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, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The Elphingell cracking thunderbolts for breakfast."  From The Children's Newspaper, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Abraham Lincoln.  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book Six, 1936. 
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes of the Puppet Stage by Madge Anderson, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From We Can Read Mr. Whiskers by Gerard, McInnes & McLean, 1962.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's how to prevent a widow from serving herself from an untouched first dish.  From Etiquette by Emily Post, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1935.
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Old News (permalink)
"Dying, acts as if seeing ghost."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 1923.  (So many inaccuracies in this book, but then again history books have always offered the most fiction.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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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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Old News (permalink)
"A mouse is quite nutritious."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1966 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #dove #ax
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1911 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #living dead #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1966.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Knight and Barbara by David Starr Jordan, 1899. 
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1939 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #eye #magnifying glass #1930s #vintage man #man #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Typo gremlins from The Aberree, 1960.
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May 30, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Travels of Puss-in-Boots, Jr. by David Cory, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #cat #puss in boots #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore by Julian Harris Salomon, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #native american #1920s #shoe #illustration #moccasin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The F-U-N Book for Canadian Boys and Girls by Mabel Guinnip LaRue and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #castle #robin #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #anthropomorphism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1932.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Northeastern University's 1950 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #initiation #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #pan pipes #goat legged #faun
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A very questionable basketball team.  From Winthrop University's 1916 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #basketball #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"No one we know."  From The Purple Parrot, 1947.
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#vintage illustration #public transportation #strangers
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1914 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #knight #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"'I do not know' proves to be favorite answer."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#agnosticism #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University'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 #fallen soldier #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#silhouette #antlers #deer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Dog versus elephant: which do you wager for the win?
"Don't worry about little things."  From Indiana University's 1896 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #elephant #dog #chased #animal fight #advice #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Real Fairy Folk by Louise Jamison and illustrated by James M. Gleeson, 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 #butterfly #caterpillar
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May 29, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Meadow Folk's Story Hour by Prudence Gruelle and illustrated by Nell Hatt, 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 #anthropomorphism #cat #picnic #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1900s #illustration #height #tall #ad #taller
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1938.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #chicken #bunny #duck #crying animal #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1963.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #serpent #snake #bull #1960s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Eddie: "I'd face death for you."
Bess: "Why did you run from that dog?"
Eddie: "It wasn't dead."
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #dog #injured
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #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 #fairy #will-o'-the-wisp
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Watch proceedings enviously from the windows."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #dancing #yearbook #stick figure #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Cookies are for friends."  From The Instructor, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #vintage headline #headline #cookie
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #witch #cauldron #macbeth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1890s #illustration #three witches
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Old News (permalink)
"Do you live in a haunted house?  A house haunted by the ghost of your departed beauty?"  From Shadowland, 1922.
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#vintage ad #haunted house #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace College's 1982 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cake walk #illustration #cakewalk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A squirrel leaps upon a sleeping cat.  From The Cats' Arabian Nights by Abby Morton Diaz, 1881.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington College's 1935 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chef #1930s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
The uncertainty of "uncertainty" spelled with a P.  From North China Herald, 1933.
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#old news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Primer by James Hiram Fassett and illustrated by G. A. Harker, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #pig #three little pigs #illustration #hay #1910s #straw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers First Reader by McIntyre & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #1900s #hen #illustration #chicks
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #headache #migraine #1930s #advice #suffering
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrew's College Review, 1921.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #headless #yearbook #1920s #balloon #illustration #no face #invisible man #balloon head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Another Singing Time by Coleman & Thorn and illustrated by Ruth Carroll, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #autumn #sheet music #1930s #illustration #falling leaves
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May 28, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Small Creatures by Couchman, MacBean, Stecher & Wentworth, 1977.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #shepherd #illustration #little bo peep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #bird #1920s #illustration #plover #golden plover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mammoth Story Book, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #witch #fairy tale #1900s #illustration #oven #hansel and gretel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #snail #eyeglasses #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Texas State Normal College's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flute #musician
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #sea lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #smoke
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Old News (permalink)
"Beware of the waiter.  He may also be a sleuth spying on patrons."  From The Duluth Herald, 1914.
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#vintage headline #waiter #spy #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Horizon, 1948.
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#vintage illustration #snake #cobra #snake charmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Our moon turns only one side of its face toward the earth—the other is invisible."  From Other Worlds Than This by Elena Fontany and illustrated by John Dukes McKee, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #airplane
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #kaleidoscope #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #alice in wonderland #caterpillar #illustration #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #warrior #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Emblemland by John Kendrick Bangs and Charles Raymond Macauley, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #lobster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Minds?  Mere open books, with all their turns and twists.  Thoughts?  Read 'em by your looks— we are psychologists."  From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #psychology #illustration #poem
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1930.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Saskatchewan's 1955 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stethoscope #nurse #illustration #1950s
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Old News (permalink)
"I make friends with wild beaver."  From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals's Our Dumb Animals, 1953.
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#vintage headline #beaver #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #whale #illustration
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May 27, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1932.
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#vintage illustration #swan #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #spider #illustration #nursery rhyme #poem #little miss muffet #1910s #substitute
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #horse #1940s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea1987.
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#vintage illustration #chinese #tree #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Busy Little Brownies by Nataniel Moore Banta and illustrated by Dorothy Dulin, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #elf #starry night #night #1920s #endpapers #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #occult #invention #spiritualism #spirit drawing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Franke Reade Weekly Magazine, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #flying machine #cliff #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's the sword of truth from Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #monster #truth #sword #hydra #many headed #art
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"One thousand ghosts hike themselves away to the city."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.  See Of Feeding & Caring For Sheet Ghosts.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #sheet ghost #vintage yearbook #procession
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Old News (permalink)
"Return of the moustaches."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#mustache #vintage headline #moustache #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end #conductor #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #key #ferris wheel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The adage is confirmed: "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear."  From The Film Daily, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #pig #illustration #purse #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mountain #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #bird #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Christopher Cricket On Cats by Anthony Henderson Euwer, 1909.
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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #cheerleader
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I don't dislike the fact that I'm being mistaken as a plant."  From How to Eliminate My Teacher (2020).
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#japanese #hybrid #plant people
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Seattle Pacific College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bird #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Internet Magazine, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #devil #angel #good and evil #vintage headline #illustration #angel and demon #headline #moral dilemma
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May 26, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From On We Go by McKee et al., 1949.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man #1940s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Basic Goals in Spelling 7 by Kottmeyer & Ware, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #idol #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1915.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #poverty #marriage #illustration #1910s
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The Right Word (permalink)
"I saw the angelic guards from earth ascend, grieved they must now no longer man attend."  From Manual and Diagrams to Accompany Metcalf's Grammars by Carl Garrison, 1901.
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#angel #sentence diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1944.
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#vintage illustration #elf #bird #1940s #illustration #lily pond
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"This space is now empty.  It could be yours.  The age of pain has passed."  From The Gateway, 1992.
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#vintage headline #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
The edition on the right lost two of the stars of its constellation (sad).  From A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra, 2013. 
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#book design
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage men #cross dressing #drag
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Read the conditions, contrast home and happiness with death."  From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The hidden rat is discovered.  From Chatterbox, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #rat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1910 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"It will never be 1896 — or 1969 — again."  From The Improvement Era, 1969.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Elon College's 1966 yearbook.

