CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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April 30, 2026

The Right Word (permalink)
"Our minds get tricks and attitudes, as our bodies do."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars by Carl Garrison, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth by Timothy Green Beckley, 1992.
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#vintage illustration #guardian #hollow earth #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #china #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From People and Places by Horn, McBroom & Bishop and illustrated by Sperry, Stein & Paus, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #snake #toad #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #1920s #illustration #maypole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Understanding the Arts by Helen Gardner, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #cathedral #france #illustration #chartres
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'This is the house,' said the tramp."  From Grimm's Fairy Tales Retold In One-Syllable Words, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fashion #vintage fashion #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"We are all criminals."  From the Duluth Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #headline #criminal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #up a tree #four and twenty tailors
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #holy grail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #yarn #knitting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1893 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories Old and New, Book One by F. C. Biehl.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.  Scientific: How to Spot the Loch Ness Monster Every Time.
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rosicrucian Digest, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #1930s #old book #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1919 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 #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alligator #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion #1920s #illustration
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April 29, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #robin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #poem #affirmation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat #oz #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Open Door English Series for the Junior High School, Book Three, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #chemistry #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She had popped into a hole in the floor."  From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mouse #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Dictatorships do not encourage literature."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Compliments of the Season by Eleanor Donnelly, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #sandman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #birds #turtle
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #effigy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Yes, you'll have a chance to meet lots of guys!"  From Purdue University's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #robot #1960s #armor #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The imp of three o'clock, tearful.  From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #imp #timepiece #crying
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #real estate #estate agent
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Realizing the sad fact."  From Denison University's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She too was found dead."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #death
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#devil #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #1960s #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #grass skirt
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #illustration #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of "honest money," and here's what it looks like.  From St. Nicholas, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #money #anthropomorphism #monocle #coin #honest money #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #spoof ad #ad #maritime law #sea lawyer
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm bored with you, with the future and the past and the present."  From Dark Shadows episode 794.
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#boredom #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #illustration #1910s
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April 28, 2026

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1916.
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#cat people #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #fairy #jack frost #1930s #illustration #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #caged animal #tiger #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #umbrella #barometer #1930s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #gardening #1900s #illustration #watering can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
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#alchemist #vintage illustration
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Old News (permalink)
In headlines of a 1905 Duluth Herald, a "boy" driven mad by cigarettes turned out to be 25, and an "aged" lunatic hiding from evil spirits was 60.  But a few pages later, all was explained: it was the phenomenon of "old young folks."
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#aging #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #fan dance
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1939.
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#spiral
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #pipe smoker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Note the mustache's grave.  From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #graveyard #vintage yearbook #tombstone #moustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat #persian cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A witch ball from Fate Magazine, 1990.
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#occult #crystal ball #witch ball
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Old News (permalink)
"Demon doings."  From Current Sauce, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #goat #animal attack #vintage yearbook #the end #1920s
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Old News (permalink)
"Himalayan footprints mystery."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.  By the way, it actually exists: the Bigfoot Bible.
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#yeti #bigfoot #vintage headline #footprint #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.

