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June 30, 2018

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Here's a circular, dead black line that means not nothing but rather zero.  From Zero the Slaver by Lawrence Fletcher, 1892.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Revealed -- the cause of migraines.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buket, 1906.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #censer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's nymph devoured by a satyr is brought to you by Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #satyr #nymph #eaten alive #devoured
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1893.   See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Over the Hookah by George Frank Lydston, 1896.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
We agree -- dump all the tragedy of the book in the prologue.  From A Study in Temptations by John Oliver Hobbes, 1893.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #barber #hairdresser #helmet
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Disguised as a Christmas Tree (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #beard #umbrella #candles #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #giant #giant hand #illustration #giant arm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #pen and ink #horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A diamond dropped from her mouth."  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #diamond #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #vintage automobile #sail car #car boat #amphibious car #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Otto Schön.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #occult #demons #ghosts #illustration
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June 29, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if art draws you in.  From Dumskii Al'manakh, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #frog #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You can still like dogs if you learn How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat people #dog headed #cat headed #cat lady #dog man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #star goddess #shooting star #star people #star god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #ghost #occult #spirit #spiritualism #seance #god
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Today's umbrella hair is courtesy of The Judge, 1893.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #big hair #men's hair #vintage hair #umbrella hair #hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#religion #vintage illustration #deity #shrine #worship #virgin mary #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #poison gas #skull and crossbones #war and peace #illustration #gas mask #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #mountain #skiing #mountain god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #golf #ball in the face #golf accident
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Tío Clarín, c. 1867.  Courtesy of the Biblioteca Rector Machado y Nuñez.
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#vintage illustration #beard #pipe smoker #illustration #strange pipe #devil pipe #demon pipe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"You had better leave my grandfather's head."  From Scottish Fairy Tales, Folklore, and Legends, illustrated by Geoffrey Strahan, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #cemetery #skeleton #graveyard #skull #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vampire #vampire bat #1940s #illustration #nosferatu #searchlights
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The curse of too many lamp-posts.  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #drunk #hallucination #three shadows
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
This piece is entitled "The Consultation."  The healing power of laughter!  We note the eavesdropping nun.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #conversation #nun #surveillance #eavesdropping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1957.
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#vintage illustration #genie #muse #underground #buried
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #skull #cauldron #giant skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #cartomancy #fortune telling #card reader
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

Fom Made Up to Kill, by Kelley Roos:

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[(Presumably) Fictitious Theatrical Productions dept.]

Four years ago she had snagged the ingenue lead in a play called Gibbon's Glade.

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The man who stood there seemed to me the tallest man I'd ever seen. His parents, I thought inanely, must have been Basil Rathbone and a skyscraper.

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[Personified Punctuation dept. The character being alluded to here is a nosy elevator operator.]

Fortunately the day operator was on and not Jinx, the human interrogation point.

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[One- (and Two-) Upping Clichés dept. (Also "Toast Is Funny" dept.)]

He came in looking as though he'd just eaten a flock of canaries. On toast.

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“Philip Ashley couldn’t have stolen a scene from a snowdrift.”

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Immediately Jeff gave me the high sign, so high it almost went completely over my head.

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Bonus: An extraneous intra-library slip of paper within this inter-library-loaned book bears the intriguing legend ***,S.

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June 28, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #piano #pianist #art #piano coffin
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
The slim pink volume on the left side of the shelf is our How to Be Your Own Cat.  We're honored to be part of the magical library of U.K.-based artist Clare Simmonds!

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Accessorizing with a dog, while a ghost looms in the background.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #dog #fashion #accessorizing #weird fashion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog for the money corset to rain coins upon your collection plate.  From Skomorokh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #money #coins #corset
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #satan #cherub #good and evil #cupid #love and the devil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #monkeys #syringe #trojan horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #knight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #letter a #cow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #otherworld #fairies #vision
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #mother earth #illustration #globe costume #world costume
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #dog #illustration #windshield wipers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales Collected in the Odenwald by Johann Wilhelm Wolf, 1855.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #animals #illustration
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A Fine Line Between... (permalink)
From Ulk, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #two-faced #illustration #passive aggressive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #armor #personal protection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He touched the lock with the little black stone."  From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #black stone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Wiener Revue, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #angel #shackles #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #walpurgisnacht #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #illustration #hat #guard dog
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We once got directions from Death, who sent us down a very narrow one-way road in St. Ives, Cornwall.  When the road finally turned into a steep stairway down a mountainside, it was so difficult getting the car turned back around that we seriously thought we'd have to appeal for an airlift rescue.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #death #hooded figure #shortcut #handicapped #getting directions #this way
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #cartomancy #card reader
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June 27, 2018

Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
A retroactive lifetime goal: to have one of our magic spells recorded onto a "lurid Jell-O green" flexidisc in the latest edition of Fiddler's Green magazine!
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#magic spell #fiddler's green #independent magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How to dispatch a demonic piano.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #piano #demonic #evil piano #demonic piano #piano demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #smoke rings
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #faces in things #monocle #sun face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #angel #skulls #parade float #poison bottle #poison costume
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #sun #sun worship #solar deity #sun god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fakir #pierced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #almighty dollar #money worship #chasing money #love of money
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A snowboard of nails.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #bed of nails #illustration #winter sports #fakir #snowboarding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The transformation."  From Fairy Tales and Legends of Many Nations by Charles B. Burkhardt, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #fairy tale #hybrid #donkey head #illustration #half man #half animal
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Precursors (permalink)
Before the blue pull of Matrix fame, there was a blue syringe.  From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #illusion #illustration #blue pill #the matrix
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #amusement park #swing ride #chair swing #swings
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #merfolk #umbrella #merman #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #violin #carousel #swinging #spinning #swing ride #circle of life
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Germania repelling Drusus.  From Barbarian and Noble by Marion Florence Lansing, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #spirit #illustration #germania #drusus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.