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#vintage ad #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage headline #ladder #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Eve's Daughters, illustrated by Arthur Learned, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #popping cork #tiny woman #bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg University's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Thirteen-fourteenths gives a bow.  From The Book of Betty Barber by Maggie Browne and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1914.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From KPFA Folio, 1968.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"A dream of dancing on a grave."  From Zolar's Book of Dreams, Numbers, and Lucky Days.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
"ALl hail, thou glorious sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1920.
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May 25, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#oz #gate #lock #1910s #vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage book #book #native american #illustration #totem pole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Via BUFORA Newsfile, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #ufo #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #angel #cat #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #heart #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1892.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"A unique tacky dance."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #clown #vintage yearbook #dancing
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Queen of Spades.  She's calling me."  From Dark Shadows episode 788.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #printing press
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Century 1890.
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#religion #vintage illustration #cherub #crown of thorns
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #wolf #vintage yearbook #bow and arrow #yearbook #archer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1909.  
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlam College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #public speaking #illustration #then and now
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shinto, The Way of the Gods by William George Aston, 1905.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caveman #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Punch’s Prehistoric Peeps by E. T. Reed, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #jester #lizard
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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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 #anvil
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #constellation #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #navy #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Come and have tea with me!"  From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#crab #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #duck #illustration #1910s
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May 24, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #bear #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, From Hobbies Weekly, 1938.1938.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #carriage #diagram #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #donkey #1970s #illustration
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #magician #magic trick #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mouse versus elephants: which do you wager for the win?  From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #mouse #animal fight #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #lyre #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy by Grillot De Givry, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #hand #palmistry #diagram
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wizard, 1931.
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#donkey #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Rockford College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and illustrated by George H. Boughton, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #rip van winkle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #fur coat
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Old News (permalink)
"Not a face, it's a farce."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Toledo's 1964 yearbook.

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#doom #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #sign
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #beard #wildman #1880s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Thornton Junior College's 1954 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #six arms #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rhymes of a Child's World by Miriam Clark Potter and illustrated by Ruth Fuller Stevens, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #crushed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shadowland, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #caricature #1920s #illustration #making faces
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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 23, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #vampire #WTF #video #grave mood rings #horror comedy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Holly.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #holly #berry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Home Words for Heart & Hearth by Charles Bullock, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Pumpkin seeds changed into pumpkins."  From Elementary Science by Grades Book Three by Ellis Persing and Elizabeth Peeples, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #pumpkin #illustration #seed
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Following the links until you forget where you began is a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon."  From Internet Magazine, 1995.
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#web surfing
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #lion #hunter #hidden picture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A face looked back at me" -- a haunted painting from Harper's, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by Mary Mapes Dodge for St. Nicholas magazine, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #yarn #knitting #woman #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
"This'll make you whistle."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#whistling #vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aesop: Five Centuries of Illustrated Fables, selected by John J. McKendry.
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#vintage illustration #horse #lion #aesop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Hardin-Simmons University's 1977 yearbook.

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#skull face #vintage yearbook #skull mask #1970s #vintage man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book, or Adventures Among the Knitting People by Jane Eayre Fryer and illustrated by Jane Allen Boyer, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #yarn #yarn ball
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #playing cards #1920s #vintage men
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Old News (permalink)
"Buried face down.  When exhumed the body was face upward."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#burial #coffin #living dead #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Hurray!  We made it!"  From North Bay Teachers' College's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1962.
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#vintage headline #claustrophobia #nowhere to run #headline #nowhere to hide #hemmed in
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Goshen College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #horse #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cowboy #illustration #bucking bronco
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The first fear."  From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fear #cat #pitchfork #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Park College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #treasure chest #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The New Comic Annual for 1831 by Thomas Hood, 1830.
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#vintage illustration #dandy #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1911.
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#cat #vintage photo #1910s #photo
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May 22, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #1930s #posture #illustration #manners
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #1900s #illustration #no face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Red Herring, April 1994.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Round-the-World Jingle by Charlotte C. Davenport, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #cathedral #england #canterbury
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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Old News (permalink)
"Fanny was fussy."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cactus Center by Arthur Chapman, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #bird #seagull #wave
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A vision of 3000 A.D.  From Barnard College's 1984 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #future #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Passions under control."  From Mental Disease by Peter Michaels.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1919 yearbook.

