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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Old News (permalink)
"Feminist stripper demands respect."  From The Gateway, 1982.
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#vintage headline #feminism #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Orpheus takes his radio to the underworld.  From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #music #underworld #radio #orpheus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An all-seeing eye watches the clink of every toast.  From Fantastic Adventures, 1950.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #all-seeing eye #alcohol #surveillance society
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's how cauldrons may trigger sapphic longings.  From James Madison's 1954 yearbook.

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

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#cauldron #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #goth #lesbian #women #vintage women #sapphic
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #fish costume #fish priest #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kent State's 1980 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #god of vacation packing #out of season
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Milwaukee State's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #king #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #laundry #tightrope walker #clothesline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From UFO Review, 1980.
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#vintage photo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Sarnia's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #poetry #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #money #coin purse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's yearbook of 1903.

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

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#vintage illustration #angel #earth #cherub #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Morris Harvey's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The "bunny ears" prank happens in drawings, too -- not only in photographs.  We previously saw this vintage example, from a 1966 yearbook.  
This more recent example is from Caketrain Journal, 2006.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#skull #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The moon burns" (Meena Alexander). 
From Birmingham Southern's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #red moon #blood moon #giant moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull face #falling #mountain spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A hundred dollar hat in 1894 would be over $3,100 with today's inflation.  From Ohio State University's 1894 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #pistol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1986.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bigfoot
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May 30, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giraffe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Angelophone Hymns, 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 #angel #vintage book #book #trumpet #musician #hymns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This ghost arm haunts Saint Mary's Junior College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #ghost hand #ghost arm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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 #falling #frog #bird #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #phrenology #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #death #skeleton #grim reaper #war dead #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From York College of Pennsylvania's 1974 yearbook.
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#silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horned man
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #satyr #boxing kangaroo #kangaroo #alcohol #people who look like animals #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #illustration #pollution #industrialization
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Richmond Professional Institute's 1938 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #france #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pilot Bails Out, written and illustrated by Don Blanding, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
It follows us and we can't hide from the shadows it casts.  A rather ominous way to describe the sun!  From Morris Harvey's 1969 yearbook.
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#sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1893 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elephant #illustration #gas mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #rabbit
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Old News (permalink)
The headline is from the (Everett, WA) Herald (1983), and the photo is from American University's 1984 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The scan is atrocious and the scene is pandemonium, but if you noticed the witch right off then you might possess untapped powers.  From Unknown, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #chaos #mayhem #pandemonium
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blotto, Twinks and the Great Road Race, by Simon Brett:

***
But Corky could grow a moustache. His had the robust quality of a kitchen implement designed to scour roasting trays. Whereas the thin residue of hair on the upper lip of Florian Carré Dagneau did not look up to the task of polishing glassware.

***
"It's a blatant act of sabbatical!"
"'Sabotage,' I think, is the word you're looking for, sir."

***
"You may be forgetting, sir, that there are ten thousand gold sovereigns at stake."
"Yes, I suppose that might add a trumpet to the trombone."

***
Corky Froggett had never really believed in God. But now he did not rule out the possibility of believing in ducks.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dungeon Master: Perfect Guide.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #bigfoot
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May 29, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From For Men Only, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #giant #alcohol #tiny man #1930s #puritan #illustration #bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #stars #star goddess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've seen illusionists, and you've seen their illusions, and it's true that the two are separate entities.  From the Phantasie handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #magician #illusion #illusionist
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Old News (permalink)
Sounds like a typical Friday night.  "Unidentified objects and a strange face."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline #friday #strange face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #faces in things #mountain climber #1930s #mountain spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
> read more from Restoring the Lost Sense . . .
#vintage illustration #demon #genie #djinn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"There are always days when it would be better to stay in bed and avoid the madness."  From Morris Harvey's 1969 yearbook.

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

> read more from Yearbook Weirdness . . .
#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stay in bed
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #dream #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mount Wachusett's 1987 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#hobby horse #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream, illustrated by William Heath Robinson, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #shakespeare #midsummer's night dream #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"How unreal!"  From Ball State's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #jesus
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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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Strange Dreams (permalink)
A giant snowflake fairy at the window.  From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #fairy #winter #snowflake
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #cats #yearbook #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Memphis State's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #strangulation #garrote #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just a candle to shed some light on the subject.  From Lustige Blätter, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #candle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)

Good morning, sweet companion
Pardon me if I've forgotten your name.
—Richard Farina, "Mainline Prosperity Blues"

From Duke's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Their leaves are the pages of yearbooks -- glowing forests of old.  From Susquehanna's 1960 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Foliate mask."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #mask #church art
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May 28, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored to have received a triple-"cool" approval from Yeeflex on our remix!
Let us know -- did any stopped clocks begin ticking while you listened to this music? Did "time fly"? The song is just under 5 minutes long, but did you experience any sense of "timelessness" along the way? Whether or not you can verify a temporal anomaly, we had fun creating this video to share some time with you.
The original version of "Sunrise" (by Meizong & Yeeflex, via Argofox) is here: youtu.be/-GurRvqxg3I
The clockwork remix by Neons Gone Mad is available here: https://profoddfellow.bandcamp.com/track/sunrise-meizong-yeeflex
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#prof. oddfellow #time bending #music video #temporal anomaly #video #penetralia #clockwork music #neons gone mad #edm
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Precursors (permalink)
One year before the game of Jenga was marketed, folks had to do it the hard way.  From Tri-State College's 1982 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1980s #jenga
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The stamp says "Not to be taken out."  From Lighted Pathway, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #coffin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
His official yearbook portrait.  From Pfeiffer's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #sword #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #elephant #cow #hybrid #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades by Florence Holbrook, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The pseudo-3-D effect of this photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From UNC Chapel Hill's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Avoid having a night owl near or hooting near you day or night."  From a teacher training guide to Navajo cultural beliefs, 1986.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #native american #navajo #bad luck #1980s #taboo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago State's 1951 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #grim reaper #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #hobby horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #spooky #hooded figure #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institute's yearbook of 1902.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cricket #bugs #glee club #musical insects
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caketrain Journal, 2006.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#halloween #cape #boo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cupid #skating
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death in Dark Glasses, by George Bellairs:

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There wasn't a single remaining Mathieson, Curtiss, Leader or other Mathieson in the firm.

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He had a long neck which he operated like a concertina, extending it when emphasising a point.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the identities of these four ghosts, from a 5-part teaser in The Film Daily, 1942.

