CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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May 31, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 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 #nest #chicken #egg #illustration #chicken coop #1880s
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Old News (permalink)
"The 'dead' are alive!"  From The New Liberator Weekly, 1930.
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#life after death #afterlife #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 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 #snowman #winter #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pirate #treasure chest #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I'd like to roar like you."  From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #big mouth #anthropomorphism #crocodile #bull #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Aberree, 1955.  
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Old News (permalink)
"Coat feathered by 4,000 birds."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#feather #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Viper versus rabbit.  Which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1872.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #snake #rabbit #animal fight #viper
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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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#ouija #vintage headline #mood #headline #sunday
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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 Today magazine, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #earth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1931 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wizardry Gaiden I: Suffering of the Queen Strategy Guide.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #crystal ball #horror
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Old News (permalink)
"My world is strictly informal!"  From Franklin College's 1973 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #mice #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #harpy #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scribner's 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 #stained glass #window
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Medical College of Virginia's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #spotlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
(We previously saw this item when we paired it with thanks to cassette label Land-O-Newts for saying, "The work of Craig Conley is a rabbit hole I happily fell into.")
"Since that time I have practically lived among the newts."  From Of All Things! by Robert Benchley, 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 #newt
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May 30, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The cat made quite a good meal."  From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #anthropomorphism #cat #monkey #1920s #illustration #cooking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #magician #chair #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drawing #flower #1930s #illustration #tulip #symmetrical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 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 #sword fight #1920s #puppeteer #marionette #illustration #puppet show
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 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 #horse #sled #native american #1920s #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1915.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #freeze warning #clothing #frost warning
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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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1872.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #st. george #saint george
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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 #bigfoot #call of the wild #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Teachers College at Salem's 1957 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #spiral #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers
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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 #grim reaper
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This is my room.  Let me rejoice & be glad in it."  From Manchester College's 1971 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Billy Bunny and His Friends by David Cory, 1917.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #circus #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mount Union College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
Bad news -- "No time for rocking chairs."  From Together, 1969.
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#vintage illustration #chair #vintage headline #rocking chair #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1984 yearbook.

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

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#mask #effigy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Edith of the elves "has a trick of looking out and beyond a person."  From Picture-Play Magazine, 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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#1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #giant #gulliver
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Queed, by Henry Sydnor Harrison:

It was five of a November afternoon, crisp and sharp, and already running into dusk. Down the street came a girl and a dog, rather a small girl and quite a behemothian dog. If she had been a shade smaller, or he a shade more behemothian, the thing would have approached a parody on one's settled idea of a girl and a dog. She had enough height to save that, but it was the narrowest sort of squeak.

[Bonus: The dedication from a different book by this author.]

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Old News (permalink)
"Living inside one's skeleton."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1949.
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#skeleton #vintage headline
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May 29, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 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 #anthropomorphism #frog #1920s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile #frogmobile #frog car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#grave mood rings
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Old News (permalink)
"At the threshold of the invisible."  From Ghost Stories, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Something might happen!"  From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #illustration #badger
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #parrot #gold #pinocchio #illustration #living toy #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #heraldry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Told By the Sandman: Stories For Bedtime by Abbie Phillips Walker, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Metropolitan Magazine, 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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Old News (permalink)
"Half of him married; other half 'upstairs.'"  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #winter #precipice #cliff #staring into the depths
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Alberta's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #pipe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina Teachers College's 1926 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #talisman #tibetan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State University's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1933.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1987 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #costume #vintage man #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fear of the number seven.  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.  See Strange Talismans for Strange Times.
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#vintage illustration #superstition #phobia #number 7 #seven #number seven #7
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stop
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #witch #cauldron #hallowe'en
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tug of war
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Strand Magazine, 1924.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #animal attack #lion
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May 28, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Understudies by Mary E. Wilkins, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #daydream #milton #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhyme Time for Children by Emilie Poulsson and illustrated by W. M. Berger, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #dog #1920s #walking the dog #illustration #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Healthful Living, Based on the Essentials of Physiology by Jesse Feiring Williams, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration #possibilities
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mammoth Story Book, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #seven dwarfs #1900s #snow white #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crow #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's monkeys eating rabbit pie are from The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #rabbit #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
At the Bristol Channel.  From Chatterbox, 1872.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1870s #mountain spirit
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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 #muse #vintage headline #candy #headline
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Old News (permalink)
This feels like a trick question, but I'm going to choose locomotive engineers having the right to drink, over truck drivers and motorists.  From Improvement Era, 1939.
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#alcohol #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1921 yearbook.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook #yearbook #decapitated
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Old News (permalink)
From Undead and Unwelcome by MaryJanice Davidson, 2010.
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#undead #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1969 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #thirteen #unlucky #13
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The Right Word (permalink)
From The Merry Magazine, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #hairdresser
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Montana State University's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #bobcat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #medicine #injection #blood pressure #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Bible College's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #tiny man #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #boxing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Edinboro State College's 1981 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1980s #chalk outline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Logos magazine, 1967.
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#sun and moon #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1896 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Fail to see real meaning.  Signs of the times are not understood."  From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #headline
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May 27, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life in Early Days by Elizabeth Fraser, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #warrior #roman #soldier #rome #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"You should live to be 150 but you begin to grow old at 20."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#longevity #aging #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #lion #winged lion #oz
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Metropolitan Magazine, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #smoking #smoke rings #women #vintage women
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Old News (permalink)
"Life drama is long tragedy."  From the Duluth Herald, 1915.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lyre #ride the wave #dolphin #ancient greece #cowboy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
This could be us.  "I will be your ghost tonight.  I will be your ghost twice."  From Dark Shadows episode 1173.
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#ghost #dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Omaha's 1921 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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Old News (permalink)
"Pernicious ideas, subversive teachings."  From Improvement Era, 1951.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Their official yearbook portraits.  From London Bible Institute's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture-Play Magazine, 1923.
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#vintage ad #blindfold #1920s #hair #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFK Folio, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1915 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Enchanted India by Bojidar Karageorgevitch, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #india
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art #outhouse #crappy
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Old News (permalink)
"Who has a kangaroo?  It's been four years since Enid Bennett has tasted Antipodean beefsteak."  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#kangaroo #vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Madness of Mayyour_moon, by Meredith Nicholson


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#vintage illustration #moon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Curriculum Foundation Series: Number Stories, Book 1, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration #slap
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May 26, 2025