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#vintage illustration #juggler
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow, 1869.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #boat #illustration #cove
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June 26, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Boikot, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #worse for wear #bandaged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Adam and Eve tempted by two other trees in the Garden of Eden, one with imported smokes and the other with the latest hats.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #temptation #garden of eden #adam and eve #family tree #tree of knowledge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #wizard #telescope #astrologer #1890s #astronomer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #horse #halo
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Moments of doubt."  From Welcome Guest, 1860
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#vintage illustration #doubt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #rabbit #porcupine #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #pigs #illustration #motorcycle #sidecar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #money #magician #magic trick #coin trick #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He began to pound away and make the medicine."  From Belgian Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #bunny #illustration #medicine rabbit #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #soviet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giant skull #illustration #dinosaur bone #dinosaur skull #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #shadow #dancing #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #falling #down the stairs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By R. v. Hoerschelmann.  From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #illustration #feeding time
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #masquerade #cheer up #accosted by clowns
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She saw instead of her own face in the glass, the face of her dead Aunt Harriet!"  From The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spooky #haunted mirror #spirit #ghost story
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
A dance of the future.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #all fours
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From With a Bare Bodkin, by Cyril Hare:

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"There are moments when I feel that 'nothing' is the most beautiful word in the language."

[This is only accidentally related, given the 20th-century source above; but I recently read an analysis of lost double entendres in Shakespeare--lost because of pronunciation changes since the Bard's time. The one I recall related to "nothing" having been pronounced the same as "no thing," which in turn could refer to female anatomy. So here we can juxtapose the "divine monosyllable" with the "most beautiful word in the language."]

***

Damn Phillips! Damn Edelman! Damn the Control and everything connected with it, including the Blenkinsop file!

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June 25, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to wonky-eyed Cardinal Copia from the superb band Ghost.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.  (The portrait of Cardinal Copia in our collage is by maxime_draw69.)
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#vintage illustration #ghost #cardinal copia #cardinal #tobias forge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"How on earth can you expect a fellow to do a picture, when this sort of thing goes on?"  A sketch from Charles Rawson's diary, 25 August, 1871.  Courtesy of the State Library of Queensland.
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#vintage illustration #cat #drawing #artist
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1908.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #water spirit #elemental deity #water god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #mask #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #orange #pet walker #stripes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #india #hinduism #ganesh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Some mysterious skeletons."  From The Strand, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1934.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #dark and light #1930s #black and white
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Where is the spoon?"  From Every Where magazine, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #spoon #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #mustache #conductor #illustration #moustache #maestro
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #cat #clown #illustration #after the party
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Round the Yule Log, Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The candy animals exercising."  From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #candy #illustration #candy animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Today's pipe-smoking dice courtesy of L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #dice
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"Jesus' use of exaggeration is not surprising.  What may be surprising are some cases where it seems he wants to be taken literally." —Herbert Basser and Marsha B. Cohen, The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions
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#jesus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #decapitated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #skeleton #bones #bone salesman
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June 24, 2018

This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #merfolk #fish #under the sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A rugby critic, 1936.  Courtesy of the State Library of Queensland.
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#vintage illustration #faces #facial expressions #cartooning #rugby
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #cat headed #cat man #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #peace dove #peace float
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #battle #living toys #toy soldiers
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #frog #flat on his face #fallen down
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #execution #cannon #human cannonball #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swinton's Book of Tales, 1880.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fairy tale #jack and the beanstalk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #decapitation #onion #illustration #vegetable hell
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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 #giant #fairy tale #illustration #sleeping giant #jack and the beanstalk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Field of Clover by Laurence Housman, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #down the well
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #death #coffin #illustration #ship coffin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The latest thing on wheels."  From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #penny-farthing #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Crystal ball burns holes to record sunshine."  From Popular Mechanics, 1928.
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#crystal ball #weird headline #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #armor #personal protection #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #punch bowl #hallucination #inebriated #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fox #bunny #narrow minded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #syringe #doctors #size matters
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #illustration #siren's song
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June 23, 2018

Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Someone should write Guile, Stealth, Patience—and a Small Amount of Cheating.  (The phrase is from Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde.)
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Clint Eastwood.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #clint eastwood
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Before the invention of the "talking stick," gags were employed.  From Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #don't speak #gagged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #birds #bird clothing #birds in clothes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 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 #giant hand #hand costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #little man #monkey man
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #flying pig #illustration #flying cow #cow angel #pig angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #illustration #musical car #military music #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #tiny man #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"Such a storm has never raged in our day."  From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #windy day #faces in things #wind god #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monsters #yokai #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #strange animal #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Medusa's head, from Die Muskete, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #medusa #decapitated #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #frog #spider #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #mad scientist #tested on animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #stripes #zebra people
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #lifeguard #drowned
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From St. Nicholas, 1879.
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#vintage illustration #insect #grasshopper #illustration #angry
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June 22, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 #cat lady #cat woman
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Addams Family's cousin Itt.  From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #addams family #cousin itt #hairy man
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Thirteen Guests, by J. Jefferson Farjeon:

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Usually he was rather good at conversation, but now he could not even talk of cabbages and kings without putting his foot in it.