Reveal the identities of these four ghosts, from a 5-part teaser in The Film Daily, 1942
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#vintage hollywood #hollywood #gif
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Old News (permalink)
Same news, different decades and centuries.  "People gagged: meetings banned."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage headline #headline #mask mandate #shutdowns
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May 27, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Showing us how it's done, here's a superfan of Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia living the life and working the magic with our signature "Butt in and See" t-shirt.  Thank you, A-Smo, for rocking this look and for sustaining the dream!  (P.S.  We love the spot-on impersonation of Prof. Oddfellow being scared out of his wits by a bleating goat!)
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#occult #goat #fashion #penetralia
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not dream of Swiss cheese tonight.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #cheese #symbol #swiss cheese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #astrologer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Let's bring back horned wands, scepters, staffs, and walking sticks.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #magic wand #occult #shepherd #horns #antlers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 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 #fairy
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
For a moment we thought, "What an unusual painting, with the subjects' faces obscured."  Then we realized it was more likely a mirror.  And so, "What an unusual photo!"  From West Georgia's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #vintage magazine #the people could fly #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Moon is an ice cube."  From Toike Oike, 1961.
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#moon #ice #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Book of Plays and Operettas, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #costume #illustration #monk's hood
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big book #ex libris #hoop skirt #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dusk #illustration #fairy house #house
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #1907
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #monster #mountain climber #1920s #the people could fly #winged men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A professor of genetic mutations, Marcus Foulface.  From Pfeiffer's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #genetic mutation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mars #war and peace #hair pulling #peace angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Conference Seminary's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #love me love my dog #rooster balloon #kiss a dog #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This skull is a magus, according to the caption.  From Duke's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #demon #alcohol
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May 26, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Potato-based divination, plus one weird trick for solving seemingly insoluable conundrums:
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#divination #fortune telling #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #brain #puzzle piece
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Old News (permalink)
We readily believe this news because the reporter is named Wolff, and wolves absolutely do know their lights in the sky.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.
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#ghost #ufo #strange light #vintage headline #ghost light #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #spider #rooftop #chimney #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Grapes for hair.  From Colorado College's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fruit hair #grape hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Ring by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin & Nora Archibald Smith, illustrated by Elizabeth MacKinstry, 1916.
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#fairy tale #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fashion #vintage fashion #red dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A proper salutation to the sphinx.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1893 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gnomes #eggshell #egg boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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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 #devil #angel #emblem #demons #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #spiritualism #vintage yearbook #seance #yearbook #tiny hand #hallway #light at the end of it #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #paw prints #animal tracks #pawprint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snails
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
By B. C. Rush for Indiana University's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #forest #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pathway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"If he hadn't gone into the future, where had he gone?"  From Starwind, 1976.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #time travel
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Great Hotel Murder, by Vincent Starrett:

***
Mr. White retired behind his formidable eyebrows and sulked there.

***
"Life, as somebody has remarked, is like a pack of cards. I have forgotten the precise argument; but the aphorism, I think, is sound."

***
"I am fascinated by your monocle, Mr. Holderness," she said. "What would you do if it were broken?"
The eye that gripped the monocle relaxed; the glass wafer fell crashing to the deck. Ford Holderness kicked the broken pieces into the water. From his waistcoat pocket he brought up a second patch of crystal and stuck it firmly in his eye. No smile accompanied the transaction.
"I carry spares, Miss Oliver," he bowed. "Your question is such a popular one, when I am out of England, that I never venture out without a pocketful."

[The more I study that scene, the more I find to enjoy. The basic premise is wonderful, of course, and then there's the "observer effect" implied by the fact that what makes his monocles break is, in effect, people asking about his monocles breaking. I love the precursing of Schroeder's closet full of spare Beethoven busts; and I'm also impressed at how the author avoids saying "monocle" too often by resorting to the phrases "glass wafer" and "patch of crystal."]


***
"Marbles!" said Blackwood profanely.

***
Here again was the big black car...strolling along with its hands in its pockets, having no difficulty at all in keeping just the right distance in the rear.

***
He hoped that he would never see another adjectival tree. The poet who could sing of trees was full of bats and mice and fleas.

***
Her words were now tumbling out and piling up on top of one another like the letters of a typewriter.
***
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
One of the few scientists in the world who can't subtract just happens to be in Dark Shadows (episode 997).
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May 25, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Luminaries of the dark web, Neons Gone Mad share all sorts of unseen goodies on this new webpage.
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#neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May today's bugbears already be satiated and ready for a nap.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #bear #bugbear
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Old News (permalink)
Like snowflakes, no two UFOs are exactly alike.  "UFOs, snow -- Strange things happening."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1973.
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#ufo #snow #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Five dots appear in two ads, for different products, on the same page of Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dice #five spots #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Our lives are filled with bits of happiness and craziness in the noonday sun."  From Morris Harvey's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #motorcycle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #drinking #alcoholism #alcohol #mouths
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two ways to find a princess fastened to a cosmic rock.  From Star Lore of All Ages by William Tyler Olcott, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #andromeda
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giant #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #money #money bag #faces in things #illustration #almighty dollar #art #1910s
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #death #inkblot #grim reaper #anthropomorphism #hooded figure #nuclear #radioactive #art
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Tetris.  From Barnard's 1957 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art #cubism #tetris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Why the earth wobbles.  From Nebelspalter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #world #devil #earth #why the earth wobbles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1924 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #fraternities #secret society #giant skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Sadly, they move toward their mournful task.  The wind moans forlornly along the wall; a merciful cloud blots the moon's gentle rays, and all is darkness ... and imperturable silence.  The curtains close."  From Plays For Players And Guide To Play Production by Verne E. Powers, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #death #tree #the end
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A bit of the unexpected, from Colorado College's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cow skull #unexpected
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #knight #dragon slayer
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Duke's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Marx Sisters, by Barry Maitland:

***

[Re. a character named Terry Winter, the son of a Mrs. Winterbottom.]

"Winter?" Brock queried.
[...]
"He dropped the 'bottom'....I rather gathered it was his wife who was behind it, so to speak."

