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May 31, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Journal of the Imagination in Language Learning, 1994.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1954.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"[R]eturning again to the meadows of the Moon and Venus, and there laid asleep, he becomes ready for a new nativity" (Plutarch).  If you seek the Moon and Venus, let these lights stand for them.  From Mary Washington's 1967 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Book of Old Sundials and their Mottoes by Launcelot Cross, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1929.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Taylor's 1929 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
The tin can twins can keep a secret.  From Together, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan of the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Murder on "B" Deck, by Vincent Starrett:

***
[Comprehensive Toasts dept.]
Osborne raised his tumbler. "All right," he said. "Here's to everything!"

***
"Do you care for the first-person singular?" he asked, addressing the stateroom at large, but looking at Miss Harrington.

[Now, the context for this is that the character, a novelist, is reading a new first chapter aloud, and inviting opinions as to his choice of first-person narration. However, I like imagining "Do you care for the first-person singular?" as one of those amusingly decontextualized illustration captions. This book from 1929 is not illustrated; but how easy it is to visualize one of those stilted black-and-white drawings, depicting the speaker surrounded by listeners in an ocean-liner stateroom, asking that question. Even better might be if the illustrator didn't read the chapter, and was simply following instructions to illustrate a young man saying "Do you care for the first-person singular?" to the young woman who is his romantic interest. In that version, I see them standing pleasantly on the ship's deck (the illustrator has gathered that the story takes place on shipboard, so nothing as embarrassing as Barbara Remington's Middle Earth lion will ensue), with "Do you care for the first-person singular?" apparently a specimen of better-grade smalltalk. (Also cf. Can of Yams, "Do you care for metaphors?")]

***
"You said a better man never took office. Never took off his what?"

***
The message was neither in cipher nor in Chimpanzee, yet it caused Ghost also to start and stare.
[I knew monkeys used typewriters, but I didn't realize they sent cables to oceangoing vessels. And, yes, the amateur detective in this series is named Ghost (Walter Ghost). We also have, in this book, a Hollywood actress named Miss Catherine Two and a Reverend Saddletire--who (spoiler!) turns out to be a former chauffeur, so I suppose, thinking of "horseless carriages," the name befits him. Oh, and the shipboard newspaper is called the Daily Minute--a title whose "tautology--or something" annoys the novelist character.]

***
The ship's pool for the day before had been won by the Hon. Cassius Tutwiler. Tut, tut!

***
Three empty chairs looked blankly back at the searcher. [Did I ever tell you about the time that, as a teen, I staged a backyard snapshot of three empty chairs partying? At least, it ought to have been three--it's possible I was limited to only two available lawn chairs.]

***
[His conception of a briefly glimpsed figure] was as the shadow of a dream of smoke.

***
"If you are jellyfish, not men...." What he meant was that if they were men, not jellyfish....

***
[Heavy Anthropomorphization dept.]
The story of the battle and its motive had crossed the second-cabin barriers, idled at the luncheon tables, descended to the engine room, climbed the masts and stairways, and penetrated to ever corner of the liner.

***
"Here he is," cried the novelist, "bright as a dollar. Bright, one might say, as two dollars."
[I was going to highlight this self-one-upping as an example of "inflationary" language, before it even sunk in how literally inflationary it was!]

***
[Saying "No pun intended" to a Mirror dept. (The context is that the detective is wearing a head bandage.)]

He looked at himself in the glass and smiled. "I was never a beauty," he shrugged. "There are moments when it is a comforting reflection." He nodded to the glass. "No pun intended."

***
"I think that Hollywood female has something to do with it!"
"Miss Two?"
"That's the lady. I've been putting two and Two together, as it were, and making four."

[But no bridge-playing joke here, alas. However...]

"I want to find out what Miss Seven-come-eleven told Walter last night."

***
"I'm going to Ghost's cabin and plunge again into the perilous business of thought...."
"Why perilous?" asked Miss Harrington....
"Oh, well, dubious, if you like. What's an adjective between friends?"

["What's an adjective between friends?" would also make a good decontextualized caption for a nonexistent illustration, imo.]

***
"He's one of my assistants."
"I don't care if he's one of your nephews," observed Ghost amiably.
[Even in context, that nepotistic remark is completely inane and gratuitous, as far as I can tell. In other words, I like it!]

***
[While some of the passengers disembark at Cherbourg, the novelist finds himself tongue-tied when alone with his beloved.]

The whole English language, or that part of it that was his stock-in-trade, with the departing passengers had taken French leave.
[...]
"Well," he achieved," Cherbourg, upon a first sight, appears to be--ah--very Cherbourgy.
***