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#witch #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weird sisters #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Snow itself throws snowballs.  From Snickerty Nick by Julia Ellsworth Ford and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #snowball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
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#vintage illustration #1930s #flowers #illustration
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April 27, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #goat #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #turtle #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Good news for beavers."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1922.
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#vintage headline #beaver #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #radio #1960s #cabin #antenna
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"And now ice cream in slot machines!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage headline #headline #slot machine #ice scream
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Mediumship of Jack Webber by Harry Edwards, 1941.
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#seance #spirit medium #spirit photography #ectoplasm
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #mother goose #vintage headline #strange #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Big snakes with crossed rainbow guardians: Big star chant."  From Navaho Religion Vol. II by Gladys A. Reichard.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #native american #diagram #navaho
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fishing with English literature (perhaps Moby Dick?)  From Wheaton College's 1921 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #book #fish #fishing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fun in the Radio World by E. Boyd Smith, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #owl #father time #headphones
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case School of Applied Science's 1940 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1940s #shoes
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Old News (permalink)
Confession: we're not wearing a fig leaf.  From Lighted Pathway, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #fig leaf #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oregon State College's 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #golf #1940s #vintage men
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Old News (permalink)
"Good tidings to all people."  From The Instructor, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #mother #cliff #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #laughter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes by Harrison Adams and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fire #forest fire
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They met in mid-air."  From I Should Say So by James Montgomery Flagg, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless #the people could fly #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #illustration #1910s
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April 26, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Small Creatures by Couchman, MacBean, Stecher & Wentworth, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #spider #diagram #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #poem
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Old News (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #levitation #magic trick #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I have something magic to show you."  From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cow #magic #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Home Problems by Kinyon & Hopkins and illustrated by Clara Fitts, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #table setting #1920s #tea #illustration #entertaining
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #three headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #bear #well
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mental Disease by Peter Michaels.
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#vintage illustration #psychology #psychoanalysis #psychiatry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #toad #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Saucer Digest, no. 121.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #dinosaur #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #maze
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"New experiences are communicated."  From Muhlenberg's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage gay #vintage men #men #gay innuendo
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Old News (permalink)
"Love me, love my cat!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1944.
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#cat #vintage headline
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #faces in things #illustration #rose #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Having crossed the magic stream, he was unable to return."  From Chatterbox, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #bagpipes #magic stream #crossing over
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #orange #illustration #fruit people #orange people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
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#vintage illustration #insect #1890s #illustration #larva
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April 25, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy #lettuce head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #pinocchio #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Old News (permalink)
"The last chord: how an organ played its last note itself."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1919.
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#organ #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #demon #pitchfork #animal headed #cat headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Arkansas University's 1897 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #snake #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Glow-Worm by William Manning and illustrated by Westley Horton, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #sneeze #handkerchief
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Duluth Herald, 1920.  
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hat #ad
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Old News (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1936.
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#vintage headline #problems #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Phrenological Journal, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage diagram #phrenology #diagram
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Some think of sports while reading books, others think of books while enduring sports.  From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #sports #vintage yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Away she went, right up in the air."  From St. Nicholas, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I'm being married!"  "You are being buried."  From Dark Shadows episode 739.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #jack in the box #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Musician, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Mysteriously glowing forests spread through old yearbooks.  From Hope College's 1944 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1940s #glowing tree #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
The fine line between "worrier" and "warrior."  From Syracuse University's 1952 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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April 24, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #posture #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1945.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Leopard frogs.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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The Right Word (permalink)
This 1914 ad from the Duluth Evening Herald might offer a few band names.  Talk about shoegaze: "The Drop-head Singers."  A motley crew: "The Various Makes."  Before The Average White Band: "The Slightly Used Whites [Cheap]."  Even the simple headline phrase, "Used Machines," has a slight elegance and patina to it.
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#vintage ad #band name #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #money #moneybags
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Punch’s Prehistoric Peeps by E. T. Reed, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #bear #caveman #prehistoric
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #fairies #fairy tale #tiny men #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Whitney's Choice of Emblemes by Henry Green, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #emblem #horse #chariot
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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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#demon #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rend Lake's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair #woman #vintage woman #pigtails
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #elephant #crafts
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat #vintage yearbook #rubber stamp
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Old News (permalink)
"Heart-beats in glass jars."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#mad scientist #heart #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #mustache
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #laundry #sweater #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Box of Delights by John Masefield, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #squirrel #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Without books there is darkness."  From The Instructor, 1958.
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#books #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #drawing #1930s #illustration
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April 23, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #hare #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by W. H. Walker, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #cat #alice in wonderland #cheshire cat #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mustache #1900s #illustration #moustache #hair growth #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpine Architektur by Bruno Taut, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mountain #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Egyptian 'thought work' fills the space over the parlor fireplace."  From Youth's Companion, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #fireplace #1920s #illustration #interior decorating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #halo #writer #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Clouds are sleeping birds.  From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #cloud
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Wassailing the apple trees."  From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #fire #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1927.
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#cat
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you suffer from an overactive fork?  Are you thick and tired of it?"  From The Improvement Era, 1959.
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#overweight #vintage headline #overeating #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1910s #good and bad
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Old News (permalink)
"Down among the dead."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A turbo-jet engine produces tremendous suction."  From Purdue University's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #suction
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Arthur's Knights by Henry Gilbert and illustrated by Walter Crane, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #merlin #knight #sword #excalibur #king arthur #lady of the lake
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Old News (permalink)
"Who cares???"  From Detroit Bible College's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #vintage headline #1970s #illustration #apathy #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Myself and I by Helen Van Valkenburgh and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #swing #ocean #sea #swinging #wave
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pairs of pears.  From Goshen College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pear #fruit tree #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals
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April 22, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Why be a sausage on a monument, eh?"  From Vanity Fair, 1918. 
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#vintage ad #sausage #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #1920s #chick #illustration #chicken little
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #riddle #1920s #illustration #word puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #statue #ruins #buddha #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moving Ahead by Hildreth et al. and illustrated by Malvern & Highsmith, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #futuristic #1940s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"King Pluto and Proserpina."  From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by George Wharton Edwards, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #pluto #proserpina
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #north pole #yearbook #radio #seal #igloo #penguin
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost images in television."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#ghost #vintage headline #tv
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #dancing #1940s #no pants
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Vulture versus dog.  Which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #death #dog #vulture #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Denison University's 1891 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #boxing #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fox #quill pen #goose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #on top of the world #1910s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Old News (permalink)
"A darkness that murmured."  From A Darkness That Murmured.
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#darkness #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #keg #dog #animal attack #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #prohibition
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From David the Giant Killer, and Other Tales of Grandma Lopez by Emily Solis-Cohen and illustrated by Alfred Feinberg, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #cloud #biblical
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat grinder #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Dragons lack healthy rooster."  From the Didsbury Review, 2015.
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April 21, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #illustration #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#prof. oddfellow #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Pets by Nida & Nida, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #pig #illustration
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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.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Old News (permalink)
"For better or worse ... but not for lunch!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1963.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The remains of Howel Sele discovered in the Oak of Nannau."  From Chatterbox, 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 #macabre #death #skeleton #hollow 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 #vintage ad #skeleton #grim reaper #electricity #muscle man #strong man #art #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.
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#hare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #cow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1949 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 #bronco
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #snake #cobra #snake charmer
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Old News (permalink)
"Nothing particularly low in lowbrow."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage headline #lowbrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Live to learn and learn to live."  From Saint Mary's School'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
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Old News (permalink)
"They share rooms with anxieties and memories."  From The Improvement Era, 1967.
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#anxiety #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #baby man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #tuxedo #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Saucer Scoop, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #pyramid #flying saucer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern 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 #1920s #ex libris #bookplate #pet walker
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Screenland, 1933.
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#cat #1930s #vintage hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #noah's ark #illustration
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April 20, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 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 #vintage ad #1900s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1860s #illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #ship #illustration #steamship
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't be too saving."  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #before and after #illustration #cat and dog
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Even one fly means trouble!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1961.
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#vintage ad #telephone #fly #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Meat-Eaters by Lucy Guernsey, 1858.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #puma
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Study economy."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #beer #money #economy #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From Denison's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clown #wink
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gonzaga University's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1980s #paper bag head #paper bag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #wind #laundry #clothesline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1928 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 #1920s
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Find the unicorn.  From Chatterbox, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #lion #hidden pictures
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #pirate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State University's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #eagle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #electrocuted #electricity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology'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 #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #1920s #illustration #making faces #depravity
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
"Old Spanish santo."  From Laughing Horse, 1924.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#religion #vintage illustration #christianity #saint #1920s #illustration #spanish
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April 19, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