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
Great to spot Viscount Vitchm'call at an Irish wake in Detroit!  Thanks, Christine!
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#grave mood rings
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Adjusted for inflation, a $1000 cat in the year 1900 is the equivalent of $38,000.  From Concerning Cats, My Own and Some Others by Helen Maria Winslow, 1900.
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#cat #vintage photo #1900s #photo
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Old News (permalink)
"Battle between a Transvaal man and a buffalo."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#buffalo #vintage headline #headline
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter #smart animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Hairy Man fables better than shaggy dog tales."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1993.
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#bigfoot #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Michigan State Normal College's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #modern art #anvil
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Old News (permalink)
"Thirty years among the dead."  From The Aberree, 1964.
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#living dead #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Memphis State University's 1973 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree #red sky #glowing tree
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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 #duel
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Old News (permalink)
"Just say no ... say it like you mean it."  From East Tennessee State University's 1987 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #no #vintage headline #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic Forest by Stewart Edward White, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #forest #trees
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goucher College's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #elf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #ink #ink imp
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Old News (permalink)
"Says the world is not growing better."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #devolution #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The good old days that really weren't."  From Ohio University's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #good old days #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Now she laughs at pain!"  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #pain #before and after #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #howling #yearbook #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Flying machines prophesied in 1880.  From Karmenia, or, What the Spirit Told Me by Lyman E. Stowe, 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 #flying machine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #star #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #cinderella
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May 25, 2025

No News Is Good News (permalink)
"It never happened!"  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage headline #no news is good news #fake news #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #monkey #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Is Marconi like spaghetti, daddy?"  From 73 Magazine, 1962.
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#vintage headline #marconi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She has no hanky, for her bag is as much as she can carry empty.  From Punch, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1945 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #artist #painting #paintbrush
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #hat #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"My!  The things women are interested in."  From Improvement Era, 1959.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #owl #caged bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1976 yearbook.

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll and illustrated by A. E. Jackson, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #lizard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1915 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #music #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #musical notation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Pittsburgh. Titusville's 1980 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #panther
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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 #night sky #telescope #shooting star #meteor #astronomer
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Era Magazine, 1922.
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#cat #vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chowan University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #hybrid #rabbit people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It's so fascinating how people look like their pets.  From Motion Picture Herald, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #dog #people who look like their dogs #people who look like animals #dog man #people who look like their pets #people who look like dogs
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Case of the Kilcladdich, by P.J. Fitzsimmons:

[I've now read everything published to date in this recent Wodehousesque funny mystery series set in the 1920s, and I have to say I've found them pretty entertaining--the big caveat being the frequent anachronistic turns of phrase. I'd say offhand that this sixth of six is the best so far.]

***
Molly MacAlistair figured in my recollections as an unknown and unknowable peril--like an angry snowman.

***
[The cast of characters in this novel includes a Tweedledum/dee-esque pair of feuding barmen, who are constantly flinging creative insults at each other.]
"Ya yard and a half of unravelled knitting"
[later]
"You're as quick off the mark as the mark."

***
Molly crossed her arms and, somehow, her eyebrows.

***
"I can handle her, Captain," I said. "I rowed at Oxford. I also fell into the river at Oxford."

***
"Well, then?" Molly crossed her arms in a way that also said "Well, then?"

***
"How many of those [sheep] have you got now?"
"I don't know," I said. "I tried counting them, but I fell asleep."
***



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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #zebra
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #king #illustration #edward the sixth
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May 24, 2025

Old News (permalink)
"Jimmy lets out a squawk."  From Youth's Companion, 1927.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #native american #turtle #1920s #deer #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Where do we go from here?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1952.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Given that the "sawing a person in half" magic trick had been around since the 1800s, the skeptic in us wonders if the saw is in on it, that this and other such "investigations" are all smoke and mirrors.  From the Duluth Herald, 1911.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #lumber #tree #faces in things #saw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne and illustrated by Edmund Dulac, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #bow and arrow #book #centaur
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #demon #underwater #mermaid #christmas #pitchfork #animal headed #cat headed #divers
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photo may be used as a tool to initiate time travel.  From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #pathway
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Old News (permalink)
"The importance of sandwiches."  From Improvement Era, 1940.
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#vintage headline #headline #sandwiches
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Kentucky State Normal School and Teachers College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #final bow
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Astronomy and the Bible by Lucas Albert Reed, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #sun #sirius
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Christmas Makers' Club by Edith A. Sawyer and illustrated by Ada C. Williamson, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
One can judge a college by its faculty.  From West Georgia College's 1981 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #teacher #1980s #faculty
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #wizard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #telescope #astrologer #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Film Daily, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #lion
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Ball State University's 1932 yearbook.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #ghost #dreaming #vintage yearbook
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
May no gloves haunt your dreams 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 #glove #symbol
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #mule
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Photoplay Magazine, 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 #costume #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Virginia Polytechnic Institute's 1926 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale
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May 23, 2025

Old News (permalink)
Some of us are still on that "1000-mile walk to civilization."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animals #drawing #1930s #illustration #circle
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Old News (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #faces in things #vintage headline #illustration #headline #1910s #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The bee that cuts leaves.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 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 #bee #1930s #illustration #leafcutter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I have forgotten my beans!"  From Lady Green Satin and Her Maid Rosette, translated by Baroness E. Martineau des Chesnez and illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, 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 #beans #cook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture-Play Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1920s #vintage magazine
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Old News (permalink)
"Just how do you know?"  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #puppeteer #marionette #1930s #tiny men #puppet master #yo-yo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close to your eyes."  From Improvement Era, 1959.
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#vintage illustration #money #eye #penny
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1872.
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#vintage illustration #ox #aurochs
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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 #dream #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chicken #duck
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #silence #insect #bug #fly #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From McCall's Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1946 yearbook.