[Bonus: A passing reference to a category of passengers described as "the shuffleboard nuisances."]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1874.  
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you not find yourself in the way of a level 3 sumurai today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Good Times on Our Street by Gates, Huber, Peardon and Salisbury, 1945.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"'Will you walk into my parlor?' said the spider to the fly."  From Purdue's 1893 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Quacks of Old London by C. J. S. Thompson, 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 #trickster #monkey #charlatanism #mountebank
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May 30, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
Neons Gone Mad is honored to offer a haunted clockwork remix for Actually Huizenga: "Shouldn't Be Alive."
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Gander versus gamecock: which would you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #shoe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 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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#potato #spaceman #potato people #crafts
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Depressed ... spotting a UFO had a serious affect [sic] on one man."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.
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#ufo #depression
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage book #tree #book
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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 #starfish #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #fox #rabbit #pipe smoker
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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 #anthropomorphism #cat #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1952.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #pitchfork
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #father time #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #sewing #quilting
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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 Swarthmore's 1923 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #priestess #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musicians #banjo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1926 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton key #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
"Too busy … at what?"  From Awake magazine, 1957.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Transylvania College's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #boxing #vintage man #man #ad
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May 29, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Every Soul is a Circus by Vachel Lindsay, 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 #clown #circus #tiger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #shaving #ad
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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 #pipe smoker
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1972.
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#vintage headline #well-dressed #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From UNC Asheville's 1974 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 #anthropomorphism #cat #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 #riddle #father time #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1909 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sororities #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 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 #waterfall
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1949 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiger #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 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 #warrior #war and peace #peekaboo #illustration #peace angel #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tri-State's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chemistry #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #dandies #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Secret Nostrums and Systems by Charles Wilmot Oleson, 1889.  That sigil, of course, reminds us of this remarkable collection of squiggles from various editions of Tristram Shandy.
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#vintage illustration #spiral #old book #squiggle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #buffalo #cowboy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Time by Percy Keese Fitzhugh, 1908. 
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#vintage illustration #toys #toy soldier
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Old News (permalink)
"What's what about car dating?"  From Together, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #vintage automobile #dating #automobile #headline #car dating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
For when one needs to cover one's bases: Book of Demons and Book of Life.  From Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #occult #good and evil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A tomcat named Emma.  From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Have you been immortalized as a statue?  How can you be sure if you don't check every statue?  From Improvement Era, 1954.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #statue #narcissism
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May 28, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ex-book by H. W. Hanemann, 1930.  (Hat tip: Jonathan Caws-Elwitt)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant hand #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tom found his tart as black as coal."  From Chatterbox, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #chef #burned
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Old News (permalink)
Q: Tired of totin' coffee pots from home?
A: Yes!  We can hardly get through our front door, what with all the coffee pots.
From Together, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #coffee #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We, too, live in a low-lying area.  When the local authorities won't address drainage issues, one must appeal to higher powers.  From Wizardry Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #wizard
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
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#cat #smiling cat #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #telephone #1930s #popularity #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Texas Instruments' A-Maze-ing user's manual, 1980.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #maze #mouse #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #pipe smoker #1920s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1982.
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#computer #information age
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #mesmerism #hypnotist #eyes #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Manchester College's 1922 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 #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The harpy in wait."  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 #harpy #human faced #bird people #church art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A squirrel dances a waltz with sugar tongs.  From Wide Awake, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #dancing animal #tongs #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal headed #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #sword #book #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1931.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #lion #bear #banking
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1908 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #owl #skull #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #hooded figure #1900s #illustration #locked book
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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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May 27, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'm sick of being funny."  From My Rest Cure by George Robey, 1923.  (Hat tip: Jonathan Caws-Elwitt)
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#vintage illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Popular Mechanics, 1942.
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#vintage photo #hearing #listening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May gas dragons spare you on this day.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sounds like our last family reunion.  From Werewolves, Witches, and Wandering Spirits by Kathryn Edwards.
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#vintage illustration #witch #occult #werewolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puppetry Today by Helen Binyon.
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#puppet
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Reblogging is restricted to those who have heard the silent miaow.  From The Silent Miaow by Paul Gallico.  
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#cat #vintage photo
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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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#mesmerism #hypnotism #vintage headline #hypnosis #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1957 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #vintage men #men #torch #1950s
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The Right Word (permalink)
Interesting that oaths in print seem prone to self-censorship.  In this 1921 example, the expression is “Blowing blizzards!”  We're now prepared to say that an expletive’s very long dash is a rapier, and rather than diminishing any impact, it thrusts the point home.
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.

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#expletive #long dash
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's yearbook of 1977.

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#vintage illustration #wolf #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 Clarion's 1984 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #bottle #giant bottle #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1847.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #balance #tipping over
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson College's 1918 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #beauty and the beast
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Dead on Time, by Clifford Witting:

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"Jimmy could have sold a packet of hair-curlers and some saucy post cards to a bald bishop." [I like the "doubling up" (or should I say one-upping?) there of the cliché formula.]

***
"We cannot always obtain liver. Last week we shall have it....Next week we did not." [This character is said to speak "a brand of English all his own."]

***
["Oh, that's right, Clifford Witting is the author who likes to compare people to seals" dept.]
He got out of his chair and made for the door with the grace of an insulted sea-lion.

***
[I never seem to tire of this sort of thing.]

[The bell] brought out of the back parlour a long tobacco-stained moustache with a tall, stooping bald-headed man bringing up the rear.

[And in the scene that ensues, this character's words and actions are consistently ascribed to "the moustache," rather than to "the tobacconist" or "the shop-keeper."]

[And after "the moustache" has done the protagonist a favor...]
Perkins seemed a very nice name for a moustache.

***
"Ices every third Tuesday."
"Thanks, I'll remember that. Nothing like an ice every third Tuesday."

***
The first of the town clocks was striking six and the others, having politely given place to it, were preparing to follow its example.

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[Into her hair was tucked] an artificial rose of red velvet that clashed almost audibly with her gown.
***

[Bonus: A family bearing the surname Wildgoose.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1899.  
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)

"We are all looking for meaning, we are all looking for something to give us a purpose and, in essence, a reason to actually be alive" (Mrinalini P. Thaker).  From Clarion State Teachers College's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
"Gloom blooms."  From Lighted Pathway, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #gloom #vintage headline #headline
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May 26, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The monkey-tiger hybrid, the "tiger-monk."  From Improvement Era, 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 #vintage ad #hybrid #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1893.  
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#vintage illustration #king #cat #lion
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May you not dream of a cictern 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 #symbol #cistern
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Spring Comes to Chicago by Campbell McGrath.
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#snow #winter #chicago #springs #bedspring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see Uncle Sam in armor.  From Nebelspalter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #uncle sam #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #crown #1970s #faceless #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's an enduring question: "Is that man teaching the pig to laugh, as I am being taught, and is the pig's laugh a success?"  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #laughter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harry Furniss' Royal Academy, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #dandies
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #hell #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #egyptian #harp #faces in things #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #shadow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #many headed #specimen bottle #specimen jar
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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 #ghost #ufo #vintage headline #spirit photgraphy #headline
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The Right Word (permalink)
The word is "Michiganensian."
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#vintage yearbook #michigan
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Old News (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1972.
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#vintage headline #skydiving #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Butler's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #cheerleader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Four-and-Forty Fairies by Nathaniel Moore Banta, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #levitation #crown #upside down #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1930s #vintage men #wheelbarrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #creature #tied up #eaten alive
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May 25, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I was found dead in my bed this morning."  From The Emily Emmins Papers by Carolyn Wells, 1907. 
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dead
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
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#reincarnation #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
There are those who think more books should have guardians against disbelievers.  From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #guardian #note to reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #ink
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #peace angel #bloody
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Missouri's 1901 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #capital f
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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 Tulane's 1957 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #monster #art #hatched
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's our restoration of an ornate frame from the University of Minnesota's 1896 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ornate frame #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Dark Shadows episode 1075.
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#moon #eclipse #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's candle-smoke fairy is from Anderson College's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smoke #candle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #1900s
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Old News (permalink)
"Will all smell brimstone."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#hell #brimstone #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stars in Song and Legend by Jermain Gildersleeve Porter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #pegasus #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Call me a square."  From Together, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #women #vintage women
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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 #monster #leopard #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Movie Magazine, 1935.
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#vintage ad #illness #health #woman #vintage woman #sick #ad
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May 24, 2022

