Falling down the rabbit hole is inauspicious:
The mad tea party is inauspicious:
The Cheshire Cat is inauspicious:
The Mad Hatter is inauspicious:
The Queen of Hearts and other playing cards are inauspicious:
The caterpillar is inauspicious:
The chess pieces are inauspicious:
Humpty Dumpty (because he breaks) is inauspicious:
The dormouse is inauspicious:
There are two auspicious elements, however:
The White Rabbit is auspicious:
The roses painted red are auspicious:
So, with 9 of 11 symbols forewarning serious troubles, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is decidedly a nightmare.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#alice in wonderland #dream #symbolism
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal a travesty of book cover design, in which scribbled crayon fills the vast majority of the space.

Click to reveal a travesty of book cover design, in which scribbled crayon fills the vast majority of the space.
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#vintage book #book #animated gif
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1980.
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#vintage headline #headline #stay in bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rare to see a boxing book.  The students aren't afraid of being knocked out, though -- they're afraid of paper cuts.  From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #boxing #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #walking dictionary
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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 #ghosts #windy #vintage headline #acrobatic #clothesline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Hays State's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #distortion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kutnar, Son of Pic, written and illustrated by George Langford, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #caveman #dizzy #mammoth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An angel playing tennis.  From Mars Hill's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #trouble #crying #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dungeon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grindstone
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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 #flower #statue
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Chess was big in the 1970s.  From Georgia Southern College's 1975 yearbook.  See If a Chessman Were a Word: A Chess-Calvino Dictionary.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose In Silhouettes by Katherine Gough Buffum, 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 #fairy #silhouette #watering can
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Miscellaneous snippets from Vanity Fair, 1913-15:

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Aristotle in the motley mantle of Merry Andrew

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Its refrain...is now being whistled all over the English whistling world.

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No one on the stage ought ever to try to repeat a witty saying and vault over a sofa at the same time.

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scattering galleys and mss. to the careless winds, and to the still more careless proof readers

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"Which Is the Right Switch to Ipswich?" [title of a real song from a show, about making long-distance telephone connections]

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the local Superintendent-or-something of Schools

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those i's which have no i-brows

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Gilbert Douglas has one of those American near-silly-ass parts which he always plays so excellently.
[I guess there's an "appellation" issue here, as with French wines: technically, only an Englishman character can be an actual "silly ass."]

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this narrow lozenge of earth [Manhattan]

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Elsie Janis...can impersonate in a single evening anything from Cleopatra to a billiard-ball. [That's Wodehouse writing.]

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[from a racetrack gambler's "hunch" dream about hats (in "Hats and the Hunch," by Thomas T. Hoyne)]
Opera hats, opening and shutting themselves ceaselessly, snapped and fluttered in the unsteady wind.
***
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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 #fairy tale #peacock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #tiger
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Old News (permalink)
"Truth did not matter."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.  
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#truth #vintage headline #headline
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April 15, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #rabbit #giraffe #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No, he isn't crazy."  From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Old News (permalink)
"Enjoy the peace!"  From I Don't Have to Make Everything All Better by Gary Lundberg.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat #bird
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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 #magick #occult #sword #tarot
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ottawa's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Have you ever seen a dream walking?"  From Purple Parrot, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #priest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reading for Meaning, Practice For Come Along by Paul McKee et al., 1957.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #crying #balloon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some college presidents have very long tenures.  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#living dead #vintage yearbook #zombie #ghoul #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Book of Symbols for Camp Fire Girls by Charlotte Gulick, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #symbolism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #harp #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sword #burma
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sword in the stone #illustration
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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 #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1924 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"She collects 'living dolls.'"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #living toy #living doll #headline
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April 14, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #hat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A very tiny radio behind a magnifying glass picks up a weird station undetectable by other devices.
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#prof. oddfellow #radio #bigfoot #video #penetralia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1927.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #panther
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #electrocuted #vintage headline #electricity #headline #electric shock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Calvin College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #punch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #fist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Quest of the Beautiful by William Repton.
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#vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"You can change your personality from dull to dynamite."  From Calvin College's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to page five.
From Pyramids and the Sphinx by Desmond Stewart.