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Old News (permalink)
From Fate Magazine, 1956.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #barbarian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Cat in History, Legend and Art by Anne Marks, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lafayette College's 1909 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #devil #good and evil #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #angel and demon
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to shift to an alternate depiction from within the book.
From The Wreck of the Red Bird by George Cary Eggleston, 1882.

From The Wreck of the Red Bird by George Cary Eggleston, 1882
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Muskingum College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #writing #1930s #typewriter #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of the Earliest Times by Barker, Grimm & Hughes and illustrated by Mary Alice Stoddard, 1936.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Natural History of Aquatic Insects by L. C. Miall 1895.
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May 21, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1960s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#turtle #tortoise #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Pinocchio by Emily Gray, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #hanged man #hanging #pinocchio #illustration #living toy #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss In Boots by Josiah Wood Whymper, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Rainbow Bridge, from The Canadian Readers Book II, 1924.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #cat #mouse #cat and mouse
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Carnegie Institute of Technology's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #baby
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Old News (permalink)
From Toike Oike, 1953.
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#vintage headline #headline #busy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lamaism by L. Austine Waddell, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #magick #buddhism #scorpion #lucky charm
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's Egyptian hunting dog flying toward an obelisk is from Southern Illinois University's 1971 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #vintage book #old book #obelisk
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1939.
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#word puzzle #palindrome
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Old Line, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #doctor #meat #1930s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #goddess #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fox #rooster
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1927 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Handbook of Phrenology by Cornelius Donovan, 1870.
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #tiny man #puritan #bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1897 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #silhouette #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #telescope #illustration
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May 20, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #cat #1920s #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1918.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #egg #1940s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Alpine Architektur by Bruno Taut, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #mountain #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From In Poppy Land by Mabel Louise Fuller and illustrated by Elizabeth S. Tucker, 1890.
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Le Vocabulaire par la Méthode Naturelle Séri 1 by Les Frères du Sacre-Coeur, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #french #illustration #beach
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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 #thread #sewing #caveman #illustration #prehistoric #spinning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #monkey #illustration #rhesus monkey
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Great Pyramid Passages and Chambers by John Edgar and Morton Edgar, 1923.
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Unicorns (permalink)
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Monster smuggle alleged."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1908.
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#monster #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Film Daily, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #marionette #1930s #tiny men #puppet master #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1970 Ole Miss yearbook.

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#mask #vintage yearbook #rabbit #yearbook #1970s #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Beautiful rainbow-coloured powders that will give one a real grip on the world!"  From Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen by F. Anstey, 1803.
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#vintage illustration #makeup
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Otterbein College's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #winged horse #donkey #illustration #winged donkey
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#burial #coffin #living dead #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #jester #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #curtain #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Don't be a cabbage."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1962.
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May 19, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #eclipse #tea #1900s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #mythology #warrior #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #silhouette #spider #spider web #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1930s #jumprope #illustration #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1898.
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#cat #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Last American by John Ames Mitchell, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How could a seance parlor floorplan be applicable to one's own living space?  The surprising answer is within Seance Parlor Feng Shui.  From Psychic Science, 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 #seance parlor #seance #illustration #floorplan
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Gannon's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #devil #pitchfork #vintage yearbook #halo #yearbook #tweedledee #tweedledum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Improvement Era, 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 #deer
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Detroit's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #1960s #boxed in #vintage men #boxed up
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1917 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giantess #vintage yearbook #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1891.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #glove #kitten
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Presbyterian College's 1922 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #satyr #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faun #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Nothing was accomplished."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#the more things change #vintage headline #history repeating
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1926 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #making faces
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio 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 #flashlight #illustration
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Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Love times life minus self equals repulsiveness.  From How to Eliminate My Teacher (2020)
* Learn more about Presumptive Conundrums at Amazon.com.
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#japanese #equation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Seattle Pacific College's 1928 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #log cabin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buddhism by Charles Prebish.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #buddhism #buddha #illustration #modular shelves #cubbyhole
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Neither one nor the other, but a mockery of both."  From Butler College's 1899 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #dancing animal #dancing bear
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May 18, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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#prof. oddfellow #video #penetralia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Live Dolls in Wonderland by Josephine Scribner Gates and illustrated by Virginia Keep, 1912.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #living toy #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.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mustache #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 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 #map #1890s #illustration #kansas
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1921.
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#lion #1920s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1897.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Old News (permalink)
"Coyote survives 60-year war."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1951.
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#coyote #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Central Washington University's 1907 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Our Lady of Harlem, from Harlem Friendship House News, 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 #goddess #halo #bird #virgin mary #harlem
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A Rose is a ... (permalink)
From If I Should Die Before I Live by Joseph Lomusio, 1989.
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#death #rose
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana Technical College's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Child-Library Readers Primer by William Elson and Lura Runkel, 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 #winter #bird
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Calvin College's 1977 yearbook.

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

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#effigy #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallowe'en #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #sirius #outer space #vintage diagram #cosmos #map #solar system #diagram #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Going from "what we took him" to "what we made him" to "what he will be degenerated into."  From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #de-evolution
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Old News (permalink)
Just in time: Shadows Lifted, or Sunshine Restored In the Horizon of Human Lives by George Wheelock Grover, 1894.

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#light and dark #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary College's 1936 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #donkey #1930s #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The wind's shoes.  From Around a Toadstool Table by Rowena Bennett, 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 #boots #wind #winged shoes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing's 1942 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #nurse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Savage Folk by John MacLean, 1896.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #native american #1890s #illustration #blackfoot #tepee
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May 17, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic and Make-believe, edited by John McInnes, 1962.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #elf #anthropomorphism #1960s #illustration #animal friends
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Swallows.  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 #bird #swallow #1930s #telephone pole #illustration #telephone wire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1915.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #modern art #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1935.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #crab #diagram #1930s #illustration #toy
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Surprises, edited by McInnes, Belfry, Collins, Gerrard & Ryckman and illustrated by Smith & Bagshaw, 1960.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #1960s #illustration #basket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 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 #merman #1920s #under the sea #illustration #imaginary animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 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 #horse #1920s #proverb #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 #bunny #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's triple ouroboros is discussed in The Bestiary of Christ by Louis Charbonneau-Lassay, 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 #uroboros #ouroboros #symbolism #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Costumes of the water nymphs."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1890s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Ritz-style dinner makes a man fight better!"  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#vintage headline
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Motion Picture Classic, 1928.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #monster #horror
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"It's part of being twenty-one.  Each room still has four walls, but it's part of being twenty-one."  From Michigan State University's 1969 yearbook.