Old News (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the novelty souvenir "canned Florida sunshine" of the 1960s.  From Improvement Era, 1944.
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#sunshine #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.  See One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#alphabet #letters #anthropomorphism #vintage illustration #wizard #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
In case you're going out tonight, and in case a cape of jackal or darkness cloak fits your mood.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #magick #wizard #occult #fashion #vintage fashion #cape #cloak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Gingerbread Man by G. H. P. and illustrated by Robert Gaston Herbert, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man #cook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unicorn Window by Lynette Muir and illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #statue #deity #mayan
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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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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces #dandy #facial expressions #emotions #wink #cartooning #singers #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mystery and Romance of Astrology by C. J. S. Thompson, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #moon #astrology
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #eye #mustache #prism #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy #1930s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Devil, Demonology and Witchcraft by Henry Ansgar Kelly, 1968.
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#devil #witchcraft #occult #demonology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #alcoholism #alcohol #tiny man #bottle #bottled up
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Journal of Edwin Carp, by Richard Haydn:

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Once again I noticed that, when I kissed Maude good night, our pince-nez met and made a slight tinkling sound. I find it embarrassing.

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[I guess Johnny Appleseed has some rivals, when it comes to being the automatic implication of an apple!]

Who can look at an apple without thinking of Sir Isaac Newton...or, perhaps, William Tell?
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Jerry Lee Lewis playing the piano with his feet.  From Concordia University's 1924 yearbook.  Previously, we saw three other precursors: this one, this one, this one, and this one.  
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#vintage illustration #piano #feet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #hysteria
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May 23, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to film critic Grumpy Andrew for saying, "I'm staggered by your boundless creativity!"
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #angel #winged man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #bagpipes #illustration #art
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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 #carousel #merry-go-round
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
Here's what appears to be the official theme tune of bears.  From Have a Bearable Summer, 1986.
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#music #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Processed World, 1993.
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#vintage illustration #telephone #many arms #1990s #many hands
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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 #fairies #fairy tale #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse #swallow #arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #minotaur #hybrid #human headed #man bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Atlantic Christian's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #swords
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Martlet, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #alien #three legs #many arms #many armed #nine arms
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #summer #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #jesus #last supper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #angel #lion #lion angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist's 1943 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #human headed #squirrel #squirrel people
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Old News (permalink)
If you're seeking an integrated ensemble, "paranormal [and] paranoid look good together," especially if photographed with a Polaroid.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1999.
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#paranormal #vintage headline #paranoia #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hawk versus heron: which would you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 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 #bird #animal fight #hawk #heron
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #knitting needle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Busy Folk by Mary E. Laing & Andrew W. Edson and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Loraine and the Little People of Spring by Elizabeth Gordon and illustrated by Ella Dolbear Lee, 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 #faces in things #jack frost
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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 #witch #owl #old book #illustration
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May 22, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Life: Vonisa by Sidartha, 1885.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #biblical #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mayhem #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Wonder Tales of Dogs and Cats by Frances Carpenter and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #vintage book #crying cat #crying animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adventures in Child Land by Frances Lilian Taylor, 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 #fairy #nest #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We'll take this sunbeam with us."  From The Runaway Equator by Lilian Bell and illustrated by Peter Newell, 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 #elf #sunbeam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Almanach de Bonne Fortune, 1770.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 almanac #almanac
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Texas Instruments' A-Maze-ing user's manual, 1980.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #maze
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1941.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #beard
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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 #fairies #imps #fairy ring #pixies #vintage headline #fairy circle #chemicals #headline #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1945.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #church
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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 #devil #death #skull face #pitchfork #hell #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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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 Piedmont'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 #1920s #ex libris #apple #bookplate
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #angel #sun #solar deity #horse #sun god #illustration #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You'll have already noticed that they're both ghosts.  From the University of the South's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Opium smokers from Our New Way Round the World by Charles Carleton Coffin (1883).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #opium #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
They say that 70s fashions are out of another universe, but it sort of depends upon who you hang out with.  Most everyone I know looks like this.  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pchela, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skull #serpent #snakes #art
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May 21, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Pumas.  From Chatterbox, 1893.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cougar #puma
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #aesop #pig
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Always Remember (permalink)
Fair enough advice, but quit telling me what to do.  From Coraddi, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #two sides #advice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 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 #penny-farthing #cycling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #coyote
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Flight of Puss Pandora, written and illustrated by Caroline Fuller, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Scares that are useless."  From Outdoors, Indoors, and Up the Chimney by Charles McIlvaine, 1906.
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#fear #afraid #sacred
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #windmill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phantom by Susan Kay.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The winking nun."  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 #winking #nun #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #dentist #tooth extraction #pull the tooth #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1896 yearbook.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Weird Tales volume 42 number 4 (May 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 #demon #imp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Loyola's 1943 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
If you've ever dared to wonder what surveyors are seeing, here's a clue.  From the University of Toronto's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #distortion #1930s #melting building #melting architecture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Chariviari, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #statue #sculpture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cigar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Siren, 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 #telephone #1930s #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wingate Junior College's 1941 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #wheelbarrow #useless
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Old News (permalink)
"Southern hospitality even makes room for UFOs."  From The Current Sauce, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #headline
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May 20, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
UFOlogists: have you correlated lights in the sky with deaths in the immediate area?  The Tibetan Book of the Dead identifies signs of souls attaining buddhahood upon death: "piercing white [and/or yellow, blue, red, green] rainbow lights will shine in the sky," "manifold white fiery lights will shine in the sky," and "sounds will reverberate throughout the universe" (chapter 14 of the 2005 translation by Gyurme Dorje).
Right after we formulated our question, we saw this amazing backstory to a musical recording:

The first signs of morning sunlight appear above the mountain’s rock covered peaks, as the Earth spins us around to witness the brilliance of another new day. Bright rays shine visibly through the morning mist, and dewdrops sparkle like diamonds among the tree leaves as the valley below slowly fills with warmth and light.

Flora watches from her vantage point high above; witnessing her friends in the forest come alive to greet another day; and the people in the city streets down in the valley below come alive to serve another day. She’s watched this dance for many years; the forest remaining peaceful in its ancient perfection; the people below growing ever more unsatisfied as they strive for an illusionary and strangely unattainable perfection of their own.

This idea might sound sad to you and I. But over the years she has also seen miracles occur among us. From her vantage point she sees us like fields of energy; and the majority of that energy looks rather stagnant and mucky, like cesspools of unmoving water, unaware of the renewing stream we have been cut off from. But once in a while, an explosion of light energy will burst outward from a single house or apartment building, as someone becomes disenfranchised from their false identity, and their hearts open up to new ideas for the first time.