From Pyramids and the Sphinx by Desmond Stewart
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#sphinx #egypt #vintage book #book #gif
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My World and Welcome to It, by James Thurber:

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"But I don't know who the woman is, and I don't care. Maybe it's Madame Jumel or Mittens Willett or a girl I knew in high school." [I have no idea who those people are, btw.]

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Written especially to instruct the English in how to speak French in the train, the hotel, the quandary, the dilemma, etc...
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1876.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dog #animal friends
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene College's 1930 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Crow and the Whitewash by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #umbrella #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crossbow
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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 #gnome #elf #bible #tiny man #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From String Puller Philosophy by Peter Schumann, 2009.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #puppetry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Simpson College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage yearbook #1960s #painter #self portrait #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From All-Sports Library, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jiujitsu #wrestling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Don't have your picture taken like this, or this, or this."  From State Female Normal School (Farmville)'s 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photographer #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
At first we thought this was a precursor of The Brady Bunch, but then we realized that this bunch took things a bit further.  "Widower and 3 sons marry widow and 3 daughters."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage headline #brady bunch
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April 13, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"London's little polar bears.  Why they always die."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#polar bear #caged animal #zoo #vintage headline #headline
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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 #illustration #mongoose #ichneumon #egyptian mongoose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bear #illustration #fur #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"When a flying 'jellyfish' dropped in for coffee."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1970.
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#ufo #coffee #vintage headline #jellyfish #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Self-initiation.  From Salinas Junior College's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #initiation #panther #paddling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1970.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #balancing act #1970s #tightrope
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jousting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The (Berkeley) Wizard, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #outer space #airship #spaceship #dirigible #blimp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From La Roche College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #severed head #vintage yearbook #decapitated #1970s #apple in the mouth
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #deer #vintage headline #headline #bedtime
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Calvin College's 1977 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage man
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Old News (permalink)
Mixed messages: Keep Your Head Down by Walter Bernstein, yet Don't Be Afraid of the Bullets by Laura Kasinof.
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#vintage headline #headline #mixed messages
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elizabethtown College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fiddler #covered wagon #pioneer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 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 #king #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winston-Salem State College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #ram #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 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 #fire #celtic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal attack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's all pulp to Father Time.  From Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rare to see a basketball team on the floor.  From North-Western College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #basketball #1910s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Collier's, 1915.  See Strange Talismans for Strange Times.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #horseshoe #superstition #lucky horseshoe #good luck #lucky charm #ad
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April 12, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"All Japanese will soon be younger."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.
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#japanese #aging #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Secret of the boiling kettle."  From Advanced Magic by Magical Ovette, 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 #teapot #magic #tea kettle #illustration #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you need building up?"  From Woroni, 1961.
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#vintage headline #headline #bodybuilding
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A mirror world accessible by rocket.  From Winston-Salem State College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #mirror world #rocket
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal an alternate cover. From Escapes and Rescues by Margaret Scoggin.

From Escapes and Rescues by Margaret Scoggin
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#vintage book #book #animated gif #airplane
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by Peter Newell, 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 #alice in wonderland #caterpillar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's book as a portal is from Lasell Seminary's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #portal #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Old News (permalink)
"The modern fly is a very tough guy!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1954.
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#vintage ad #fly #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Injured sportsmen.  From Wittenberg College's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #crutches #injured
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Old News (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#japan #vintage headline #vegetarian nightmare
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1930 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 1865.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1860s
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Old News (permalink)
"Prefers death to being sick."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.  
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#illness #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The giant bat's wings beat the air into a storm, from the delightful and rare The Unicorn with Silver Shoes by Ella Young and illustrated by Robert Lawson.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stick figure #singing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat Who Thought Too Much by Robin D. Gill.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #japanese
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
75285 73611
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #faceless #no face #incognito #bag over the head
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College'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 #pirate #illustration
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#religion #vintage illustration #devil #good and evil #saint #halo
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April 11, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Is it possible to craft a highbrow joke about Shakespeare's multiple personalities?
Thanks to film critic Grumpy Andrew, who wrote: "Zounds! 'Ophelia pain' is about as good a punchline as I have ever heard."
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#shakespeare #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #standup comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Where our knowledge of electricity came from."  From Things A Boy Can Do With Electricity by Alfred Morgan, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #rabbit #top hat #1930s #electricity #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1955.
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#clock #clock costume #costume #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #haunted #ghost #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An owl from a folktale about a bat who writes poetry: The Bat-Poet by Randall Jarrell.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Olivet Nazarene University's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insect #ant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dry Goods Review, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modernism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And they are very old.  My father's thirty, I've been told."  From Princess Mary's Gift Book, 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 #croquet
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blotto, Twinks and the Suspicious Guests, by Simon Brett:

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She couldn't bear to put a damper on her brother's naive optimism. It would have felt as antisocial as locking the lid of a Jack-in-the-Box.
[I guess, as far as my reading life goes, jacks-in-the-box may be the new parrots!]

***
"Saturday is the night that we from the Other Side traditionally let our hair down. Or in some cases," he said with a spectral chuckle, "let our heads down."

***
For a moment he looked, if not nonplussed, far from nonminussed.

***
This was not the moment for quixotic gestures. In terms of derring-do, that was a derring-don't.
[Later on, a chapter is entitled "Derring-Done!"]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #drawbridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's monkey hugging an ant-bear is from The Duluth Herald, 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 #monkey #hug #animal friends #anteater #aardvark #ant bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spirit drawing (top) and its possible inspiration (bottom).  From The Direct Phenomena of Spiritualism by Edward T. Bennett, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spirit drawing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #sailor #traveling salesman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Strange friends."  From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Other men's thoughts, flowing through time."  From Walla Walla College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hand #pointing #one way
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A mop wig and a tin-foil crystal ball -- a classic combination.  From Fort Hays State's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#crystal ball #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage men #cross dressing #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #crown #queen #1920s #jewelry #bling
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April 10, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Well, this explains some of the noises coming from my closet: "Unless you plan your wardrobe, your clothes will be a collection that need introducing to one another."  From Home and Family Living by Fleck, Fernandez & Munves, 1959.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cabbages and kings."  From Purple Parrot, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #king #alice in wonderland #lewis carroll #cabbage
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster #beetle #vintage headline #headline #it's you
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Old News (permalink)
"The first and greatest commandment is, 'Don't et them scare you.'"  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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#vintage headline #headline #don't be afraid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Either her reflection has escaped from the mirror or her light body is happier than she is.  We, too, have smiled for a mirror but weren't actually feeling it.  From Peace College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #spirit photography #1970s #spirit double #vintage woman #astral twin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American Girl's Book by Eliza Leslie, 1831.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #doll #toy #pincushion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From How Father Time Changes the Animals' Shapes by Gaylord Johnson, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #father time #evolution #vintage headline #headline
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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 #demon #gargoyle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #ship #locomotive #vintage yearbook #yearbook #locomotion #engineering
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1901.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #costume #headdress #hat #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
*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 #the rain in spain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #fable #crow #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #doll #living toy #toy #living doll
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investigator Julian Kücklich spotted this temporal anomaly in the Elephant and Castle district of London.  We applaud Julian's refined sensitivity to perturbations in the fabric of space/time.
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#temporal anomaly #clock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Stratford Normal School's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #before and after
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Only eight lives of a cat may be scandal-free, for in its ninth incarnation it roams to witches' midnight orgies.  From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#cat #nine lives #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Football sure has changed over the centuries.  From Indiana University'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 #greece #football
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shinto, The Way of the Gods by William George Aston, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japan
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April 9, 2023