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

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#devil #effigy #vintage yearbook #bonfire #1940s
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Old News (permalink)
From The Instructor, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#death #skull face #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Navaho Religion Vol. II by Gladys A. Reichard.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #navaho
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From the 1974 British TV series Zodiac:

"It's a strange place to have a bagpipe festival."
"It's a strange instrument."
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#bagpipes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cowardly Lion of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #lion #oz
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Kansas State Agricultural College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #eagle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #dancing #musician #nursery rhyme
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May 22, 2025

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 #puppet #1900s #illustration #living toy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#ufo #vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy #alien encounter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dominion Language Series Book Two by Daniels, Hall, Matthews & MacKenzie, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #bell #starry night #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #illustration #pancakes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Favourite Fables In Prose and Verse by Harrison Weir, 1870.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fable #dog #reflection #1870s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mount Wachusett Community College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It is a pity you have not got any brains."  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 #mask #fox #aesop #brainless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1963 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #ugly man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #setting off
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Let's keep this behind closed doors!"  From Toronto Teachers' College's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monster #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #jumping #candle #illustration #nursery rhyme #jack be nimble
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Eastern Illinois University's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#mask #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1970s #apeman #ape mask
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Old News (permalink)
The banner headline from The Sanguinist, 1948: "Don't read this ... it's the same old stuff."
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#vintage headline #headline
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Sundials (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1927 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Australian Women's Weekly, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #walking the dog #pet walker #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mississippi's 1897 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #1890s
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Old News (permalink)
"Man's mind is perfect blank."  From the Duluth Herald, 1911.
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#vintage headline #blank stare #headline #amnesia
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Elephant dogs?  From Lasell Junior College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #dog #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus #juggling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In the Grip of the Nyika by J. H. Patterson, 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 #vintage book #book #horns #gazelle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The professor of English is compelled to listen to his own jokes."  From North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts' 1905 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #hell #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 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 #silhouette #anthropomorphism #insect #cricket #violin #musical animal
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May 21, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #capital t #letter t #rooster #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"The lonely man's telephone: why it is cheaper."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1937.
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#telephone #vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"Abandon can't and cant all ye who enter here!"  From The Nine Unknown by Talbot Mundy, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sphinx
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Old News (permalink)
"Divinity in humanity.  Every man is born out of God's eternal self.  Man is not God, but God is in every man."  From the Duluth Herald, 1911.
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#religion #divinity #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fishing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Four by William H. Elson & Edna R. Kelly and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 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 #mythology #sun #harp #in the clouds
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Greensboro College's 1935 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #grease #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1931 yearbook.  (We're related to Lady Godiva — the barest branch of the family tree — on our maternal side.  You might be, too: see Heirs to the Queen of Hearts: Tracing Magical Genealogy.) 
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lady godiva
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Thomas stared back at the owl with that fixed stare of unspeakable hate common to his kind."  From The Merry Magazine, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #owl #cat #animal fight
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University'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 #on top of the world
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"30 and I felt old.  'Weak nerves' were robbing me of my vitality."  From The Bombay Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fatigue #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tufts University's 1998 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #long hair #cousin itt #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #levitation #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1923 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #duck #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #women #vintage women
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #scissors #yearbook #censorship #writer #1940s #censor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The barren landscape of censorship.  From Photoplay Magazine, 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 #censor #barren
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #giant hand #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #japanese #animal attack #octopus
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May 20, 2025

Old News (permalink)
"When in Los Angeles, have your eyes examined."  From Improvement Era, 1930.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #advice #headline #ad
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The frozen Viscountess Vitchm'call sings the blues, inspired by comedian John Dimes.
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #WTF #video #cryogenics #grave mood rings #john dimes #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 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 #medieval #thirteenth century #illustration #vintage hair #hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #zeppelin #dirigible #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Fort Wayne Works News, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #flying carpet #magic carpet #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Microcosm, 1974.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #man in the moon #tree #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Flying Plover by G. E. Theodore Roberts and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 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 #bear #native american #hunter #endpapers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes.  I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again."  From Salve Regina University's 2002 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #goodbye #billy joel
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From The Cat Who Saw Stars by Lilian Jackson Braun.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #cat #stars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Northland Trails by Syndey Ells, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #winter #tent #polar
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"There's an end to grief.  It ends in despair."  From Dark Shadows episode 430.
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#despair #grief #dark shadows
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
St. Sebastian, courtesy of the Louvre.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #arrows #st. sebastian
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Institut des textiles du Cegep de Saint-Hyacinthe's 1970 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #good and evil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #angel and demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #fairy tale #crone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Hoopskirts 'just can't come back.'  Folding doors, street cars and autos don't go with balloon effects."  From The Duluth Evening Herald, 1915.
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#fashion #vintage fashion #vintage headline #hoop skirt #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1900 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #biography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #illustration
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Mr. Ingleside, by E. V. Lucas:

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But that is the tragic side of the typists' life: they don't see the replies.

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"I never allude to pole-stars. It's not my way. A man must be characteristic."

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The Caprice held six in addition to its tattooed engineer.
[I guess it would have held seven, if those tattoos hadn't been taking up so much room!]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From "Flower O'Content" by Alice Van Leer Carrick, in The Children's Book, 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 #fairy #illustration
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May 19, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lewis Story Method of Teaching Reading and Spelling Manual, illustrated by Bess Bruce Cleaveland, 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 #illustration #letter d #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 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 #cat #puss in boots #magnifying glass #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"A cow is just a cow, or is it?"  From The Current Sauce, 1950.
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#cow #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #danger #1920s #illustration #making faces #tense
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #alice in wonderland #teapot #mad hatter #rabbit #dormouse #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"All that counts is the shine."  From Improvement Era, 1944.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University'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 #arabia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Just trying to get through the dead forest.  From Scribner's 1877.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #canoe #row row row your boat
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Old News (permalink)
"The camera is cruel to her!"  From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wesleyan College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #lipstick
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Old News (permalink)
"Every soul has shrine and each man prays to his own mental image of God."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1914.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#religion #prayer #god #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cat delivered in the mail.  From St. Nicholas magazine, 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 #cat #mailman #postal carrier #mailbag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Voices of the night."  From Nature Magazine, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #tiny men #pandora's box #Pandora #the people could fly #insect people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Reptiles and Amphibians by Feberal Writers' Project, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #frog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"'One of those days' that nothing went right."  From Purdue University, Calumet's 1967 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #tom thumb #tiny man #nursery rhyme
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #afterlife #1930s
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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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#statue #pain #sculpture #sculptor #living statue #chronic pain
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Old News (permalink)
"Taxing the will-o'-the-wisp."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#will-o'-the-wisp #vintage headline #headline
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May 18, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #illustration #ad
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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 #punch #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #1860s #illustration #wagon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, His Book by Eva March Tappan and illustrated by Charlotte Harding, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #mutton #robin hood #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's horned combatants are discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #fighting #illustration #horned man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #tapir
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Old News (permalink)
"Chase that dampness."  From 73 Magazine, 1962.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #harp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"A night to remember, a time to forget."  From Tulane University School of Medicine's 1988 yearbook.
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#memory #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Alpine postman."  From Chatterbox, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #mail carrier #1900s #alps #postman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Myth & Legend, Poetry & Romance by Charles Squire, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #celtic #severed head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Photoplay Magazine, 1920.  Vintage "eek! a mouse" imagery.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #eek #fear of mice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #letter a #tree
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Photo-Era Magazine, 1913.
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#cat #vintage photo #window
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Serenade of the bells."  From Ohio University's 1948 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #clock #alarm clock #1940s #rude awakening #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #deer #needlepoint
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Murray State University's 1985 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage yearbook #spirit photography #elevator
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Old News (permalink)
"Not dead, but only sleeping."  From the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Natural Woman, by Carole King:

***

[Re. a song she wrote during high school, "Leave, Schkeeve"]
I had no idea what a schkeeve was, but it rhymed with "leave," and that's all that mattered.

***
As ambiance is to a room, mood is to a song. If you add too many lights and a pinball machine, the mood is lost.

***
[On a demo made for the Shirelles, she] tried to sound like the Shirelles' lead singer, Shirley Owens. One of the other Shirelles...told me later that when Shirley recorded the lead vocal, she was trying to sound like me sounding like her.

***
[Laurel Canyon] was the first time I had ever lived where the action was....As if to validate the concept, one of my neighbors...confided that he'd been one of the Action Kids on Dick Clark's ABC television show Where the Action Is.
***
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Black Beauty by Anna Sewell and illustrated by Lucy Kemp-Welch, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration #1910s
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May 17, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The amusing word formed by the first three initials of Algernon Sidney Samuel Coot became his nickname."  From Youth's Companion, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #1930s #illustration #hollow tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #flower #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #greece #greek #1930s #illustration #pericles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #drawing #1920s #perspective #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #living toy #toy
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Old News (permalink)
"Two old bores.  What shall we do with them?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #octopus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A hummingbird fan from the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hummingbird
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Old News (permalink)
"They woke up and dreamed."  From Improvement Era, 1947.
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#dreaming #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first glance, we thought a rabbit was playing a flute.  From Dartmouth College's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An elephant lifeguard, from Chatterbox, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #lifeguard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"They know not what they do."  From Wabash College's 1962 yearbook.

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #1960s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Perhaps you'll come to find that madness is preferable to sanity, or death preferable to life."  From Dark Shadows episode 251.
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#dark shadows
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #sports #vintage yearbook #deity #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #bridge
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Keep the freckles!"  From The Instructor, 1961.
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#vintage headline #freckles #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"And it's always fair weather when good fellow's get together."  From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today magazine, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Western Comrade, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #skull #war #tank #illustration #1910s #juggernaut
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May 16, 2025

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
Answers: HOLD, HELD, HEAD.
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#word chain #1920s #word puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Owl King and Other Fairy Stories by Herbert Escott Inman and illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #elf #fairy tale #tiny man #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Barnes' Language Lessons or Short Studies in English, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #camel #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #axe #ax
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1965.
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#vintage illustration #pancake batter #spill
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A (possibly cursed) living doll does some sewing.  (The non-ergonomic chair is definitely cursed.)  From Heart Songs by Gertrude Theresa Clark and illustrated by A. L. Thorne, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #chair #doll #living toy #cursed image
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A spoof ad 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 #vintage ad #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1892 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Woman who takes hens for models.  Observe their habits and learn the secret of long life."  Crucial: the Secrets of Chicken Whispering.
Headline from the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#chicken #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1888 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical animal #donkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1912 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends by Marshall Saunders and illustrated by Diantha Horne Marlowe, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #oz #ax #tin woodman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #trip
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sleeping Beauty In the Woods by Charles Perrault, 1864.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #sleeping beauty
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Reckoning at the Riviera Royale, by PJ Fitzsimmons:

***
Mama pointed at the croupier with her spare eyebrow.

***
Max drew on his slim cigarette holder with such intensity that his monocle popped out.

***
[chapter title]
The Bolder the Yodeller the Colder the Shoulder

***
"Was the trunk locked, sir?"
"It was. Pilque opened it with an enormous hook on a pole. Like something the pope would use to open locked steamer trunks."

***
Mama raised her eyebrows and lowered her chin, as though regarding me over imaginary pince-nez.

***
"Life is too short for explaining things in French."
***

[Bonus: A yacht that has been christened Little Miss Fortune, with predictable consequences.]


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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #animal headed #illustration #herne #deer headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Not so unusual to be taught by a fox professor.  Two of our own professors were Wolves.  From College of the Holy Cross's 1992 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fox #vintage yearbook #smart animal
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1909 yearbook.