From our outpost at Spacey Panda Music:

Do THIS to Be Remembered as an Artist of Originality

The Japanese painter Korin, who lived until 1716, is famous for having blazed a trail "that seemed designed to thwart any would-be followers" (Mizuo Hiroshi, Edo Painting, 1972).  Followers here refers to adopters of Korin's style and/or students of his technique, but it can also mean one's champions and enthusiasts.  And there, in a nutshell, is the secret to being remembered as an artist of originality: express such peculiarity as to be inimitable even by your own biggest supporters, and also don't give your admirers a second thought.  That's not advice that's necessarily easy to adopt in a flash, but might not its achievement be the key to securing one's legacy?  To be unattainable elsewhere — that's the definition of "exclusive," and surely it's a goal for any artist.  Another definition of "exclusive" is "excluding," as Korin did his would-be followers.  What a solitary path!  But that's no surprise, is it?  Every true artist is a trailblazer, and the way is narrow when we stand upon the trembling margin of a new world.

What is effortless, actually, is finding one's singular artistry.  That's because it's always at the core of your very being — it doesn't have to be discovered but rather unfettered by externally imposed overlays that may be masking it.  Just as no two singing voices are identical, every artistic vision is one-of-a-kind, as long as it doesn't lazily emulate those who came before.  It's inevitable for an artist to have idols, and those idols very likely direct one toward one's own singularity (meaning that if you resonate with another artist, it's because there are aspects in that person's work that are stepping stones on your own path toward originality).  But consider someone like filmmaker Brian De Palma making blatantly Hitchcockian thrillers — De Palma homages his hero, which is a lovely gesture, but isn't it Hitchcock himself who will be remembered as the true original?  The two most effortless ways to untangle yourself from your models and free your voice are to pay attention to your dreams and to meditate (if not formal meditation then the Zen practice of "just sitting" quietly for periods of time).  

