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April 30, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Gingerbread Man by G. H. P. and illustrated by Robert Gaston Herbert, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #dog #gingerbread man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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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 #wolf #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South'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 #tiger
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Oh, I might have another drink.  Reunion with my ancestors.  Meditate over my past mistakes and try to think of a way to correct them."  From Dark Shadows episode 17.
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Old News (permalink)
"Positive thinking ... negative results.  Hitler thought positive.  So did Joan of Arc and Einstein -- but their value to the world was far from similar."  From The Aberree, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #positive thinking #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #horse costume #equus
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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 #telescope #shooting star #ladder
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A structure built of books.  From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #giraffe #insects #bee #ant
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Two tidbits from a "how I write" feature in the Strand magazine:

1. G. B. Shaw here has revised a sentence so as to include "revise." (And I feel like this isn't the first "revising to 'revise'" item we've encountered!)

2. Rebecca West's method has something of the Achilles and the tortoise about it. (I had to look up Cinquevalli, who, in case you also didn't know, was a juggler.)

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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 #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #bucking bronco #bronco
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1934.
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#vintage ad #wink #1930s #vintage man #man #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Flora Macdonald's 1923 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tea is served.  From Chatterbox, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #kettle #circus #tea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The nurses' night off."  From Rush Medical College's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #masquerade #nurse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hip, Hip, Hip, Horray by Bozana Belokosa, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #drinking #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #1930s #vintage men #illustration #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Read Heads by James Coates, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #beard #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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April 29, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats and Kttens by Edgar Werner, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1900s #illustration #kitten
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#music video #video #neons gone mad #wunderfish
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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 #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The right Mr. Wrong."  From Modern Screen, 1953.
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#vintage headline #headline
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to 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 #memory #remembrance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1904 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #bat #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1925 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #dog #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #lipstick #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
That feeling when you discover that your plans to destroy Peter Pan have failed.  From the University of Florida's 1986 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #peter pan #1980s #captain hook
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #beard #angel #vintage christmas #christmas #immortality #santa
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rush Medical College's 1895 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mandolin #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#shadow #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1932 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #crow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Parson Beecher and His Horse by Bricktop, 1871.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon University's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #living dead #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #rainbow #diagram #mountain
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #dentist
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Road To Sleepy Town and Other Verses by Elizabeth H. Wilkinson and illustrated by Sarah McIlvaine Seely, 1910.
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#mirror #moon #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio College of Dental Surgery's 1902 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 #dentist #illustration
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Mushrooms on the sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1949.
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#sun #mushroom #vintage headline #headline
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April 28, 2024

This May Surprise You (permalink)
It's been said that "Australia isn’t so far away" (Duong Van Mai Elliott, The Sacred Willow).  But the reason may surprise you.  "Australia [is] in France."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1938.
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#france #vintage headline #australia #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers Book Four, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"'Front failed to respond to bell.  'Bell hops' were gliding and swaying and pivoting instead of hopping."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #bellhop
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #queen of hearts
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Old News (permalink)
"Consonants are soul mates, and vowels the soul"  From The Aberree, 1954.  See One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage headline #headline #consonant #vowel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #thread
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A stunnining gown ... but her hands cried 'housework!'"  From Movie Classic, 1933.
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#vintage ad #laundry #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #spring #poem
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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 #fire demon #ghost #fire spirit #giant #fire #vintage photo #spirit photography #church fire #cathedral fire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Fort Wayne's 1987 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 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 #fairy #elves #mushroom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba College's 1980 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#mask #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lindenwood Tales by Marguerite Behman and illustrated by H. C. Meyer, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #faces in things #potato
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #divination #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #sorority
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ice-yachting in Canada."  From Chatterbox, 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 #ice #winter #sled #canada #sleigh #moose #yacht
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth's 1955 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #constellations #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #axe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #grasshopper #decanter
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From California Sunshine by Lillian Hinman Shuey, 1888.
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#sun #california
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed image haunts the University of Texas at Arlington's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #cursed photo
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Old News (permalink)
We fact-checked this, and it's true -- some people are like that.  From Lighted Pathway, 1985.
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#dog #vintage headline #headline
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April 27, 2024

Old News (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.  (Aunt Sallys in this case refer to petrol pumps.)
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#vintage headline #headline #aunt sally
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #oz #wooden horse
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Precursors (permalink)

Here's a precursor to the three doors of the Let's Make a Deal gameshow (1963), from The Gateway, 1962.

As we noted back in 2016, we call hogwash where we find it.  There's a probability puzzle popularly called the "Monty Hall Problem."  Entire books have been written about it, but we feel compelled to establish that it is pure nonsense.  A contestant on Let's Make a Deal declares a choice from three doors (two hiding goats and one a new car).  Then the host reveals a goat behind a door not chosen and suggests the possibility of switching to the other remaining door.  On paper, this is a counterintuitive paradox in which the contestant is convinced of a 50/50 chance of success, when in fact switching doors offers demonstratively better odds.  However, theorizing about the puzzle is ludicrous, and the considerable debate over the years is meritless, for the simple reason that a game show is a piece of theatre tantamount to a magic trick.  The host of this purported gambling scenario obviously works for "the house" and knows where the car is hidden (presuming—which one cannot, in fact—that the car is not moved from door to door behind the scenes).  Based upon subtle facial expressions and tones of voice (neither of which can be tabulated mathematically), the contestant wonders about being manipulated (with good reason).  Creating truth tables or running simulations of possible outcomes is meaningless because there is no circumstance in the real world where any of the probability theory could possibly be relevant.  There's a reason why the game show does not allow the contestant to simply walk up to a door and open it to determine the outcome.  Just as a magician displays a deck to prove that it's well-shuffled (which it isn't, and that's why pains are taken to prove otherwise), the host opens a door with a goat as part of an elaborate psychological and theatrical presentation that "proves" the outcome is random.  The outcome is not random on a television show designed to entertain.  The contestant wins if the powers that be wish to give away a car during that episode, period.  There is no other conceivable consideration (sorry, mathematicians and statisticians!).  While we tip our hat to those who are capable of modeling possible scenarios ad nauseam, the "Monty Hall Problem" is no problem at all.