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She always closed her eyes in company when she thought, so that the company would know she was thinking. Sometimes she cheated, and opened her eyes without having thought at all.

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"I have written a detective novel," replied Bultin. "Also, the notice of it."

[I note that this precurses our namesake Jeremy Hillary Boob of Yellow Submarine, who says he is writing a book and simultaneously reviewing it. (Also sock-puppet Amazon reviewers.)]

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A figure darted towards Kendall, like a ghost that had suddenly materialised out of a shadow and had urgent business to do before dissolving back into ethereal form.

***

It was Bultin who discovered--or who expedited the discovery of--the little glass tube in the hat's leather lining. This discovery will probably cause his own size in hats to increase.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #heaven #all-seeing eye #god #eye in the sky #god's binoculars #holy family
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #balancing act #soldier #too heavy #heavy load
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #home late
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Science House.  From Harry's Big Boots, written and illustrated by S. E. Gay, 1873.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #under the sea #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #arrows #pierced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #sea monster #illustration #mechanical dragon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #carnival #illustration #circus freak #abomination #freak show
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
"Dutch babies need no cradles."  From Popular Mechanics, 1914.
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#dutch #weird headline #vintage headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #facial expressions #housefly #making faces
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #animal attack #leopard #tiger #wild animals #pursued #run for your life
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Puzzles and Games (permalink)
A rare playing card in which one end of the figure is facing away.  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
Playing cards dealt through time -- see my playing cards gallery.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #sword #king of hearts #playing card
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June 21, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #1900s #innuendo #illustration #watering can #gardener #gardener costume #keep your pecker up
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We see this as a combination of two old sayings: "You can't beat a dead horse" and "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em."  From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #dead horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Fox-tail-generated electrical power.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fox #electrical power
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adskaia Poctha, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #fish #fish people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #horse #horsepower
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #king #harpy #human headed #giant bat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #death #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The old toad.  He lives under the stone."  From At the Open Door by Louise Robinson, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #hibernation #toad #illustration #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #museum #art gallery #sculpture #sunglasses #art
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
However many heads he has doesn't matter, for "I am the descendant of the gods, and I cannot give way before a monster like that."  From Fairy Tales from Far Japan translated by Susan Ballard, 1908.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #japanese art #dragon #sea monster #japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Got a light?"  From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #illustration #got a light
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The gooseherd plays with a golden ball."  From Harper's Young People, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #geese #illustration #golden ball
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Bühne, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #axe #illustration #amputation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sheet ghost #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"This is the time when I would rather be my shadow than myself."  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #shadow #donkey #hungry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #giant #father time #scythe #tiny man #emperor
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
"There is no danger that we shall be drowned in books."  From Pearson's, 1902.
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#books #weird news
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #anthropomorphism #pipe smoking #dog smoking
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
Every castle in the air has Candles in the Sun (by William Griffith, 1921).
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#candles #i melt with you
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June 20, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#chair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Leshii, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Chess piece furniture has historically not been very comfortable.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #chess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #painter #just look at yourself #head through
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #vegetables
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard of "sight reading" music, but here's "Braille reading."  From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #piano #sheet music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #boxing #illustration #gandhi #six arms #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Riverside Magazine for Young People, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat #illustration
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #above the clouds #fog layer
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Old News (permalink)
From Fairy Tales Up to Now by Wallace Irwin, 1918.
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#fairy tale #sleeping beauty #weird headline #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #stone tablet #god #illustration #glyphs
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From World's Fair Puck, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #locomotive #turtle #illustration #world's fair #turtle train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
She has completed Step One of How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat people #mouse #cat and mouse #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #boat #toys
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Two random horoscopes from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Ya-Hoo, 1956.
And how true those words are, even today.
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#vintage illustration #horoscope #capricorn #taurus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #frog #frog king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #tiny people #bottled ghost #bottled #perfume bottle #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Boloto, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #three headed #conjoined #siamese triplets
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June 19, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A fish out of water fights a chicken.  Which would you wager to win?  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #chicken #animal fight #farmer #fish out of water
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phrase "hippo in hell" is a Googlewhack.  Here's also a giraffe and a crocodile in hell.  From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon #crocodile #alligator #hell #giraffe #hippo
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the "changing portraits" of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #haunted painting #changing portrait
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a gambling demon from Azart, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #money #gambling #tiny men
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Mice as pom-poms.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #mice #pom-pom #moce
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #angel #ice #snow #winter #ice skating #slipping
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #skull face #poison #skull mask
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #window display #illustration #bookstore
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
 Quoth the Raven by Hazel Adair.  (Book cover via 54mge.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Guide to Palmistry by Eliza Easter Henderson, 1893.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tree of mine, tree of mine, have you seen a girl with a willy willy wag and a long tailed bag, who stole my money, all I had?"  From More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The reflection that met his gaze fairly took away his breath."  From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Coat, by Constance and Gwenyth Little:

***

[Dubious Testimonials dept.]

"The trouble with George," Tim said critically, "is that he has no sense of humor...."

"You leave George alone," Lily pouted. "He can laugh like a hyena when he doesn't have all this on his mind."

