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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May 31, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Even rarer than bird-headed scribes: just try to find a writing pillow anymore!  We just did a web search for “writing pillow,” and all we saw were pillows with written words printed onto them as part of their design.  We also seached “writer’s pillow,” with even fewer results.  No wonder so much of what we read anymore is uncomfortable.  (Illustration by Grandville, via Nemfrog.)
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Old News (permalink)
"We are but a thousand grains of sand."  From MacMurray's 1972 yearbook.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From a collection of pieces that appeared in the original Vanity Fair mag between the mid-teens and the mid-thirties:

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The Little Blue Devil, at the Central, can be traced back through a maze of vulgarity (adv.) to an indistinct beginning in Clyde Fitch’s The Blue Mouse.

—Dorothy Parker, in a column of theatrical reviews

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It is a good thing to know that someone is writing letters and, as a reward, receiving them. It makes you feel that all that is being taken care of, and so you can just sit back and take off those heavy shoes.

—Parker, in a piece about Alexander Woolcott

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The chaps I should really like to vote for [in the magazine’s “Ten Dullest Authors” symposium] are the really first-class Sedatives who can fatigue you in a paragraph. You don’t have to plow through pages and pages to know whether they weary you or not. No: these fellows are considerate, they ring the gong instantly.

—Christopher Morley

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Secret societies," from Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if your juggling concentration wouldn't be upset by a bull.  An illustration by W. P. Bodwell.  From Fairy Tales, Narratives and Poems, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Globo, 1844.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #anthropomorphism #mushroom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #quill pen #candle #man in a dress #cross dressing #transvestite
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wide Awake, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #bear #seltzer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if it takes a whole team to get your face ready.  From Nebelspalter, 1881.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #mask #open grave
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Novogodnii Orakul, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #crushed #pretzel #1900s #pinned down #giant pretzel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of California's Blue and Gold yearbook, 1885.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cannibalism #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #pipe smoker #smoking dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #dog snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #cockatoo #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spectre #gunpoint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #dog #mourning #crying animal #missing you
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #knight #bull #wild animals #hunter #trampled #boar #stampede
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May 30, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Jamiroquai's marvelous lyric, "I steal the moon on silver nights" ("Automaton," 2017).  Not only are silver nights and the moon mentioned in the first stanza, but in the second stanza there's "a little song."  From The Ballad of the Quest by Virginia Sheard, 1922.
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#moon #insomnia #poetry #jamiroquai #silver nights
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1909.  See 52 Wishes for Walkers.
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#vintage illustration #sun #walking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mercury in short pants.  From L'Eclipse, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #boots #mercury #winged hat #winged boots
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Tomorrow we take cyanide, Wednesday, arsenic!"  From Wilmington's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry #arsenic #cyanide
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #trumpet #window #musician #shattered glass
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1906 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #finis #skeletons #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Get rid of dust!  From The Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, 1939.
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#vintage ad #baseball #dust #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #animals #goat #rooster #menagerie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Be sure you travel quickly … and don't get lost!"  From Tell-Me-Why Stories About Color and Sound by C. H. Claudy and illustrated by Thomas Wrenn, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #father time #scythe #run #reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #car #vintage automobile #speed demon #demon powered #demon power #automobile
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
Reblog if you've ever discovered that you were playing a game against yourself.  From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #own worst enemy #chess #solo game #playing against oneself
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #dog #windy day #crinoline #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #monster #giant #vintage magazine #decapitated #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Man-eating tree only myth investigators find."  From Popular Mechanics, 1931.
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#vintage headline #man-eating tree #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #goat #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #coins #cough it up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State College of Washington's yearbook of 1912.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Telephony, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #head in the clouds #dust #faceless #no face #1910s
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May 29, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An eye in a pyramid within St. Andrew's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pyramid #all-seeing eye #eye in the pyramid #eye in triangle #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #piggy back ride
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #anthropomorphism #furnace #smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pulemet, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #hellfire #hell #his satanic majesty #damned #torment
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Novogodnii Orakul, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #faces in things #human headed #phonograph
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #merfolk #hybrid
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to pick up the pace. From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1899
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#vintage illustration #gif #horseless carriage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cherub #cupid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #airship #polar bear #winter #north pole #frozen
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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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 #lost at sea #prayer #lightning #stranded #adrift
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #card reader #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #faceless
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #deity #many arms #twelve arms #12 arms
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The shattered goddess should be summoned only by one properly anointed.  From Seton Hall's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#goddess #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the "Choose Your Own Adventure" genre.  From All the Year Round, 1877.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1906 yearbook of UNC Chapel Hill.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tarot #queen of cups
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #merman #under the sea #king neptune #submarine
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May 28, 2019

The Right Word (permalink)
To this day, there are fewer than 50 Google results for the word "phototures."  From Rockingham's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #face #yearbook #light and dark #cartooning #phototure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you love the Platonic ideal of butter.  From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #butter #rocking chair #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It seemed as if that little voice inside had fairly shouted in his ears: 'I am afraid.'"  From The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel by Thorton W. Burgess and illustrated by Harrison Cady, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fear #animal communication #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a rare depiction of mourning scarecrows.  From Satirikon, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #anthropomorphism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #quill pen #animal #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #men's fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #faun #rooster man #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922. 
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#vintage illustration #macabre #severed head #vintage magazine #decapitated #illustration #black widow #serial killer #weight lifting #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #anthropomorphism #two of coins
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She seemed overwhelmed with grief."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #genie #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #weight loss #dieting #waistline #fat man #skinny shadow #cinch
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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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 #ocean #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spooky #spirit #spiritualism #seance
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An unretouched page from Centenary's 1935 yearbook, like something straight out of How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #collage #distortion
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The Right Word (permalink)
"It was a boojum."  From The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll and illustrated Henry Holiday, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #lewis carroll #buoy #boojum
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A pathway of books leads to the castle.  From Eastern Nazarene's 1927 yearbook.