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May 15, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #indie comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #table setting #1930s #illustration #dinner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper1922.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #goat #rabbit #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #seaside #illustration #seashore #beach #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #civet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This day may you be protected from ashers.  From Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna Handbook.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #asher
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #dog #crossword puzzle
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Old News (permalink)
It's always been said that the weather isn't like it was in the good ol' days.  Yet, "Seasons not changing.  Records show they are the same as in the past."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1906.
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#weather #vintage headline #climate change #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book #scholar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"For heaven's sake keep off!"  From The Sorcery Club by Elliott O'Donnell, 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 #demon #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Indian Fairy Book by Frances Jenkins Olcott, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #native american
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Only pods of the garden snapdragon."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 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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#faces in things #seed pod
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Death league."  From Lebanon Valley College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#skeleton #vintage yearbook #hooded figure
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Old News (permalink)
"Some women wonder, while others find out."  From Modern Screen, 1931.
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#vintage ad #1930s #vintage headline #woman #vintage woman #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Mary Washington's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #treasure chest
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #dragon #china #samurai #japan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary'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
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The more one learns, the worse one feels."  From Dark Shadows episode 426.
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#dark shadows #learning
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baltimore College of Dental Surgery's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bird #funeral
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
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#vintage illustration #insect #1890s #illustration #larva
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May 14, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Phoenician traders.  From Where Our Ways of Living Come From by Howard Wilson, 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 #1940s #illustration #phoenician
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Old News (permalink)
"Little bags of happiness."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#happiness #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't boil away jam and jelly."  From Improvement Era, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Capital University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #beard #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Book Magazine, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage man #man #gag #tongue-tied #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1930 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #seagull #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Wow 'em!"  From The Film Daily, 1936.
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#vintage ad #1930s #woman #vintage woman #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Let's go down to the cemetery tonight."  "Gracious, no!  I'd die first."  From Purple Parrot, 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 #cemetery #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #practical joke #vintage yearbook #alcohol #paddle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Petersons Magazine, 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 #needepoint
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Speaking inside the box.  From Henderson State University's 1978 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1970s #box #speaker #box head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 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 #seeing double #spinning
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1912 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #pegasus #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flying horse #winged horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Four by William H. Elson & Edna R. Kelly and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 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 #mythology #chariot #flying horse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
All mannequin heads must go!  From Lasell Junior College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #window display #mannequin #mannequin heads #shop window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #sun and moon
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Alas!  How easily things go wrong, a sigh too deep or a kiss too long, then comes a mist and weeping rain, and life is never the same again."  From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crying #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Young Klondike, Stories of a Gold Seeker, 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 #bones #gold #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Round About by O'Donnel Scharschug & Carey, 1936.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #turtle #illustration
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May 13, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English In Action 1 by Tressler & Shelmadine, 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 #punctuation #question mark #fishing #1930s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Pain in the Yeahs joins Grave Mood Rings and Neons Gone Mad.
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #music video #video #neons gone mad #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany Friends and Neighbours by Gray & Monroe, 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 #cow #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #giant #tiny people #1890s #giant hands #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dirigible #illustration #blimp #hangar
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary'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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Magic of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 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 #monkey #animal intelligence #oz #typewriter #smart animal #literate animal
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Old News (permalink)
"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."  From Watts Hospital School of Nursing's 1971 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #sunshine #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #nursery rhyme #pie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hollins College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #holding hands
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Unmask your mind."  From Rosicrucian Digest, 1935.
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#mask #1930s #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #silhouette #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture-Play Magazine, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #self defense #kicked
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #armor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Little Story House by Miriam Mason, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #spider web #broom
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather:

When she took a note that was high for her, Miss Darcey always put her right hand out into the air, as if she were indicating height, or giving an exact measurement. Some early teacher had told her that she could “place” a tone more surely by the help of such a gesture, and she firmly believed that it was of great assistance to her. (Even when she was singing in public, she kept her right hand down with difficulty, nervously clasping her white kid fingers together when she took a high note. Thea could always see her elbows stiffen.) She unvaryingly executed this gesture with a smile of gracious confidence, as if she were actually putting her finger on the tone: “There it is, friends!”
This morning, in Gounod’s “Ave Maria,” as Miss Darcey approached her B natural,—
Dans—nos a-lár———mes!
Out went the hand, with the sure airy gesture, though it was little above A she got with her voice, whatever she touched with her finger.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Samplers and Stitches, written and illustrated by Mrs. Archibald Christie, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #sewing #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #astronomy #illustration #astronomer #ptolemy
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May 12, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #through the looking glass #anthropomorphism #alice in wonderland #frog #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Follow Me by Thorn et al., 1970.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Og—Son of Fire by Irving Crump and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #caveman #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #wizard #1920s #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1961 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lion versus snake.  Which do you wager for the win?  From Chatterbox, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #horse #knight #lion #animal fight #snale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lakeview College of Nursing's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From School Fellow, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould, 1886.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Caricature, the Wit & Humor of a Nation In Picture, Song and Story, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #jester #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Say it with flowers.  "Horticultural autographs."  From Harper's, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #flowers #watering can
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hiram College's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From You Better Come Home With Me by John Lawson and illustrated by Arnold Spilka.
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#vintage illustration #fox #shadow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"God hath made of one blood all nations of men."  From Berea College's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Scratch Magazine, 1985.  See Of Drinking in Remembrance of the Dead.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #skeleton #champagne #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #architecture #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior Language Book C by Donalda Dickie, 1945.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #flamingo
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May 11, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Friends, a Primer by Pennell, Cusack, Macleod & Gates and illustrated by Marguerite Davis, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #autumn #autumn leaves #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Go ahead!  Run away to sea."  From 73 Magazine, 1968.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Don't wait until it's too late."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #advice #illustration #ad
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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 #robin hood #1920s #illustration
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#maze
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's lion riding a horse is from the Duluth Herald, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #horse #circus #lion
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Old News (permalink)
"Shall we guide causes or remedy effects?"  From Rosicrucian Digest, 1935.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Scribner's 1871.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #shipwreck #lightning
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia Teachers College's 1962 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #telephone #alfred e. neuman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Woroni, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #animal attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"So Mother Meg a charm did brew."  From St. Nicholas magazine, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #witch #cauldron #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chronicles of Fairy Land by Fergus Hume and illustrated by Kirk & Dunlop, 1911.
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#king #vintage illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"We're not at war.  Except with the powers of darkness."  From Dark Shadows episode 426.
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#dark shadows
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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
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's mule in paper is from Chowan University's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mule
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Options Magazine, 1992.
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#vintage illustration #nature spirit #green man #forest deity #nature deity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State Normal School'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 #the end
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate in Arcadia, written and illustrated by Edwin John Ellis, 1892.
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#lion #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)


Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From America's Humor, Feb. 1927:

Here's a not-very-good magazine that nonetheless yielded some points of interest. For one thing, this issue includes a magazine-within-the-magazine, "America's Rumor," that is a self-parody. It's even unfunnier, but I also found it hard to tell the difference.

The magazine proper includes a few droll spoof advertisements ("Goofyads"--see attached meta-ad), such as the attached plug for auto tires that churn butter.

The self-parody includes a bogus contest (see attachments), and a couple of good "continued" gags: "continued from page 0" (attached), and a column that begins with "Continued from Harper's Monthly" and concludes with "Continued in the Saturday Evening Post."

The page-gutter rift in the "continuity" headline (attached) is not an intentional gag, according to my best guess. I also thought you might get a kick out of the freckle statistics and the stunt-man proposal (both attached).