To cite an example close to home, as an electronic musician with the band Neons Gone Mad, I didn't wish to blur into the background of all my biggest influences, so I sought to create a hitherto unknown genre characterized by a haunted grandfather clock connected by a thread of cobweb to a Tesla spirit radio.  Clockwork rhythms, eerie bells, and ghostly voices from the aether accompany synthesized melodies and lyrics representative of my idiosyncratic angle on life.  The overall effect is unique, instantly recognizable, and nigh impossible to be imitated.  To be clear, this new genre wasn't forced simply to be something weird and different.  The inspiration for it came naturally, as the genre simply distilled several of my interests (time-bending, Tesla inventions, Spiritualism, ghost detection, experimental soundscapes, mechanical/industrial noise, synthpop) into a theretofore unknown synthesis.  Like the work of David Lynch, Neons Gone Mad isn't for everyone, but we've been commissioned by artists around the world for haunted clockwork remixes, like Sigfus of Denmark, Archmage Band in Australia, Bearcraft in the United Kingdom, and Wunderfish in Hawaii.  Yes, we're still working on "don't give your admirers a second thought."  It's a process.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #up a tree #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #puppet #1940s #illustration #hand puppet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The migrated to Hell a long time ago.  From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #hell #1960s #if you had wings #illustration #the people could fly #insect woman #insect people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Carrier pigeon.  From St. Nicholas, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #pigeon #1890s #illustration #carrier pigeon
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"If I seem to be witchy, it's only because I am."  From Canada's answer to Dark Shadows, Strange Paradise episode 25.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's ass-headed St. Christopher is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #saint #ass-headed #illustration #animal-headed #st. christopher
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Old News (permalink)
What are the "comets of the insect world"?  (Answer in the tags.)  From The Children's Newspaper, 1923.
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#comet #vintage headline #headline #cicada
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"At this moment in the eclipse the leaping flames of the sun's color-sphere are faintly visible."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #eclipse
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
"I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing o'er the sea.  And it was full of pretty things for dolly and for me."  From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1909 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 #money #ship #vintage yearbook #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #little bo peep
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Old News (permalink)
"Lost and lopsided."  From Lighted Pathway1960.
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#vintage headline #lopsided #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #jester #vintage yearbook #capital t #letter t
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Light is part of the picture."  From Moving Picture World, 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 #vintage ad #light #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #muse
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Old News (permalink)
"English spelling urgently needs 'spring-cleaning.'  Left to itself, it may result in quite two separate English languages coming into existence, one spoken and one written."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#english #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Case Western Reserve University's School of Dentistry's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #1970s #vintage men #men #male affection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers, Book Three by William H. Elson and Edna R. Kelly, and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fox #chicken
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #turkey #chicken #goose #duck #illustration #farm #1910s
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April 18, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's laughing pig, duck, chicken, and farmer.  From the Daily Mirror, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #laughing animal #laughing pig #1910s #laughing chicken #laughing duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Surprises, edited by McInnes, Belfry, Collins, Gerrard & Ryckman and illustrated by Smith & Bagshaw, 1960.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #pig #illustration #farm #1910s
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #1900s #illustration #stranded at sea
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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 #dog #goat #1920s #illustration #dancing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Why of Fashion by Karlyne Anspach, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mysteria, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #kabbalah #tree of life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl's Own Paper, 1880.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wahbegwannee, The White Flower by Anne Spottsword Young, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1905, via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #clock #vintage postcard #fireman #fire fighter #postcard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1940s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1969.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #vintage man #man #acccessorizing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing card #club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1555.
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#vintage illustration #landscape
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bear
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Old News (permalink)
"A thin boy wastes his vitality."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #gymnastics #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #musical animal
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Old News (permalink)
Stopping on a railroad track is one of the first danger signals on a date.  From Lighted Pathway, 1959.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Obviously the foreword should be called a hindbefore-word, and ought to appear at the end ; or better still, in the middle, and preferably printed upside down."  —G. K. Chesterton's foreword to Dressing Gowns and Glue
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#foreword
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Old News (permalink)
"This is a city of fools.  Queer Belgian town which is populated entirely by lunatics."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline
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April 17, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's fish hat.  From Magic and Make-believe, edited by John McInnes, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1960s #illustration #hat #fish hat
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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 #gem #jewelry #diamond #illustration #bling #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#knot #WTF #professor oddfellow #video #penetralia #profoddfellow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1945.
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#vintage illustration #paper dolls #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Old News (permalink)
"Kindness they could not understand."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#vintage headline #kindness #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Wesleyan University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig #pet walker #walking the pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Current Sauce, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1960s #if you had wings #the people could fly #butterfly woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #cat #umbrella #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #constellation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lenoir College's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Tales by Laura Rountree Smith, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #sandman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #vintage yearbook #pipe smoker
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
"Tip-cat" (the game involving a stick and a billet of wood).  From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
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#vintage illustration #tip-cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Junior College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #ex libris
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Old News (permalink)
"She can see through you!  Woman with 'x-ray' eyes."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#vintage headline #x-ray vision
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Bay Teachers' College's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera #1960s #photographer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #stereo #monaural
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #flower #1920s #illustration #thistle
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April 16, 2026