[Later, someone refers to him as "Mr Winter-without-the-bottom."]
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
In the distance, where the third man is looking — isn't that an enormous sculpture of a human head?  It also looks as though a figure is curled up in front of the head, though what we initially took as the figure's shoe seems to be a beer bottle.
From Gannon's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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May 24, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We were honored to design magical training certificates for Cyril the Sorcerer.
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#magic #hippogriff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King of Cats by Eileen O'Faolian and illustrated by Vera Bock.
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#vintage illustration #king #cat #sigil #cat king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #oz #door
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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 #fable #bear #aesop
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Unknown magazine, 1943.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#imp #horror #nightmare #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It sounds like a good thing, to grab at peace.  From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #strangled #peace dove
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twilight Land by Howard Pyle, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #angel #flute
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Morris Harvey's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #robot #fist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The danger of carrying a jumbo chocolate bunny when bald.  From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #easter bunny #rabbit #bunny
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #bird headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #bird man #parrot head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hair dryer #blow dryer #ad
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #goose #newspaper #news #rooster fish #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #war #weapons
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Short Stories for Little Folks by Catherine Bryce, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #toadstool #fairy #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull face #living dead #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Devoured by eagles.  From L'Oeil de la Police, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #animal attack #bird attack #eaten alive #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #mask
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May 23, 2021

Old News (permalink)
"She seeks answers in outer realms."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#moon #mystery #vintage photo #vintage headline #headline #outer realms
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A glowing forest from Rockingham's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing trees
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #prophecy #effigy #lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hermit #bonfire #prophet #tarot hermit #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #diving #airplane #skydiving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #money #coins #currency #exchange rate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Joseph's 1937 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gryphon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skeleton #living dead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades by Florence Holbrook, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Wiley Bobcat was the best-dressed student of 1963.  From Lees-McRae's yearbook of 1963.

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#animal headed #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The influenza demon.  From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #illness #disease #medicine #influenza #flu
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We wish we had better news, but we double checked and it's true: "It's a long road, twisting deeper and deeper into corners of uncertainty ... yet, we've only just begun."  From Cabarrus' 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Great chapter title: "A Goddess Who is Suffering from Obesity and a Brave Man Who Is Afraid of the Law of Averages."  From City of Endless Night by Milo Hastings, 1920.
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#old book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant hand #vintage yearbook #spoon #yearbook #tiny man #medicine
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We'd do well not to underestimate Amen-Tut-Butt.  From the Wizardry: Bane Of The Cosmic Forge Clue Book.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #pharaoh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #devil #alcoholism #alcohol #hallucination
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Eliza, by Barry Pain:

***
Eliza, entirely misunderstanding the word that I next used, got up and said that she would not stop in the room to hear her poor mother sworn at.

"The word I used," I said, calmly, "was alabaster, and not what you suppose."

"You pronounced it just like the other thing."

"I pronounced it in an exclamatory manner," I replied, "from contempt! You seem to me very ready to think evil. This is not the first time!"

Eliza apologized. As a matter of fact, I really did say alabaster. But I said it emphatically, and I own that it relieved my feelings.

***
How true it is, as one of our English poets has remarked, that it is always darkest before the silver lining!
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1980.
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#vintage headline #headline
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May 22, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #animal headed #hybrid #camel #tables turned
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's been said that the world is a classroom, and here's proof.  From MacMurray's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
A woman from Fargo ("Fargo" is an anagram of "a frog") was dissected like a frog on a UFO.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline #dissection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #shakespeare #midsummer's night dream #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #goat legged #faun #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from East Carolina's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #paris #vintage yearbook #yearbook #new york #endpapers #ex libris
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #killer tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Washington's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Taken by a vulture.  From L'Oeil de la Police, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #vulture #carried away
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
If they're asking us, then by all means "Yes!" hurry through the painful situation.  For cripes sake, don't dwell in misery longer than you have to.  From Cabarrus' 1972 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #gold
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Mother and daughter librarians, the heart of the library.  From Hanover's 1962 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #librarian #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #deity #god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1842.
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#vintage illustration #long hair
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #giant #christianity #prophecy #shield #legend #many headed #many eyes #wheels within wheels #art
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #drugs #vintage headline #bottle #headline #prodigal son
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Oh, it's fine, but I still don't understand why."  From Dark Shadows episode 1.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State's 1906 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #secret society #secret societ
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She brought me a very big grasshopper."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat #insect #grasshopper
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May 21, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The power of finger goggles: Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #tibetan book of the dead #finger goggles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A goblin shaman from the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #goblin #shaman #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mutual contempt."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #thumbing nose #contempt #church art
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Old News (permalink)
"Woman spots heavy breathing UFO."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1976.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull face #occult #living dead #quill pen #1940s
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #devil
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Oeil de la Police, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #burned alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Book by Sophie May, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #fairy tale #kelpie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1952 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cousin itt #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #alcoholism #alcohol #hallucination #bottle #flying bottle #winged bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill's 1971 yearbook.

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#church #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #glowing building #glowing church
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Athanasius Kircher, 1653.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #sacred geometry #kircher
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas' 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #angel #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: "Can I make it?"
A: "You can make it. But only if you go now. Abandon that corpse in your arms. Do it. You must live. Someone must live to tell the tale of what happened here" (James Barclay, Elves Once Walked With Gods)
Illustration from Cabarrus' 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing trees
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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 Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #rooftop
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Trouble in the Brasses, by Alisa Craig

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She'd got herself up in what could perhaps best be described as a sports outfit, and it left no doubt as to what her favorite sport must be.

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"We would never have married had he been less handsome then and I more fluent in English. When I thought he was talking love to me, he was talking instead love about food. Norma Bellini could not remain forever playing second fiddle to a double cheeseburger!"

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"That first whoopee cushion he put in my chair opened my eyes, I can tell you."
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Bonuses:
1. A character whose first language is not English describes another character as a "fussy-budget" (i.e., with the -y tacked onto "fuss").
2. French-horn "eyes" and "eyebrows"!

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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear #three bears
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May 20, 2021

Old News (permalink)
Before the "booty call" (1993) there was the "buddy call" (1958).  From The Instructor, 1958.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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#vintage illustration #bat #vampire bat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to progress through a multi-page teaser for the film The Sea Beast. From The Film Daily, 1926.

A multi-page teaser for the film The Sea Beast.  From The Film Daily, 1926
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#vintage ad #ship #ocean #gif #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A face emerges from the endpaper glue.  From The Gipsies and The Two Sons (Anonymous), 1884.
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#faces in things #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #devil #mars #alcohol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I was soon sweating like a stevedore."  From Cured! the 70 Adventures of a Dyspeptic by Brian Dunne (1914).
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#vintage illustration #sweating #doctor #illness #illustration #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's animal golfers are from Barnard's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Almanach de Bonne Fortune, 1770.
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#vintage illustration #angel #bow and arrow #vintage almanac #lucky numbers #almanac
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical instruments
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's the masks that got smaller.  From Wingate's 1971 yearbook.
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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #death #hourglass #grim reaper #father time #vintage photo #scythe #illustration #art #photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1921.
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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 #political cartoon #monster #sea monster
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The Right Word (permalink)
"You are heded [sic] for HELL!"  From William and Mary's 1986 yearbook.
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#hell #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign #misspelling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #boxing kangaroo #kangaroo #people who look like animals
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May 19, 2021

Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Picture Show, 1920.
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#eyeglasses #1920s #vintage hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Medusa takes a nap.  From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #medusa #nap #gorgon #snake hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
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#vintage illustration #haunted #spinning #plate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You, too, might be related to the Queen of Hearts (seriously: see Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy).
From Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose by Roger Garis and illustrated by Edward Bloomfield, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #queen of hearts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #horse headed #horse man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Crying and smiling at the same time?  From Salem's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clarion Call, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #astronaut #illustration #spacemen #suction tube
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1905 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #goat man #goat #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #illustration #transvestite
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #illustration #adieu #final bow
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
There is a six-hour discrepancy at this clock tower in Scranton, Pennsylvania, documented by Scott Chenoweth.  Though we weren't on location to discover the exact cause of the timely weirdness, we offer this photo to help hone the insights of would-be investigators of temporal anomalies.  The more clocks one sees that are "on the fritz" (Fritz being the German clockmaker who first went "cuckoo"), the better attuned one will be to time warps in the wild.
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#clock tower #temporal anomaly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From William and Mary's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#grim reaper #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #hooded figure #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1975.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #airplane #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#monster #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #tobacco #sign #no smoking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story-Book Tales by Mina Pearl Ashton, 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 #anthropomorphism #elephant #rabbit #musical animal #cactus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1964.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #paris #mouse #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dungeon Master: Perfect Guide.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard
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May 18, 2021

Precursors (permalink)
Over two decades before Billie Burke appeared in a bubble in The Wizard of Oz, here's her bubbly self.  From Motion Picture News, 1916.
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#wizard of oz #1900s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #bubble #billie burke
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Not only do we find it funny to dream of a Welsh rarebit, but check out that very rare phrase "neutral fancies."  Reblog if your affairs have been complicated by neutral fancies.  From 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream #welsh rabbit #welsh rarebit #symbol
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The whichness of the what: Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia:
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#humor #prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #laugh track
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The only way to bring these people back to the truth is to smile and lie just as they do."  From Dark Shadows episode 958.
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#lying #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Girl Green as Elderflower by Randolph Stow.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #folklore #vintage book #book
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A jack-o'-lantern who uses the "royal we."  From Taylor's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #pumpkin head #jack-o-lantern #carved pumpkin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Protestant eater."  From Nebelspalter, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #monster #giant #illustration #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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 #frog #oz #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #star queen
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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 Nebelspalter, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #marotte #imprisoned
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #symbols
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Religious life is a balancing act" (Robert Audi).  From Nebelspalter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #balancing act #idol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Disembodied blue jeans got an entire page of their own in Middle Tennessee's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #blue jeans
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From William and Mary's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wonder Tales from Russia by Jeremiah Curtin, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cat #dog #surfing #wave #russian #surfing cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The turtle, upon whose tail the penguin is stepping, is squealing quite a high note!  Perhaps that note is high enough to reach "turtle heaven," the celestial tones of which we previously noted here.  From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death on a Dark Sea, by R. A. Bentley:

***
Seating herself at the piano, Connie had essayed a few tunes but no-one seemed inclined to dance and she was reduced to toying with Für Elize [sic].

***
"What's she like?"
"Trouble in t-bars. Thinks she's Clara Bow."

[Now, I don't know what "trouble in t-bars" is supposed to mean, at the literal level. One would think it was like "trouble with a capital T" or "trouble in italics," but I find no evidence to support this interpretation of "t-bars" (nor evidence of anyone else using this expression, incidentally). T-bars seem strictly to be the ski-lift thing, and possibly something to do with motorcycles. Still, it has a nice ring to it!]
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Am I utterly worthless?"  From Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich and illustrated by William Steig.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #horned man #worthless
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May 17, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monolith #eternity #standing stone #svithjod
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss in Boots, illustrated by Eric Winter.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Through the looking glass.  From Billy Whiskers, The Autobiography of a Goat by Frances Montgomery and illustrated by W. H. Fry, 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 #mirror #goat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The air seems full of flowers—flowers everywhere."  From Weird Tales, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skull #horror #flowers
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We like how this photocopy of the portrait makes the skeptical Dr. Menzel look somewhat surreal and alien.  We also like the wording that he "speaks against" UFOs as if he is opposed to them (rather than a disbeliever).  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1969.

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#ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #musicians
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Reblog if your shadow has gotten confused in optical illusion tilework.  From Santa Clara's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ganesh as a footprint of Satan.  From The Foot-Prints of Satan, or, The Devil in History by Hollis Read, 1873.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #elephant #india #hinduism #ganesh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Grelot, 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 #political cartoon #long nose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate #herm
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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 #fashion #vintage fashion #face mask #goggles #it's a look
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare: a heavenly snowman.  From Nebelspalter, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snowman #in the clouds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Davidson's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #vintage yearbook #yearbook #american history
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Spoiler: the answer following the question posed here is that Death is not only a living entity but also a loving one.  From Ghost Trackers Newsletter, 1989.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #death #grim reaper #skull face #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wizard #fashion #vintage fashion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #strange light #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #follow the light #light and shadow #glowing #close-up #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1895 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #birds #yearbook #musical animal #glee club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From For Men Only, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skeleton in the closet
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May 16, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #serpent #elephant #hybrid #snake headed #elephant headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Pour Tous, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Greensboro's 1934 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1925.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #walking the dog #windy #pet walker
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Carolina's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #ex libris #bookplate
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage japan #vintage yearbook #yearbook #japan #mt. fuji #mountain
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It’s actually not all that easy to find weird computer/video games anymore.  Everything seems to be created by focus groups or is otherwise homogenized.  The weirdest games from other nations either don’t ever get exported or never get translated, and blog posts about weird games tend to be written by folks who haven’t seen enough weirdness in life to know actual idiosyncrasy when they see it.  (Image source.)
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage book #computer games
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #elf
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Swarthmore's 1994 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"In Europe you find many people who look sad.  This is soul."  From How To Be An Alien by George Mikes and illustrated by Nicholas Bentley.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #europe #sad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From the old BBC radio show Take It from Here:

***
“You were very lucky to get him in at the Royal Academy of Puppets and Marionettes.”
“Well, naturally I had to pull a few strings....”