Describing someone who is completely calm and cool, a character in one of the stories says, "He was a 32-degree Fahrenheit."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #mock turtle #turtle
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May 10, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From On the Beam Workbook, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #long neck #1940s #surreal #serpentine #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1900s #illustration #extinct #dodo
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Taytay's Tales by Elisabeth Willis De Huff and illustrated by Fred Kabotie and Otis Polelonema, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fable #fox #native american #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Art in Home and Clothing by Trilling & Williams, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From This Is the Life! by Goodspeed & Smith, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Wanted!  A nice, educated octopus."  From Improvement Era, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #octopus #1940s #smart animal #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #vintage hair #hair
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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 #architecture #biblical
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University'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 #spotlight #tribunal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kitty and Her Kits by Frances Crompton et al. and illustrated by Harriet Bennett et al., 1895.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #mice #crying animal #crying mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #donkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tomorrow will be Friday."  From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fishbowl
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary'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
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cats running to the sea.  From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #blood #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877). 
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Old News (permalink)
"'Scollege' is the art of self-expense."  From Indiana University's 1916 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A wide-awake rose girl."  From Indoor and Outdoor Handicraft and Recreation for Girls by Lina & Adelia Beard, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #flower #living toy #rose
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Old News (permalink)
"Even a total abstainer may look at a glass of wine ... but not when it is really love's champagne."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1935.
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#champagne #abstinence #teetotalism #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Mr Negative says ..."  From Wid's Daily, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #film reel
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May 9, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bluet flowers.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #flower #1930s #illustration #bluet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Powder of zernment."  From Improvement Era, 1938.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Colorado College's 1918 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #animal attack #vintage yearbook #yearbook #up a tree
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Unicorns (permalink)
From The Dragon and the Unicorn by A. A. Attanasio.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #dragon #unicorn
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Progressive party bull moose.  From the Duluth Herald, 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 #political cartoon #moose
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't be afraid of your child!"  From Why Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage headline #advice #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke University's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #castle #burma
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Old News (permalink)
From Put What Where? by John Naish.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #soup
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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 #mythology #native american
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlham College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elephant #clown #vintage yearbook #yearbook #circus
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Today's moment of existential angst is from Dark Shadows.  In parts one, two, three, and four, we saw how Dark Shadows beat Seifeld to be the first show about nothing. 
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#loneliness #emptiness #existentialism #isolation #dark shadows #nobody there
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the College of William and Mary'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 #pipe smoker
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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 #haunted house #davy jones #pirates of the caribbean #home alone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Tennessee State University's 1979 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #oz #pill
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

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The chorus, too, do a great deal of screaming and rushing about, but you don't mind that so much after you have heard them sing. [Benchley]

***
[Comic snappers! This is Benchley writing about the stage adaptation of The Young Visiters.]
"Many really childlike lines are spoiled by the addition of snappers."
***

[More Benchley attached, plus silly ads. (And I didn't realize lawyers were already officially funny in 1920--funny enough to warrant a dedicated "Lawyers'" issue! I'll watch out for it.)]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 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 #monster #fairy tale
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May 8, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child Life in Literature: A Fourth Reader by Blaisdell & Blaisdell, 1900.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fish #1900s #illustration #salmon
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How to compassionately respond to J. K. Rowling crying over the death of a character.
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia #j. k. rowling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Think-and-Do Book to Accompany More Friends and Neighbours, 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 #rabbit #1940s #illustration #earless
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #cow #1960s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Canada wanting more."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#canada #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties, written and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1858.  We previously saw this version.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #illustration #nursery rhyme #pudding #poem #1850s
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Sundials (permalink)
From The Sun Dial by Austin Dobson and illustrated by George Wharton Edwards, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's glowing dog is from the Duluth Herald, 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 #dog #glowing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Crown Diamond of the Believers' Tree of Life by Bora ben Elazar, 2013.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #sun #aura
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Fortunately some penguins arrived."  From Chatterbox, 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 #penguin
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"You're giving me the jitters!"  From Improvement Era, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the North Carolina College for Women's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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#vintage illustration #ship #phoenician
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#witch #vintage photo #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture-Play Magazine, 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 #fire #painting #warmth
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1932 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #twins #shakespeare #vintage yearbook #yearbook #holding hands
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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 #peacock #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #monster #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand Magazine, 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 #magick #occult #smoke #conjurer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1901 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #ghost #cat #vintage yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Why the supernatural sends most people into panic."  From Reality Magazine, 1938.
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#occult #supernatural #vintage headline #headline
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May 7, 2025

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 #piano #puppet #1900s #pianist #musician #illustration #living toy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The first word is always ...

• something of a psychological hurdle
• the hardest to learn
• the best word
• lost
• a verb, a command
• printed with large letters  and all kinds of wood-cuts 
• a word of mourning
• Mayday
• on the first line
• 'come,' not 'go'
• chosen
• the word that is stressed
• repeated
• capitalized
• God's
• accented
• an adjective
• a color or a shade
• the instruction code
• 'welcome'
• a blasphemy against some incontestable truth
• spoken
• a word of judgment
• replaced by the second
• 'hear' not 'read'
• indented
• the same
• the reality of the misery
• the menu name
• the predicate
• the hardest to speak
• right
• treated as a title
• remembered
• translated into English as if it were definite
• the genitive form of a personal name, and a word like ‘stone’ or ‘grave’ must be understood before it
• my last word
[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See Bullet Lists.]
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#bullet list
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dominion Language Series I by Daniels, Hall, Matthews & MacKenzie, 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 #pied piper #rat #1930s #musician #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A collage of stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From By the Roadside by Dunn & Troxell and illustrated by Nell E. Hukle, 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 #1920s #dandelion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Building My House of Health by Jessie Lummis, 1927.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #1920s #illustration #vegetable people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Changes All Around Us by Craig & Baldwin, 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 #fish #1940s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Modern wizardry to thrill."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1950.
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#wizard #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #horse #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"Wotan rites in marriage.  The ceremonial of sun, water, fire and forest was followed.  There was also a complicated ritual involving clay dummies and the mingling of the blood of the contracting parties by punctures in the arm."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#marriage #wedlock #vintage headline #paganism #wotan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Book Four by William H. Elson & Edna R. Kelly and illustrated by L. Kate Deal, 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 #sequoia #giant tree #hollow tree
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #reading #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Cats by Charles Henry Ross, 1868.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #wildcat
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1924 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #castle #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wind Wagon by David Cory and illustrated by P. H. Webb, 1923.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hercules
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington State University's 1947 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #two headed #four arms
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Old News (permalink)
"What are you doing with the difference?"  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage ad #question mark #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Lasell Junior College's 1928 yearbook.
* Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In and is available from Amazon.com.
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#vintage illustration #ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #bird #sparrow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A wolf in the crystal ball.  From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #crystal ball #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nick Carter Weekly, 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 #horse
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May 6, 2025