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

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Corey Ford's Three Rousing Cheers for the Rollo Boys:

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"Where are your binoculars?"

"My bin-what-ulars?" asked Cap'n Tom with a wink, and all over the house people could be heard giggling and repeating "Bin-what-ulars!" under their breath, and several little girls had to be carried up the aisle in hysterics.

***

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
To understand imagery like this, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
From Millikin's 1906 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #flower people #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #1900s #human flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The very nervous hand."  It's not the hand of a nervous person, the caption says, but a hand that is itself very nervous or even the embodiment of nervousness.  Therefore, the illustration is transformed into a talisman, akin to the Hand of Fatima.  From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #hand #palmistry
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May 27, 2019

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Thanks to Feminine-Faced-Salamander over at Tumblr for calling our "Separated At Birth?" category "my absolute favorite series" of web posts.  "What a collection.  It's such a fun game."
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to drill-wielding killer in the film Body Double.  From Purdue's 1908 yearbook.  Previously, we discovered this other precursor to Body Double, as well as this one.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #drill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#dragon #chinese dragon #twisted
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some would prefer to be mice, while others would learn How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #mousetrap #mouse man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #cat #monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Looks like an opportinity to doodle in one's own grim reaper.  From Ovod, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #dragon #hybrid #heart #human faced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you're doing your best to coax out a little light.  From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #light #snake charmer #street musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The quotation is unrelated to the illustration.  "After all, fools add to the gayety of nations."  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #monkey #peacock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #knight #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
Here's my modest collection of vintage people who look like their pets.
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#vintage illustration #dog #people who look like their dogs #walking the dog #dog lover #dog walker #pet owner #dog owner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dr. Death takes a pulse.  From Jugend, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #doctor death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #owl #illustration #love birds
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #angels #winged man #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #bear #samurai #bear rug
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you've needed a pillow while standing up.  It's "The Midnight Crew," from Atlantic Christian's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #insomnia #up all night #vintage yearbook #yearbook #midnight #women #vintage women #sleepy #photo
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Very queer numbers.  From Lucifer, A Theosophical Magazine, 1890.  See Presumptive Conundrums: Rhetorical Math Questions + Answers.
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#math
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Eye-opener.  From Eastern Nazarene's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #puppy #yearbook #winking #winking dog #eye opener #winking animal
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #musicians #violin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1906 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #grim reaper #occult #cauldron #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In the unlikely event you needed proofs of the spirit world, here they are.  From Proofs of the Spirit World by Léon Chevreuil, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #spirit world #spiritualism #vintage book #book #pig
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May 26, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)

We took our letter cubes to the Cabazon Dinosaurs to see if Mr. Rex had any message.  Imagine our surprise to find antiquated spellings -- yet a dinosaur would properly speak in old fashioned terms, surely.  In the message we decoded, prehistoric dreams of attainment are instead met with hardships and extinction, but not before a final, eerily accurate vision of a procession of luminaries who would follow in future ages.

Lordly elders dayly dreamt [of] olden headless demon idols shewe[ing] polished golde spheres, sayde [we] sholde [and] wolde someday neede [and] holde [an] ideal soul realm. Mazes ahead, ocean oddly nowhere, ceaseless leaden soil, longe ordeals, seedy plots, deadly ether, molded murders, eroded chasm[s], lost pleas, zeros. There's Chaldeans, Aesop, Hamlet, Hegel, Edison, Theresa.  Someday solved.

[We thank Mr. Rex not only for his forthright communication but also for hosting us in his mouth.]

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#dinosaur #letter cubes #boggle #t-rex #cabazon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You know the comedy-tragedy masks, with the muse of tragedy, Melpomene, and the muse of comedy, Thalia.  The lesser seen third mask is what Walter Harte called "the slatten-muse, Indifference" (Eulogius or, the Charitable Mason1767).  (We assume that slatten derives from the stone slab of masonry called a slatt, so as to imply stony-faced apathy.) 
Our illustration is from Emerson's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #comedy and tragedy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Precursors (permalink)
“Germs originated in Germany”: A still from Peter Serafinowicz'Look Around You, series one.
Here’s earlier proof that germs originate in Germany.  Flies are known to carry germs, and they’re huddling around Germany on this globe from Lustige Blätter, 1916. 
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#vintage illustration #germs #germany
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #procession #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #faceless #no face #section mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Why I Am Still a Bachelor."  From McClure's (1913).
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#vintage illustration #bachelor #vintage man #gay innuendo #man's man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #car #vintage cars #cars #vintage automobiles #strange vehicles #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #hallucination
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #dragon #sea monster #leviathan #god #biblical
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Uncharted Territories (permalink)
The point where four states are visible, not including the state of matrimony.  From The Judge, 1913.   See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #mountaintop #matrimony #hetero #four states
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #giant hat #big hat #blimp #blimp hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #tiger #hunter #photographer #tables turned #sensationalism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high."  From Atlantic Christian's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #aspirations
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The toad's wife."  From Fables and Fairy Tales by Henry Morley and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #toad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Reblog if flying buttresses deserve credit for your own stability.  From American University's 1976 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #cathedral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying buttresses
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1885.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #big hat
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May 25, 2019

Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? (permalink)

On a visit to California, we passed by a “University Vineyard,” triggering this joke:

Did you hear about the troubles at Wine College?  Yeah, they lost their faculties.