***
“I won’t be able to keep my job if a baby comes along.”
“Oh, Eth, they’d never give your job to a baby.”
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Because you keep up with all the great things, you're already familiar with our weirdly beautiful collection of mysteriously glowing trees in vintage yearbooks.  But lest you assume those trees glowed only at night, here are some day-glo trees in Anderson College's 1946 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Never allow youngsters to play with the fire-starting magickal tools.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #magic wand #occult #fire
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
That's actually a sunset, not a sunrise.  From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #big science
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the eye of his mask.  From Nebelspalter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mask
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Weaver's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #imp #hell #wheel of fortune #merry-go-round #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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May 15, 2021

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #education
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
I was on the road to being a people magnet but hit a wall.  From How to Be a People Magnet by Leil Lowndes.  
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#human magnetism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Illinois Woman's College's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 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 #book #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vimana, 1988.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #cloud #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Be not afraid."  From West Georgia's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #be not afraid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #skeleton
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1927 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #pen and ink #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #tiny man #big book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A tall tree as a radio antenna, presumably.  From Nebelspalter, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #music #tree #radio #illustration #antenna
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Valparaiso yearbook of 1925.

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

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#vintage illustration #humor #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #marotte
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How to determine the distance of a UFO, from UFO Information, 1971.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage diagram #diagram #triangulation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1908.
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#religion #vintage illustration #devil #jack-in-the-box #pitchfork
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to when Diane Ladd rubbed lipstick all over her face in David Lynch's Wild At Heart.  From Oregon State College's 1941 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lipstick
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to my YouTube channel.  From The Instructor, 1970.  
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#vintage illustration #odd #television #antenna
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1975.
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#vintage illustration #fire #moth to the flame #vintage headline #advice #1970s #moth #headline
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Precursors (permalink)
A precursor to Rachel Tyrell from Bladerunner.  From St. Joseph's College for Women's 1925 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bladerunner #rachel tyrell #sean young
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor Skinner and illustrated by Blanche Fischer Wright, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #dragon
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From Elon College's 1924 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #moon #whisper #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #poison #bad milk
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May 14, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"That sure is a lousy cornucopia!"  From B.A.R., 1973.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#cornucopia #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The math that twists your pretzels.  From "Of the Kinkiness of Closed Braids" by Christian Bohr.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#knot #pretzel #mathematics
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elmhurst'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 #ghoom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Study Chronicle, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #fox and the grapes
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The opposite of rose-colored glasses.  From Nebelspalter, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #distortion #sunglasses
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Berea's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #severed head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #decapitated
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Can a book cover be a shattered mirror?  We encountered just such a phenomenon at Archive.org, with scans of different editions of the same book.
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#man in the mirror #broken mirror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #japanese #vintage yearbook #yearbook #boat #japan #mt. fuji #mountain
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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Montana yearbook of 1918.

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

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe
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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 #long nose #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jolly Tailor and Other Tales Translated from the Polish by Lucia Merecka Borski and Kate B. Miller and illustrated by Kazimir Klepacki, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #castle #old book
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Ghost It Was, by Richard Hull:

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[Serving Subpoenas on Ghosts dept.]

He even tried to refuse to give evidence [at the inquest], and when it was firmly explained to him that he would have to, he suggested that it would be more to the point if they served a subpoena on the ghost.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #slug #giant slug
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The phrase "Sphinx's eyeglasses" is a Googlewhack.  From the University of Bridgeport's 1960 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Thank you, Jonathan Beckenstein, for writing, "A most welcome unique take on EDM. Feels and sounds great. And that hallway... Cocteau would be proud."
And thank you, George Parker, for writing, "I fell in love with the music!! I'm putting it on loop. The sound, the rhythm, superb. And the video as well as usual."
What happens when a spirit radio's strange clockwork music mingles with eldritch mutterings in the VIP room of Prof. Oddfellow's Penetralia?
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #nonsense #video #penetralia #clockwork music
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lambuth College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #giant bug #insect #giant insect #tiny woman
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Old News (permalink)
Reblog with how many ungiven kisses you've received today.  From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage headline #kiss #headline
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May 13, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fox versus ram: which would you wager to win?  From Ukrainian Folk Tales, illustrated by J. Hnizdovsky.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox #ram #folk tale #animal fight
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
It's nice when a book title gives you a sense of what's inside.  From Sentences and Paragraphs by John Davidson, 1895.
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#vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard of Oz, adapted by Oscar Weigle and illustrated by Robert Patterson.
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#vintage illustration #wizard of oz #tin man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Jack Frost freezing fairies into a hollow tree.  From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #jack frost #hollow tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Housekeeping's Best Book of Fun and Nonsense, illustrated by George Wilde.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #clock #animal fight #cat and dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Psyche and Eros."  From Psyche by Louis Couperus and illustrated by Dion Clayton Calthrop, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #psyche #eros
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea monster #tentacles #five arms
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Old News (permalink)
"In these shadows we live."  From Montreat-Anderson's 1962 yearbook.
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#night people #creature of the night #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #pegasus #winged horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Social Standards Committee, from Wake Forest's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #jack-o'-lantern #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #half a man #half and half
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Tho' we are young, we scorn to flit on the wings of borrowed wit."  From Lasell's 1898 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #quotation #george wither #borrowed wit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #knight #rabbits #bunnies
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
They can be reached only through the windows of old yearbooks -- the glowing forests of yore.  From Fort Wayne's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #glowing trees #glowing forest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #portal #pyramid #the people could fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #hat #self defense #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #eagle #lion #1890s
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Old News (permalink)
"Trial of strength; tears mask off."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1938.
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#mask #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Not angry -- just yawning."  From St. Nicholas, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #yawn
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May 12, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
For the person who has everything -- Archaic Fictile Revetments in Sicily and Magna Graecia by E. Douglas Van Buren, 1923.  As we always say, as of just now, people who live within clay-walled houses shouldn't throw pottery, unless they're broken-tile mosaicists.
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#vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Good news -- he's not pointing at you.  (He's pointing at the thing that's looming behind you.)  From Dungeon Master: Perfect Guide.
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#mummy #vintage illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Threeway hypnotism against tobacco addiction.  From Hypnotism As It Is by Xenophon LaMotte Sage, 1900.
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#vintage photo #tobacco #addiction #hypnosis #cigarettes
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to see his reaction. From Purdue's 1895 yearbook.

From Purdue's 1895 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #shepherd
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #under the sea #diver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #egg #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #timepiece #faces in things #clock #1930s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Do not make noise at night after dusk."  From a teacher training guide to Navajo cultural beliefs, 1986.
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#vintage illustration #native american #navajo #taboo
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #centaur #musical animal #ostrich #lol #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois' 1913 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #priestess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #sororities
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of those days.  From Barnard's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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#sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1919 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #hand of god #crushed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cheshire cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Ghost Herd" by Nancy Estes.  From Coraddi, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #cattle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today the project is called "toxic masculinity," but by whatever name the crusade for the diminution of men is nothing new.  From Swarthmore College's 1916 yearbook. 