Surprisingly, these changes often occur after great loss. And she suspects this is due to the fragility of our illusion. She sees how lost we all are in these roles and characters we have built for ourselves, and she sees how quickly that false identity can shatter when we lose the things we prioritized the most. The loss of a relationship or loved one, a terminal illness in the body, the end of a career, a complete collapse in financial stability… when we have lost the things we thought mattered most to us, some of us experience a miraculous opportunity for awakening to the truth that we were never those things to begin with.

Flora lovingly watches the majority of us grow more sickly and stagnant with time. And she never loses hope… because every evening, she has the same beautiful dream.

In her mind, the first signs of morning sunlight appear above the mountain’s rock covered peaks, as the Earth spins us around to witness the brilliance of another new day. Bright rays shine visibly through the morning mist, and dewdrops sparkle like diamonds among the tree leaves as the valley slowly fills with warmth and light.

But even brighter still are the explosions of light energy bathing the valley down below. After so many truly dark nights, many of us finally wake up the next morning to discover we were never all the things we lost in the night. In fact, we are something much larger. And as our energy explodes out, and the laws of attraction take hold, these simultaneous bursts prove to be strong and frequent enough to cause a chain reaction… and the whole valley lights up brighter than the sun itself.

We have finally realized we are simply conscious life, and nothing more. And in our new found freedom from identity, we all begin again.

Flora slumbers peacefully, knowing full well… this dream will some day come true.

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#ufo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #telephone #video #penetralia #prank calls
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #money #penny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #church #churchyard #ireland #chapel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any centaurs you encounter today be helpful.  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 #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #crane #wolf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Another little figure between the wings."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bird
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Old News (permalink)
From Bourbon News (Paris, Kentucky), 1913.
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#beard #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #serpent #anthropomorphism #snake #snail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #mental illness #anger #mental health #inner turmoil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A shot in the dark," from The Gateway, 1979.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alcohol #glowing #dark #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1926 yearbook. 

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lion #the end #crying animal
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Sundials (permalink)
From Ye Sundial Booke by T. Geoffrey Henslow, 1914.
Adam comments: "A sundial in Scotland? Oh that is funny! I can just see the entire village rushing to the sundial once a week when the sun shows its face for a few minutes so they can find out what time it is."

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#vintage illustration #sundial #illustration #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The proof -- the crew from Star Trek was the faculty at Saint Francis College in 1981, as documented in the yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #star trek
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1916.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Purple Parrot, 1933.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wingate Junior College's 1941 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tired #1940s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1911.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #cat people #lion costume #lion man #lion headed
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Just Say Yes, by Judith McDaniel:

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Her hair was sending frizzled energy in all directions.

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I woke up one morning and imagined I heard Ed McMahon's voice rolling out, "And here'sssssss August."
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #king #aesop
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May 19, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #swan #animal fight
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Old News (permalink)
"Indian cure for typhoid.  A fiddle, whisky, frogs, milk and magic passes."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1902.
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#native american #medicine #vintage headline #headline #cure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #napoleon
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Old News (permalink)
We sought to independently verify this, and we, too, had trouble finding any intelligent life anywhere.  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.
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#vintage headline #aliens #headline #intelligent life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They all danced on the shores of the land of green cheese."  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dancing #dancing animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #lion #giraffe #animal fight #kicked #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #dandy
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jimmy Takes Vanishing Lessons by Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Don Bolognese.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's College 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #thinker
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
In the Medieval English, "Sumer is icumen in!"  In the dialect of P.D.Q. Bach, "Summer is a cumin seed."

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#vintage illustration #sundial #jester #sumer is icumen in #old english #illustration
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #atlas #weight of the world #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Green Pipes by Joseph Rous Paget-Fredericks, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #parasol #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ontario College of Art's Sketch magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #guitar #vintage men #musician #men
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Washington State's 1972 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1974.
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#question mark #no winners #nobody wins
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sun #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flowers #illustration #women #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Jack Frost's cousin.  From Reading Time Stories by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #ice #winter #jack frost
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May 18, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to film critic Grumpy Andrew, who said, "This is the classiest rant on YouTube."
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#prof. oddfellow #idolatry #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #bear #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Seven miles high.  From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #hot air balloon #vintage magazine #magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Jesus was not there."  From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#prayer #jesus #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #castle
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"What are we going to tell them?  That they are going to die and they are going to come back as some sort of mysterious ghost to haunt Collinwood?"  From Dark Shadows episode 1075.
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#ghost #dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brownie Handbook (Canada).
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#vintage illustration #elves #flower #rose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Current Sauce, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #green man #ivy #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This is why we use only hand-held hair dryers.  From Fantastic Adventures, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #hair dryer
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"All skeletons are against me--they always have been.  Even when I was a child, I was hated by skeletons."  From The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra.
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#skeleton #horror
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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 UFO Newsclipping Service, 1992.
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#vintage illustration #alien #specimen bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A curious duet."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #grotesque #harp #musicians #church art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #imp #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Peace Institue's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flower #petals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
So disconcerting when that happens.  From Haunted House Tales by Corinne Denan and illustrated by Ann Toulmin-Rothe.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #haunted mirror #upside down
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Adams' 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #banana
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #fountain #vintage man #man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Three stunning naked nudes."  From the University of Arkansas' 1937 yearbook.

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage magazine #magazine
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Benjamin by Irene Elmer and illustrated by Ruth Van Sciver, 1961.  See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn
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May 17, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A demon from the rare Ghosts and Spirits of Many Lands by Freya Littledale and illustrated by Stefan Martin.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #ape #boat #tarzan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The hills of the moon are polished by forced labor.  From Chatterbox, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #moon #ball and chain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May any rogue conduct his ne'er-do-welling well away from you today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How a bird turned the world upside down."  From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
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#vintage illustration #cat #kitten
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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 #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Filthy broccoli-lovers."  From Woroni, 1979.
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#vintage illustration #broccoli
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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)
We're not sure.  From Lenoir-Rhyne's 1972 yearbook.

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#blindfold #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faceless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #wine #traffic cop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1922 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dandy #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fir-Tree Fairy Book by Clifton Johnson, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One of 38 Playboy bunny mascots in Thornton Junior College's 1959 yearbook (a phenomenon that goes unexplained).

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #bunny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #goya #mule #artistic animal #animal artist #art
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Old News (permalink)
From Butler's 1979 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline #in between
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the apparently very rare Romero and Julietta and Tudor Jenks, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #ant
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Harvard Has a Homicide, by Timothy Fuller:

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["Speaking of Backgammon" dept.]
Backgammon is a remarkable mask for thought.