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#wine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #piano #eye #pianist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The imps," from Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #imp #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lone Hand, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #boxing #axe #bear #fighting #boxing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916. 
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#vintage illustration #chaos #explosion #upside down #rocket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #scissors #1900s
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Satirikon, 1908.
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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 #devil #stranded at sea #life raft
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Plamia, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #mirror #skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #castle #gallows #bats #hanged man #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #giantess #insomnia #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #horror #hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ghost fights.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #ghosts #fighting #ghost fight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From K Svetu, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #horror #severed head #meat grinder #decapitated #giant snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The secret of elongated dogs.  From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #dachshund #long dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Psychology, from Taylor University's Gem yearbook, 1937.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #psychology #1930s #light and shadow #vintage man #man's face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There they will stay / Till close of day; / In moonbeams bright / They'll come to light."  From The Fairy-folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft. 1895.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy #elf
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May 24, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.  The same image is handled differently here.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #shackles #light and dark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This where all our money went, too.  Back in those days, they swore it was a solid investment.  From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #money #money bags
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster #musical animal
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

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The Soul.... became personified into a sort of sprite which peered out of its apartment at the material world.... The eyes were "the windows of the Soul," and when the Soul took a look at something especially pleasing the windows were supposed to "light up."

Modern science explains this lighting business as being due to natural causes, such as the appearance of a piece of French pastry....

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Tom Thumb Family."  From Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #tom thumb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916. 
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#vintage illustration #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A little window into a lost world.  From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #moon #starry night #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May rare coins rain down into your pockets.  Can you guess how many rare coins cascaded out of the vintage weight scale I acquired? The surprising details are revealed in this video, along with some mind-bending esoteric secrets of copper pennies.
Our illustration is from Nebelspalter, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #wealth #money #money bag #coins #mercury #prosperity #1870s #affluence #quicksilver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Plamia, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #dog #newspaper #red eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From K Svetu, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel #good and evil #angel and demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #hybrid #donkey man #half donkey #ass of himself #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #cowfish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #ghost #death #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Unregulated milk sprayed at a baby, straight from a tainted cow.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #bad milk #poisoned milk #tainted milk
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #waiter #restaurant #wait staff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #human headed #bird man #costume #rooster costume #rooster man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #puppet #conductor #puppetmaster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Atlantic Christian's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #frog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #sphere #dragon #crystal ball
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May 23, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #lettuce #vegetable people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ass #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A question mark walks by.  From Shut, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shtyk, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #grim reaper #horror #baby #infant mortality
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1879.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ashes #blood #bloodstain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Who shot Mr. Potato Head?  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #anthropomorphism #horror #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hunger #war #illustration #conquest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #floating head #deity #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #winged man #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #kettle drum #drumming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Pêle-Mêle, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #lion #photographer #lion cage #animal photographer #gay lion #animal posing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a library ghost in the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.  Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Old News (permalink)
Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead by Peter Browne, 1713.  See also this collection of 112 cocktail recipes to be drunk in remembrance of the dead: Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage book #book #vintage headline #a toast #remembrance #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Expectations.  From Stern's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #waiting #expectations #60s fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #snake #animal fight #devouring
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May 22, 2019

The Right Word (permalink)

"Is there a word for that awful realization that your colleagues are as bad as your students? There should be. Gedämpfteerwartungenenttäuscht or something like that." —The Musubi Murder, by Frankie Bow (via Jonathan Caws-Elwitt)

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
On the opposite side of "The End" is "one chunk of jollity."  From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.  For practical tips, see The Pencil Witch.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #prophecy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage magazine #red dress #lady in red #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Thumbs down.  From The Ladies' Home Journal, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #vintage men #men in suits #thumbs down
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satiricheskoe Obozrenie, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #pond
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Malenkii Zhurnal, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #ruins #flying horse #illustration #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #starvation #weight loss #dieting #losing weight #slimming #emaciation
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to chage moments. From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1896
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#vintage illustration #gif #crosseyed
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #handstand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #fairy tale #knight #evil wizard #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Stop digging your grave with your knife and fork!"  From The Judge, 1922.
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#cautionary #diet #improper food #unhealthy food
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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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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
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#elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #faces in things #lighthouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #human balloon #gas hose #inflated #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The rare cat-headed marotte is a welcome sight.  From Atlantic Christian's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte #cat-headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #knight #quill #jousting
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May 21, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1901 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Corey Ford's collected Rollo Boys:

***

"         !" went the baseball, as Tom's bat failed to connect with it, and the disconnected sphere sailed on toward Merriwell Hall.