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #winged woman
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Precursors (permalink)
Over four decades before Joe Camel, an elephant was a cigarette mascot.  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #elephant #mascot #cigarette #ad
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May 11, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This previously unseen 90s seconds of "Turning Into Parallel Universes" features a strange song about a "security blanket statement."
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #spirit radio #video #penetralia #security blanket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any wandering ronin you meet on your path offer a hint about what's ahead.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #samurai #ronin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#gas mask #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"As you move into your efforts to create your own Army, consider yourself a lifelong learner" (Jennifer Prosek).
"Mr. Gibson and his 'little people.'"  From Morris Harvey's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #little people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #devil #money #hell #scales
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #strange light #searchlight #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1903.
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#religion #vintage illustration #hatching #egg #illustration #born of egg #egg born
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #grim reaper #truth #crystal ball #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #constrictor #film
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #palette #painter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bubbles #vintage yearbook #bubble pipe #yearbook #blowing bubbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Howtobegood Stories by Edith Cushing Derbyshire and illustrated by Noble Ives, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Spending the days of our lives in search for another world."  From Kansas State's 1976 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #weird headline #soap opera
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Dunfuilen castle endpapers from Flora Macdonald's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the North Adams State College yearbook, 1966.

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#eerie #silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#religion #vintage illustration #skull #occult
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Tomb of the Honey Bee, by L. B. Hathaway

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"The lover was Lady Cosima Catchpole. Her husband is Hugo Marchpane."
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[Bonus: solicitors named Pring & Proudfoot]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rinkitink in Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #monster #oz
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May 10, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Washington's 1921 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 yearbook #yearbook #contemplation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wind Wagon by David Cory and illustrated by P. H. Webb, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #knight #clock #cuckoo clock
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Temporal Anomalies (permalink)
"The 'clock without hands' is a mandala, an archetypal symbol that stands for both ... incompleteness ... and potential wholeness, a wholeness that the mandala as a complete circle portends" (Clifton Snider, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On.
Photo courtesy of Roger Marks.
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#timepiece #clock #temporal anomaly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #falling #skeleton hand
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1985 yearbook.

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

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#ufo #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Imaginative Tales, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #monster #hydra #many headed #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tirra Lirra Rhymes Old and New by Laura Richards and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #political cartoon #goat #uncle sam
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's Hullabaloo yearbook of 1899.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #harp #winged horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Poison as medicine.  From Wake Forest's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #poison #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From N by E by Rockwell Kent, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #sun #ocean #sea
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#animal mask #vintage photo #animal headed #vintage yearbook #1970s #animal costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #heart #furnace #cold heart #frozen heart
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Salve Regina's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#halloween #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #costume #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #hatching #chick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The daily richness of ordinary things.  From Together, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #maid #1910s
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
It's why we let our subscription laspse, too: "Nothing in the papers.  Nothing about sudden horrible death or anyone seeing any mysterious animal."  From Dark Shadows episode 918.
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#sensationalism #dark shadows
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May 9, 2021

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You deserve a dragon's breath meditation with aeolian accompaniment:
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#dragon #incense #smoke #meditation #video #waterfall incense
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Talking Thrush by William Crooke and illustrated by W. H. Robinson, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #frog #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
If a thousand and one nights in Arabia is inconvenient, still available are a thousand and one afternoons in Chicago.  From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 1922.
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#vintage book #book #chicago
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The Right Word (permalink)
From To Heaven with the Devil by Harold Elvin, 1914. 
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#devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #deity #god #six arms
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salve Regina's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #no #thin ice #danger sign #warning sign #sign #no swimming
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #butterfly #moth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At first glance, we assumed this was about how married people refer to their "better halves."  From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #statistics #half person #one and a half #better half
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #devil #alcohol #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He would meet Dew Drop playing on a spider's web."  From American Fairy Tales by Garrett Brown and illustrated by John Edward O'Keeffe, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Rensselaer yearbook of 1921.

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

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#vintage illustration #priestess #incense #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Best looking."  From the 1922 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#grotesque #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #rocking horse #arrow through the heart #crossbow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1907 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Forgot by Mrs. Frederick Field, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #animals #deer #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Cross-country may be the only sport that still acknowledges "the old ways."  From Hampden-Sydney's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hooded figure #1970s #cross-country
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blotto, Twinks, and the Riddle of the Sphinx, by Simon Brett:

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Mr. Crouptickle looked quizzical. Doing this gave him no problem. He was wearing the kind of pince-nez in which it was virtually impossible not to look quizzical.
***

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge handbook.
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#vintage illustration #elf
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May 8, 2021

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1986 yearbook.

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

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#rainy day #vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rain gear #plastic bag
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Old News (permalink)
Confirmed: "The thing is still hovering up there."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.
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#ufo #ominous #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The God of the Witches by Margaret Alice Murray, 1908
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#witch #vintage photo #candles #sweden #light queen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hairdressers have a knack for topiaries.  From Nebelspalter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #gardening #barber #hairdresser #topiary
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen, illustrated by Emily Harding, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bird
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
If you've ever felt a sort of stinging sensation during a winter storm, it may have been the arrows of tiny cherubs.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1930.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #snow #winter #arrows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's "Cauldron" yearbook of 1931.  Proof that every old yearbook is its own cauldron of witchery: How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ex libris #bookplate
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
postcard from our personal archives.
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#edinburgh #castle #vintage postcard #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #1890s #weird map
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #lions #lion's den #biblical #daniel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Try a new bag."  From MacMurray's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #sign #new bag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #camel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #costume party #masquerade #dress
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zauberlinda, The Wise Witch by Eva Katherine Clapp and illustrated by Mabel Tibbits, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dancing #dancing cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"We're so proud of our pumpkin."  From Salve Regina's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #carved pumpkin
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #full moon #man in the moon #jules verne #faces in things #luna #moon goddess #popping cork #alcohol #art #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #egypt #map #nile #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From History of the Joliet Diocese, Presented on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Cathedral of St. Raymond Nonnatus, 1955.
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#religion #vintage illustration #vintage diagram #lightning #pyramid #hand of god #diagram
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May 7, 2021

Old News (permalink)
From the Wartburg Trumpet, 1969.
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#money #vintage headline #advice #broke #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh you pippin."  Courtsey of UpNorthMemories.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vintage postcard #apple #fruit people #postcard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's an overlap of the Tarot Fool with the World.  From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tarot #cliff #tarot fool #tarot world #stepping off
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Desoto's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#smoking #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #tobacco #cigarettes #chainsmoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #cats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Peace sleeps on a bed of bayonets.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #peace #war and peace #bayonet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairies I Have Met by Mrs. Rodolph Stawell and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #warped #fisheye
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Winston Second Reader by Sidney Firman and Etel Gehres, illustrated by Frederick Richardson, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #white rabbit #rabbit #bunny #giant rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1904 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stars #faces in things #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Always remember that everything you put into your music is seen and appreciated by your cat.  From Nebelspalter, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #guitar #musician #blue guitar
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's rare to see a self-opening yearbook, but sure enough, this one was equipped to do so.  There's a remarkable explanation of "open sesame" in Magic Words: A Dictionary.
From the State Teacher's College of Virginia's 1927 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #magic words #arabian nights #open sesame
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death Stops the Frolic, by George Bellairs:

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It will be as well for us to get over the origins and topography of Swarebridge before the reader wearies. It is obvious that the place lies on the River Sware and that there is a bridge!