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 #illustration #ferret
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Old News (permalink)
"The sun never sets."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1947.
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#sun #vintage headline #headline
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny #easter #crossword puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 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 #anthropomorphism #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny #easter rabbit
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Photo-Play Journal, 1917.
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#occult #crystal ball #severed head #floating head #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #torment #boiled alive
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's toboggan graveyard is from Beloit's 1889 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #graveyard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #toboggan
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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 #nightmare #scarecrow #horror #werewolf #vampire #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1924 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 Purple Parrot, 1945.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #parrot #flower #watering can
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It all started here ..."  From the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #ice cream #1960s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fashion #vintage fashion #winter #bear #teddy bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wedding #bride
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Old News (permalink)
Good news, unless this ruins your standard excuse.  "The Devil can't make you do it!"  From Lighted Pathway, 1973.
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#devil #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Another species of glowing tree in a vintage yearbook.  From Rockford College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat crossing #animal crossing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas'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 #fire ceremony #bonfire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
John Barleycorn says, "Step on it, kid!  Let's go places!"  From The Instructor, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alcohol #john barley corn #drunk driving #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paper Doll Poems by Pauline King, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Female Seminary's 1951 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Circumstances are suspicious."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage headline #headline
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April 8, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal attack #monkey #goose #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1973.
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#vintage headline #headline #prude
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western State Normal School's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #fairy tale
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Clarion State College's 1971 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #long hair #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Three Margarets by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Ethelred B. Barry, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to lift their hoods. From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook.

From Otterbein College's 1905 yearbook
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#macabre #skeleton #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #animated gif #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
Great news: "We will see this thing through!"  From The Happy Art of Catching Men by Robert James Patterson, 1914.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Quite the stone in his shoe.  From the University of Arkansas's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1930s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Castor and Pollux, from History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes of Antiquity by William Sheldon, 1816.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #twins #deity #castor and pollux #dioscuri
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 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 #initiation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State University's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #rabbit costume #rabbit ears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#aesop #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #animal attack #vintage yearbook #yearbook #possum #up a tree
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Old News (permalink)
"Gay chairs."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1959.
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#chair #vintage headline #headline #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The serious you."  From Wheaton College's 1941 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 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #scarecrow #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #keg #vintage yearbook #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Psychic Science, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ghost #spirit photography
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From MacMurray College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage automobile #automobile
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From our review of Hades Speaks! A Guide To the Underworld By the Greek God of the Dead, by Vicky Alvear Shecter and illustrated by J. E. Larson, which reveals the passphrase for gaining eternal life.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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#skull #secret #underworld #hades #hush
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April 7, 2023

A Fine Line Between... (permalink)

"There is a fine line between artistamps and regular stamps." —Vittore Baroni
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#postage stamp
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #sea monk #video #penetralia
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What a clumsy composite picture!  Maybe it works better in 3-D.  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage ad #1930s #composite photo #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we thought Mister Perfect was the Man in the Moon.  But [spoiler] he's a pizza.  From Rockford College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #mustache #mister perfect #pizza #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Echo-Maid, tell me true if ye have the pot o' gold?"  From The Echo-Maid by Alice Aspinwall, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #echo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian Junior College's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bagpipes #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life magazine, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Tuft University's 1940 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Readings in Psychology by James Dyal.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 book #face #book #psychology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winston-Salem State College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #telephone
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Old News (permalink)
"Can it be that we are being manipulated by creatures from our own future?"  Via BUFORA Newsfile, 1998.
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#time travel #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Owl in the Attic, by James Thurber:

This is known as hendiadys and was a common thing in Latin. Rare examples of it still exist and are extremely valuable as antiques, although it is usually unsafe to sit down or lie down on one.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hindered by hummingbirds."  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 #bird #hummingbird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Old News (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#wolves #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University'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 #peacock #yearbook #fountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A collection of dead things, wanting something from me."  From Dark Shadows episode 592
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#ghost #horror #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Everyone's hanging out to dry, except for one taken by a little dog.  From Franklin College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #human headed #laundry #clothesline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #rabbit #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #faces in things #united states #before and after #ad
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April 6, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"A tiny world where a man would weigh two pounds."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Picket, 1994.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #trumpet #musician
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Old News (permalink)
From The Link, 1945.
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#vintage headline #kissing #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Folks so rarely dress up for snowman photos anymore.  From Henderson State's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#snowman #vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #costume #1980s
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
"A St. Sebastian with too many arrows."  From Ronald Firbank by James Douglas Merritt, 1969.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#saint #arrows #st. sebastian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"No matter where or when one speeps, it always ends in a rude awakening."  From Rockford College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #alarm clock #rude awakening #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strangely Enough! by C. B. Colby.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #statue
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1983 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Gogmagog, The Buried Gods by T. C. Lethbridge.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #deity #sun god #hill figure
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
For meeting new people -- "Introduction soup."  From the University of North Carolina at Asheville's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #soup can #soup
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Uneasy lies the face that wears the pies."  From The Gateway, 1967.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#grotesque #vintage photo #pie in the face
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
"You can make a man listen to your joke but you can't make him laugh.  Trying to be humorous when it is expected of you is like coming to bat with the bases full in the ninth.  Many a good joke has been spoiled by the untimely appearance of a bill-collector.  Some men have a sense of humor like embalming fluid."  From Indiana University's 1914 yearbook.
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#humor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #leopard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippis 1905 yearbook.  See Astragalomancy: A Loaded Guide: Intriguing Readings of 21 Discrete Dice Throws.
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#vintage illustration #dice #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 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.]
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#vintage illustration #mirror #anthropomorphism #duck
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1950 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#snake charmer #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Choose your omen!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.
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#omen #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlam College's 1934 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #basketball #then and now
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Old News (permalink)
"Johnny aint no violet."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.  
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#vintage headline #violet
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April 5, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Crystal Woman by Lynn V. Andrews.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hands #crystal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Tomorrow we take cyanide, Wednesday, arsenic!"  From Wilmington's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry #arsenic #cyanide
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Old News (permalink)
"Drained brains draining again."  From The Martlet, 1965.
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#brain #vintage headline #headline #brain drain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Ontario's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #vintage men #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R 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 #lion #jackal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #glove
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Confordia Teachers College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #rabbit
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Old News (permalink)
"Life is actually a nightmare."  From Rockford College's 1970 yearbook.
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#nightmare #beer #vintage yearbook #alcohol #vintage headline #1970s #vintage man #coping strategies
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From our review of Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.  We love this sort of anthology that seems hell-bent to convince readers that the locality in question is plagued by vampires, werewolves, ghost ships, sea serpents, aliens, flying carpets, and other haunting anomalies.  Every region should have one!  See also How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #mascot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mule #cowgirl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In One Head and Out the Other by Roger Price.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 book #book #two-faced #two-headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Carthage College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lafayette College's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #blackbird #vintage magazine #musician #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower #queen #fasces in things
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Old News (permalink)
"The perfect woman!  A robot with a female form."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#robot #vintage headline #headline
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April 4, 2023

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if the Everest expedition will ever rest."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #mountain climber #illustration #mount everest
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #archmage band
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hope College's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #underwater #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bell #diver
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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.
82957

81954
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#vintage illustration #genealogy #vintage headline #family tree #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost or a U.F.O."  It's most likely one or the other.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1974.
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#ghost #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wabash College's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #1930s
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Old News (permalink)
"I just ironed a tablecloth in 3 minutes."  From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#ironing #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1986.
*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 #noah's ark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia Teachers College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue
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Old News (permalink)
From Cowboys Can Fly by Ken Smith, 2010
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#cowboy #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1977 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Meat-Eaters by Lucy Guernsey, 1858.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hyena
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
He's reading Dublin Castle and the 1916 Rising by León Ó Broin.  From Montclair State College's 1983 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #flower people #faces in things #flower
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #1920s #card game
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to let the other twin play the flute. From The Spartan Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1918.

From The Spartan Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1918
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#twins #animated gif #flute #musician
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Take It from Me," by Nancy Franklin:

***
I’m not saying that I have all the answers—if I did, I’d be laughing all the way to the bank instead of all the way in the opposite direction from the bank, until it becomes a tiny dot on the horizon and then disappears entirely.