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June 18, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It's their underwear!"  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1917. 
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #illustration #men's underwear #underwear ad #ad
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's today's Hamlet performed by snowmen.  From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Boikot, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #hell mouth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you took a book to the beach.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #reading #literacy #book lover
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"There with the punch."  From The Judge, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1932.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The struggle with the Yokai.  From Tales of the Samurai, Oguri Hangwan Ichidaiki by James S. De Benneville, 1915.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from Far Japan translated by Susan Ballard, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Care to buy a rose?"  From Jugend, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'I am the Hurrishoffer,' replied the strange animal."  From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #giant #quill pen #tiny man #little man #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The viper and the file," from Grip, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1891.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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June 17, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Tumblr.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #spooky #full moon #witching hour
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Never let the world depict you.  From The Judge, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #vintage cards #playing cards #car #cards #card
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

From Kladderadatsch, 1932.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Gundy had invented the bubble."  From The Fairy who Believed in Human Beings, written and illustrated by Gertrude Alice Kay, 1918.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to make for a hair-raising experience. From Le Rire, 1908.

From Le Rire, 1908
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dreaming #leprechaun #astral travel #illustration #out of body
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
Merfolk follow a surfing coffin.  From Irish Fairy Tales, Folklore and Legends, 1904.
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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 Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #teeth #bondage #rope #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #headache #migraine #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The wolf-charmer.  From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #wolf #illustration #wolf charmer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #modern art #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.   This will explain so many things: How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #folklore #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #twirl
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #bird man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Out of life's throbbing past / Nothing remains / Save books, where thoughts were cast" (Charles Farwell Edson).  From The Step Ladder, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #reading #books #illustration
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June 16, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Death disguised as the angel of peace.  From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #angel of death #grim reaper #mask #tarot #1900s #illustration #peace angel #tarot death
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Sonny and Cher (pictured left.  Note that Cher is singing in her portrait on the right and striking a pose in the middle portrait.)  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #painter #cher
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cat
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #high kick #soldiers #silly walks
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #winged horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #monster #logging #tree monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Half-Hours With Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #dragon #monsters #yokai #creatures #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales from All Nations by Anthony Reubens Montalba and illustrated by Richard Doyle, 1850.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Alexander Oscar Levy, 1918, courtesy of the Library Company of Philadelphia.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
How many ghosts are too many?  Here's a smattering of answers.

From "The Ghost of Clare Manor" by Charles W. Wood, in The Argosy, 1890.

From "The Rival Ghosts" by Brander Matthews, in The Best Ghost Stories, 1919.

From "Olivia's Favor, a Tale of Hallowe'en," in The Living Age, 1869.

From "Queen Mary's Ghost," in Appletons' Journal, 1875.

From Canterbury Tales by Sophia Lee, 1832.

From "Mr. Punch's Spectral Analyses" in Punch or The London Charivari, 1904.

From "The Idlers' Club" by Robert Barr, in The Idler, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Medical Pickwick, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #scythe #illustration #good night #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #streamers #party pooper #anhedonia #after the party #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Ice cream or oats?  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #illumination #light in the darkness #lamp post #streetlight
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The world / a skull.  An optical illusion from The Judge, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #bats #carnivorous
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June 15, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When the negative you're developing is becoming its own cat.  See How to Be Your Own Cat.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #dog #fashion #vintage fashion #rain gear #pet walker #rain coat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #wee folk #tiny man #never eat anything bigger than your head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #warped #melting building
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #imp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Harper's Young People, 1887.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #treehouse #family tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #drummer #faces in things #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This made the cover of The Sketch, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #animal mask #midsummer's night dream #donkey head #illustration #donkey mask #bottom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #pigs #tables turned #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #leaping #piano #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #goat #pan #pan pipes #faun #greek mythology
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #eagle #war #giant bird #giant eagle #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Primary Education, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #paper craft #valentine #illustration #hearts #paper cutting
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #space travel #anthropomorphism #man in the moon #train #locomotive #faces in things #space train #train to the moon
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Death in the Quadrangle, by Eilís Dillon:

***

"There's terrible changes here, sir, enough to make the old [college] President, God be good to him, turn in his grave."

Daly doubted the truth of this, remembering how hard it had been to induce the late President to turn in his chair, even while he was alive.

***

He was in his early forties, of medium height with nondescript, mouse-coloured hair, rather thin, and a parchment complexion which gave him an unreal appearance, like a bad stained-glass window.

***

[I Resemble That Remark dept.]

"How did you get him talking about the President?" asked Mike, fearing that Daly was about to embark on his favourite game of repeating his own witticisms.

***

[Nonsense Interruptus dept.]

She started to say:

"Nonsense!"

Then suddenly she closed her mouth tight and covered it with her hand.