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#goat #probability #monty hall problem #let's make a deal #math puzzle #door number one #scientism #monty hall #game shows #embarassing math #clueless #false statistics #the statistician is your enemy #believe nothing
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1929.
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#magician #seance #vintage headline #houdini #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 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 #anthropomorphism #kangaroo #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Serapina by Anne White and illustrated by Tony Palazzo.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #long tail #prehensile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We looked it up, and a row of frogs requires no special occasion.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been determined that bears' academic achievement is hindered by absenteeism during the winter semester.  From Barnard's 1903 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the horse.  From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #anvil #blacksmith #ironmonger #hidden picture
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Old News (permalink)
"Midnight silence was familiar sound."  From Anderson College's 1969 yearbook.
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#silence #vintage yearbook #yearbook #midnight #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 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 #fairy #fairy tale #butterfly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sam Houston State Teachers College'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 #contortionist #yoga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghost Stories, 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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#ghost #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #vampire #1940s #vintage men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 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 #magick #occult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1933 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #warrior #spear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1995.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #musical animal #singing cat
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The Right Word (permalink)
Abe Lincoln gets a C minus.  From The Old Line, 1942.
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#abraham lincoln #grammar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #piano #1920s #musician
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April 26, 2024

This May Surprise You (permalink)
You've heard the great question from The Sound of Music, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?  How do you catch a cloud and pin it down?"  It's actually not that difficult.  We previously saw one way to do it, here.  But the simplest answer is revealed in The Children's Newspaper, 1933: simply use the water droplets' stickiness.
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#vintage headline #headline #dew
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bridge #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"'Everest' shape hits new high in hat fashion."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage fashion #vintage headline #hat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Woman's College of Baltimore's 1899 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 #1890s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess Belle-Etoile 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 #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Va.'s 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"So will all of us."  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 #living toy #yarn doll
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Milwaukee Downer 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 #weight lifting #april 26
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1932.
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#vintage ad #1930s #irritable #grouchy #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen's 1919 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)
A banyan tree with incredibly tiny people under it.  From Chatterbox, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tree #tiny men #banyan tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Cute candle lettering.  From the Peace Institute's 1913 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 #mice #banquet #nice #after the party
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Has your wife gone home to mother?"  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #spiral #smoke #cigar #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sandman's Forest by Louis Dodge and illustrated by Paul Bransom, 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 #rabbit
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
No propaganda is good propaganda.  From the University of Western Ontario's 1947 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #newspaper #1940s #vintage man #man
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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 #mosquito
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #bulletin board
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "A Slice of Life," by P. G. Wodehouse:

***
“Sir Jasper Finch-Farrowmere?” said Wilfred.
“ffinch-ffarrowmere,” corrected the visitor, his sensitive ear detecting the capital letters.
“Ah, yes. You spell it with two small f’s.”
“Four small f’s.”

***
“Pooh to you!” said Wilfred. “And, if you want to know what I think, you poor ffish, I believe your name is spelled with a capital F, like anybody else’s.”
Stung to the quick, the baronet turned on his heel and left the room without uttering another word.

***
This cousin, as you will have guessed, was Wilfred himself—but a very different Wilfred from the dark-haired, cleancut young scientist who had revolutionized the world of chemistry a few months before by proving that H2O + b3g4z7 – m9z8 = g6f5p3x.

***
Give me that key, you fiend.”
“ffiend,” corrected Sir Jasper automatically.
***

[Bonus: The Madame Eulalie site notes, among the corrections to printer's errors, "Magazine had “And with her my bblessing”; corrected to “b-blessing” as in book editions"--which I think is especially funny given all the "ff" business.]
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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 #smart animal #literate animal #bobcat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Not of earth."  From Flying Saucer News, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #monolith
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April 25, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #monkey #illustration #motorcycle
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Old News (permalink)
"Paper bag cookery has not yet reached Duluth hotels."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#vintage headline #cooking #paper bag
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1958.
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#cat
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Old News (permalink)
"We become past tense by being too tense in present."  From The Aberree, 1962.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
Here's a throwaway bit of irony in Gilligan's Island.  The caption reads, "Wait!  There's something funny going on back there..."
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#gilligan's island
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Beauty is not a matter of birthdays."  From Movie Classic, 1932.
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#vintage ad #aging #vintage headline #beauty #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1951 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 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 #night #searchlights
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford College's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #statue #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 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 #fairy #giant book #tiny man #crushed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina Wilmington's 1989 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #hatchling #vintage yearbook #bird #egg
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #statue #yarn #knitting #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1923 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 #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #egg #hard boiled
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Joplin Junior College's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #autumn #leaves #squirrel #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hot ghost from The Australian Women's Weekly, 1951.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #ghost #sweating #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Bryson 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 #the end #cliff #tarot fool #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #bird #turtle #musical animal #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"In books lies the soul of the whole past time. —Carlyle."  From Barnard College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#calligraphy #books #hand lettering #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #thomas carlyle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's lamb with seven horns and seven eyes is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 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 #biblical #lamb #illustration
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April 24, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is cited on the very first page of ‘Awake Your Faith’: Word-Magic in Shakespeare’s Late Plays, a doctoral thesis by Rana Banna, 2024.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No school for me."  From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 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 #pinocchio #illustration #living toy #1910s #no school #school's out
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #jonathan caws-elwitt #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Charles Addams homage from The Old Line, 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 #haunted mansion #charles addams
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Old News (permalink)
"The ousters ousted."  From Woroni, 1958.
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#vintage headline #tables turned #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Slippery Rock State College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #1960s #carved pumpkin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magician's Garden by Géza Csáth.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ex libris #bookplate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is perhaps sarcastically implying that college graduates are going to need to find a sugar daddy.  From Oklahoma State University's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sugar daddy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 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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#skeleton #vintage diagram #diagram #wounds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 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 #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wordeater, no. 42.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #world serpent
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
These spindly shadow people haunt Tulane's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#shadow people #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #worry #chair #problem solving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Well, I guess yes three times!"  From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1920 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 #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Winds of a Deal by Latta Griswold, 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 #vintage men #men
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Old News (permalink)
"Learning to endure pain."  From the University of Texas at Arlington's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #pain #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #gnu
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southeast Missouri State College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #puppet #cowboy #1970s
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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 #hobby horse #pumpkinhead #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #satire #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #puppeteer #puppet #marionette #puppet master #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Paths To Conservation by James S. Tippett, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #illustration
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April 23, 2024