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

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#vintage headline #headline #twenty-one
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Moving Picture World, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #monster #cyclops #1960s #television #tv
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Old News (permalink)
"Hell was never like this."  From Ohio University's 1950 yearbook.
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#hell #vintage photo #vintage headline #vintage men #men #headline #1950s #photo
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
"3 colors to choose from: black, white, & neon."  From The Romulus News, 1991.
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#color #vintage headline #headline #neon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Applied Drawing by Harold Haven Brown, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #design #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #bear #native american #illustration #up a tree #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cat #puss in boots #1920s #illustration #fire engine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Canadian Savage Folk by John MacLean, 1896.
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May 16, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Small Creatures by Couchman, MacBean, Stecher & Wentworth, 1977.
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#vintage illustration #insect #1970s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

Recording artist Spacey Panda interviewed and profiled Grave Mood Rings:

https://spaceypandamusic.com/inside-the-strange-genius-of-grave-mood-rings/

Imagine a Gothic soap opera from the 1970s collided with a midnight electronica musical and decided to keep rolling. That’s Grave Mood Rings: a surreal comedy that manages to be both hilarious and haunting, filled with layers of theatricality and sound. Across its many episodes, it somehow delivers fifty-two original theme tunes and song interludes, making it one of the most musically ambitious parody series I’ve ever seen.

I connected with Craig Conley, the show’s co-writer, director, cinematographer, and producer. Alongside his creative partner Michael Warwick, who plays every character himself, edits the episodes, and co-produces the music. They’ve built something completely unique: a surreal hybrid of Gothic melodrama, experimental music, and tongue-in-cheek performance art. It’s campy and clever, but also surprisingly heartfelt.

I wanted to dive into how such an unconventional world is made, what drives their creative energy, and how they keep the ideas flowing episode after episode.


By my count, there are 52 unique theme tunes and song interludes in your absurdist comedy series spoofing slow-moving Gothic soap operas of the 1970s. Is Grave Mood Rings out to beat the 170 distinct versions of the Seinfeld theme song? And are you actually a band disguised as a TV series, like The Monkees?
It’s spooky that you asked that, because we are, in fact, out to beat Seinfeld’s record! And yes, we are a band in disguise. In our episodes, we often credit musical elements to our band Neons Gone Mad, but it’s all just me and my partner Mike, since we’re merely presenting music and vocals in the guise of different Grave Mood Rings characters. The Monkees, indeed, have been a big influence on the show and even in our attitude toward life.

How do you handle creative blocks?
Funny thing, but over 200 episodes into Grave Mood Rings, we haven’t had a single creative block! I can credit two factors. We teamed with a co-writer who is both highly creative and dependable, and he delivers scripts on a regular basis, so we’ve consistently had production material waiting in the wings. Also, my own background as a daily newspaper reporter trained my brain to write on the spot for looming deadlines, and I’ve honed that skill to the point that even a single random word can generate an entire Grave Mood Rings script. This happened recently when horror hosts Bad JuJu and J Bone asked for a special episode to include in their cable show, and all I had to go on was that the theme was “tea.” What does tea have to do with vampires in Gothic soap operas? That was my challenge, but the benefit of my experience kept it from being difficult. My philosophy has always followed my magic teacher Eugene Burger’s great secret behind how to perform any illusion you can imagine: “Just do it anyway.”

You’ve worked with so many bands from around the world that it’s clearly an important aspect of Grave Mood Rings. You have also recorded several covers. How do you handle rights issues?
I continually pursue collaborations with musical acquaintances, to keep enthusiasm flowing. We love incorporating guest instrumentals into our shows, most often with new lyrics that I write to accompany the music. Whenever I discover a new band with a song whose themes or tone fits in with the vibe of our show, I reach out to see if a collaboration would be possible. I either secure direct permissions or purchase licenses via Songfile.

With your series set in the 1970s, the era of shows like Dark Shadows that you parody, the Disco genre is obviously up for lampooning, but presumably good-naturedly?
Yes, we do make good-natured fun of Disco, a genre we happen to love. Without doing the math, I might very well have been “around” in Disco’s heyday, with the Bee Gees being a special favorite. But admittedly the musical bits of Grave Mood Rings are just as likely to sound like 80s and 90s electronica – genres that are easier for us to play than Disco – which we can get away with because our vampire’s manor house features a time-bending staircase like the one in Dark Shadows.

You and your partner play which instruments?
We were both classically trained on the piano, and Mike also studied saxophone. Since the mid-90s, we’ve both focused on electronic music. But we’re not techies, to this day we have only the cheapest 2-octave Casio keyboard. In my childhood, my mom played Wendy Carlos LPs, surely instilling an appreciation for synthesizers.

For those who haven’t caught your show on Roku, The Monster Channel, or YouTube, where else is it available?
All of our episodes, including ones not yet public on YouTube, can be seen on our main website, MysteryArts.com. There’s a playlist there, too, with all the songs by our vampire character and his minions.


What fascinates me about Grave Mood Rings is how it exists somewhere between a music project, a Gothic soap opera, and a surreal art experiment. They created a universe where every detail feels handcrafted and slightly haunted.

Their work makes you smile, but it also makes you feel. What starts as a joke somehow ends up being a celebration of imagination itself, messy, funny, and full of heart. It’s the kind of creative madness that only comes from people who truly love what they do.