***
If I’ve done my job here today, you will have achieved that heightened state of receptivity that lies midway between not paying much attention and not paying any attention.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Princess Elizabeth and her pets."  From Chatterbox, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #animal lover #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Kansas' School of Medicine's 1944 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chalkboard #1940s #photo
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Old News (permalink)
"It's all strange coincidence!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#vintage headline #coincidence #synchronicity
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April 3, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #gnome #elf #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"UFO turns on its red light and pulls over three cops."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1983.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #new orleans
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fourteen Hundred Cowries and Other African Tales, edited by Abayomi Fuja and illustrated by Ademola Olugebefola.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #folklore #africa
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State'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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Meat-Eaters by Lucy Guernsey, 1858.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #polar bear
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1965.
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#demon #pitchfork #cape #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia University's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #before and after #gaunt
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.
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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 #lighthouse #stranded at sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Great news -- everything worthwhile is just around the corner!  From Blackstone College's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #around the corner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From House Scraps by G. Duckworth Atkin and illustrated by Geo. Cruickshank, F. C. Gould, and Lucien Davis, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egyptian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fisher Junior College's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 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 #canoe
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1901 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #smoking #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tobacco #sticking out tongue #cigarette
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Consultin' th' ready letter writer in 1878."  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 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 #reading #writing #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"All dancing is haunted" (Lincoln Kirstein, "What Ballet Is All About," 1959).  From Ohio State University's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #dancing #spirit photography #blurred #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 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 #typewriter art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #grapes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #bomb #magazine
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April 2, 2023

Old News (permalink)
"The tar throat.  When to keep your mouth shut."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration #sloth bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #illustration #hat
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Old News (permalink)
"Why abuse semiconductors?"  From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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#vintage headline #headline #semiconductor
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What is there to think about?  What is there to say?  What is there to understand?  What is there to be afraid of?  From Dark Shadows episodes 300, 21, 344, and 591. 
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#dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"What is wrong with Germany?"  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1931.
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#germany #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tangent, 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 #duck #decoy #wooden duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The muscular type.  From How To Analyze People On Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #body type #muscular
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wind Wagon by David Cory and illustrated by P. H. Webb, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #wind
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Mazes and Labyrinths by William Henry Matthews, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #labyrinth #maze
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Voyage of the Wishbone Boat by Alice C. D. Riley, 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 #living toys #toy soldier
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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 #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #winter #rabbit #sleigh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Voice at Johnnywater by B. M. Bower, 1923.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Reserve University's 1923 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales, edited by Jean Cothran and illustrated by Clifford Geary.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #elephant #whale #old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We go to similar lengths to make ourselves presentable.  From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #makeup
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Finding some humor in the midst of horror.  "By Gad, son, this will be 'some' meal -- if we're not killed before!"  From Bazaar Daily, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #war #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's why its music is so haunting: the ghosts of the violin.  From Texas Technological College's 1952 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #violin
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Old News (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1937.
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#feather #tickling #feet #vintage headline #headline
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April 1, 2023

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Joey and the Pig by Arthur Gates, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #clown #vintage book #book #pig #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The morning on the first day of the month makes life worth living."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You can't judge a book by its covers.  We don't know which sacred geometry to believe.  But you can't blame the publishers for tapping different markets.  From Transpersonal Psychologies, edited by Charles Tart.

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#vintage book #book #sacred geometry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a rare mention of Little Red Riding Hood the Fifth.  From Toike Oike, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#little red riding hood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Though to this day it's difficult to get Volkswagens to jump through hoops, this is important proof that vintage automobiles look good in mop wigs.  From Middle Tennessee's 1966 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage car #vintage automobile #mop wig #volkswagen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dressing Gowns and Glue by L. de G. Sieveking and illustrated by John Nash, 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 #melting architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 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 #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's horse in bed is from the University of Western Ontario's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #cow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1897 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #april #vintage yearbook #yearbook #floating hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The apple tree with the golden fleece.  From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 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 #mythology #tree #golden fleece
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1924 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bathtub
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Old News (permalink)
"Silver linings.  Let's have a party."  From Improvement Era, 1933.
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#silver lining #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hamilton College's 1878 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drenched
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mouse's Tail by Helen Pettes and illustrated by Julia Greene, 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 #anthropomorphism #lantern #mouse
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Old News (permalink)
"Look out for stray balloon.  One big gas bag said to be headed this way."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.
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#hot air balloon #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, 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 #lion #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.  See This Book is a Cactus.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cactus #stethoscope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1990.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #silhouette #halo #illustration
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