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Workbook to Accompany Enchanting Stories by Gertrude Hildreth, 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 #cat #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #fireplace #illustration #up the chimney
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Old News (permalink)
"Harness leisure to face tempo of modern life."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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#vintage headline #advice
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #greece #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's green tomato asking directions of an hourglass is from St. Nicholas, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #anthropomorphism #handstand
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1932.
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#vintage ad #question mark #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #enlightenment #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #torch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The rule and the roast contrasted."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #monk #grotesque #fox #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University'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 #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1968.
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#vintage ad #sweating #temperature #hot and cold #1960s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gambling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #card game #prohibition
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The stalking-horse."  From Chatterbox, 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 #duck #hunter #wooden horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #eyeglasses #1930s #egg #faceless #no face
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Today's squirrel saint is from the University of the South's 1925 yearbook.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #saint #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #squirrel
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Old News (permalink)
"What do you want?"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1895.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Dreams and finally, one last nightmare."  From Dark Shadows episode 797.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dark shadows #nightmare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State Teachers 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 #tree #path
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #tiny man #puppeteer #puppet #marionette #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"The treadmill of 'looking for ...'  To be awake, quit dreaming."  From The Aberree, 1964.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Uneasy Money, by P. G. Wodehouse:

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He was only ten, and small for his age, yet he appeared to have the power of being in two rooms at the same time while making a nerve-racking noise in another.

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"I was born in Carbondale, Illinois, but that doesn't matter."
[It matters to me--because I was born in Carbondale, Illinois, too!]

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Miss Leonard invoked the name of Mike.

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He had a red, weather-beaten face with a suspicion of side-whiskers....

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[A sort of Henry Jamesian sentence construction from PGW.]
While he was trying to make clear to himself just what it was about Claire's voice that he had not liked he was granted the opportunity of analysing by means of direct observation its failure to meet his vocal ideals, for at this moment it spoke behind him.

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It was a new idea, and he bent himself to the Fletcherizing of it.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Compliments of the Season by Eleanor Donnelly, 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 #angel #guardian angel
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April 22, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The devil!"  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #1920s #wink #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Teaching Creative Art in Schools by Eccott & Eccott, undated (c. 1948).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cottage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book To Accompany Down Our Street by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 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 #cat #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 #cat #cupboard
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"What will happen to you in 1970 ... in 1975 ... in 1980?"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage ad #future #ad
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #knitting needle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook #pole vaulting
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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#vintage illustration #ship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Friend or foe?"  From Chatterbox, 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 #cat #bird #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts' 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #printing press
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some weirdness crept into this scan.  From Movie Classic, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Windsor Teachers College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #canada #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #horse #buggy #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna 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 #marotte #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story Book of Nick and Dick by Arthur Gates.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #winter #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #rainbow #diagram #lunar rainbow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if it's too early.  From Le Charivari, 1845.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #rooster #can't sleep
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ice #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1981.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #timepiece #watch #1980s #time to die
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst College's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #animal fight
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Old News (permalink)
"What she doesn't have -- she doesn't need."  From Modern Screen, 1954.
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#vintage headline #headline
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April 21, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 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 #goat #troll #bridge #1970s #illustration #three billygoats gruff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A goat made from a pear."  From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #goat #pear #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #chipmunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #cheshire cat #smiling cat #smiling animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fireplace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #goldilocks #porridge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #scales
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Mars moon may be city in orbit."  From Flying Saucer News, 1963.
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#life on mars #mars #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An updraft from Salem College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #updraft
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #spiral #coming out
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lighthouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Blackbird versus cat: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1878.

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#vintage illustration #cat #blackbird #animal fight
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Old News (permalink)
From Movie Classic, 1936.
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#vintage ad #1930s #vintage headline #headline #unwanted #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kak, the Copper Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson and Violet Irwin and illustrated by George Richards, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #eskimo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #orchestra #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The devil goes right to the flame.  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#vintage illustration #devil #candle #vintage magazine #birthday cake #magazine
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good," by P. G. Wodehouse:

[Sometimes it's not what you say, it's how well you what-not it.]

***
To make you understand the full what-d’you-call-it of the situation, I shall have to explain just how matters stood between Mrs. Yeardsley and myself.

***
“If I had the artistic what’s-its-name,” he went on, “if the mere mention of pictures didn’t give me the pip, I daresay it wouldn’t be so bad.”

***
And the moment she said it I knew something was going to happen. You know that pre-what-d’you-call-it you get sometimes? Well, I got it then.