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June 14, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We encountered the second picture of this set first and were quite perplexed!  From Dumskii Al'manakh, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #balloon #inflated #deflated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An artist's palette with strings.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #artist #stringed instrument
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1890.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #harpy #hybrid #human headed #alcohol #hallucination #man bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #upside down #hoop skirt
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #kick #ball in the face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A strange "feast" prepared by spirits -- nine quarters of an orange (you do the math!) and a biscuit, for someone who didn't care for oranges.  The spirits end up sucking on the oranges themselves.  From Experiences in Spiritualism by Catherine Berry, 1876.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales Collected in the Odenwald by Johann Wilhelm Wolf, 1855.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #demon #taken away
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Hypochondriacs are best prone to see ghosts.  From Rhyming Reminiscenes in Comical Couplets by Geoffrey Grin, 1826.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #pipe smoker #tiny house #portable house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #hell #cerberus #illustration #three headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1896.  See our explanation of how to tell if a mirror is haunted.  Previously, we saw this distorting mirror.
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#vintage illustration #mirror #haunted mirror #distortion #illustration #funhouse mirror #circus mirror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #frog #love or money
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #magick #monster #occult
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #costume #mermaid costume #mermaid tail
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you're that thing in the audience (see inset).  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #creature #audience
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June 13, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Boloto, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cats #three cats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Lice are doing loop-the-loops.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #big hair #lice #loops #curly hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #anthropomorphism #cat #mouse #cat and mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #animals #hunter
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1960.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Over the Hookah by George Frank Lydston, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #demon #fairy #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Two cold eyes glared up at her as though calculating the day when he would be of sufficient size to swallow her whole."  From The Saturday Evening Post, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Who are you?"  From Twenty-five Ghost Stories by West Bob Holland, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Irish Fairy Tales, Folklore and Legends, 1904.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1943.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #elephant #music #orchestra #lion #illustration #cacophony #barnyard orchestra #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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June 12, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to The Beatles.  From Al'manakh, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Illustration by Julius Klinger for Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #cats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #wee folk #indigestion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #exterminator #bug killer #caterpillar #farmer #giant insect #pestilence #insect monster #pesticide #giant big
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #paris #hot air balloon #utopia
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirits #spooky #night #wind #illustration #motorcycle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #god #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Under the Darkness of the Night by Ellen Chazal Chapeau, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #lobster #illustration #california raisin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #anthropomorphism #cat #puss in boots #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1925.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
A ghost in the shape of the sound of a drum.  From Did You Ever See a Ghost? by Robert C. V. Meyers, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A formerly run-down fox's testimonial for patent medicine.  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Ya-Hoo, 1954.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if a dark cloud has taken you from behind while an angel with a medicine bottle tickled your nose.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1921.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Black Goatee, by Constance and Gwenyth Little:

[If you want more "screwball mysteries" in your life, I might recommend this one. It could be shelved comfortably next to Alice Tilton--providing, of course, one wasn't using an alphabetical or spine-color system. (:v> Incidentally, I was mulling over the distinction between "screwball" and "zany"--my impression being, in the film-comedy world, that they are two quite different animals, the former involving hapless protagonists whom circumstances force into a comically undignified antics, and the latter involving protagonists for whom antics are "normal" behavior. So, though Tilton has been described as "screwball," I might suggest that she's sort of halfway between the two. While her characters certainly aren't intrinsically zany on the order of the Marx Brothers or Wheeler and Woolsey, it doesn't take much to prompt them into silly behavior, and they don't lose much sleep over looking silly. And I would say that this Little-Little novel is along similar lines, with the additional similarity that the various slightly kooky characters have all known each other forever or, even when they haven't, behave as if they have.]

***

"Well, I know a man--" Ed began, but wasn't able to get anywhere in telling about his man, because everyone else knew a man, also, and couldn't be bothered hearing about Ed's.

***

"What did he say?"

"Nothing. And he said it very well, too."

***

[Goat Getting: The Extended Metaphor Version]

"He wanted to get your goat, and he walked off with it under his arm."

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June 11, 2018

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How true those words are, even today.  From Lacon by Charles Caleb Colton, 1837.
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#writing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Architectural bait is more humane than poison when catching rodents and other pests.  From Ezh, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #vermin #rat #mousetrap #pest
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
In the best magic, the trick itself is only a small aspect of a grander amazement.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #magician #vintage photo #levitation #stage magic #magic trick #dachshund #dog magic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Lune Rousse, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #crying #tiny man #tears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #waiter #wait staff #bad service #difficult customer #service industry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1885.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #world #japanese #vintage japan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #queer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #gentleman's club
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #spirits #demons #ghosts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #snail #cricket #tiny violin
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Woodcut by Wharton H. Esherick.  From Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk by Mary Marcy, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #woodcut #tundra #snowing #prehistoric #mammoth #ice age #wooly mammoth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #dragon #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a haunted painting from Fliegende Blätter, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #haunted house #haunted painting #illustration #living portrait
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #money #coins #tarot #two of pentacles #two of coins #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #beard #knitting #illustration
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Postcard Transformations (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to color tint the mausoleum at Stanford.

Mausoleum, Stanford University, California
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #giant #night sky #starry night #bridge #long beard #illustration #bearded #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #rollerskates
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June 10, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Adskaia Poctha, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #witch #broomstick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Cupid on a cricket" delivers zero Google results.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #cupid #cricket
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #hybrid #dog headed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #rooster #vintage magazine #man dog #magazine #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #gas mask
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
"She dived down with him."  From The Idler, 1894.
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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 Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Drinks are served on skiis.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #butler #illustration #skiing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
National mascots on the ark.  From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"As the man continued his passes the coins visibly stirred."  From The Strand, 1908.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A crucial consideration: "There are fairies, but what are you?"  From Mopsa the Fairy by Jean Ingelow, 1869.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"It would be awkward."  From The Sketch, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #jester #whip #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He had not slept long, when a genie entered the sepulchre."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #genie #djinn #arabian nights #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From the Wilfred Plath scrapbook, c. 1928, via the NDSU University Archives.
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#vintage illustration #owl #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #king death #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1905.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens and illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1894.
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June 9, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #vintage magazine #magazine
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
For all his storytelling faculty, Pixar's John Lasseter apparently didn't know Irish lore: don't mess with the fairies.  The news article reads, "He was inappropriate with the fairies" and gave them long hugs.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)

A Weird Magick Hack for Discovering Musical Masterpieces

 