***

"!" exclaimed Dr. Merriwell, examining the weapon. "Someone has put a silencer on the starting-gun."

***

The leader in the prow barked out a single word in Arabic: "&"

***

She advanced slowly down the garden path, her eyes radiant with youth and love, her arms filled with a bunch of fragrant asterisks which she had plucked from the good, rich dirt where they grew in profusion, the tips of their star-shaped petals suffused with a passionate pink glow and exuding at times an almost overpowering odour.

[Elsewhere, as I recall, we also have a night sky with asterisks.]

***

". . . ." she replied, and was gone. Phut!

***

And his mother's name was Quetch, if that makes it any funnier.

[And, paraphrasing, as I lost the place: someone does card tricks with matches.]

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
What a bizarre way of depicting this!  The world of opportunity, inducements and awards is gobbling up determination, equipment, energy, courage, pluck, and sand (I suppose in the sence of "firmness of purpose").  From the 1906 yearbook of UNC Chapel Hill.

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#vintage illustration #world #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Blue Cat by Pamela Colman Smith, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #cat people #pamela colman smith #pam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #turtle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #plow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moment, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #hybrid #goat legged #pig headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #angel #mythology #deities #national spirits
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #snake charmer #serpent handler #snake handler #serpent charmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Album Comique de la Famille, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #horse #god #lightning rod
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #lion #national animals #animal gods #giant animals #animal monsters
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #genie #djinn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #clown #all fours #illustration #foolish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #feather #dandy #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #elephant #circus #strong man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of California's Blue and Gold yearbook, 1885.

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#vintage illustration #poet #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #writer's block
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May 20, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #giant #lightning #vintage magazine #storm god #magazine
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Precursors (permalink)
A horror motif as old as time.  From Cine-Mundial, 1921.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Even Father Time was young and saintly once.  From Monmouth's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #saint #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Fear not.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #fear not #banner
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #night sky #vintage yearbook #yearbook #star #omega
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.  [Our restoration.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #human faced #bird man #man bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #horror #newspaper #sensationalism #doom and gloom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Pandora yearbook of the University of Georgia, 1888.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #bat #skeleton #occult #fraternity #yearbook #turtle #secret society
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #chariot #sun god #Apollo #sunny day #hot day #sun chariot #helios
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #fife #wind instrument
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #demon #death #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #cannibalism #cannibal #gnawing #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #faceless #blank face #no face #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's mathematical poodle is from Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #poodle #mathematics #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #vulture
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May 19, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A grim grinning ghost from Swarthmore's 1895 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #monk #tiny man #thermometer
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the mysterious standing-in-a-corner ending of The Blair Witch Project.  From Kansas State's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snowball fight #blair witch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #giant #tiny man #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #monster #biblical #beast #behemoth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moment, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #dog headed #cat headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #goat #carnivore #devoured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#religion #vintage illustration #hinduism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley, 1833.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #fainting #bottle #medicine bottle #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"And thus we arrive at the surprising truth that true art is truer than fact."
Charles H. Ames, The Relation of Art to Nature, 1892
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#art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #faun
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #rain #umbrella
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sun #trees
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is the very first image in Loyola's 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #multiple exposure #three faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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May 18, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard eyes called "baby blues," and here's the truth of it.  From the University of Nebraska at Omaha's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eye
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #kettle #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
Speaking of weird mirror worlds, see our video in which we're trapped within a shattered hall of mirrors.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #reflection #candle #recursion #infinity mirror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Bell and the Shadows."  From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #bell tower #shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly #winged woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #blood #blood pudding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #snail #turtle #tortoise #giant snail #giant turtle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #chess #weight lifting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #forest #rabbit #deer #1900s #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #train #snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Werner's Readings and Recitations No. 35 by Mrs. Frederick W. Pender, 1906.  Crucial: see How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat music #vintage cat #cat clothes #cat duet #uncanny cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Her map dress and sculpture hat.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #mary had a little lamb #big hat #1900s #map dress
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
So easy to confuse basketball for jousting.  Apparently.  From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).

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#vintage illustration #medieval #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jousting
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wesleyan College's 1902 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big bad wolf #little red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It begins.  From Zhgut, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #serpent #snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #tree spirit #woodcutter #faces in things #tree face #lumberjack
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1929 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #cherub #flower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #furnace
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nagaechka, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #bear #blood #mauled #bloody
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May 17, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #scissors #hat #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If this isn't the picture of realism, we don't know what is.  From North Central's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #marotte #illustration #realism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #checkered
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #animals #hippo #sleeping animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #rooftop #voyeurism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"As for me I'll take another grape juice."  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #teetotal #grape juice #non-drinker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #dogs #illustration #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #giant bug #1920s #worm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #comet #shooting star #falling star #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #costume party #costume ball #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if an iron maiden has ever looked at you.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #torture #faces in things #iron maiden
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #meat grinder #grinder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Globo, 1844.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #mask
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

In the light verse of Samuel Hoffenstein, I like some of his poem and section titles:

Songs to Break the Tedium of Riding a Bicycle, Seeing One's Friends, or Heartbreak

Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing

Notes for a Superfluous Poem

Songs of Faith in the Year After Next

Love Songs, at Once Tender and Informative--an Unusual Combination in Verses of This Character