***
Well, after all, if you see what I mean—— The days that are no more, don’t you know. Auld Lang Syne, and all that sort of thing. You follow me?
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mr. Coffee Bean seems to be having a hard time of it these days."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #coffee #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Do not bathe in chocolate pudding."  From Expressways, Grade 3, Level 6, Handstands by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #advice #illustration #chocolate #pudding #bathtub
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April 20, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #horse #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #oz #ladder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #serpent #snake #blood poison #ad
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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 #smile
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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 #cat #elephant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwest Missouri State Teachers 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 #night #street
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Titania's Radio Fairies by The Sandman, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #train #comet #shooting star #fairy train
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Saskatchewan's 1965 yearbook.

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#money #coins #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Old News (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1960.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#despair #marriage #1960s #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #cape #villain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #sword
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"For further particulars inquire within."  From Saint Mary's 1904 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #blackbird #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Should I?"  From Modern Screen, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #black sheep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wishes of Jacky and Jean by Mary Dickerson Donahey, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University'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
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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 #tiger #hunter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1932 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #japanese art #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"For we know the world is glorious and the goal a golden thing, and that God is not censorious when his children have their fling" (Richard Hovey).  From Tulane 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #demon #vulture #alfred e. neuman
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April 19, 2024

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1908.
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#cat #vintage photo #1900s #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She rules this earth and conquers the air, the herpicide girl! with herpicide hair.  She is all but queen."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #airplane #1910s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Alderson-Broaddus College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#smoking #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #tobacco #addiction #cigarette #smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #snake #camping
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A time traveler from Lehigh's 1887 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #time travel #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #money #fairy tale #princess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University'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 #organ #musician
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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 #taoism #goat man #chinese #goat headed
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Old News (permalink)
"But some are too busy to notice the scenic beauty."  From Tri-State College's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #busy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Manual de Mitología by Patricio de la Escosura, 1845.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #deity
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Old News (permalink)
"Patience, prayer, and a space ship."  From The Instructor, 1967.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #spaceship #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A&M'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 #1920s #puppeteer #puppet #marionette #checkers
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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 #dancing #illustration #ballet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1900 yearbook.

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Dear Old Squiffy," by P. G. Wodehouse:

***
“You might almost say my genius is stifled. Or strangled, if you prefer it.”
“Anything you say,” agreed Archie, courteously. “But how? Why is your what-d’you-call-it what’s-its-named?”

***
“He doesn’t bite, I suppose, or sting or what-not?”
“He may what-not occasionally. It depends on the weather.”

***
Something seemed to tell him that he was asking for trouble with a loud voice

***
[Peter is a snake.]
The bag was one of those simple bags with a thingummy which you press. Archie pressed it. And, as it opened, out popped the head of Peter. His eyes met Archie’s. Over his head there seemed to be an invisible mark of interrogation.

***
“My snake! My Peter!” Mme. Brudowska’s voice shook with emotion. “He is here, here in this room.”
Archie shook his head.
“No snakes here! Absolutely not! I remember noticing when I came in.”

***
“Mr. Moffam wouldn’t go round stealing snakes.”
“Rather not,” said Archie. “Never stole a snake in my life. None of the Moffams have ever gone about stealing snakes. Regular family tradition!”
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Deadwood Dick Library, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't shake hands again."  From Flying Saucer News, 1963.
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#handshake #vintage headline #headline #vinatge headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #judge #law
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#the people could fly #eskimo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's tiny dinosaur driving a car.  From Purdue University's 1940 yearbook.

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#dinosaur #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Vocabulary First Reader Workbook for Round About by Mabel O'Donnell, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #cat #monkey #illustration
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April 18, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
The sound of "whaling" coming through a bricked-up nook in the crypt?  Surely it was more of a "wailing," though in all fairness Collinsport is a seafaring village.  From Dark Shadows episode 1150.
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#dark shadows
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A ghostly voice comes through the spirit radio at a gravestone in Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky.
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#prof. oddfellow #spirit radio #video #penetralia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #headphones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #accordion #musical instrument
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #nest #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 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 #coffin #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1953 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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Old News (permalink)
"Ignorance less obvious if we discuss the weather."  From The Aberree, 1963.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Northern State Teachers College's 1929 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #horse #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #setting sun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Using Our Language, Grade VIII by T. I. Davis, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clock #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Believe it or nuts."  From Ohio University's 1976 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1919.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage hollywood #hat #hollywood #woman #mannequin heads #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Female Normal School (Farmville)'s 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #after the party
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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 #mouse #wheelbarrow #red wheelbarrow
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Old News (permalink)
"I had extreme faith because I knew my time would come."  From Bennett College's 1999 yearbook.
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#faith #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #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)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #ape #animal attack #illustration #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem Normal School's 1996 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair #cousin itt #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stage Costuming by Agnes Brooks Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #1920s #diagram #sewing #illustration
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April 17, 2024

The Right Word (permalink)
From Modern English Writing by Douglas Bement, 1937.
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#sentence diagram #benjamin franklin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #swan #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"The Slosh."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #imaginary animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An Ex Libris from page 25 of the Winston-Salem's 1969 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Castle of Doubt."  From Shadowland, 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 #doubt #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Why has wickedness been permitted for so long?"  From Awake Magazine, 1966.
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#vintage headline #wicked #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1926 yearbook of the State Teacher's College of Virgina.

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

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 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 #china #great wall of china #wall
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1947.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #ouija
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #clown #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Here ie the dead who starved honestly."  From Susquehanna University's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #tomb #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #donkey #asleep #snoring
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
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 #sleeping #yearbook #winged horse
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Old News (permalink)
"Forbid me to love."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1935.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #cowboy #rodeo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton 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 #playing cards #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Big Book of Needlecraft by Annie Paterson, 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 #lion #needlework #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walter de la Mare's Down Adown Derry, A Book of Fairy Poems, illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop (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 #fairy #1920s #illustration
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April 16, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage photo #chicken #rooster #1950s #photo
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Two women, one piano. Click to reveal the second player. From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.