There's a weird magick hack you can use to discover more favorite music.  You've heard the Faustian stories of musicians like folk legend Robert Johnson who stood at a crossroads and sold his soul to the devil for guitar-playing prowess.  Well ...
He's not the only one, and the stories get glamorized over the years, but you know beyond a doubt that musicians get inspired, that the very word musician means "art of the Muses."  (Needless to say, the Muses are the nine goddess daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, presiding over the arts and sciences.)  When you love a musical album as a masterpiece, what's happening on a more celestial level is that the Muse who inspired that music has made a connection to your own guardian angel, spirit guide, or demonic handler.  When you don't like an album, there's no connection like that, and what invariably happens is your intellect takes over and decides that the album fails to meet your expectations or falls outside your prescribed boundaries of taste.  The problem is obvious -- you get blocked from musical masterpieces that you literally can't hear properly because the celestial streaming, as it were, couldn't go through.  But as we said, there's a hack.
The hack requires a print-out of an old mystical diagram and an attitude adjustment.  The print-out is easy, and the attitude part is easy, too, if you'll simply be open minded.  It will sound like the simplest thing in the world, but it's a thousand-year-old occult secret that gets used for psychic entrainment for the purposes of genuine mind reading and (by practitioners of black magick) using others as puppets.  The attutide is to decide in advance that you like something, understand it, and are enriched by it.  To be clear, this is not auto-suggestion -- you aren't convincing yourself of something nor are you lying to yourself.  In the case of a new musical album, you haven't even heard the content yet, but you begin by negating any negative preconceptions that might be looming in your unconscious.  You hit the "play" button with a wholehearted expectation that you're going to be blown away.  This, in conjunction with the diagram you'll print out, makes for a clear connection to the album's Muse.  To be clear, you decide to come to any album in question without negative preconceptions but also with an expectation that it's the best album you've ever heard.
The mystical diagram is like an insurance policy for making that spirit-to-spirit connection.  Wikipedia tries to demystify it by calling it an "inadvertent mandala," but there's obviously nothing inadvertent about it.  The "Indian-Head Test Pattern" is a magickal diagram for fine-tuning a channel, and like a spirit medium you're "channeling" to the otherworld in which this music was inspired.  This diagram, developed by RCA in 1939, used to appear on TV channels prior to 1970.  Your great-great-great-great grandparents will recognize it.  Print it out and place it near whatever device you use for music listening.  If you have an LP sleeve, slip the diagram into it.  If you have a CD jewel case, lay the case atop the diagram.  The key is to formally associate, in whatever way you choose, the diagram with the music in question.  This confirms to your guardian angel/demon and the Muse of the album that you are "tuned in" to discovering a new masterpiece.
What prompted us to share this magickal hack today was hearing Youtube responses to the new album by the Swedish band Ghost, Prequelle.  Some fans recognized it as the band's best work to date (spoiler: they're right!), but others filmed themselves having nervous breakdowns over how disappointed they were.  We realized that the band used a poorly-chosen magic word as their album title.  "Prequelle" looks like "prequel," and we've all seen bad movie prequels in which the writers seemingly ran out of ideas for the linear storyline of the franchise and cheated by taking everything back in time (most often entailing different actors playing the characters' younger selves).  And so fans of the band Ghost developed preconceived notions: the new album must be a step backwards, the band must have run out of ideas, the songs must be a reversal of all that fantastic music that came before.  Those fans are wrong as wrong can be, but it's easy enough to see how their minds got there.  What they need, what anyone needs, is an old mystical diagram and an attitude adjustment.  We weep (seriously -- tears!) for the Ghost fans who missed out on hearing Prequelle as the masterpiece that it is.  Just imagine how many other masterpieces are out there in the ethers, as it were, waiting for your spirit mediumship to make a connection that will enrich your life.  Sure, it sounds so necromantic, but that Indian head is waiting for you.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We doubt this Russian illustration was going for an English pun, but they're playing a game of pool in a pool.  From Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #underwater #billiards #rising waters #rising tide #game of pool
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Colorful Allusions (permalink)
You've heard of rose-colored glasses.  Here's the opposite.  However, the phrase "the world is already rose-colored" is a Googlwhack.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #eyeglasses #pince-nez #1900s #blue glasses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1893.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #winter #old man winter #party's over
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #beard #long beard #giant beard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #scissors #goat legged #1900s #censor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #pig #bad breath
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Forgotten Wisdom (permalink)
From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook: how old houses spontaneously re-enchant themselves.  For an explanation of this, see our video about how to bring your own ghost to a spooky old house.
Printed collections of Forgotten Wisdom diagrams are available: Volume I from Mindful Greetings and Volumes II, III and IV from Amazon.  Selected posters are also available via Zazzle.
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#vintage illustration #enchantment #illustration #old dark house
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The potato goblin (not pictured).  From The Puritan, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #goblin #anthropomorphism #illustration #vegetable people
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #candles #mustache #illustration #helmet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen by Alexander Chodźko, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #flying carpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The resurrection of the dead.  From The Golden Dawn by James Henry Potts, 1883.
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#vintage illustration #life after death #resurrection #immortality #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
Here we learn that King Neptune wears slippers.  From Jugend, 1905.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #under the sea #king neptune #trident #illustration #art
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(   ,(
`-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `
"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #floating body #buried at sea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #bat #halloween #spirits #black cat #spooky #october #weathervane #hallowe'en #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #big pharma #illness #medicine #prescription medicine #over medicated #opioid crisis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad for Arabian costumes, in Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #costume #arabian
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June 8, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A cat for a hat.  From Adskaia Poctha, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #witch #cat #key #cat hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #outer space #craters #moon racing #space car
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The Right Word (permalink)
There's a Japanese word for this: nekojita, which means "cat tongued" (said of one who can't tolerate hot food).  From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Tragedy at Law, by Cyril Hare:

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It was his Court whisper, something quite different from any tone normally used by him--or indeed by anyone else.