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Unexpected rain on the stage, the orchestra, and the audience.  From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rain #theatre #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #mouse #1900s #illustration #poem
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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 #japanese #buddhism #buddha #1900s #illustration #bodhisattva #fugen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1929.  
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#vintage illustration #snake #1920s #illustration #rattlesnake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #animal attack #lobster #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #turtle #1900s #illustration #stork
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Modern English Writing by Douglas Bement, 1937.
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#sentence diagram #hilaire belloc
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #beer #explosion #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musician
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Old News (permalink)
"Perfume from poison."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#poison #perfume #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #quill pen #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Living, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #esoteric #triangle #sacred geometry
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fables and Tales by W. F. Rocheleau, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #fable #crow #fox
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bird #musical animal #singing #illustration #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From our review of Magnificent Milo, written and illustrated by Joan Balfour Payne (1958).
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#vintage illustration #centaur #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #illustration #dancing animal #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Converse College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #crooked
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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 #alice in wonderland #dormouse #illustration
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April 15, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From America in Midpassage II by Charles Beard & Mary Beard and illustrated by Wilfred Jones, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #books #map #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Spooky things."  From Dark Shadows episode 310.
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#crystal ball #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #whale #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #patchwork girl #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #facial expression #1930s #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #fox #aesop #stork
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Old News (permalink)
"The truth is best left unknown."  From Pine Manor College's 1983 yearbook.
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#truth #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #knight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #vaudeville
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Old News (permalink)
"Being a drip pays big dividends."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fable #animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #acid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if high-class loaves are better bred."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #bread
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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).
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #mouse #1920s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trampolines by Thorn & Irwin, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #swan #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #masquerade #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Aladdin.  From The Canadian Readers Book III, 1933.  
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#vintage illustration #wizard #aladdin #1930s #illustration
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April 14, 2026

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Laughing mask?"  From Motion Picture News, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #mask #illustration #1910s #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Television, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #television
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea2003.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #halo #buddha #illustration #bodhisattva
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Western Comrade, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #rich and poor #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Direct object.  From Junior English in Action 3 by J. C. Tressler and illustrated by A. B. Savrann, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #shampoo
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Old News (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.  
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#vintage headline #headline #bartering #swapping #trading
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Pack of Foxhounds by Viscount Galway, 1920.  (Our restoration, as per usual.)
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#vintage illustration #mandala #silhouette #horse #fox
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Old News (permalink)
"Easy to get into Danish mad house.  Woman who took wrong train and became hysterical."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bear #teddy bear #bear costume
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Old News (permalink)
"Sawdust into sugar!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.
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#sugar #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Two gentlemen and a fellow with a fur coat."  From Purple Parrot, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #fur coat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Akron's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #pizza
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Eggs that were hatched after having been swallowed by an snake."  From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #snake #chicken #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #anthropomorphism #shadow #bear #shopping #art
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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 #basketball #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life Science by Benedict, Knox & Stone, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #illustration #problems
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice in Orchestralia by Ernest La Prade, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #illustration #musical instrument #brass instrument
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Old News (permalink)
"Toe dabbling day.  Jello anyone?"  From Chatham College's 1993 yearbook.
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#jello #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #native american #1920s #illustration
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April 13, 2026