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His head was the shape of a blunt carrot.

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[He] has a tonsure surrounded by a fairly thick, dark thatch, just as if its owner had decided to become a monk and then abandoned the project in the chair of the monastic barber.
***
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #night
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Granny's Wonderful Chair and Its Tales of Fairy Times by Frances Browne and illustrated by Katharine Pyle, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #king #merman #treasure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A two-headed snake from the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn handbook.
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#vintage illustration #snake #two headed
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway1976.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #hook #fish book
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May 6, 2021

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored that VJ Bat (a.k.a. the electro-goth industrual pioneer Xorcist) debuted on his live Twitch show our clockwork remix of Michael Ash Sharbaugh's "Fog Rise Echo."  To create his 8-bit light show overlay, VJ Bat has in the studio an Apple 2e computer with special hardware that listens to the room during the set and displays the waveform of the music on the side of the screen.  In the dead center of the screen is a live feed from his Atari C-240 Color Light Organ decoding the audio signal.  Surrounding that is his Radio Shack Color Computer II with a Music Kaleidoscope hardware cart also decoding the audio feed.  Both the Atari and Radio Shack video feeds are combined by a Gefen video mixer.  All 3 of these feeds are then sent to a separate computer that has a 4xHDMI PCIe input card and OBS where the APPLE 2e feed is layered. The whole mess is then sent to his VJ laptop, which streams as an NDI source while Bat performs.
Thanks to Michael Ash Sharbaugh, who said: "I am blessed, Gents! Thanks! It is soooooo great! You gentlemen have outdone yourselves: the video is spooky, comical at times, and well orchestrated and planned out. I am humbled, and appreciate it!"  Here's the video of Neons Gone Mad's clockwork remix of "Fog Rise Echo":
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1946.
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#penguin #vintage illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We checked, and it's true that a house can be haunted by terror itself.  From Dark Shadows episode 764.
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#haunted house #terror #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You want drama that burns like a woman's tears? ... the ecstasy of love unbounded?  Try next door!"  An ad for the Marx Bros.' Room Service.  From The Film Daily, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #marx brothers #ad
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"Nursemaid to nightmares."  From Weird Tales, 1942.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #horror #werewolf #vampire
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We scanned this photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app to see if it is, indeed, haunted.  The reading came back "Arcane," in the sense of "impenetrable."  The strange light patterns in the grass are mysterious but not indubitably ghosts.  From Salve Regina's 1983 yearbook.
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#spooky #haunting #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #gate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #ibis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From I Rode the Black Horse Far Away by Ivy O. Eastwick, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage book #book #horseback #black horse #equestrian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mars Hill's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #mandala #vintage yearbook #yearbook #old book #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1978.
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#vintage illustration #ufo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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#vintage illustration #reading
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana (Missoula) yearbook of 1907. See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #death #hourglass #grim reaper #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scythe #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #satyr #faun #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #ex libris #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #devil #hell mouth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Rare to see a genie lamp containing one big and four little genii.  From the State Teacher's College of Virginia's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #genie #crystal ball #djinn #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 2004.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #sulphur
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Millikin's 1910 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wee folk #singers
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #vintage devil #money #drinking #alcoholism #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II strategy handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult
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May 5, 2021

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We would have to agree -- "Something is always happening."  From B.A.R., 1977.
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#halloween #jack-o'-lantern #pumpkin #hallowe'en
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #priest #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #phantom limb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1982.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"And glide forever, a homeless vagrant through the dusky void."  From Drowsy by John Ames Mitchell, 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 #outer space #weightless #floating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Microcosm, Spring 1977.
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#vintage illustration #bottle imp #bottled ghost #bottle
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's a rare magic spell for conjuring a mermaid.  From The Witch Family by Eleanor Estes and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
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#magick #magic spell #mermaid #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jester #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 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 #falling #oz #living toy #patchwork girl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A chicken encounters "the 23 enigma."  (With a bonus nest of lemons.)  From Rhode Island State's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chicken #23 enigma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Aliens in their decreasing complexity, down to the glowing sphere.  From Lumières Dans la Nuit, 1977.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #spaceman #extraterrestrial
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #angel #heaven #eye of god #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky #joan of arc
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Girls and Gayety by Carolyn Wells, 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 book #book #lesbian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's been said that "learning is recursive and iterative."  So, too, are places of learning.  From Eastern Nazarene's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #arch #recursive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #costume party #costumes #party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #imp #jester #headache #migraine
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The 1950s seem centuries past.  From the University of Detroit's 1958 yearbook.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #men's fashion #hooded figure #henry v #vintage man #man #cloak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Wasp, 1892.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #dreaming #sleeping #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Charles Fort Never Mentioned Wombats by Gene DeWeese and Robert Coulson.
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#book design #animal headed #wombat
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May 4, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gorgonic mask."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #gorgon #church art
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Old News (permalink)
Nice surreal effect courtesy of scanning photocopies of newsprint.  "Strange lights may be space visitors."  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1971.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
*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 #seaside
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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 #tall ship #ship #asia #illustration #giant statues #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Catawba's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #balloon #faceless #no face
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"In a magic lantern held before the slowly setting sun."  From The Wonderful Fairies of the Sun by Ernest Vincent Wright and illustrated by Cora M. Norman, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #sun #elves
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the State Female Normal School, Farmville, Va.'s 1902 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #skulls #yearbook #secret society #sororities #flying skull #winged skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Shadow Witch by Gertrude Crownfield, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #witches
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1906 yearbook of UNC Chapel Hill.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #bird men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #watering can #water #television #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carthage yearbook of 1916.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #faces in things #candle #1910s
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snake charmer #taj mahal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Day-dreaming.  From Europa's Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John Batten, 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 #fairy tale #daydream
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ghosts haunt the preface of Wesleyan College's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirits #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Only Funny If ... (permalink)
This is what becomes of questionable humor.  From La Grimace, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #jester #question mark #ball and chain
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death of a Lady, by R. A. Bentley:

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"Lady double-barrelled something or other...."
"Persephone Creech-Barrington?"
"That's it!"