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"The evening is in swaddling clothes." [I guess this is a sort of conceptual cross between "the night is young" and the diaper-clad new year.]

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"It'll be 'Good-bye, Mr. Chips,' in no uncertain terms!"

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"That would seem to put the pants on Fairchild's story." [I *think* that means it corroborates it--that is, putting the pants on it means it's fully outfitted and ready to pass muster in public without embarrassment. Too bad, in a way, because I like the idea of "put the pants on" to mean debunk, along the lines of the Brits saying they're "pants at" something for which they have no talent.]

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"A tame goose chase, I'm afraid."

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"What do you want?" she said in a tone so flat you could lay it on the floor and use it as a rug.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse
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May 16, 2022

Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
As we previously hinted, a sound designer from Denmark's video game developer IO Interactive requested a Neons Gone Mad cover of a song from PlayStation's Dissidia Final Fantasy, for an album of Square Enix video game franchise music.  For fun, we anagrammed every phrase of the original lyrics so as to decode a second song hidden within.
Our cover version is by permission of Square Enix; Harry Fox license #1000000009493.
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#music video #video #neons gone mad #dissidia #final fantasy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around an Iroquois Story Fire by Mabel Powers (Yehsennohwehs) and illustrated by R. Emmett Owen, 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 #fable #wolf #turtle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lumen de Lumine, or A New Magicall Light Discovered and Communicated to the World by Thomas Vaughan, 1651.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #magic #alchemy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #giant #map #1920s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #wolf #folk tale #up a tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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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 #orchestra #musicians #drums #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1920 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Ben Hecht and illustrated by Herman Rosse, 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 #grotesque #hybrid #tentacles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"All the little things."  From Chowan's 1974 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #little things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Unruly Robin, written and illustrated by Dorathea Dankovszky.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #bird #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Montana School of Mines yearbook of 1960.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #atom
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Old News (permalink)
"Ashamed to live and afraid to die.  He lived 4 years in the attic of a church."  From The Link, 1960.
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#fear #vintage headline #headline #shame
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A very gentle beast, and of a good conscience."  From North Central's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#shakespeare #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #midsummer's night dream #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ghosts and Goblins by Wilhelmina Harper.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Described as "his own best kept secret," this is "James T. Dooley" and his squirt gun.  From Emory's 1983 yearbook.

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

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#death #skull face #gun #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #king neptune
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #necklace #rosary #buddhist #prayer beads
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One hates to judge by appearances, but Werdna may very well be a shady character.  From Wizardry 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 #demon #wizard
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May 15, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Sixty-five years before the Village People sang "Y.M.C.A.," the chorus was "Rum-tum-tiddle," as we see in this headline from The Duluth Herald, 1913.  "Y.M.C.A. roomers awakened in early hours by ragtime air played by musical janitor."  We aligned the words to the melody, for your convenience.
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#ymca #village people
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Instead of dwelling on our regrets and failings (and thereby perpetuating our miseries), here's a suggestion to connect with the enduring influences of the things we did right
"The present moment is the dividing-line between progression and regression.  The present moment is the time when, by lapsing into laziness, even for an instant, you will experience constant suffering.  The present moment is the time when, by concentrating with singular intention, you will achieve constant happiness.  Concentrate your mind with a single-pointed intention.  Resolutely connect with the residual potency of your vitrtuous past actions."  —The Tibetan Book of the Dead, as translated by Gyurme Dorje (though overall we much prefer the older Evans-Wentz translation)
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#tibetan book of the dead
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A hint of actor fatigue on the long-running Dark Shadows: "It keeps happening over and over again.  Where will it end?" (episode 50).
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#dark shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1898.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #caged animal #zoo #thumbing nose #gorilla
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He loved the waterside."  From The Century, 1893.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #seaside
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Old News (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #vintage headline #doomsday #headline #haarp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1940.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #satyr #deity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 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 #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Ah, those eccentric intellectuals!"  From the Municipal University of Omaha's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #eccentric #intellectual
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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 #ghost #spirit #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #marotte #realism #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #snowball
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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 Belmont Abbey's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cat Walk by Mary Stolz and illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#big mouth #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man #sandwich #hoagie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #mountains #mountain spirits
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Saint Mary'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 #hallowe'en #costume #1970s #vintage women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An astrologer's advertisement.  From The Quacks of Old London by C. J. S. Thompson, 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 ad #astrology #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The front and back covers of Salem's 1969 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #trees #fence
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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 #tiger
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May 14, 2022

Old News (permalink)
In 1910, a kiss stolen from a widow was worth $500 (which, adjusted for inflation, is over $15,000).  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #kiss #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1952.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #turtle #ostrich #egg
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"All circling point, all cent'ring sphere, the world's one round, eternal year."  From West Virginia Wesleyan's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #globe #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"If it wasn't a djinn, it certainly was a reasonable facsimile thereof."  From Weird Tales volume 42 number 4 (May 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 #genie #djinn
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard'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 #secret society #blindfolded #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1879.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #egypt #pyramid #feather duster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"How confusing it is all these things being alive."  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 #silhouette #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #church art #backbiter
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Golden hamsters "back from the dead."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1960.  This will also work with hamsters: Secrets of Guinea Pig Whispering.
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#vintage illustration #zombie #hamster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #demon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This image may be used to facilitate an altered state of consciousness.  From Guilford's 1974 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #autumn #red leaves
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harry Furniss' Royal Academy, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #bones #ornithology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #lion #leo the lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A demonstration of mysterious powers in Salem's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage photo #magic #vintage yearbook #smoke #1960s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovod, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #severed head #crows #decapitated #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #goat #animal attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #living toy #yarn doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century, 1887.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #histrionics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Monsters Manual.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #hybrid #chimera #three headed
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May 13, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Thanks to Belinda Subraman, who said, "Charming, as always."
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Hunting the Aurochs."  From Chatterbox, 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 #bull #hunter #caveman #ox
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Annotated Ellipses (permalink)
Here's a great test of your asterisk identification ability.  What are these asterisks?  Yes, they're footlights below the stage's curtain.  From Humorous Skits For Young People by Robert Louis Fontaine.
* Ellipses don’t merely omit superfluous words or mark pauses.  Far from it!  In an astonishing number of cases, the ellipses illustrate a narrative, inviting the reader to “connect the dots.”  Learn more about Annotated Ellipses at Amazon.com.
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#asterisk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #superstition #four leaf clover #friday the 13th #fingers crossed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"At ease and in his casual manner."  From the University of Omaha's 1954 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Enchanted Bird by Antoinette Decoursey Patterson and illustrated by Elizabeth Pilsbry, 1917.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers from Salem's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #1930s #endpapers
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish #leaning in #lunge #always a bigger fish #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
He's getting "kitten slapped" according to the caption.  From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #men fighting #slapping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #two-headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #walking the dog #radio #vintage magazine #pet walker #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
May 13.  From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fish
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The hours are ours."  From The Current Sauce, 1973.
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#vintage illustration #reading #egghead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hanover's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #friday the 13th #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May a will o'wisp light the way for you today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"English carved oak bed that belonged to the Duchess of Kent, the mother of Queen Victoria.  Probably about 1500."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Messages from My Father, by Calvin Trillin:

["Metaphor or Recipe?" could be one of those internet quiz games.]