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[Unusual Threesomes dept.]

Pettigrew got into bed with a furrowed brow and a very wrinkled nose.

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"So far as--so far as his particular grievance is concerned, if you follow me, my lord."

From Barber's expression it was plain that he followed him perfectly, and that he did not greatly enjoy the journey.

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"It appeals to some temperaments, and Sally, as you are no doubt aware, has several."

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Ranging from querulous protest through bitter sarcasm to straightforward abuse, the [guest book] entries made an interesting contribution to the literature of ill temper.

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He gave a gasp of dismay when Greene opened the door of his room and with mute eloquence displayed what lay beyond.

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"By the end of the evening I should not be surprised if I were verging on the blotto, in a quite gentlemanly way, of course, but definitely verging."

"But..." said Derek.

"I know what you are going to say. As a purist, not to say an idealist, you object that a verge cannot be definite."

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It is somewhat difficult to disregard with lofty chivalry a blot on the family scutcheon unless you can see the blot.

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Hilda caught Derek's eye and gave him what is generally described as a meaning look. Derek had no difficulty in recognizing it as such, but unfortunately he was not able to determine for himself exactly what it meant.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #hell #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #books #illustration #head wound #on purpose #accident
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The Right Word (permalink)
"When knights were bold."  From Harper's Weekly, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #falling #knight #slapstick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #masks #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A strange crowd of demons of all shapes and sizes poured into the synagogue with threatening gestures."  From Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #demons #illustration #jewish legend #jewish literature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #elf #dwarf #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The goblin meeting," from Johnnykin and the Goblins, written and illustrated by Charles Leland, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #goblin #fairy tale #frog #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From an ad for J. & P. Coats' Spool Cotton, c. 1880.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #lion #mouse #trapped #caught in a net #thread #animal trap #illustration #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #illustration #rushes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1942.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #dance of death #illustration #dancing skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Satan."  From A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art by Thomas Wright, 1875.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #potato #onion #onion man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #1900s #frog monster #toad monster #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #human butterfly #butterfly man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #top hat #men's fashion #monocle #well dressed
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June 7, 2018

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "Paris Syndrome," the psychological trauma triggered by that city.  The syndrome was first named in 1986, but of course it's nothing new, and this depiction of it in Lustige Blätter goes all the way back to 1900.
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #paris #hallucination #eiffel tower #paris syndrome
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if this sort of house is your aspiration.  From Boloto, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #faces in things #gargoyle #architexture #dream house
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here are someone whose hair is on fire and the unknown Madame X.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.  For dozens upon dozens of surprising meanings of the letter X, see our very own One-Letter Words: A Dictionary.
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#vintage illustration #on fire #spontaneous combustion #burned alive #letter x #burning alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Even the banana peel slipped.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #slipped on a banana peel #banana peel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #poison #stars #redhead #freckles #skin condition #readhead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #demon #haunted house #haunted mansion #illustration
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Q: "Ghosts that glide along the shadows—canst thou conjure spirits here?  Unfamiliar forms and faces—hast thou stolen these from time?"  ("Reverie" by Rennell Rodd, in Time, A Monthly Miscellany of Interesting and Amusing Literature, 1884.)
A: Yes.
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#spirits #ghosts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1938.
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#vintage illustration #pipes #illustration #warm bed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The face of the Matterhorn.  From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #matterhorn #alps #mountain spirit #illustration #mountain deity #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #parrot #dog #mustache #pets
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phrase "peace angel's beard" is a Googlewhack.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #winged man #man with wings #peace angel #angel costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #angel #the people could fly #winged woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The cook playing a 'fugue' by Bach!  What do you mean?"  From Pearson's, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #bach #fugue
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Note the lingering shade of sorrow in the sweet eyes above the sunny smile."  From Wicked City [Chicago] by Grant Eugene Stevens, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #smile #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"They were waiting for me to die."  From My Laughing Philosopher by Eden Phillpotts, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #stranded #stranded at sea #castaway #desert island #crabs #surrounded
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #demons #monsters #yokai #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #monkey #mustache
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #door knocker #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you have this effect on people.  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #fainting #fallen women #lying in the grass
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June 6, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Wolf trotted along like a little horse, and rabbit laughing to himself sitting in the saddle."  From Canadian Fairy Tales by Cyrus MacMillan, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #wolf #rabbit #illustration
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)

At daybreak we ignited prayer flags to make a holy fire for transmogrifying sensitive documents and used a thrice-struck lightning rod as a poker.