Two women, one piano.  From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook
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#piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #animated gif #women #vintage women
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Oh, I'm dead!  How lovely!"  From Our Last Adventure by Ernest Lester Smith, 1985.
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#living dead #book dedication
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Sea Monsters Unmasked by Henry Lee, 1883.
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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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's cornucopias are less polite than they were a century ago.  From Presbyterian College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cornucopia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung" (Hamlet).  From The Gentleman's Magazine, December 1869.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #shakespeare #hamlet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Hate—a total abstraction."  From Park 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 #modern art #abstract art #hate
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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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 #king neptune #illustration #sawfish #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's walking stick being put to bed is from Southern University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #walking stick #cane
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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 #covered wagon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilson College'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
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The Right Word (permalink)
So great when a character speaks his punctuation.  This series of question marks is from Dark Shadows 309.  There's also that time Carolyn Stoddard spoke an exclamation point.
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#punctuation #question mark #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Oregon College's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sculpture
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Old News (permalink)
"Universal love might only bring to world an era of universal hate."  From The Aberree, 1962.  
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#vintage headline #headline #love and hate
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Disentangling Old Percy," by P. G. Wodehouse:

***
I knew just what would happen. Parbury, Parbury, Parbury, and Stevens, the solicitors, simply looked at me as if I had been caught stealing milk-cans. At least, Stevens did. And the three Parburys would have done it, too, only they had been dead a good time.

***
When I got back I found a pile of telegrams waiting for me. They were all from Florence, and they all wanted me to go to Eaton Square. The last of the batch, which had arrived that morning, was so jolly peremptory that I felt as if something had bitten me when I read it.
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The little blue fox."  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 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 #insects #swarm #bugs #illustration
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April 15, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An alteration from The Preparatory Book to Accompany Off We Go by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 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 #hybrid #human headed #illustration #man dog #dog man
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Old News (permalink)
We fact-checked this, and it's true that, from a certain perspective, "today is tonight."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #faces in things #box office #ad
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Temporal anomaly investogator Nick Normal spotted this weirdness at the Paramount Building, Times Square, New York.  Note that although both clocks sport stars for numbers, the clock on the right has an inverted pentagram at the 12:00 position, while the clock on the left does not.  The two clocks therefore should hardly be expected to keep the same time.
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#clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pimched, poked, beaten, and pushed down the steps.  From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 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 #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 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 #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #cauldron
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Mummy case."  From Southern Illinois University at Carbondale's 1948 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #aura #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #animal attack #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #the end
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Old News (permalink)
"What does silence look like?"  From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#silhouette #silence #church #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor University's 1939 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #airplane
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
Twin suns possibly created by a lateral mirage.  From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #cloud #two suns #diagram #1970s #false sun #mock sun #twin suns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #leaf #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #cupid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1913 yearbook.  Chinook 1913 v.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #endpapers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spiritualism #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #illustration
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April 14, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
"Oh wow, this deserves to be on IMDB. The timing with the claps, the outfits, the editing, this is probably one of the most high quality and creative indie shorts we've ever seen!" —Ylecas 
Wunderfish's original song is here.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #wunderfish #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #chaos #seeing double #illustration #whirling #spinning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #rabbit #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"My nickname is Skunky."  From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #moon #cheese #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't make any noise, children, that hunter may get excited and shoot himself."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1911.  
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#vintage illustration #hunter #deer #talking animal #smart animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #strong woman #weight lifter #vintage woman
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
To dream of an owl is foredooming.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#owl #dream #symbolism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1923 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 #1920s #castle in the air
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A jackdaw from Chatterbox, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #blackbird #jackdaw
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cheerful Day by Nan Fairbrother, 1960.
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#ornate frame #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler University'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 #hermit #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "The Next Step" (1973) by J. T. C.
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#vintage illustration #falling #pit #trap #pitfall
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University'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 #blindfolded #hazing #up a tree
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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 #occult #esoteric #turtle #flying turtle #beetle #scarab #winged turtle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rare to see two ex libris, side by side.  If books can have co-authors, they can have co-readers.  From Greensboro 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 #ex libris #bookplate
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #dreamland
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Old News (permalink)
"Training a snarling dog -- self."  From The Aberree, 1955.  
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The scientific toy."  From Punch, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #contraption #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #automaton
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April 13, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Indoors and Out by Hensley & Patterson and illustrated by John Jones, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #monolith #stone circle #illustration #stonehenge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mythology #vintage yearbook #yearbook #roman #minerva
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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 #cat #toy horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Grasshopper's Hop by Zitella Cocke and illustrated by Joseph J. Mora, 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 #fishing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smiling man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in the Mysteries of Religion and Magic by M. Oldfield Howey, 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 #egyptian #cat #birds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Texas at Arlington's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spotlight
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
From Amusing Experiments (After Martin Gardner), by M. Stoliar and L. Formin.
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#math
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Old News (permalink)
"Sabbath-keeping elephants."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1950.
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#elephant #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nyack College's 1975 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 #out of time #time's up #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #tree #oz #lunchbox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #alchemy #yearbook #tiny person #homunculus #chemistry #bottled ghost #tiny woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The imp of three o'clock tips his bell hat to you.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 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 #imp #time
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Kansas State yearbook of 1953.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Left a trail of sausages."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#meat #vintage headline #sausage #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hooded figure #1940s #window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #cartomancy #card reader #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Woman's College of Baltimore's 1899 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 #ball and chain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #overweight #weight loss #ad
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April 12, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #carriage #illustration #buggy #omnibus
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #maze #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook #queen
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We like that line, "She had started with tarot cards, but one was missing."  Perhaps she spread the deck face-up and, like a card sharp, instantly divined which card was conspicuous by its absence.  From Effigies by William K. Wells.
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#fortune telling #occult
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1878.
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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 #shipwreck #lighthouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Milwaukee Downer College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #nest #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #april 12
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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 #knight #sword #king arthur #sword in the stone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #puppy #kindness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #bird man #stork man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hypnotized back to his boyhood days.  From How to Win by L. H. Anderson, 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 #hypnotist #hypnosis
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan University of West Virginia's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #organ #musician #organist
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1790s
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Old News (permalink)
"Lingerie and late leaves."  From Calvin College's 1957 yearbook.
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#vintage headline #lingerie
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Old News (permalink)
"If a cat answers, hang up."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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#cat #vintage headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "The Test Case," by P. G. Wodehouse:

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“Reggie, I wouldn’t talk about this to anyone else but you,” he began.
It’s my experience that the fellows who begin by saying that are always the chappies who, if they couldn’t get anyone else to tell their most intimate private affairs to, would rush out and buttonhole a policeman.

***
Every time I tried to interrupt, Ann would wave me down, and carry on without so much as a semi-colon.
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Old News (permalink)
"Run for it."  From Woroni, 1958.
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#cow #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1972 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage man
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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 #tree #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
When heads ripen and fall off the tree.  From the University of Toledo's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #family tree #peach
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In the borrowed clothes of the flax."  From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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April 11, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#vampire #video #penetralia #jonathan caws-elwitt #grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"No wings, no fear."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1956.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Highroads to Reading 1 by Sheffield, Roy, Roy & Bollert, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #goat #shepherd #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let 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 #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #in between #on the fence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who am I?  What's my name?  What am I doing here?"  From The Old Line, 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 #seeing stars #hangover
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst College's 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 #cello #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The World of Wonders, 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 #lighthouse
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Well, yeah, there's no point to answering the phone."  From Dark Shadows episode 574.
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#telephone #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ball Teachers College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 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 #devil #satan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #cigar #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare for a monkey to pay for its pastry, and even rarer for a monkey to leave a tip.  From Chatterbox, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #information
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Old News (permalink)
"Spirit warning through camera.  Three negatives all show ansent fiance with a dagger."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#spirit photography #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Memphis State University's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #mascot #vintage men #smiling man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Radiorario, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #moon #man in the moon #radio
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The True Story of Humpty Dumpty by Anna Alice Chapin, 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 #elves #mushroom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology'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 #scissors #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Foundations for Living by Fern Silver & Mildred Graves Ryan, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #advice #illustration #patch
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April 10, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
There are ghosts of ...
  • forgotten pain
  • hearses
  • our own dead selves
  • kisses
  • chandeliers
  • earlier rocks
  • forests
  • skeletons
  • words unsaid
  • ships
  • chairs and tables
  • coats and buttons
  • old cities
  • the future
  • rickshaws
  • men who never lived
  • tears the soul has shed
  • four-post beds
  • cougars that still lurk
  • past arguments
  • rainbow arches
  • snow
  • old gods
  • long-ago pleasures
  • outgoing regimes
  • dump trucks
  • sacrificed animals
  • duties neglected
  • revengeful monks
  • well-shaped crystals
  • birds searching for wings
  • umbrellas
  • unpaid bills
  • living people
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See Bullet Lists.]
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#bullet list #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's strictly untrue dragon story.  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 #dragon #knight #illustration #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
"The dream of 100 years is broken."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1936.
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#broken dream #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 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 #wolf #pig #big bad wolf #three little pigs #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Big with blondes."  From Kansas State Collegian, 1968.
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#vintage headline #headline #blonde
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1929 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 #athlete
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This is Grandma--1923 model. She is a travesty on the beloved Grandma of our childhood, whose calico apron had peppermint-sticks in one pocket and ginger cookies in the other.  We need a campaign to popularize the old-fashioned Grandma, so that our youngsters may not be deprived of one of childhood's happiest memories."  From Shadowland, 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 #1920s #walking the dog #grandmother #pet walker #grandma
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1900 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 #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 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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#weasel #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 West Texas State 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 #bull #horns #cowboy #rodeo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1969.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #foot #shoe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #automaton #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Punch’s Prehistoric Peeps by E. T. Reed, 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 #dinosaur #bow and arrow #hunter #caveman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goucher College's 1928 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 #illustration #celestial city
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Japan, Home of the Sun by Dearmin & Peck and illustrated by Kikuko Mori, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #fish #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Unfurnished apartment."  From Middle Georgia College's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fawn is listening to the music."  From Julia, a Latin Reading Book by Maud Agnes Reed, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #music #greek #lyre #musician #illustration #orpheus #fawn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1907 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 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 #cat #1930s #illustration
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April 9, 2024

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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#goat #anthropomorphism #fairy tale #1890s #vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 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 #falling #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From P's and Q's: A Book on the Art of Letter Arrangement by Sallie B. Tannahill, 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 #ornate letter #letter o #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Do we live inside a globe?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#hollow earth #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1899 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 #musician #clarinet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A Scandinavian sleeping place dating from the early 17th century.  Several feather beds were piled therein."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #smoke ring
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"What man has enough silk hose?"  From the Duluth Herald, 1920.
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#vintage ad #question mark #silk #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"There will; I know there will."  From Saint Joseph's College's 1965 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lucian's Wonderland by St. J. Basil Wynne Willson and illustrated by A. Payne Garnett, 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 #ship #walking on water #cork-footed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gentleman's Magazine, December 1870.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1926 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 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 #mythology #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Clarion State Teachers College's 1930 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
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"They come down from the hill and they torment me, they tear me apart with their shrieks and their moanings. I don't know where to turn." From Dark Shadows, episode 40.
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#dark shadows
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Concealed Art," by P. G. Wodehouse:

***
He tells me it’s his masterpiece, and that he will never do anything like it again. I should like to have that in writing.