***
She'll have the Duchess out before you can say dowager.

***
He turned to the switchboard and after some cogitation tentatively selected a cord. "I don't care for these things. I worry I'll inadvertently knit a jumper."
***
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to deepen the night. From Nebelspalter, 1937.

From Nebelspalter, 1937
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#night #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the old Persian word for "maneater," manticores will begin this day on a fasting diet -- that is our wish for you.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #manticore
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May 3, 2021

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bull versus tiger: which would you wager to win?  From Scribner's 1875.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tiger #bull #animal fight
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Black and White Budget, 1901.
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#vintage photo #animal headed #giraffe #costume #giraffe costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Face in the Pool, written and illustrated by J. Allen St. John, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #knight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales, 1943.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #witchcraft #broomstick
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lasell's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Three in the Jungle by Karena Shields and illustrated by Harold Petersen, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #temple #jungle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Virginia Commonwealth's 1972 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Catalogue by William Doerflinger.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #levitation #vintage magic #magic #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The pseudo-3D effect of this photo may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Wesleyan College's 1927 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #pathway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #teddy bear #skiing
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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 #fairy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hall of mirrors
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #cow #strong man
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Neptune and the siren."  From Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands by James William Buel, 1891.
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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 #siren #king neptune
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from East Carolina's 1934 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #buried treasure #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #treasure chest #endpapers
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)

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#vintage photo #typewriter #faceless #no face #qwertz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teacher's College, Farmville, Virginia's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #mad hatter #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I belonged in the Beauty Chorus all right in those days."  From Hearst's, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#dandy #vintage man #man
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The Right Word (permalink)
"She returned his stare."  From Indiana University's 1913 yearbook.
Jonathan Caws-Elwitt notes: "The Amelia Bedelia-precursing pun raises more questions than it answers, I would say, to wit, (1) How and why did she borrow his staircase in the first place? (2) Did she somehow borrow it without his knowing? If not, why is he so blindsided by her returning it? (3) Assuming his astonished and annoyed reaction is caused, not by her returning it, but by her returning it in miniature form...well, um, how exactly did it get miniaturized? (4) Assuming the staircase was always a miniature staircase...well, then, what's the problem? She returned it in the same condition, didn't she? (5) Now, about her hat... Other possibilities that occur to me: (a) She's returning it as one would return an engagement ring. No wonder he's upset! (b) She's returning it on behalf of someone else. 'How in the world did my miniature staircase fall into your hands!' he's thinking."
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#vintage illustration #wordplay #vintage yearbook #yearbook #staircase #pun #stairs
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May 2, 2021

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
More accidental haberdashery modeling (as can happen), while fillming a spooky segment for this video.  Hat by Barbary Ghost Western, San Francisco.
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#prof. oddfellow #hat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The darkest pit the night can know" —from one of Victoria Winters' poetic preambles to Dark Shadows (1967)
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#darkness #creature of the night #vampire #dark shadows #barnabas
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Old News (permalink)
Sad.  Such self-loathing.  We say, make everything you do more spacey, not less.  From UFO Newsclipping Service, 1987.
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#ufo #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Loyola's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scandinavian Legends and Folk Tales by Gwyn Jones, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #flower #queen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #crying #long neck #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Florida's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #cat and mouse #leash
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 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 #elephant #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Eggheads tend to wear glasses to protect their eyes from all those flying diplomas.  From Atlantic Christian's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #diploma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The George Washington Ghost, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skull #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Montana's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #columns #montesquieu
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from a larger illustration in The Man in the Moon by Margaret G. Otto and illustrated by Paul Galdone.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Students being chiseled?  How did we escape this horror during our college career?  It's as one of our critics has pointed out: we have feet of clay.  That's why we never cracked up or lost our marble(s).  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 #statue #sculptor
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #death #mortality #grim reaper #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #looming #fire deity #bonfire #art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Lasell's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.

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#vintage illustration #sundial #motto
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #brain #headache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Don't travel with this one or you'll get looks.  From the Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn strategy handbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magick #necromancy #skull #occult #book #book of death
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Blotto, Twinks and the Intimate Revue, by Simon Brett:

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[Airheaded toff Blotto compliments a woman on her looks]
"You're a real bellbuzzer with three veg and gravy."

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"The cream of Scotland Yard are all clotted."

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"Don't nit-pick noodles!"

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He didn't think Araminta fffrench-Wyndeau looked very happy either. She was still as silent as the second and third fs in her surname.

[Btw, I note the one-upping theme here, as Brett outdoes the real British lexicon. First "with three veg" (as opposed to the more familiar two), and now a three-f fffrench.]

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"Beauty, of course, is in the eye of the cigarette holder." [This is one of many defective witticisms uttered by a character who is supposedly "the wittiest man in London," and whose repertoire consists of broken Wildeisms, epigrams that begin like quips but end like boring, literal observations, and so on.]

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"Lawkins!" said Twinks. And she meant it.

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"Tickey-Tockey," said Twinks, though without the vim she usually put into a "Tickey-Tockey."
***

[Bonus: In sending up 1920s aristo types, as you may have gathered, Brett favors silly pseudo-slang that he's apparently coined himself over historically authentic slang. Here's my favorite from this book: giving someone the idiomatic cold shoulder becomes giving them "the ice cream's elbow."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A joke for artists.  "My right vanishing point is under your bed."  From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #artist #vanishing point
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They are bred by the thousands in underground facilities."  From Blue Planet Project: Alien Technical Research - 25 (undated).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alien #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Taking up the tired ones in her mouth."  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #rat
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Old News (permalink)
Except for the so-called "modern" variety, "don't be afraid of art!"  From Together, 1959.
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#modern art #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #little red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #lobster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1947.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lion #swinging
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Planet Stories, 1944.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #soap bubbles
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Old News (permalink)
How true those words are, even today -- "Masks, shadows haunt."  From The Varsity, Feb. 27, 1976.
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#mask #haunting #shadow #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1937.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goose #skiing #lipstick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grey Sprite, The Silver Knight, His Adventures in the Old, Old Forest by Francis E. Park and illustrated by Elizabeth B. Warren, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #knight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In the Animal Kingdom by Warren Fine, 1971.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Bo, from Nebelspalter, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #umbrella #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania State's 1910 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #dragon #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #winged skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Three Orions couldn't have stopped them."  From Star People by Katharine Fay Dewey, 1910. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #constellation #dog #orion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #blackbird #spider web
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The higher the flame has leaped the colder and deader the ashes. —Schreiner."  From Wake Forest's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #quotation #flame
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #seeing stars #headache #migraine #mood #sketeon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #incognito #bag over the head
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#anthropomorphism #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #hybrid #star #diagram
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