The Right Word (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration #talking animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #mayhem #1900s #war and peace #illustration #pandemonium #men fighting
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ship #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#religion #vintage illustration #prayer #hinduism #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1970s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's gerbil reading the comics is from Trampolines by Thorn & Irwin, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #animal intelligence #illustration #smart animal #gerbil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Samplers and Stitches, written and illustrated by Mrs. Archibald Christie, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #deer #sewing #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Are you taking a job away from a machine?"  From Union College's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #machine #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hooded gothic bedstead of the fourteenth century."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #silhouette #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #pointing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Holdin' his friends."  From Abe Martin's Primer by Kin Hubbard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cigar #friendship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse #princess #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #pipe smoker #1900s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #bones #professor #1980s
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Old News (permalink)
Apathy Blvd.: walking tours cancelled due to ... whatever.  From Lighted Pathway, 1978.
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#night photography #vintage headline #1970s #apathy #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Anti haircut league."  From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #spider #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clothing for Moderns by Mabel Deane Erwin, 1949.
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April 12, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #bird #oz #illustration #1910s #imaginary animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #bear #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #lion #diagram #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #anthropomorphism #nest #bird #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #candle #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Generation Link, Annotated Teacher's Edition, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration #hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales From Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger and illustrated by Paul Honoré, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #spider web #illustration #lazy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And he was happy and liked his life very much."  From The New People and Progress, Teacher's Edition by Gray et al., 1955.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #comet #airplane #halley's comet
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Old News (permalink)
"Run scared."  From The Instructor, 1957.
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#vintage headline #headline #fear mongering
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fallow deer versus lynx.  Which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #deer #animal fight #lynx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Physiognomy by Samuel Wells, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #happy and sad #smile and frown #making faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bottle #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together magazine, 1967.
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
"How to prove a cat has three tails: no cat has two tails; one cat has one tail more than no cat; then one cat has three tails."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1940.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mouse's Tail by Helen Pettes and illustrated by Julia Greene, 1917.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The time may come."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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April 11, 2026

Old News (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1917.
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#vintage photo #mannequin #hat #1910s #photo #vintage fashon #fashon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to progress the drawing. From The Teaching of Drawing by I. H. Morris, 1893.