Thank you, Craig Conley and Michael Warwick, for sharing your wonderfully strange universe and for reminding us how imagination can twist the familiar into something unforgettable.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Animal Life, A First Book of Zoology by David Starr Jordan & Vernon L. Kellogg, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who had a big fall?"  From Practice For Jack and Janet Primer by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's yawning donut and talking creampuff are from St. Nicholas, 1893.
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Old News (permalink)
"Fellows exist in a void of non-identity."  From the University of Detroit's 1968 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1926 yearbook.

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Old News (permalink)
"Bodies cast off at death.  Like worn-out suit of clothes, says Sir Oliver Lodge."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1907.
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From King Longbeard, Or Annals of the Golden Dreamland by Barrington MacGregor and illustrated by Charles Robinson, 1897.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration #hat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1930 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Purple Parrot, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Easy Growth In Reading Workbook to Accompany I Know a Secret by Hildreth, Roy, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #circus #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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May 15, 2026

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrew's College Review, 1910.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Companion Book for Day In and Day Out by O'Donnell, Scharschug & Carey, 1941.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Daily Mirror1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1923.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1934.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Tony Sarg Marionette Book by F. J. McIsaac, 1921.
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Old News (permalink)
"Paradox is my middle name."  From The Omen, 2000.
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#vintage headline #paradox #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Workbook to Accompany Mac and Muff by Hildreth, Felton, Henderson & Meighen, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kids and The Apple by Edward Carlson, 1983.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Motley Muse by Harry Graham, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #jester #quill pen #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #paddling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #butterfly #chariot
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lehigh's 1887 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skeleton #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #illustration
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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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#cat #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #insect #illustration #bug catcher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#vintage ad #italy #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #balancing act #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Together, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #manners #bedside manner #hospital #sickroom
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
"Sh— secrets!"  From the College of William and Mary's 1921 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Appleton's Second Reader by Harris, Rickoff & Bailey, 1878.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #laundry #1930s #illustration #washing #homemaking #washboard
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May 14, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wanderfolk in Wonderland by Edith Guerrier and illustrated by Edith Brown, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by Mrs. John King Van Rensselaer, 1912.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of a Cat by Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #ape #monkey #1870s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Junior English in Action, Book Two by Tressler & Shelmadine, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #english #1930s #airplane #illustration #language #words
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Children's Paper, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #dog #winter #rabbit #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Young Nimrods in North America by Thomas Wallace Knox, 1881.
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"Drifting at sea for centuries."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1898.
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#giant #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Herlad, 1913.  
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #foot #bigfoot #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlam College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #golf #1930s #illustration #then and now
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1900 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Watchers of the Camp-Fire by Charles G. D. Roberts and illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the rare Magic, Witchcraft, and Curing, edited by John Middleton, 1977.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Texas Wesleyan College's 1953 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #giant #vintage yearbook #yearbook #texas #illustration #tall #moustache #1950s #ad
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to reveal the variant interior illustration. From Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.

From Strange Maine, illustrated by Peter Farrow.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley College's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration #inquisition #Torquemada
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Do This Do That Wookbook by Thorn & Irwin, 1977.
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May 13, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I am going to call graciousness the queen of the fairies."  From Wee Wisdom, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Laughing Lion by Adelaide Pearson and illustrated by Winifred Bromhall, 1921.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1918.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #1960s #illustration #blimp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
English sparrow.  From Our Bird Friends and Foes by William Atherton DuPuy and illustrated by George Miksch Sutton, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #capital a #letter a #bird #1920s #illustration #sparrow #english sparrow
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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 #1920s #bee #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Living in the Age of Machines by Wilson, Wilson & Erb, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #bear #caveman #illustration
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From How the Old World Found the New by Barnard and Tall, 1929.
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Old News (permalink)
"In tobacco were the salaries of preachers paid in the early days."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#tobacco #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Winthrop University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #flowers #violet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Improvement Era, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #falling #swept away #tidal wave
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1914 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tarzan the Magnificent by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puck's Broom by E. Gordon Browne and illustrated by Kathleen I. Nixon, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #phonograph #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Microbe wrestling."  From The Bell Ringer, 1981.
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#vintage headline #wrestling #headline #microbe
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1931 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Workbook for The New Friendly Village by Mabel O'Donnell and illustrated by Dorothy Todd, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #cat #fox #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1907 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monk #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hooded figure #1900s #ymca #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Book, 1915.
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May 12, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Early Experiences by Roy Richards, 1972.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #1970s #illustration #shadow clock
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawing Made Easy by Edwin George Lutz, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #horse #drawing #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#corset #cat #vintage ad #vintage fashion #1900s #vintage illustration #ad #fashion #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cat #1920s #illustration #kitten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #bird #1860s #illustration #poem
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #rain #rainy day #umbrella #illustration #1910s
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Old News (permalink)
"The ants that ate a gorilla."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#gorilla #animal fight #vintage headline #headline #ant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The flesh was cold."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1901.
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#death #vintage illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Perhaps she didn't hit that last note.  From Winthrop University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #singing
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Old News (permalink)
"[Bi]cycles possessed by the devil."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1937.
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#devil #bicycle #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1919 yearbook.