***
And he legged it, leaving behind him one of the most chunky silences I have ever been mixed up in.

***
She rushed into his arms like someone charging in for a bowl of soup at a railway station buffet.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1963.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #tobacco #cigarette #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"As seen through shadow."  From Goshen College's 1965 yearbook.
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#shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"I wonder!"  From Movie Classic, 1935.
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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April 8, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I attract you."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 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 #hand #1920s #illustration #hand gesture
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Old News (permalink)
"That awful question: 'Have you got a boyfriend?'"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1965.
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#vintage headline #headline #boyfriend
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of the Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena by William R. Corliss (1977).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #orbs #sphere of light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1955.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #flying carpet #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oregon State College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sports #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The House That Jack Built, 1807.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1926 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 #viking ship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Father Bunny and His Birds by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Penny Ross, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Augustana College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #flashlight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage yearbook #costume #1960s
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Old News (permalink)
"Sasquatch-sensitive area."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#bigfoot #sasquatch #vintage headline #headline
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Spring Arbor College's 1936 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1953.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage diagram #music #diagram #conductor #time signature
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northern Illinois State Teachers College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #1920s #bird people #chicken people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Snow White (written and illustrated by various), 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 #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gay #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The arrival o' the first robin from Greensboro, North Carolina."  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 #robin #illustration #springtime
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #grog
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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 #witch #pig
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April 7, 2024

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#music video #video #neons gone mad #chiaroscuro #tobias bernstrup
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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 #marmot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A study in detachment."  From Punch, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #detachment #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #hat #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century Illustrated, 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 #cat #fireplace
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Ampersands (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.  See Ampersand.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ampersand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #rooftop #animal rescue
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Sundials (permalink)
The endpapers from East Mississippi Junior College's 1956 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Dream Queen's palace."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle in the air
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State 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 #cat #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #balloon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The goat whose ears went wrong."  From The Crystal Locket by Nellie M. Rowe and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, 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 #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Wesleyan University'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 #feather #monkey #yearbook #laughing #tickle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #cat #manx
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 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 #smoke #pipe smoker #fireplace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #owl #bird #winking owl #winking animal #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Life proves disappointing."  From Three Girls and a Hermit by Dorthea Smyth Conyers, 1908.
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#vintage headline #headline #disappointing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 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 #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio Wesleyan University's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arabian nights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 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 #inkblot #1900s
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Average Jones, by Samuel Hopkins Adams:

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"That's why you're back here in New York waiting with stretched nerves for the Adventure of Life to cat-creep up on you from behind and toss the lariat of rainbow dreams over your shoulders."

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"The conjunction 'but,' in polite grammar, ordinarily has a comet-like tail to it."

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"It would be a dull world, except for peculiar persons."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if perfect people live in model dwellings."  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 #illustration
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April 6, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 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 #mountains #1900s #alps #cabin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #illustration #raccoon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tale of Bunny Cotton-tail by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bunny #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #gambling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #card game #poker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do you grow or swell?"  From Improvement Era, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #public speaking #swelling #growth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A mascot named Satan.  From Western Carolina Teachers College's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook #catamount
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 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 #bow and arrow #hunter #falcon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1917 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 #monocle #cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Garden of the Little Lame Princess by Myrtle Jamison Trachsel and illustrated by L. J. Bridgman, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1950 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blue devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Similar to our own approach to housekeeping -- "I'm going to stand here till it's done."  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 #cleaning #supervision
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bo-peep and the fairy queen.  From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 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 #fairy #fairy tale #fairy queen #bo peep #queen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oxford College's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#coffin #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #vampire #1970s #dracula
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 ad #faces in things #chair #suffering #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 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 #esoteric #masonic #altar #cube
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Duke University's 1941 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #leaning
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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 #elephant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #vintage yearbook #yearbook #memento mori #memoriam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The test by fire.  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 #fire #on fire #burned alive
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April 5, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #illustration #pullman car
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1945.
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#silhouette #cat #1940s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #maze #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Milwaukee Downer 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 #all wet #april 5
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Old News (permalink)
"Man from Mars would laugh at us."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1935.
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#life on mars #martian #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #boat #dolphin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A phoenix emerges within Swarthmore's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #phoenix #yearbook #from the ashes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #harpy #hybrid #human headed #bird man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State 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 #letter a #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #juggling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories From the Faerie Queen by Mary Macleod and illustrated by A. G. Walker, 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 #wizard #merlin #cave
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #top hat #donkey
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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 #antelope #heraldry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The crown decided the King."  From The Mermaid's Gift by Julia Brown and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king #crown
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1948 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #electrocuted #1940s #telephone pole #electricity #catamount #electric shock
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Sandman: His Animal Stories by Harry Whittier Frees, 1916.
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#anthropomorphism #cat #well
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Old News (permalink)
"Go visit your grave."  From Mystic Magazine, 1953.  
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#grave #reincarnation #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #doctor death
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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 #dancing #bishop
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Ahead of Schedule," by P. G. Wodehouse:

***
Everyone liked Rollo—the great majority on sight, the rest as soon as they heard that he would be a millionaire on the death of his Uncle Andrew. There is a subtle something, a sort of nebulous charm, as it were, about young men who will be millionaires on the death of their Uncle Andrew which softens the ruggedest misanthrope.

***
Mr. Galloway, having abjured woman utterly, had flung himself with moody energy into the manufacture and propagation of his “Tried and Proven” Braces, and had found consolation in it ever since. He would be strong, he told himself, like his braces. Hearts might snap beneath a sudden strain. Not so the “Tried and Proven.” Love might tug and tug again, but never more should the trousers of passion break away from the tough, masterful braces of self-control.

***
“Mrs. Wilson and I are old friends, sir. We come from the same town. In fact——”
Rollo’s face cleared.
“By George! Market what’s-its-name! Why, of course!”