From The Teaching of Drawing by I. H. Morris, 1893
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#drawing #1890s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #1920s #robin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's puppet watching a puppet show is from Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #puppet #pinocchio #marionette #1900s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #women #vintage women #vintage hair #hair #hair styles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Children's Own Readers 3 by Pennell, Cusack & Macleod, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fish #1900s #illustration #rice #philippines
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #ship
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Who am I?  From Skeptikko, 1996.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Now stop the action and look again."  From Walla Walla College's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Goblin, 1921.
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Pish tosh!"  "And I think she means it."  From The Addams Family, 1965.
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#addams family
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #1920s #water spirits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Man Elephant, A Book of African Fairy Tales, edited by Hartwell James and illustrated by John R Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #winged lion #flying lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #greek #archer #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Second Primer by J. M. D. Meiklejohn, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #goose #illustration #gosling
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Old News (permalink)
"Houses of copper shining gloriously in the sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage headline #headline #copper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Days we remember."  From Wheaton College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #city and country
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #mother #1930s #illustration
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April 10, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #oz #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #1930s #illustration #manners
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1934.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #rain #rainy day #1930s #illustration #seed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #ocean #1970s #illustration #shell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of Al-Sufi, 15th century.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #illustration #15th century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #invention #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #machine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Legend by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and illustrated by Sidney H. Meteyard, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #jesus #virgin mary #three wise men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown University School of Medicine's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #surgery
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Old News (permalink)
"A man's stomach is electrical."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1904.
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#vintage headline #electricity #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of Irish Literature, Vol. III, No. 2.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Old News (permalink)
"World must return to spiritual values."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1946.
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#vintage headline #spirituality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #cupid #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #butterfly man #butterfly people
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Santa Monica City College's 1934 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #sailboat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #biblical #ezekiel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1909.  
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#vintage illustration #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #illustration #doll #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They circles round and round the tree."  From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #turkey #native american #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Oriole.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1930s #illustration #oriole
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April 9, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by W. H. Walker, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #1940s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Before and after (supposedly) being manhandled by Tibetan lamas.  From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #before and after #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, Aug. 1992.
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#vintage illustration #monster #falling #hell #illustration #1990s
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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 #rake #farm #1580s
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Old News (permalink)
"The boy who was 'different.'"  From Youth's Companion, 1912.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Microcosm, 1990.
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#vintage illustration #books #illustration #1990s
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Old News (permalink)
"In spring by magic perfumes led."  From The Canadian West by D. J. Dickie, 1926.
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#perfume #spring #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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#living toy #chinese #1910s #vintage illustration #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pan #goat legged #faun #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tanya's night to howl."  From Fantastic Adventures vol. 10, no. 08.
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#vintage illustration #werewolf #shapeshifting #lycanthrope
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #finis #dog #the end #smart animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Ghost will lose her home."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1958.
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#ghost #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"If I married again why I would not marry my husband!"  From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #vintage headline #headline #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Golden Journey of Mr. Paradyne by William J. Locke and illustrated by Marcia Lane Foster, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #caravan
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1935 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if an elephant trumpeting is a trunk call."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horn #musician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic Seasons, Teacher's Guidebook by Allinson & McInnes, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #snowball #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North-Western College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #rolling pin
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #despair #vintage headline #current mood #headline
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April 8, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Animal Stories, illustrated by John Rae, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #falling #wolf #1900s #illustration #grimm's fairy tales
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #train #locomotive #1920s #diagram #illustration #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Popular Science Monthly, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #destruction #illustration #1910s #juggernaut
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #1910s
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #map #storm #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.
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#vintage illustration #snail #giant snail #illustration #nursery rhyme #poem #1850s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I used to be able to believe my own lies.  How fortunate I was, how very fortunate."  From Dark Shadows episode 741.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1930s #organ grinder #vintage man #monkey costume
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #sun #copernicus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Birmingham-Southern College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Three Margarets by Laura E. Richards and illustrated by Ethelred B. Barry, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #bog
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"Every day away from you — seems another year!"  From Peace Junior College's 1931 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Onion problem solved!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#onion #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This space reserved for the good things we would like to have said about every one."  From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Irish wolf-dog."  From Chatterbox, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #animal attack #wolf-dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #1920s #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1911.
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#cat #vintage photo #kitten #1910s #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gnome #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Readers Book III, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #goat #illustration #1880s
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April 7, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1915.
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#vintage illustration #exterminator #fly #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1982.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #dragon #illustration #bodhisattva #1980s #kuan yin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Support your local mystics."  From Anomaly, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #mystic #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger #hunter #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sharing Experiences by McKee & McCowen and illustrated by Corinne Malvern & Sylvia Haggander, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #goat #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Catch me!  I am going to fall."  From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #falling #illustration #living toy #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From How to Enjoy Pictures by J. Littlejohns, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #winter #monkey #illustration #up a tree
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Old News (permalink)
"The haunted bridge."  From Fate Magazine, no. 73.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #bridge #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
From Fire From Strange Altars by J. N. Fradenburgh, 1891
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#fire #ritual fire #altar #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #frog #mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imagine, Adventure Games Magazine, No. 9.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult #cauldron #shadow self
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #costume #1970s #tin foil hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1930s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Detroit's 1968 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #1960s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Support Your Local Wizard by Diane Duane.
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#wizard
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"A clear day with a little thunder and some rain."  From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage weather
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blunder's Mystery Companions by Florence M. Pettee and illustrated by Alexander Key, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #jewelry #necklace #chest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #little red riding hood #illustration #1910s
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April 6, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #23 enigma #WTF #strange math #video #penetralia #23
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #before and after #1900s #illustration #devolution #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #museum #1860s #elk #illustration #bison
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Building My House of Health by Jessie Lummis, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #sandman #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #carriage #illustration #russian #horse carriage #troika
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I raise an obstacle."  From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #hand #1920s #illustration #hand gesture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #polar bear #illustration
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #snowflake
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Sea Sodoms by G. L. Morrill, 1921.
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#author's note #apology
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Old News (permalink)
"Have you ever said it?  'Why did I make that BIG mistake?"  From Lighted Pathway, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #mistakes #making faces #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Iowa State College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#beard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #barber #1960s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #magic mirror
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Old News (permalink)
"Have you ever wished?"  From The Stereoscopic Photograph, 1901.
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#cat #vintage headline #wish #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Denison University's 1891 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daddy's Bedtime Fairy Stories by Mary Graham Bonner, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #man in the moon #in the clouds #star fairy #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"The ducks are flying."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#duck #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #idol #worship
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Itching soles ... there's a powder for that, but in this ad it's just a metaphor.  From Together, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #travel #airplane #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Monica City College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1930s
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Old News (permalink)
"Soldiers create trouble."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage headline
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April 5, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #oz #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #zeppelin #illustration #stop the world #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #easter #diagram #1930s #illustration #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #goddess #queen #1920s #easter #illustration #queen easter #easter queen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An undated postcard via UpNorthMemories. 
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #duck #easter #vintage postcard #illustration #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #easter bunny #rabbit #1930s #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #easter #egg #illustration #crossword puzzle
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Old News (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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#old news
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Carolina Central University's 1962 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #panther
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1977 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Stories For Young Readers by Laura A. Large, 1916.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tired #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
From You Can Say That Again! by Joseph S. Wood.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Georgetown University School of Medicine's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #brain #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the New Zealand Opera Company, Donizetti's L'Elisir D'Amore (The Love Tonic), 1967.  Hat tip: ZeeHasABlog.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Detroit's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #trumpet #1960s #vintage men #musician #cross dressing
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Old News (permalink)
Bad news: "No help from marmalade."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1957.
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#vintage headline #marmalade
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #spider #vintage yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#cat #illness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phonic Primer, 1918.
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#fisherman #fishing #fish #1910s #vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #anthropomorphism #easter bunny #1920s #easter #vintage magazine #egg #illustration #easter egg #easter rabbit #magazine
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April 4, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #shoe polish #clown #illustration #shoes #1910s #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#sphinx #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #picnic #rabbit #bunny #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #1970s #illustration #eureka
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #newspaper #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Book About Mary and Bill by Felton & Meighen, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #horse #cowboy #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sea-side and Way-side by Julia McNair Wright and illustrated by C. S. King, 1936.