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#sphinx #vintage yearbook #greek
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Every shadow of the night can suddenly come alive and kill her."  From Dark Shadows episode 823.
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#shadow #horror #paranoia #dark shadows
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Old News (permalink)
"Invisible beings in this and other worlds."  From The Seer, 1931.
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#occult #vintage headline #invisible #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 1909, via UpNorthMemories.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #insect
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Oberlin College's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #feather #yearbook #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"I then pine most for thee when stars are in the quiet skies."  From The Essentials of the English Sentence by Elias H. MacEwan, 1900.
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#sentence diagram #starry night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas' 1921 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bull #illustration #bull fighter
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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 photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #1960s #glowing tree #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Centaurs Gatherum, 1996.
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#vintage illustration #centaur #vintage magazine #illustration #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1899 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #scissors #yearbook #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #illustration
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May 11, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From With Taro and Hana in Japan by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #japan #1920s #illustration #doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #tailor #oz #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Yoga by Selvarajan Yesudian & Elisabeth Haich, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #aura #esoteric #meditation #yoga #illustration #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Jumble Book by David Cory, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #cow #drawing #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vajra Bodhi Sea, 1977.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars of Al-Sufi, 15th century.
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Old News (permalink)
"All children love the rainbow."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage ad #rainbow #vintage headline #headline #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1926.
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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 The Art of Pantomime by Charles Aubert, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #mouth #illustration #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Clothing for Moderns by Mabel Deane Erwin, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #etiquette #1940s #posture #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals, 1905.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Motto: "Stick to Mother Earth."  From Hampden-Sydney College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #walking #motto
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #over one's head
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Old News (permalink)
"Disastrous day for black magic."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#occult #black magic #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #twins #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #seeing double #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's bottled radio is from 73 Magazine, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #radio #bottle
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman.
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#cat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Two Story Mittens by Aunt Fanny, 1863.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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May 10, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #witch #1960s #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Daily Mirror1915.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #socks #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Hobbies Weekly, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration #toy
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#shakespeare #hamlet #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #duck #1920s #illustration #craft
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You made me what I am today.  I hope you're satisfied."  From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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#vintage illustration #skull #magic trick #illustration #talking skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Strand, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #puss in boots #costume #1890s #cat costume #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Simple Jography by Oliver Herford, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #welsh rabbit #welsh rarebit #illustration #poem
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"What is Scotland famous for?  (Me thinking out the above question.)"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #monster #fairy tale
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Old News (permalink)
"Teacher seeks the unknown."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1956.
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#vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Today's full-page question mark is from Winthrop University's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Dame Fortune feels her way.  From Der Bärenspiegel, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #fate #blindfold #giant #fortune #lady luck #fortuna #giantess #1940s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #typewriter #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Chicago Normal College's 1926 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #tiny people #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Before and after.  From Black and White Budget, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #before and after
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Seattle Pacific College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #waterfall #vintage yearbook #vintage book #yearbook #book #1920s #mountain #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
One of the many tools we use to research our posts.  From Internet Magazine, 1995.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #virtual reality
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed image goes unexplained in Emory University's 1972 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #cursed photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration #then and now
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Tales From Silver Lands by Charles J. Finger and illustrated by Paul Honoré, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #witch #crystal ball #illustration
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May 9, 2026

Puzzles and Games (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
Answers: LAND, LANE, LINE.
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#word chain #word puzzle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Tadpole.  From Outdoor Visits by Patch & Howe and illustrated by George Richards, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #frog #1930s #illustration #tadpole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Book About Mary and Bill by Felton & Meighen, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #toys #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pinocchio, The Adventures of a Marionette by Carlo Collodi, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #beard #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Ulysses by Charles Lamb and illustrated by Otho Cushing, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #map #illustration #ulysses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Making the moon shine more brightly.  From The New People and Progress, Teacher's Edition by Gray et al., 1955.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #the people could fly
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Preparatory Book to Accompany Wide Wings by Gates, Huber & Peardon, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #teacup #cup #crack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He saw a merry little sun fish."  From Little Ugly Face by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud & Miska Petersham, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #native american #fish #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"These are my eyes.  I am thankful I can see everythink [sic] and I love to read."  From Together, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #eyeglasses #eyes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #vintage illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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The Right Word (permalink)
From Wilson College's 1915 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #symbolism #code #1910s
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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 #gargoyle #vintage headline #illustration #water #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #reading #books #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #library #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Here I is!"  From The Film Daily, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1920s #vintage hollywood #hollywood #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ghost #vintage yearbook #napoleon #yearbook #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"The truly wise person kneels at the feet of all creatures and is not afraid to endure the mockery of others."  From Earth First! 2002.
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#vintage illustration #owl #wisdom #advice #mysticism #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #eyes #window #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Wonderful Wishes of Jacky and Jean by Mary Dickerson Donahey, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #merman #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #hybrid #yearbook #human headed #dog man
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Old News (permalink)
"Under the starry canopy."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1952.
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#starry night #vintage headline
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May 8, 2026