Lyric, to Be Skipped by Those Who Do Not Care for This Sort of Thing

Come Weal, Come Woe, My Status Is Quo

'Tis I, Sir, Rhyming Rapidly

Well, Let's Include Them, Anyhow

Flies Without Ointment

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1908.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We see hints that she is learning How to Be Your Own Cat.  Note her hat's suggestion of cat ears and whiskers.  Her facial expression is also cat-like.  Her companion seems to sense a disquieting metamorphosis.  From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #pan pipes #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #goat legged #plow
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May 16, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of the brightest tombstones we've encountered.  From the University of North Carolina Wilmington's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#cemetery #graveyard #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tombstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How birds learn to sing.  From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #bird #pan pipes #goat legged #faun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #birds #faces in things #ocean #sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One goat's leg raised casually.  From Susquehanna's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun #squirrel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #mesmerist #human magnetism #magnetic fluid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This zodiac is on the front cover of Butler's 1967 yearbook, then again just in blue on inner pages.

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#vintage illustration #zodiac #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fly #literate animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #vintage magazine #red riding hood #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hybrid #human headed #half cow #man cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat #armor
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see the cow's reaction. From Le Journal Amusant, 1904.

From Le Journal Amusant, 1904
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#vintage illustration #cow #gif #laughing animal #laughing cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A monster and a satyr.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #rabbits #giant rabbit #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #snail #hybrid #human headed #bagpipes #tank #war snail #snail of war
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration #fig leaf #monster costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #chariot #lobster #illustration #facing the wrong way
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #giant
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the Blue and Gold yearbook of the University of California, 1901.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insects #bugs #can't sleep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1908.
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#vintage illustration #tiny people
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May 15, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We wrote this article for Secret Art Journal.
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Old News (permalink)
"Children delighted by ghosts, goblins."  From Anderson's 1975 yearbook.
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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weird headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #ram #donkey #sheep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovod, 1906.

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#vintage illustration #skulls #shackles #crows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moi Pulemet, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #grim reaper #scythe #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #hybrid #fish people
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #spirits #dreaming #drunk #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #musical animal #donkey #goya
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #gatekeeper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #long hair #1920s #pony tail #long braid #tiny dog #hair cut #snip
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #emblem #off a cliff #tarot fool #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #falling #lucifer #winged #fallen angel #illustration #icarus #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A dental Ferris wheel.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #dentist #ferris wheel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#resurrection
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wizard #king #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big book #1930s #library
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #sword #illustration #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1908.
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#vintage illustration #giant #tiny people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A "loves me, loves me not" faun bookplate from Susquehanna's 1929 yearbook.  See our virtual "Loves Me, Loves Me Not" flower.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #angel #night #red sky
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May 14, 2019

The Right Word (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"But we've always done it this way!!"  From Chatham's 1969 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #tradition
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cow #bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, live first in the silence after the viaticum.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder Comes Home, by Anthony Gilbert:

***

[An obvious one, but new to me.]

"Got as many ears as a field of corn, that woman."

***

[And a new-to-me twist on "moth balls"!]

"[That old coat] must have been used for moths' balls for years past"...

"Then the moths must have been holding a ball elsewhere yesterday.... Because that coat wasn't there last night."