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #indie comedy #horror comedy #the phantom a.d.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 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 #medieval #fashion #vintage fashion #thirteenth century #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travel By Air, Land, and Sea by Hanson Hart Webster, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Do and Learn Book To Accompany The Little White House by Ousley & Russell, 1948.  Related: The Minimalist Coloring Book.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #duck #illustration #truck #anti-coloring
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Old News (permalink)
From Wartburg College's 1923 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly #butterfly net #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #living toy #yarn doll #yarn ball #knitting needle
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Old News (permalink)
"One woman delighted."  From the Duluth Herald, 1910.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #groundhog day #1970s
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From Chatterbox, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From American University's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Such Nonsense! by Carolyn Wells, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella #fish #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oklahoma A & M College's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #singing #moustache #vintage women #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The City of the Dagger and Other Tales of Burma by H. H. Keely and illustrated by Christine Price.
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#vintage illustration #tied up #burma
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Nothing makes much sense anymore.  Nothing at all."  From Dark Shadows episode 430.

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#dark shadows
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From The Old Line, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man #hansel and gretel #candyland
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Marion College's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bridge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #fairy tale
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Carnaby Castle Curse, by PJ Fitzsimmons:

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Hallowit's doughy countenance took on a pained expression, like an otherwise innocent brioche with a guilty secret.

***
[re. someone taking credit for someone else's achievements]
"Bit of a liberty."
"Big as the statue thereof."

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"I'm perceived by the gallery as comic relief, a sort of slender and sober Falstaff."

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"What secret little picnics?" asked Ivor. "No one mentioned anything about secret picnics?"
"That's because they were secret."

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"Oldest trick in the book, Inspector." I was guessing a bit, at this point--there may well be older tricks. I haven't even read the book.
***

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From St. Nicholas magazine, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #bear #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Frankfort Pilgrim College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #clouds #yearbook #jesus #biblical #1930s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Billy tries to delay matters."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1960.
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#vintage headline #headline
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May 5, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #through the looking glass #anthropomorphism #vintage book #book #chess #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children of the Dawn by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #boat #caveman #illustration #prehistoric
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Progressive Road to Reading, Book Two, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #camel #illustration #jackal #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Bow-Wow and Mew-Mew by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Rebecca Chase, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #1900s #illustration #cat and dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #body language #stick figure #1920s #illustration
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We Are All Snowflakes (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #illustration #snowflake
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Old News (permalink)
"People in the train who heard the howling of the wolves."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#wolf #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Piedmont College's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories From the Faerie Queen by Mary Macleod and illustrated by A. G. Walker, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #knight #animal attack #lion
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"I got the whole deal all arranged."  From Santa Clara College's 1958 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #cigar #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"Stop dreading."  From Why Magazine, 1953.
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#dread #vintage headline #headline #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #peacock #hybrid #human headed
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Gateway, 1979.
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#ghost #cemetery #graveyard #vintage photo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Western Illinois State Normal School's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #monkey #yearbook #organ grinder #musician
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1954.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Francis College's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #cursed photo #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Table legs, from the rare A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning-Sanders and illustrated by Robin Jacques.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #legs #table legs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"This is the place.  Stand still, my steed, let me review the scene, and summon from the shadowy past the forms that once have been" (Longfellow).  From Oklahoma A & M College's 1938 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #cowboy #poem
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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 #peanut #street vendor
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Old News (permalink)
"Of the smiles we left behind."  From Berea College's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #1970s #nostalgia #toy #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heavens by Amedée Guillemin, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #saturn
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May 4, 2025

Old News (permalink)
Slippers strewn about, sooty fireplace untended, out till midnight ... Cinderella finally apologizes.  From Youth's Companion, 1923.
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#cinderella #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #croquet #illustration #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Robin Hood, illustrated by Edwin John Prittie, 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 #bow and arrow #robin hood #1920s #archer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Crow versus sparrow hawk: which do you wager for the win?  From All About Animals: Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #crow #animal fight #illustration #sparrow hawk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Am I a dancing bear?"  From Frightful Plays by Charles Brooks, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #bear #handstand #talking animal #dancing bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Footprint of the Buddha," in The Open Court, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #foot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Virginia Wesleyan College's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #lying #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand #fingers crossed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Phil May's Illustrated Winter Annual, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #jester #smile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She wasn't invited because she wasn't on the telephone."  From The Bombay Chronicle,  1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #telephone #uninvited #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From West Tennessee State Normal School's 1924 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knowledge #horse #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #torch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Queen Titania's Radio Fairies by The Sandman, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #fairy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From James Millikin University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Platterland by Rob Hunter.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Swarthmore College's 1888 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #oil lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas magazine, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #zoo
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #facing the wrong way #facing backward #who's who
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Be sure you're right, then go ahead; but don't spend so much time making sure you are right that you never get around to go[ing] ahead."  From The Kodak Magazine, 1920.
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#advice
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Fun names from a couple of mystery short stories:

In "Victoria Pumphrey," by H. C. Bailey, we have, in addition to the title character, a firm of solicitors called Priddle, Finch and Pollexfen; and a town called Babraham Hoo.

In "The Starting-Handle Murder," by Roy Vickers, we have a Lionel Anstruther Tracington Cornboise.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's picnic with a goat is from Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #goat #picnic #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
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#vintage illustration #1860s #ladder #illustration #barn
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May 3, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fort Wayne Sentinel, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #shoe #illustration #rich and poor #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #sparta
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #triangle #1920s #illustration #radish #top
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Old News (permalink)
"And other things which may be true."  From The Omen, 1998.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Old News (permalink)
"The red and green spectacles.  Curious illusion at a theatre."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage headline #3D #headline
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1954.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #flies #illustration #ladle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wabash College's 1952 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage yearbook #sherlock holmes #yearbook #question mark #magnifying glass #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Fairy Foxes, a Chinese Legend, told in English by Mrs. Archibald Little, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #china #boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #flapper
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Old News (permalink)
"Do our souls come back and live in other bodies?"  From The Book of Today by Arthur Brisbane, 1924.
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#reincarnation #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1929 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #bridge #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The 'Trinity' bed of state, consisting of 'three in one,' in which the entire family, the attendants, and higher servants slept during feudal times."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #bed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1958 yearbook.