When I gave a speech at a Jewish community center in the Chicago suburbs, I called it 'Midwestern Jews: Making Chopped Liver with Miracle Whip.' After the speech, someone came up and said that the title was an interesting metaphor. 'It's not a metaphor,' I said. 'It's a recipe.' That was how my mother made chopped liver.

***

["Pruning One's Family Tree"]:

***
When my mother was elderly, she jettisoned any number of relatives from my father’s side of the family, the way some older people who have moved into more compact quarters shed excess furniture. I don’t mean she stopped seeing them; she withdrew recognition of them as cousins. “How’s Cousin So-and-so?” I might ask on a trip home, only to be told, “Those people were never related to us.”


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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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mustache #illustration #weight lifting
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Old News (permalink)
From The [Thornton] Courier, 1961.
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#vintage headline #friday the 13th #headline
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May 12, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Throw away your wigs."  From The Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #wig #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1903.  
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#vintage illustration #monkey #boat
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The Right Word (permalink)
Message received: look up the little words, not the big ones.  From The Gates of the Future Thrown Open by Carlotta de Barsy, 1899.
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#big words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Unknown, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #handcuffs
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ufo #vintage headline #spaceman #invisible hand #headline
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From L'Impartial de l'Est, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Nevada, Reno yearbook of 1985.

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#silhouette #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Washington State's 1968 yearbook.
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#king #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #costumes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Nature's Fairy Helpers by Alice Edgerton, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #seeds #flora
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1954 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #upside down #headstand #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1979.
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#vintage headline #headline #punk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of students living in their cars, but the professors do, too.  From Saint Mary's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #mustache #1970s #vintage man #car trunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Little Jack Rabbit's Big Blue Book by David Cory, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #crow #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Always fun till everyone gets hurt.  From Assumption College's 1975 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1970s #vintage men #gymnastics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Twice a Week, 1862.
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#vintage illustration #witch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Let's bring back horizontal basketball.  From Henderson College's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #basketball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not a museum or a crockery store but rather merely Arabella's reception room.  She is slightly touched with the fashion for old china, Majolica, Fayence, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc.  From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #china shop #collector #clutter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Chicago's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse
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Old News (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1976.
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#worry #meditation #vintage headline #headline
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May 11, 2022

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
We're honored that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is referenced in Open at the Close: Literary Essays on Harry Potter, edited by Cecilia Konchar Farr, 2022.
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#magic words
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #dog #faces in things #cloud
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A double tip: intone your exorcisms through the branches of your dowsing rod, and have the restless spirits cast themselves back into the outer darkness.  (It's far less exhausting that way.)  From Dark Shadows episode 1079.
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#exorcism #exorcist #dark shadows
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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 #merman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Coraddi, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #owl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cult of the Cat by Nicholas Saunders.
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#cat #bird #mosaic
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The fourth labor of Hercules.  From Stories of Classic Myths Retold From St. Nicholas, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #hercules #boar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Nancy and Nick in Scrub-Up-Land by Olive Roberts Barton and illustrated by E. R. Higgins, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fainting #rabbit #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Holidays collide in Bay Path's 1984 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #holidays
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kabumpo in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #oz #pumpkin head #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
He doesn't wear socks.  From Morris Harvey's 1964 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man #no socks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shpilka, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #mask #hybrid #1900s #illustration #stepping out #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From South Suburban's 1953 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bonfire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #genie lamp #lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rabbit versus stoat: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #vintage magazine #animal fight #magazine #stoat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #fable #frog #hare
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Secrets of the Supernatural by Herbert Molloy Mason.
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#occult #supernatural
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May 10, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May you not fly in the face of huge spiders today.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Goofy Mrs. Goose, written and illustrated by Miriam Clark Potter.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #winter #sled #rabbit #goose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A dough man cut in half by a beaver king.  From John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John Neill, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man #knife #cut in half #beaver
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Old News (permalink)
A precursor to The Nightmare Before Christmas -- "Candycanes [sic] and coffins."  From The Current Sauce, 1972.
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#coffin #vintage headline #nightmare before christmas #headline
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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)
We promised you some marvelous things.  Voila.  From Purdue's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #marvelous
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cliffs #illustration #armor #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Procopius' 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #animals #vintage yearbook #yearbook #taxidermy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #bravery #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A cute concept -- though the spine of this yearbook wasn't scanned, it would be one of the books on the shelf when the covers were opened fully.  From Calvin College's 1978 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bookshelf #bookends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #big book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An elixir for revivifying mummies.  From The Virginia Mummy, 1877.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham's 1906 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Homespun Stories by Clara Denton, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1963.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Burglar Who Traded Ted Williams, by Lawrence Block:

***

[Adding to our incipient "funny lines about Manx cats" theme...]

"Maybe he's only part Manx."
"Which part? The tail?"

[Later]

Then he wagged the tail he didn't have.

***
[Which soda is funniest? dept.]

Anyone with enough brute strength to pull the ring top off a can of Dr Pepper can knock [luggage locks] loose with a hammer.

***
"Two different excuses, first a burrito and then a burglary. Both words are on the same page of the dictionary, but of course you know that. That's the page you break all your dates from, isn't it? [....] We could make another date...but I'd only get a phone call advising me that you wouldn't be able to make it because you'd been eaten by a bugbear. Or bummed out, or bumped off, or some bumptious buckaroo had burst your bubble."