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rooster #alpha
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1908.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #witch #halloween #broomstick #full moon #october #walpurgisnacht #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #human headed #butterfly net #insect people #butterfly people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Malenkii Zhurnal, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #underworld #hades
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #snake charmer #serpent handler #snake handler
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The fury of the wer-wolf."  From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #werewolf #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #pegasus #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from the Harz Mountains by Alfred Cooper Fryer, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #dragon #straight to hell #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #demon #serpent #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #kiwi bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1991 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #face off
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Into the fire.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #human sacrifice #fire #burned alive
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May 13, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A young girl gets advice from a skeleton on her art.  From Growing Big and Strong by Andress, Goldberger & Dolch, 1939.   (Via Nemfrog.)
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#skeleton #x-ray #1930s #advice
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're delighted that Holy Mountaineering recognized us as the living corpse that we are:
@danskjavlarna
The tumblr home of Professor Oddfellow aka author Craig Conley is stacked up with images from old newspaper to old yearbooks to just who knows what the hell type of images. If not “occult” per se, then definitely esoteric, Prof. Oddfellow is almost certainly a vampire (not an insult from where I’m sitting) who has accumulated a horde of knowledge he is kind enough to share with mortals. Like Prometheus, but fun.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
A haunted bathroom in the Solvang clock tower (and where the spirit led):
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#ghost #clock tower #video #solvang #w. somerset maugham
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Precursors (permalink)
Over a decade before The Unknown Comic debuted on The Gong Show.  From Loyola's 1965 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costume #mystery man #paper bag head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mask #clown #costume #wolf in sheep's clothing #turkey costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life Magazine (1897).
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #tiny man #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zanoza, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #dance of death #grim reaper #scythe #cake-walk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moi Pulemet, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #magnification #germs #microbes #microscopic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #big hat #tall hat #bird hat #bird house #bird lover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Old News (permalink)
"Electricity will detect fraud in maple sugar."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a bird from Birds in London by W. H. Hudson, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #full moon #blackbird #raven #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #insects #bugs #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #strawberries #strawberry people #fruit people #fruit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #seal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Leo's yearbook of 1972.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #bird #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Guilford's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #geometry #eyeglasses #mustache #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1908.
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#vintage illustration #dog #comfort #homey #cozy
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
We kept this old yearbook page only for the questions it raises.  Is this seemingly unremarkable photo of a modest fountain in the mid-distance indeed humorous in a way that has been lost to time?  Do we tend to take old photos too seriously?  From Susquehanna's 1929 yearbook.
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#humor #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #old photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #war and peace #mind power
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May 12, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bear versus boar: which would you wager to win?  From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bear #animal fight #blood #boar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Our dressing mirror does this, too.  We tried replacing it, but it seems that all mirrors are somehow defective.  From Butler's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#mirror #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #distortion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #roller skates
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #spring #chair #booby-trap
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Folks are so often critical of their own yearbook portraits.  From Tulane's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1892 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #coffin #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret societies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey
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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 #greek #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Molot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #heart #thorns #blood #bleeding heart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #graveyard #grim reaper #ghosts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The horns of a dilemma."  From The Modern Joe Miller, edited by R. C. W., 1871.
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#vintage illustration #horns #rhino #horns of a dilemma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #train accident #train tracks #dead body #oncoming #night train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #cow #animal welfare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #telescope #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #emblem #sun #gemstone #prism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #hypnotist #human magnetism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #harp #crocodile tears #musician #jaws of death #eaten alive #alligator tears
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull face #occult #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The sceptical and distrustful hands."  What we like about this, of course, is that the caption doesn't say, "A sceptical and distrustful person's hands" but rather ascribes the doubting to the hands themselves.  From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.
See also our guide to the palmistry of the "Don't Walk" hand at intersections: Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands.
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#hand #palmistry
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May 11, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The physiognomy of winners and losers.  From Duke's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #illustration #winner #win or lose #loser
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"So may it be when we are gone."  From Mary Washington's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ship #train #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #gun
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prophetic Lights by Ellet Joseph Waggoner, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #prophecy #bear #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sastrel'shchik, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #human headed #bowling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #beard #hydra #hercules #pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #drunk #overindulgence #foxes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #severed head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Behind many a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles there lurks a canny brain."  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #eyeglasses #spectacles #brainy #people who wear glasses #horn-rimmed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #square mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Legends of Many Nations by Charles B. Burkhardt, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #wee folk #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #rain #umbrella #horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #dog #posing #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pharmacology #illustration #pharmacist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Good morning.  From Zatmenie, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #insomnia #sleepless #swords #dread #sword of damocles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Here's to the days that have vanished."  From Purdue's 1892 yearbook.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #cheers #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bygone #illustration #a toast #the past
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ghost hands pick his pockets and steal his hat.  From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #pickpocket #hat
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May 10, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #mountain spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #crocodile #torture #dungeon #musician #dancing animal
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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 #fairy tale #princess #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shchast'e, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #goat legged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #snowman #winter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poedinok, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #spider #cobweb #spiderweb #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #peace angel #angel costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #donkey #donkey ears #long ears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Playing against the cards themselves.  From Le Courrier Français, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #gambling #playing cards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #money bag #anthropomorphism #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #horse #winter sports #skiing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Both haunted and cursed, this spirit photograph appears in Taylor University's Ilium yearbook of 1976.

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#haunted #vintage photo #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cursed photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if it takes a cat, a dog, a rooster, and a grownup to get you out of bed.  From Speaking Likenesses by Christina Rossetti and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #rooster #tired #asleep #sleepy #late to rise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1922 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The power of organ music.  From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cherub #organ
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Lighter foot prints."  From Mary Washington's 1920 yearbook.

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

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Smith, by Constance and Gwenyth Little:

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"Well, who does he think he is, with all that stuffing in his shirt? Nobody likes the men better than I do, but you can have that one--even on Sundays and holidays."

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"Did you ever see such a bunch of dead ones, outside the morgue? They look nude, walkin' around without their coffins."

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1928 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead
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May 9, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.  This recalls the Smell of Reeves & Mortimer running gag about a father who begs for "booze for t'baby," which we featured at this link.
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#vintage illustration #alcoholism #faces in things #moloch #eaten alive #giant bottle #booze for the baby #booze
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1916 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #cemetery #grim reaper #pitchfork #open grave #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #kite #vintage man #man
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
You knew that today's college students are all snowflakes, but back in the 70s, it was the faculty who were snowflakes.  From Longwood's 1972 yearbook.
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#snow #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shchelchok, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #jester #tiny men #specimen jar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #castle #princess #rocket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #twisted #red beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #giant #coins #shadow #gold #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #women's fashion #illustration #backless dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #hat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #hair growth #flower hair #hair replacement #cure for baldness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #skull #gallows #hanged man #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Without a parrot, cat, and owl, it's merely pseudo-science.  From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #science #cat #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A leaping fairy caught on film.  From The Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1973 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#mummy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bandaged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #bell #for whom the bell tolls #blood
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May 8, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #piano #sleeping #piano bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Union College's 1989 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #creatures of the night #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1960 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wood grain #growth #recursive
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What I Now Know (permalink)
"Sadly, from where I stood, I was in what I now know to be a 'scarce language environment.'"
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #rooster costume #illustration #cobbler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #angel #resurrection #hands #rapture #lifted up #hands up to heaven
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #donkey #goya
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #weather #visual pun #weather bureau #visual joke
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The enchantment."  From The Elf Maiden and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, 1914.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard birds communicating, and nine times out of ten it's literary debate.  From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Man of Sorrows."  Woodcut by Julius J. Lankes, 1919.  From Current Opinion, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Elmhurst's 1973 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In this great world of sunshine and shadow, we are constantly casting shadows on those around us, and receiving shadows from them in return." —Home Monthly, 1860
Our illustration is from Zarevo, 1906.
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May 7, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Though Wikipedia traces the music genre "techno" to 1988, in fact the U.K. band Vicious Pink coined the term on March 27, 1982, in Sounds magazine.  The cover of Pitt Technical Institute's 1970 yearbook, with its Kraftwerk-style portrait, offers a precursor.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mary Washington's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #gate
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death Wears a Mask, by Douglas G. Browne:

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[The protagonist is playfully accusing his wife of being indiscreet with one of his secrets.]

"Delilah!" said Mr. Tuke to his wife. "Or do I mean someone else?"

***

"Many a time I've said to 'im, 'A rolling-pin don't gather no moss.'"

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the UNC Chapel Hill yearbook of 1931.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Those swallowed by the earth.  From Shershen', 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From McClure's (1908).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #shackles #handcuffs #big cat #imprisoned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Magic of Spirit Rapping, Writing Mediums, and Table Turning by John Henry Anderson, 1860.  See Seance Parlor Feng Shui.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A genie of frightful aspect rose out of the earth."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #writing #typewriter #deadline #typing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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Old News (permalink)
"Everything is personal; everything is political. We are trained to see the personal, the psychological (although our psychological understanding is usually pretty unsophisticated). We are less able to see the political; in life as in art, much energy is devoted towards blurring the political meaning of events, or even that events have a political meaning." —Theatre Times, 1986
"More or less personal": a headline from the Northwestern Christian Advocate, 1921.
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May 6, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Contrary to popular belief, not all music begins this way -- it's mostly just show tunes.  From Northeastern's 1922 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Crocodile dentists from Le Charivari, 1879.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, curl up the small soul in the window seat.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shershen', 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Love lies bleeding."  From Pall Mall (1900).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if this is literally or figuratively your bedside table.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Animals rejoice over a car accident.  From The Judge, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #deer #illustration #feed the animals #cherry #by mouth
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to suburbanites whose irrigation systems water their lawns in the rain.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #stocks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Skomorokh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #face #smile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The first born."  From The Lone Hand, 1908.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
(Our restoration, as per usual.)  From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stairway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Some gruesome reflections.  From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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May 5, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"One way to keep the socks up—"  From Saturday Evening Post (1913).
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #upside down #handstand #socks #lol #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #ear trumpet #hearing trumpet
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Old News (permalink)
"Whether great or small -- they leave us in bereavement."  From Mary Washington's 1920 yearbook.
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#hand lettering #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #bereavement
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shershen', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #rooster #giant rooster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shtyk, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull #bomb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pliuvium, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snake #alcohol #drunk #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The devil propels a great star from heaven to inflict property damage.  From The Devil's Bride by Milton H. Stine, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From At Fault by Hawley Smart, 1883.
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #windy day #weather #wind #storm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #pitchfork #clown #billiards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #knight #hydra #seven heads #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A race with death."  From The Judge, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snail #candle #race with death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #angel #cupid #heart #illustration #bleeding heart #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #political cartoon #monster #public speaking #gorgon #snake hair #serpent hair #orator
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Life before Tumblr.  From Tri-State College's 1964 yearbook.
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#photography #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #darkroom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Demons hate organ music.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #organ
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Svistok Odessa, 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 #skull #war #orbs #blood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the UNC Chapel Hill yearbook of 1931.

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

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#vintage illustration #imp #devil #skeleton key #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #column
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're thankful for this 5-star review of the One-Letter Words Quiz Deck over at Amazon:
"Craig Conley is a genius and these are wonderful. Learning these pieces of knowledge will make you more interesting at parties and attractive."

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#one-letter words
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #bird #shoe #ad
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May 4, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's Hamlet surrounded by banjo-playing bunnies is from Guilford's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #rabbits #bunnies #yearbook #banjo #hamlet #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shershen', 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #plucked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch Magazine (1894).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #bear #bear hug #bear headed #half bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Perets, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #serpent #snakes #serpent tongue #snake tongue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The only thing we'd add here is the genie bottle from I Dream of Jeannie.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.  Did you know that we're caretakers of the actual genie bottle that inspired I Dream of Jeannie?  It's revealed in this video.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #architecture #tower #campanile #venice
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #frog #snail #duck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #serpent #harpy #frog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The pain of a toothache.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #pain #dentist #toothache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The has-been."  From The Judge, 1916.
Recall what William Shatner said about a "has-been":
Has been implies failure. Not so.
Has been's history. Has been, was.
Has been, might again.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Previously, while staying in a Los Angeles hotel casita, we were surprised to find our dictionary of one-letter words sitting atop a Red Letter Teacher's Edition Bible.  
(Is it an ironic pairing of a best-seller with a non-starter?  Or is it a visual joke, like "Alpha[bet] and Omega?)  We recall Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair (with its charming, time-bending solution to the true authorship of the Shakespeare plays) in which a motel drawer features a Gideon Bible, the teachings of Buddha, Thoughts Of St. Zvlkxand the complete works of the Bard (among other things).
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#bible #dictionary #one-letter words #alpha and omega #ironic pairing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #patriotism #chauvinism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Anchar, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #bat #skull #bones
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
This photograph may be used for triggering a flash of insight.  From Taylor University's Ilium yearbook of 1976.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lens flare #light and shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If these are walking bathtubs with sponge heads, they're the best walking bathtubs with sponge heads that we've seen all week.  From Nebelspalter, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bathtub
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #chisel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Svobodnyi Smekh, 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 #living toy #weeble
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Barnard's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sunrise #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #endpapers #ex libris #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you're the one who let the bats out.  From Le Charivari, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bats #illustration
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Nonsense Dept. (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #nonsense
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Signaly, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #outer space #moon #electricity #powerlines
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May 3, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1960 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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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Curl, by Constance and Gwenyth Little:

***

One of the guests unexpectedly found this hilariously funny.... He collected the laughter.

[Like scooping up winnings after an unanticipated win in a poker hand, I guess?]

***

"He can have a watch fob made of it." She added almost immediately, "What /is/ a watch fob?"

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost sighting in The Glimmerglass (Oct. 30, 1974), reproduced in Olivet Nazarene's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #spirit photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A bookplate we noticed in My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #balancing #ex libris #bookplate #ornithology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shershen', 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Two cruel green orbs set in a wide grey face."  From The Life Story of a Squirrel by Thomas Charles Bridges and illustrated by Allan Stewart, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #lynx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch Magazine (1882).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #giant shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #snail #pickle #big nose #pickle nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 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 #death #grim reaper #skull face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We never sleep."  The cover of The Somnambulist and the Detective, The Murderer and the Fortune Teller by Allan Pinkerton, 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#insomnia #vintage book #book #eye #old book #vigilance #can't sleep #never sleep #stay awake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1934.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hands of god #giant hands #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #fishing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #skiing
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The Right Word (permalink)
Oh!  From Jungle Night by William Beebe, 1918.
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#oh #wail #woe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This spindly armed ghost haunts Elmhurst's 1959 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #library #library ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bottles of cognac and absinthe cry at the funeral of the last schnapps nose.  From Nebelspalter, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #nose #alcohol #funeral
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Svobodnyi Smekh, 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 #mermaid
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Owls instruct most all outdoor cats (those not home-schooled).  From Barnard's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #baby new year #1848
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May 2, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Various Wonderland characters from Barnard's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wonderland
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the movie theatre gimmicks like Smell-O-Vision and Odorama.  From Le Charivari, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #fish #painter #odorama #smell-o-vision #stink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1874.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #centaur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gaston's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trapped #bulb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vampir, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe #vintage magazine #blood #blade #grindstone #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Marcus Waterman, 1864.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #snow maiden #winter spirit #snow sculpture #snow spirit #snow girl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales About Animals by Peter Parley, 1870.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lion #hunter #tables turned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Source lost in a computer glitch.]
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #long pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovod, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #knight #automaton #robot #dragon slayer #robot monster #mechanical dragon #mechanical monster #robot dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
Specimen jars, mad scientists, and homuncili are collected here.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #fetus #specimen bottle #specimen jar
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #chin up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #cat #animal familiar #card reader #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #night sky #nighttime #sleeping #starry night #starlight #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Obstacle.  From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #antlers #caveman #spiked club #obstacle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hippo
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #sun #freedom #faces in things #handcuffs #break the chain
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"And I shall never pass this way again."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1975 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sunset #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Flung back into the sea by clams?  From the Hyannis Beacon, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clam #thrown
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the UNC Chapel Hill yearbook of 1931.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to rotate the faces. From Vampir, 1906.

From Vampir, 1906
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#vintage illustration #two faced #snake hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #duck people #duck headed #hubrid #duck lady
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to those downsizing TV shows in which the host forces someone to choose one of two old toys to throw away.  From Flora Macdonald's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign #downsizing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"An 'All Round' Athlete."  From Puck Magazine (1890).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #yoga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #death #grim reaper #mad scientist #poison #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Petite Lune, 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 #anthropomorphism #faces in things #grapes #bananas
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cow #dancing #dancing animals #calves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #salamander
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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 #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #house of cards #tiny house #snail house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fashions for May include a skeleton dress.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #fashion #vintage fashion #costumes #skeleton dress
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Old News (permalink)
Great news for lady night owls: "Women's hours are extended to 11 each night."  From Middlebury's The Campus newspaper, 1961.
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#night owl #vintage headline #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's an entry from The Dictionary of Ugly Words, a book attributed to us.
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#dictionary #gargoyle #ugly word
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Olivet Nazarene's 1970 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shershen', 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #pitchfork #idol #cult
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man #chisel
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1882.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #tiny man #knife
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I have some rights of memory in this kingdom." —Shakespeare.  From Barnard's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1843.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horn #musician #brass instrument #flugelhorn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Benten, Japanese goddess of wisdom.  From Rockford's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #japanese #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #deity #benten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The magic art of the Great Humbug.  An illustration by W. W. Denslow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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 #magic #wizard of oz #humbug
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