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

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#moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1950s #interior moon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Technocrats' Magazine, 1933.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #robot #vintage magazine #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1921 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #knowledge #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes (Routledge, 1877).
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#vintage illustration #owl #nursery rhyme
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ameliaranne and the Green Umbrella by Constance Heward and illustrated by Susan Beatrice Pearse, 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 #beard #pipe smoker #1920s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #sphinx #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1916.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #merman #daydream #fishtank #illustration #1910s
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May 2, 2025

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 #1920s #pig #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Parody analog horror meets 1970s tropes (like pet rocks, lava lamps, disco music, bell-bottom pants, mirror balls, and of course mood rings) in the web series Grave Mood Rings. It pokes fast fun at classic slow-moving Gothic soap operas like Dark Shadows and the Canadian series Strange Paradise. In addition to a vampiric Viscount, a castle is home to a groovy Doctor (a phlebotomist, naturally), a jolly housekeeper with her own laugh track, a werewolf Vicar, and an arch-nemesis riddler wearing a Sphinx mask. Corny wordplay, the occasional bizarre sing-a-long, and haunted doughnuts punctuate the proceedings, in the tradition of the sketch comedy of MadTV, Kids in the Hall, and SCTV.  This episode was written by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt.
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#WTF #video #grave mood rings #indie comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #smoke #magic trick #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A sprouting acorn.  From The Outdoor Book by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Clara E. Atwood, 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 #acorn #1920s #illustration #seed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Stage and the School by Katharine Anne Ommanney, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration #vocal tract
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #middle ages #1400s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A cat can not play this game."  From Toys At Play by Ketchum & Rice and illustrated by Hart, 1932.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #illustration #living toy #toy
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Old News (permalink)
"Infinity — mere figment of brain.  Time and space are finite and begin and end with each universe."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
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#infinity #vintage headline
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Staring Into the Depths (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1917.
[The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #pit #staring into the depths
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #silhouette #poseidon #king neptune #trident
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, 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 #ape #animal attack #tables turned #tarzan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The breath of the gods is felt on every pinnacle and reflects our every mood."  From Wheaton College's 1948 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #weathervane #vintage yearbook #yearbook #wind #wind god #deity
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #donkey
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
The Skulls of 13's secret code.  From Purdue University's 1897 yearbook.
* Learn more about Presumptive Conundrums at Amazon.com.
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#skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret code
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watson's Magazine, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #sisyphus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Concordia University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"Tired, irritable, nervy."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1952.
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#vintage ad #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Stroll before Sunset, by Rachel Ferguson:

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"About the title: I've come to the conclusion that The Eternal Triangle is a bit obvious. What price The Temporary Triangle?"

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The perfect play would consist entirely of first acts. [On the whole, I'm inclined to agree!]

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that hydra-headed monster whose surname is Technique
[SURname!]

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"And they tell me I am the rudest woman in London."
"I say, what fun!...I mean, it must be quite wonderful to be the somethingest of something; the rest of us only get sick of being the nothing of anything."

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"And then, take another instance--" The figures retreated, while their host, who had not desired to take the first one, muttered anew.

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[Re. the disorientation of seeing one's dramatic manuscript as a professional typescript for the first time]
It was, for instance, unnerving, to see one of the Duchess's best epigrams at the foot of page forty-seven, when in the original manuscript she said it in the middle of page sixty-three....

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"We must get away and celebrate it," Mary discovered, "somewhere where one's mind has elbow room."
[...]
"Pity the Academy isn't on, it's such a good place to talk something else in."
"The Tate? The Wallace?"
"I can't find my way there, I've tried twice, and now I'm sulky."

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"There's an old bird who catches the same train as I do and makes the same joke to me....and if I chuck the job, I've left that end loose by doing him out of his joke."

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"He said that quite apart from the slightness of their acquaintance he shrank from any course which would, however indirectly, place him in touch with her once more."
Mary smiled. "He is a scream, isn't he? One can just hear him shrinking from courses."

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"I often think of all the good jokes that are going to be made that we can't even imagine and that we shall never hear."

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"Have you ever thought that some people have their counterparts in music? Flyte's a Bach fugue, satisfying and exact, yet somehow baffling because except to the expert ear he isn't quite music."

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"You can't win, in psychology. The customer is always wrong."

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"He's a lonely chap though he'd probably deny it by diagrams."

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By the time the butler served dessert, their spiritual elbows were on the table.

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[Are You a House Name?]
Was there a Croyle at all, or was he a letterhead and trade name?...Hadn't he actually glimpsed the fellow once? But that might have been his partner? Or a dummy put there in perpetuo? Yet it had gone when he opened the door...dummies can be removed, but they are also seldom members of The Garrick...
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #lizard #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1909 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #potato #1900s #tables turned #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (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 #crocodile #violin #musical animal #fiddler #1890s #illustration #dancing animal
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May 1, 2025

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 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 #cat #puss in boots #illustration #hollow tree #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 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 #bird #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Number Stories Work-Book 1, by Findley, Studebaker & Knight, 1946.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #1940s #illustration #living toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 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 #dancing #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Nothing like rubber.  Shall we walk on it?  One step toward a silent world."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1929.
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#vintage headline #headline #rubber
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers by John Edgar and Morton Edgar, 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 #vintage diagram #egypt #pyramid #1920s #diagram #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Picture-Play Magazine, 1920.  To see if those growls are spelled correctly, see Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #animal attack #wild dogs
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Some things are not what they say, but what they seem to be."  From Davinci magazine, 1975.
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#seeming
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of the South's 1988 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #eye #magnifying glass #vintage man #1980s #lens
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herald, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #foot #bigfoot #big foot #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Western Ontario's 1944 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #literate animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A wolf-follower of Odysseus in a Greek comedy.  From Masks and Demons by Kenneth Macgowan, 1923. 
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #wolf #wolfman #werewolf #hybrid #greek #1920s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1956 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #inkblot #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From What a Girl Can Make and Do by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard, 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 #elf #ornate capital #letter a #corn
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Old News (permalink)
"Pussy cats and chemicals."  From Ohio State University's College of Medicine's 1952 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sad Fate of Poor Robin, 1870.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat #robin
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Northwestern University's 1901 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 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 #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull face #vintage yearbook #crushed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Physiognomy by Samuel Wells, 1866.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #dog #people who look like dogs
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