***
“More the Market Thingummy method, eh? The one you described to me?”
“Market Bumpstead, sir!” said Wilson.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse
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April 4, 2024

Old News (permalink)
"Who wants a pair of antlers?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1956.
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#antlers #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 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 #earth #map #boston #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't worry about how you express your feelings."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1968.
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#vintage headline #feelings #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1894 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1956.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ten commandments #vintage yearbook #yearbook #moses #biblical
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Cats talk together by mewin, frum whence we get the word 'commewnicat.'"  From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horse-drawn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the highly cursed Nightmare Land by G. Orr Clark and illustrated by Caroline Love Goodwin, 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 #nightmare #spooky #cat #faces in things #rooftop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 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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#vintage illustration #owl #forest fire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #short story
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A one-size-fits-all ring of Isis and Serapis, from Charles Edwards' The History and Poetry of Finger-Rings (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 #egyptian #ring #jewelry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1892. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #tiger #animal fight
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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 #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #chicken #lethargic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 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 #goat #chicken #hen
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Flying cows take flight from a typewriter.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1927 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 #typewriter #flying cow
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From The Rainbow String by Algernon Tassin and illustrated by Anna Richards Brewster, 1921.
[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #precipice #cliff
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Syracuse University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vocalist #singing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #smoke
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April 3, 2024

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 #donkey #illustration #1880s #donkey cart
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
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#weather #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Swarthmore's 1934 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 #light and darkness #window #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There we crouched for the next four hours."  From Chatterbox, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crouching
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #egyptian #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Hold back till pass-word comes."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1940.
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#vintage headline #headline #password
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 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 diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill College'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
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Are you prepared for the ?."  From Toike Oike, 1933.
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#question mark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1896 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #musical animal #donkey
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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 #serpent #fairy tale #snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn'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 #singing #glee club #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three Minute Stories by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Josephine H. Bruce, 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 #clown
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M 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 #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witches, Wit and a Werewolf by Jeanne B. Hardendorff, 1971.
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#werewolf #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's horse-headed gavel wielder 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 #vintage yearbook #hybrid #animal-headed #gavel #horse-headed
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Old News (permalink)
"Silence — the lightning path."  From Mystic World, 1931.
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#silence #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1917 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 #lockpicker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Toad lamps.  From A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of F.G. Hilton Price (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 #egyptian #toad #1890s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1910 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Brownie and His Friends by Gates & Karabin, 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 #gnome #elf #fish #brownie #illustration
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April 2, 2024

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 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 #bat #cat #alice in wonderland #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 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 #fish #fisherman #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #camera #illustration #living toy #toy
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Old News (permalink)
"Mummy seeds.  Are they growing?  'Taken from a mummy's hand after four thousand years.'"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#mummy #vintage headline #headline #seed
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Old News (permalink)
"Arrested after many kiss him."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage headline #kissing #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Tension.  From Stern's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tension
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #eagle #buddhism #lucky charm #magic charm #tibetan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We, too, take all calls on the ceiling.  From Southeast Missouri State University's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #telephone #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Their lips touched its crispy outer edge."  From Can You Believe Me Stories by Alicia Aspinwall, 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 #faces in things #pie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill'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 #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The House With the Silver Door by Eva March Tappan, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #giant hand #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nest #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #vintage yearbook
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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 #caveman
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
Happy hour as marked on the clockface of a beer can.  From Tri-State College's 1980 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #beer #timepiece #vintage yearbook #clock #happy hour
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #cauldron #vintage magazine #magazine
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From "Cheerio! American Slang Is Far Better Than England’s; Mr. Wodehouse, Past Master of It in His Stories, Says So" (the New York Evening World, March 23, 1922):
[Says Wodehouse]
An Englishman is always at his best in terms of address. If he calls a friend ‘Old bean’ on Monday, it would never do to repeat it on the next day. Tuesday it would be ‘Old egg’ and Wednesday would undoubtedly bring forth ‘Old crumpet.’ 

[And you might enjoy the chart/quiz at the bottom of the page:
http://madameulalie.org/others/CheerioSlang.html]
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Suddenly in your path, there's a bolt of lightning."  From Dark Shadows episode 853.
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#lightning #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1918 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #walking encyclopedia #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and illustrated by George H. Boughton, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #elves
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April 1, 2024

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A surrealist, dadaistic, even post-contemplationist spoof of slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s, from the minds of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Prof. Oddfellow: it's Grave Mood Rings, a weird intersection in the universe of Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #video #penetralia #grave mood rings
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There's a sea monster headed toward Florida.  Here's why sea serpents and dragons should never be missing from a map.  From the United States Naval Academy's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sea serpent #vintage yearbook #vintage map #map #yearbook #1930s
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Old News (permalink)
"When two sides of a triangle meet, it's a straight road ahead, and that's no April fool."  From Improvement Era, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University'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 #yearbook #alarm clock #rude awakening #daylight savings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 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 #mythology #siren #siren's song
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The joke is presumably that he's reading children's stories and not textbooks, but he'd very likely have learned more from the age-old encoded wisdom of fairy tales.  From Saint Francis College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#fairy tale #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Jupiter, 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 #deity #jupiter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn'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 #feather #yearbook #tickling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #wood carving #toy #carver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Sometimes poor photocopies lend additional mystery.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1985.
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#ufo #vintage headline #alien #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hygienic Pig and Other Stories by Janet Fiield Heath, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill College's 1929 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 Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 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 #anthropomorphism #fox #gingerbread man #johnny cake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin 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 #pennyfarthing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington 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 #writing #quill pen #light and darkness #scholar #scaffold
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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 #falling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The caption seems to indicate they wish they'd named the restaurant "Sandwiches & Company."  From Hampden-Sydney College's 1991 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cheese #illustration #1990s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #mask
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