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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#grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cues for You by Mildred Graves Ryan, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1930s #posture #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #fish #1900s #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #cat #milk #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1960.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #1960s #advice #illustration #ad #capstan
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Old News (permalink)
"The most valuable substance in the world: chums."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Today and Tomorrow by Hildreth et al., 1940.
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#vintage illustration #cow #cowboy #1940s #illustration #lasso
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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 #architecture #babylon #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Microcosm, 1980.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #illustration #1980s #magazine
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"The girl she left behind."  From College of Industrial Arts' 1917 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Silent Music by William Johnston, 1976.
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#vintage illustration #reflection #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Hundred Best Animals by Lilian Gask, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #horns #deer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Drawings by John Leech, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #bull #fishing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's Mercury taking a dive is from The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #mercury #diver
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #rowing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #electrocuted #radio #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the United States Naval Academy's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #parrot #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pirate #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Teacher's Manual for Prang's New Graded Course in Drawing for Canadian Schools, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #swan #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Muskingum College's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camera #1930s #photographer #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Under the Maple Tree by Zoe Meyer and illustrated by Florence Liley Young, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hedgehog
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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. 
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #vintage book #book #1920s #illustration
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May 7, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #donkey #oz #1900s #illustration #donkey man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cubby in Wonderland by Frances Joyce Farnsworth, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #beaver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Canadian Readers Book I, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #cow #1920s #sheep #illustration #farm #fence
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Old News (permalink)
"Those who cry for the moon.  Give them the sun."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1928.
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#sun #moon #vintage headline #advice #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life on a Medieval Barony by William Stearns Davis, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #medieval #illustration #beggar #twelfth century
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by F. Lilian Taylor, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #turtle #tortoise and the hare #1890s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This is a true story."  From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Frank C. Papé, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #king and queen #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Puss In Boots and Reynard the Fox by Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick and illustrated by Louise E. Norris, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animals #before and after #animal fight #illustration #lion king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From My Practice Book For Me Level 2 by Thorn, McCreary-Juhasz, Smith, Munroe & Richmond, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #gingerbread man #illustration
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Sundials (permalink)
From Before Noon by Ramón José Sender.
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#vintage illustration #sundial #vintage book #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's typist on a flying horse is from Picture-Play Magazine, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #flying horse #writer #1920s #typewriter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From New Physiognomy by Samuel Wells, 1866.
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#vintage illustration #physiognomy #dog #people who look like dogs
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Ohio State University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Asleep among the dead."  From Occult Review, 1929.
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#occult #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #body language
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana State University's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #binoculars #illustration #athletics
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From 73 Magazine, 1970.
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#vintage illustration #radio #illustration #burned #injury
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From State University of Iowa's 1904 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #cupid #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales For My Children by Charles Kingsley and illustrated by Helen Monro, 1855.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #ship #illustration #heron #1850s
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May 6, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #padding #personal protection #1910s
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #pillow #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Basic Studies in Science: All Around Us by Wilbur Beauchamp, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #nest #bird #egg #1940s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Ancient and Medieval World by Lester Burton Rogers, 1949.
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#vintage illustration #map #roman #illustration #mediterranean
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border by Walter Scott and illustrated by John MacFarlane, 1908.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Children hallucinate imaginary people walking past History Hill.  From Where Our Ways of Living Come From by Howard Wilson, 1940.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Marionettes by Edith Flack Ackley and illustrated by Marjorie Flack, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #puppet #marionette #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Faust by Goethe and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #occult #Faust #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"When the kangaroo was bigger, taller than an elephant."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Life of a Foxhound by John Mills and illustrated by J. A. Shepherd, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fox
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Old News (permalink)
"In a hurry!  Slow down ... in fact stop."  From Current Sauce, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #vintage headline #advice #illustration #running #headline #in a hurry #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #caveman #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College's 1916 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #tennis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #long hair #braided hair #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nursery Rhymes, illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #cow #bagpipes
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1932 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #greek #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Back in the dreamtime."  From The Australian Women's Weekly, 1966.
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#vintage headline #dreamtime #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary College's 1936 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A giant's thumb ring.  From Chatterbox, 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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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard College's 1911 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dog #vintage yearbook #yearbook #native american #airplane #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"We are ready to play bears."  From We Can Read The Toy-box by Gerrard & McInnes and illustrated by Connie Jefferess, undated (c. 1960).
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #playing
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May 5, 2026

Presumptive Conundrums (permalink)
Here's today's bushel basket of apples counting unpicked fruit.  From Mathways 2 by Bates, Morham, Seim & Drake, 1974.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #1970s #illustration #apple #math
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Western Comrade, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #money #hand #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #leopard #circus #bear #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1923.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird #faces in things #flower #1920s #flashlight #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#wolf #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 #1920s #rude awakening #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"I was in the ever-lasting pits of hell."  From Dark Shadows episode 882.
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#dark shadows
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From First Lessons in Nature Study by Edith Patch and illustrated by Robert Sim, 1926.
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#vintage photo #1920s #deer #photographer #fawn #photo
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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 #fish #fisherman #1960s #illustration #herring
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
'"I'll make-believe I am happy,' said the scarecrow."  From We Can Read Magic and Make-Believe by Gerrard & McInnes, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #1960s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Boys & girls find Arcadia even in 1953."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1953.
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#vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adventure, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wake Forest College's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bicycle #finis #vintage yearbook #yearbook #the end
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Old News (permalink)
"The doodlewinkle bug may be worth your while."  From The [Thornton] Courier, 1961.
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#insect #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Salem College's 1968 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #balloon #not pictured #ball #photo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Adventures of Akbar by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Byam Shaw, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cannon #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Centenary College's 1990 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #puppet #nun #1990s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I like cold water."  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 #fish #illustration #living toy #toy
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
As we noted previously, we've seen figures cut out of photographs, but too often we forget that the cutout reveals the figures "light body" that continues to thoughtfully dwell in the scene.  From Armour Institute of Technology's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #cutout
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Dryshod warnings which are never heeded."  From The Diary of a Goose Girl by Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #duck #1900s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Pennsylvania College for Women's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #archer
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May 4, 2026