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#vintage illustration #dragonfly #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Urged on by mice.  From Beautiful Joe's Paradise by Marshall Saunders, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #mice #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1964.
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#meat #vintage headline #vegetarian nightmare #beaver #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The planetary periodic table."  From American Astrology, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #astrology
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Old News (permalink)
"Newspapers or views-papers?"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1945.
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#journalism #vintage headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #occult #prophecy #lantern #candle #hermit #prophet #tarot hermit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving and illustrated by Frank T, Merrill, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #rip van winkle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Junior College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Two by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1920s #corn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"Moonbouncing news."  From 73 Magazine, 1964.
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#moon #vintage headline
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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 #playing cards #cat people #illustration #bobcat
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"Michael, the angel of the sun."  From The Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C. J. S. Thompson, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #angel #sun #archangel michael #archangel
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April 3, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic and Make-believe, edited by John McInnes, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1916.  
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #easter #egg #illustration #easter egg #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Treats and Treasures by McInnes et al., 1964.
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#vintage illustration #flowers #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #1750s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1936.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny #easter #1930s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile #easter rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #illustration #farm #kitten #1910s
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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 #chair #1920s #illustration #nursery rhyme #jack horner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stage and the School by Katharine Anne Ommanney, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration #speech organs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Fetching fire from a neighbor."  From Long Ago by John Waddell, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #fire #1930s #illustration #pioneer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Farmer's Magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #vintage men #men #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bee #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #processional
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Old News (permalink)
"Hats are fatal if they're not up to date."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#vintage headline #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Leaving behind "a trail of twinkling anemones."  From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #flying horse #winged horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
There are smoke rings and then there are smoke question marks.  From Peace Junior College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #question mark #dandy #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tetramorph, a composition of the four living creatures into one: Matthew the man, Mark the lion, Luke the ox, and John the eagle.  From Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures In Art with Special Reference To Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #symbolism #tetramorph #heraldry #evangelists
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hood College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #constellation #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Peter Puck wants to know if the bell-ringer knows the ropes."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #ironing #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #chicken #1900s #illustration
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April 2, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #easter bunny #rabbit #easter #diagram #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #dog #coal #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Consolation magazine, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #sun #rooster #1930s #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
That weird feeling when twins demand a beverage.  From Youth's Companion, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #twins #1920s #illustration #thirsty
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #animals #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bee in a hollyhock.  From The Outdoor Book by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #flower #1920s #bee #illustration #hollyhock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #france #1700s #french #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Astrology is not just a river in Egypt."  From The Omen, 2000.
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#astrology #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper1953.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A ghost is in the market for a haunted house.  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A meal in the moon (roasted frogs)."  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 #moon people
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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.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #fairy tale #castle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Will you share my lot with me?"
"Does it have a house on it?"
From Peace Junior 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #falling #water bucket
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 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 #goat #winter #sleigh
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #mop wig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 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 #camel #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Thresholds to Adult Living by Hazel Thompson Craig, 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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#marriage #1960s #vintage chart #chart
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Today — April 1, 2026

Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1916.  
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #spring #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Comic Birthday Book, undated.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #1900s #april fool #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 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 #seaside #shovel #1920s #illustration #seashore #beach #digging #sand
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1921.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rain #rainy day #april #1920s #illustration #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 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 #crying #oz #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 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 #queen #queen victoria #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #autumn #leaf #autumn leaves #brownie #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 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 #chair #1930s #illustration #furniture #bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Trailing Our Animal Friends by Nida & Nida, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #1920s #sheep #animal fight #lamb #illustration #mountain lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Trésor des Jeunes Conteurs by J .E. Poirier, 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 #boat #fish #mustache #1900s #illustration #talking fish
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #april #umbrella #elephant #illustration #crossword puzzle
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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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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #locked book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And so is he."  From Purple Parrot, 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 #vintage ad #chemistry #1930s #vintage man #man #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 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 #vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Seattle Pacific College's 1928 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 #native american #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Macdonald Farm Journal, 1958.
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#raccoon #hollow log
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill's 1983 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"April badness."  From Rockford College's 1986 yearbook.
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#april #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 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 #talking bird #spring #robin #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Came Pinky by Gates & 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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