***
He was waiting for me to pull a rabbit out of a hat, and hoping to come out of the evening with something for his troubles. Either the rabbit or the hat, I suppose.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 1912.
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Old News (permalink)
"Ceaseless activities demand time."  From Missouri Southern College's 1967 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #stilts #race
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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May 9, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A summoning wig you won't believe exists.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Primer by Walter Hervey & Melvin Hix, and illustrated by Maginel Wright Enright, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Spoiler -- the cat who wants to go home does finally get back home.  From The Cat Who Wanted To Go Home by Jill Tomlinson.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Bärenspiegel, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1940s #hat #bird hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #lion #leo the lion #tape measure #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1994 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #roller skates #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #smile
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #antlers #deer #pet walker
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Junior English in Action.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Princess White Flame by Gertrude Crownfield, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #neuschwanstein
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Now, sir, you cannot open your eyes."  From How to Mesmerise: A Manual of Instruction in the History, Mysteries, Modes of Procedure, and Arts of Mesmerism, or, Animal Magnetism, Hypnotism, Clairvoyance, Thought Reading, and Mesmeric Entertainment by Hames Coates, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #mesmerism #hypnotism #men holding hands
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #rhino #caveman #prehistoric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #leave me alone #self defense #armor #personal space #spikes #personal protection #don't get too close #self protection #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old and New Japan by Clive Holland, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #japan #torii
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Nazarene's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long neck #illustration #tourists #neck #tube man
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Shrdlu, the temperamental turtle" won a speed record of three feet in 59 seconds.  From the University of Omaha's 1954 yearbook.
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#anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #turtle
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May 8, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bird versus cat: which would you wager to win?  From Chatterbox, 1875.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scissor Pictures by Ethel Barr, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage book #scissors #1900s #old book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hell lion from Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn, The Third Scenario handbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wishing Tree by Ruth Chew.
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#vintage illustration #cat #television
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the out-of-print The Return of the Dragon by Jane Zaring and illustrated by Polly Broman.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hearst's, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #gun #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #archery
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #hourglass #father time #scythe #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Anderson's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #positive and negative
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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 Western New Mexico's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #scissors #puppet #marionette #1950s
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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 #monster #thinking #vintage hollywood #vintage man #hollywood #man #clark gable
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1954 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny woman #big and little #tall man
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1918. 
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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 #war #whale #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of the Albemarle's 1974 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare and expensive Indigo Hill by Eleanor Frances Lattimore.
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#vintage illustration #powder
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #the people could fly #butterfly woman #art
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I wish a thousand ghosts would come in here."  From Dark Shadows episode 31.
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#ghost #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Photo from Emerson's 1951 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #radio
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #fish #angler
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May 7, 2022

The Right Word (permalink)
It's common mistake to begin an acronym with the word itself, simply because that particular word is foremost in one's mind.  Here, the first letters of C.H.A.R.M.S. is "charms."  From The Magic Shop by Maurice Dolbier and illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg.
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#vintage illustration #magic #illustration #acronym
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #little red riding hood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Open Court, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #oedipus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Book by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A demon-ridden coven.  From Weird Tales, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #demon #bat #full moon #occult #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eric's Book of Beasts, illustrated by Shimada Sekko, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #horns #tables turned #gnu
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Newton Junior's 1963 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #constellations #hercules #1960s #ophiuchus #pisces #corona borealis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Satan satisfied."  From The Grotesque in Church Art by T. Tindall Wildridge, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Psychiatric Bulletin, 1951.
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#vintage illustration #anxiety
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hat #straw hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Talking Woman by Jean Kenyon Mackenzie, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #cat #leopard #spear #hunter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1918 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Nine Lives of a Cat by Charles Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #cat #bellows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Emerson's 1951 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera
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The Right Word (permalink)
Remembering that time when I fell through the ice.  From The New Building Better English 9, Teacher's Edition, 1955.
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#ice #sentence diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #ostrich
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Old News (permalink)
"How women should spend Sunday so there's be no 'Blue Monday.'"  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Brother Bears by Anna Williams Arnett and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #shadow #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1879.
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#vintage illustration #owl #nest #fox #egg
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May 6, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today Is Here by Don Blanding.
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#vintage illustration #mountain #island
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Old News (permalink)
It haunts us continually: "That vague something."  From Collier's, 1915.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You have waked me too soon; I must slumber again."  From Scribner's 1877.
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#vintage illustration #sleeping #fatigue #tired #asleep #rude awakening
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
May boring beetles dig holes elsewhere, in dullsville.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #insect #beetle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A better scan of this one.  From Poets' Wit and Humor by W. H. Wills and illustrated by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #horseshoe #anthropomorphism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ausführliches Lexikon der Griechischen und Römischen Mythologie by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Great news: green lights ahead, to prosperity.  From The Film Daily, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #lightning #prosperity #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales from Story-Town by Mina Pearl Ashton and illustrated by Ludwig & Regina, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #crow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Apponequet's 1970 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #vintage yearbook #yearbook #humpty dumpty
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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)
There literally is a "Joe College," and he graduated from Western New Mexico in 1953.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #vintage man #joe college #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #books #vintage magazine #magazine #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #red sky #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Valparaiso's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lightbulb #prodigal son #beacon #light head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Edda and the Oak by Elia Wilkinson Peattie and illustrated by Katherine Merrill, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #bird #faces in things #tree face #oak tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"After the fall."  From the University of Toronto's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The man in the moon.  From Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #outer space #moon #man in the moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This is what happens if you try to make an audio version of a coloring book?
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#prof. oddfellow #audio book #coloring book #video #penetralia
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May 5, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Though often merely in need of a cuddle, be wary of the werebear.  From Wizardry Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #bear #werebear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story-Telling Ballads by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The cat mask of mystery.  From Get a Clue—Read by Montana Family Reading Program, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #mask #cat #cat mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Colotte, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #horned man
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Amateur Photographer & Cinematographer, 1936.
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#cat #vintage photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Toy-Box by John McInnes.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rare to see a horse thumbing its nose.  From Harry Furniss' Royal Academy, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #horse #thumbing nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From More fables of Aesop.
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#vintage illustration #satyr
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fifty Gates of Understanding by Aleta Blanche Baker and illustrated by Gibbs Mason, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage diagram #esoteric #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Learning how to claim things."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.
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#angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"No credit madam."  From Kentucky College for Women's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
What are you doing tonight?  From Gardner-Webb's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #two headed #costume #big sunglasses
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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)
A fan of the band Devo.  From Santa Clara's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #devo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Antique Cats for Collectors by Katharine McClinton, 1973.
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#cat #smiling cat #figurine #smiling animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1888.
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I am a very naughty dog."  From Chatterbox, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #dog #naughty #sign
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Old News (permalink)
From Lighted Pathway, 1970.
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#faith #tricycle #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From If: A Nightmare in the Conditional Mood by Charles Graves and E. V. Lucas, illustrated by George Morrow, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #levitation #weightless #the people could fly #big head #swelled head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 1874.
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#vintage illustration #night #monolith #glen canyon
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May 4, 2022

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Instantly photograph your personal spirit orb, low-tech:
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#prof. oddfellow #orbs #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #elves #bees
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reel Life, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #candle #moth to the flame #flame #moths
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
When the absence of disturbances is even more frightening.  From Dark Shadows episode 998.
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#dark shadows #too quiet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #vintage men #men
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A vegetarian with a taste for spiders."  From Piedmont's 1999 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #hallowe'en #spiderweb #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fable #tiger #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington & Lee's 1950 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #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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#vintage illustration #ghost #executioner #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Story Carnival by DeLancey and Iverson.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #goat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Santa Clara's 1980 yearbook.