No News Is Good News (permalink)
Stills from Grave Mood Rings, courtesy of Dare-g on Tumblr.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neil, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #oz #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lilliput Lyrics by William Brighty Rands and illustrated by Charles Robinson (1899).
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#vintage illustration #1890s #illustration #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Youth's Companion, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #hot air balloon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's witchy owl chair.  From Griset's Grotesques, Or, Jokes Drawn on Wood by Tom Hood and illustrated by Ernest Griset, 1867.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #witch #spider #chair #1860s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mr. Whiskers, edited by John McInnes, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #cat #dog #1960s #illustration #up a 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 #illustration #prehistoric #paleozoic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Newspaper, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #1920s #pickle #illustration #poem #jam
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mother Nature's Children by Allen Walton Gould, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fish #illustration #ophiocephali
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Old News (permalink)
"Psycho-analysing lions."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1938.
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#lion #vintage headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Cactus people populate this endpapers map from the University of Arizona's 1953 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #map #yearbook #endpapers #1950s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1924 yearbook.
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#cat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Letters From a Cat by Helen Hunt Jackson and illustrated by Addie Ledyard, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chatterbox, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #wind #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lasell Seminary's 1925 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #juggling #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Hiding from evil spirits."  From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1905.
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#vintage headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' Our Dumb Animals magazine, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #making faces #love and hate
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wheaton College's 1938 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #hourglass #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Astounding, 1956.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wittenberg College's 1949 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #cartooning #illustration #making faces
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #insomnia #sleepless #future #eye #vigilance #surveillance society #never sleep #ad
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May 3, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Magic and Make-believe, edited by John McInnes, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #leopard #rabbit #lion #caged animal #zoo #1960s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Practice For Tip, Tip and Mitten, The Big Show by McKee, Harrison, McCowen & Lehr, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #cat #illustration #kitten #1950s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #1910s #pedestrian
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Story of Everyday Things by Arthur Train, Jr. and illustrated by Chichi Lasley, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #covered wagon #conestoga wagon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1945.
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#vintage illustration #public speaking #1940s #illustration #school
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Old News (permalink)
"The sacred eel.  Where the children feed it."  From The Children's Newspaper, 1924.
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#vintage headline #headline #eel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #bear #1930s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
Hunting peasants.  From Basic Goals in Spelling 8, Teacher's Edition by Kottmeyer & Ware, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #dog #hunter #1960s #illustration #peasant
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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 #illustration #smart animal
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Old News (permalink)
"'Rejected' art but not dejected artists."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#artist #vintage headline #rejection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'I'd have taken gold, every time,' cried the goblin."  From St. Nicholas, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #goblin
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Purdue University's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage yearbook #1920s #vintage men #cross dressing #drag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Duluth Evening Herald, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #goat #ad
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Old News (permalink)
"Rather than be less, cared not to be at all."  From Lasell's 1898 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #milton #quotation #vintage headline #paradise lost #headline
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
"Don't blow your own horn when you can get some one else to blow it for you."  From The Cynic's Rules of Conduct by Chester Field, 1905.
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#horn #advice #delegation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Indiana University's 1895 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gambling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #playing cards #card game #poker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you subsist on victuals and drink.  From Echoes from Storyland, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #food
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #basketball #hit in the face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Masks, Heads, and Faces by Ellen Russell Emerson, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #mask #thunderbird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Art Teacher by Pedro J. Lemos, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #artist #1930s #painter #illustration
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May 2, 2026

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lifting a coin is only as difficult as one makes it.  From Science Experiences with Home Equipment by Carleton John Lynde, 1938. 
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#vintage illustration #money #vintage diagram #diagram #1930s #illustration #coin
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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 #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas Songs, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #train #locomotive #illustration #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Historic Costume by Katherine Morris Lester and illustrated by Ila McAfee, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #france #1700s #french #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Are we losing our Sunday?"  From The Children's Newspaper, 1942.
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#vintage headline #headline #sunday
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Blottentots, and How to Make Them by John Prosper Carmel, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #inkblot #1900s #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"3 generations of an Eldorado family are fascinated with the unknown."  Via UFO Newsclipping Service, 2003.
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#unknown #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Southern California's 1910 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #theatre #illustration #dramatics
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #seeing stars #concentration
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Old News (permalink)
From Together, 1967.
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#vintage illustration #aging #brain #vintage headline #illustration #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Fables of Aesop, told anew by Joseph Jacobs, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #cow #lion #aesop #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane University's 1908 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #gambling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #alcohol #illustration #bottle
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Going-To-The-Sun by Vachel Lindsay, 1923.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #deity #sun god
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Nebraska Wesleyan University's 1930 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Turned his back to the sea."  From Beautiful Joe's Paradise by Marshall Saunders, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lodge Goat, edited by James Pettibone, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #skull #1900s #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Armour Institute of Technology's 1925 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pipe smoker #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Long Ago by John Waddell, 1933.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #native american #1930s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Amrita Bazar Patrika, 1961.
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#vintage illustration #india #tiger #1960s #illustration #endangered
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Baylor University's 1939 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #anthropomorphism #bear #1930s #illustration #letter c
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's turtle birthday cake.  From Treats and Treasures by McInnes et al., 1964.
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#vintage illustration #turtle #1960s #illustration #cake
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Today — May 1, 2026

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
The Crafty Cowboy has honored Grave Mood Rings with paper dolls.
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#paper dolls #grave mood rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Graphic Drawing Books, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #drawing #beet #illustration #vegetable #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Daily Mirror, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Our Kings and Queens, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #king #illustration #charles the second
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"When he attempts to do a whole family he is generally prostrated."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #artist #painter #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Advanced Course in Homemaking by Maude Richman Calvert and Leila Bunce Smith, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #1930s #illustration #closet #cupboard #homemaking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Trésor des Jeunes Conteurs by J .E. Poirier, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #1900s #illustration
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Another new word—smog," but they don't have it in Dallas.  From Southern Methodist University's 1928 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #smog #dallas
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Chandamama magazine, 1956.
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#vintage illustration #deity #hindu
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Saint Mary's School's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration #vintage automobile #automobile
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Old News (permalink)
"They didn't show."  From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1941.
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#vintage headline #stood up
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
You can extract from alembic or jar
From the physical basis of black coal
Oil and ointment, wax and wine
And the lovely colors called aniline
You can make anything from a salve to a star
If you only know how, from black coal tar.
Punch magazine, 1884
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#coal #poem
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Earlam College's 1934 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #baseball #illustration #then and now
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Moon Lore by Timothy Harley, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #moon #man in the moon #hare #illustration #sakyamuni #1880s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Number Stories Work-Book 1, by Findley, Studebaker & Knight, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Heidelberg College's 1956 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration #maypole
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Children's Book, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #flowers #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From David Lipscomb College's 1927 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1920s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Alexandra Readers, Second Book by McIntyre, Dearness & Saul, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #angel #resurrection #biblical #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From St. Andrew's College Review1944.

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#vintage illustration #gambling #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #illustration #betting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wee Wisdom1932.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #rabbit #mushroom #1930s #illustration
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