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1980s
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Kittens and Cats by Eulalie Osgood Grover, 1911.
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#cat #weight scale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Whether you call him King Satan or Jack Frost, he graduated in 1954.  From the University of Omaha's 1954 yearbook.

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#satan #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #jack frost #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dorothy's Rabbit Stories by Mary E. Calhoun and illustrated by E. Warde Blaisdell, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From Needles and Pins by Mina Deane Halsey, 1909.
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#horse #smart animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Procopius' 1965 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
From Taylor Magazine, 1980.
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#vintage headline #headline #school
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern's 1921 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #devil #cauldron #pitchfork #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #inquistion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Map dowsing to find buried treasure and ships with chests of gold coins lost at sea.  From Pendulum Power by Greg Nielsen, 1987
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#vintage illustration #map #pendulum #dowsing #1980s
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May 3, 2022

It Bears Repeating (permalink)
From Eating People Is Wrong by Malcom Bradbury.
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#cannibalism
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Poppykok pasted a magic postage stamp on his cheek."  From The Sociable Sand Witch by T. L. Sappington, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amazing Stories, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #space station
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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 #anthropomorphism #cat #snow #skiing
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Old News (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1922.
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#mustache #vintage headline #moustache #disguise #headline #deception
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage men #men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ethos, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #architecture
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From William and Mary's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duck
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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 marks of fairy kisses on her forehead.  From The Built Upon House by Janet Field Heath and illustrated by Lloyd J. Dotterer, 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 #fairy #crown
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The Right Word (permalink)
Good name for nightowls: "day dodgers."  From Earlham's 1919 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book by Albert Bigelow Paine and illustrated by J. M. Condé, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #anthropomorphism #cat #crown #cat king #bling
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The doubled ghost of one photographer.  From Calvin College's 1978 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
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Unpoker me not till I'm cold."  From The Moon Prince by Richard Kendall Munkittrick, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #jester
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Ten Little Herrings, by L. C. Tyler:


***
Ethelred shrugged again, showing that he did speak some French.

***
"Proctor and Proctor"....
"Which Proctor are you?" I asked.
"Both," he said. "It's a small agency."

***
His eyebrows had not returned to their normal position (unless raised was their normal position, of course).
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Pixie in the House by Laura Rountree Smith and illustrated by Clara Powers Wilson, 1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #pixie
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #picture puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Medieval Japanese masks.  From Century Magazine, 1884.
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#vintage illustration #mask #japanese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Many any level 3 priest you meet today offer a formal invocation of blessedness.  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 #priest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I can sleep here very well."  From The Book of Fables and Folk Stories by Horace Elisha Scudder, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale #flower
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May 2, 2022

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to I Dream of Jeannie.  From Benjamin D-------, His Little Dinner, illustrated by "Whew," 1876.
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#vintage illustration #genie bottle #i dream of jeannie #bottle #giant bottle
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Haunted Clockwork Music (permalink)
We're honored that the Australian band Neuropa commissioned us to "translate" their song "Father" through our Tesla spirit radio connected to a haunted grandfather clock.
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#prof. oddfellow #music video #video #clockwork music #neons gone mad #neuropa
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We've heard of "the almighty dollar," but this is ridiculous!  From Simulation Games For Religious Education by Richard Reichert.
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#money #dollar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Catalepsy in the attitude of crucifixion.  From Hypnotism by Laura Ensor, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #hypnotism #crucifixion #catalepsy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By G. Holstein.  From der Guckkasten, 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 #silhouette #knight #jousting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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 #vintage ad #vintage men #men #cheering #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From City Sidewalks by Bank Street.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cow #cowboy
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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 Mothers News, 2011.
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#vintage illustration #facial expressions #cartooning #making faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1890 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Toby learns about water."  From Good Times Tomorrow by Gates and Peardon.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1913 yearbook of the State Female Normal School, Farmville.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #fortune teller #prophecy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Demoniacal drummer."  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 #demon #grotesque #drummer #church art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"The happiest days of your life" ... when there's nobody there?  From Elon's 1958 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stage set
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ezh, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #sun #blackbird #skulls #crows #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen's 1943 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #ornamental design
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Christmas Every Day by William Dean Howells, 1892.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #pumpkin seed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
We checked this, and it's true: instruction on the 5-string banjo will improve your tennis racket playing as well as harmonica and vocals.  From South Georgia College's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #vintage men #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I did something bad."  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
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May 1, 2022

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Barnes Readers, Book One, First Year-Second Half by Herman Dressel, 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 #gingerbread man #pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 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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#wink #vintage hollywood #vintage men #men #hollywood #sailor
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Kiss a toad tonight."  From North Adams' 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #toad #sign
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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 Hollins College's 1919 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 #cannon
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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 #sun #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bright light
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins' 1891 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telescope #1890s #astronomer
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
An old postcard gifted to me by friends in Wales.
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#wales #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage postcard #welsh #woman #vintage woman #postcard
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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 #monkey #artistic animal #laughing animal #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin's 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pig #pet walker #walking the pig
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy-Folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft, 1895.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairies
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #winking animal #winking horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cats Are For Keeps by Muriel Thompson and illustrated by Howard Larkin.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cat #glowing eyes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and dark #light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #alien
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's an enduring question: "Querry [sic] why is a what and if so who?"  From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chalkboard #professor #good question
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We've all seen the "stepping in a bucket" sight gag, but few these days are audacious enough to do it the original way -- down a well.  From Chatterbox, 1909.  
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bucket #well
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare The Fireside Sphinx by Agnes Repplier and illustrated by Elizabeth Bonsall, 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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Housekeepers by Norma Bright Carson and illustrated by Hazeltine Fewsmith, 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 #gnome #1910s
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