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#magick #occult #prof. oddfellow #fire pit #prayer flags #holy fire #sacred fire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hand-drawn typographic art.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #typography #question mark #exclamation point #typographic art
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a presursor to "It's Raining Men."  By the way, you've heard that we are all snowflakes, but some of us are hailstones.  From Bomby, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #1900s #it's raining men #hail #hailstone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #bicycle #bicycle built for two #facing the wrong way #inertia #coming and going #not going anywhere
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #skull #anvil #dead tired
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #devil #satan #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #toilet attendant #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #coffin #living dead #undead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #death #cat #vulture
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1897.
Tag youself.  I was the one with a bird on my head keeping it all steady ... until I learned How to Be My Own Cat..
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#vintage illustration #cat #birds #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #spooked #forest #woods
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Grip, 1890.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #piggy back ride #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Celtic Fairy Tales, selected by Joseph Jacobs and illustrated by John D. Batten, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #celtic #mermen #illustration #save me #life guard
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #anthropomorphism #scissors #1930s #illustration #red pencil
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Funny animals.  From Judge's Library, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #cow #smiling animal #illustration #funny animal #laughing cow #smiling cow
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day #umbrella
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #gambling #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Prince of Darkness by Florence Warden, 1885.
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#devil #owl #vintage book #book #prince of darkness
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June 5, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fonar', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #statue #hippo
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
An entire book of front matter than never technically gets to chapter one but which instead picks the locks of the great sercrets of the universe?  It's happening.  We previously noted how a reader has begun using our blank book Let's Do and Say We Didn't to create more of that blank book's front matter (along with some additional front matter from our book on Seance Parlor Feng Shui, too!)  This reader is turning the blank book into an entire book of front matter.  There has already been an alchemical transformation (black wet ink transmogrifying to dry blue pencil, so as to avoid bleed-through on the cheap paper that nothing is written on).  And this book of front matter is reading its own mind: page 14 accurately predicts what page 15 should have done better, before it even happens.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #mask #goat legged
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Precursors (permalink)
You've seen the famous Life Magazine photo of the sailor kissing a nurse ("V-J Day in Times Square" by Alfred Eisenstaedt).  Here it is four decades earlier, from Lustige Blätter, 1904.  We're not sure if the lady with the stick hates public displays of affection or merely wants in on the action.  (This was Europe, after all.)
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#vintage illustration #public displays of affection
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #witchcraft #occult #cauldron #spirit #evocation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bathtub #beaver
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1955.
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#vintage illustration #winter #rooster #writer #ladder #chickens
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #fear #illustration #rib cage #behind bars
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1927.
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#vintage illustration #1920s #traffic signal #traffic control
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Form Quarterly of the Arts, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #grotesque #skeleton
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Q loses its tail and cries O!  From Le Rire, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #question mark #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #carried away #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.  This is the opposite of a non-circulating book.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #poison #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #cobweb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Till folks began to say the place was ha'nted."  From Cosmopolitan, 1909.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #robot #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anthropomorphism #neck pain #pain medicine #pain in the neck #ad
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From The Case of the Restless Redhead, by Erle Stanley Gardner:

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"Pretty Polly. Watch it now. Here's your cracker," the parrot interpolated.

[The parrot *interpolated*! (N.B. I think the "bonus" near-Tom Swifty of Polly inter-pol-ating was unintended. Also of note: The presence of the parrot is *not* used as a plot device, i.e., the parrot doesn't repeat any compromising bit of a secret conversation at a crucial juncture. It's a purely recreational parrot!)]

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From An Oxford Tragedy, by J. C. Masterman:

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You must see it all through my eyes, or rather--to be more exact--through my spectacles.

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June 4, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Al'manakh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #archer
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to "Bed in a Box."  From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if this is how your money disappears, too.  From Gilbert Handkerchief Tricks for Boys by Alfred Carlton Gilbert, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Tell me the name of his other eye."  From One Thousand Laughs from Vaudeville, 1908.
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#eye #vaudeville
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #angel #alcohol #hallucination #absinthe #green fairy #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"To read with no spirit."  From "Memoirs of a Female Nihilist," in The Idler, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #not reading #nihilism #nihilist
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #pickpocket #vacuum #vacuum cleaner
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #carnival #illustration #run over
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #artist #modern art #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Arts by Clara Erskine Clement, 1872.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1899.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A gigantic woman appeared."  From Icelandic Fairy Tales, illustrated by E. A. Mason, 1897.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1935.
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#vintage illustration #giant bug #insect #illustration #monster flea #flea monster #giant flea
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ulk, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #city life #street traffic #pedestrians
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1897.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #whirlpool #illustration #vortex #maelstrom
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1928.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #illustration #tire
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Missing word contest."  From Judge's Library, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #expletive #dagnabbit #daggummit #dang #darn
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Ampersands (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.  Our lavishly illustrated Ampersand opus explores the history and pictography of the most common coordinating conjunction.
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#vintage illustration #axe #ampersand #treble clef #illustration #severed hand #bloody ax
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June 3, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We like how this prediction of future cars also shows humans evolving.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

How Aleister Crowley Was a Genuine Spook and What You Can Do About It

 
It's an enduring question, how to separate the artist from the art.
 
Does it actually take black magick to do it?  
 
What is one to make of the fact that Aleister Crowley was a British Intelligence agent, 
 
and that he promoted the occult as a cover for Intelligence projects as well as the general disruption of culture?  
 
Are Crowley's books pure disinformation, or is there something of value hidden within them, in spite of it all?  
 
Even if he wasn't inspired in the way we are told, was he possibly inspired nonetheless?
 
We cannot pinpoint a time when news or literature or the other arts weren't propaganda.  
 
If everyone has heard of an artist, you can rest assured that that artist was promoted, for a purpose, by the powers that be.  
 
All we can be sure of is that works of propaganda can become art only after enough time has passed, 
 
so that the specific brainwashing contexts are lost.  
 
Then the works' poisons are finally inert or at safer, more obvious levels of toxicity 
 
and can be seen with fresher eyes.  
 
It's extremely difficult to detect propaganda when one is immersed in a milieu.  
 
Objectivity requires the passing of time—often many decades.
 
If you're being put-on, make it an evening of interactive, improvisational theatre in which the audience are also the actors.
 
In other words, bring some awareness to the proceedings and do some conscious, active putting-on yourself.  
 
If there are props in this theatrical put-on, like chalices, daggers, and wands, by all means make them, as showily -- even as garishly -- as possible, to play up the theatricality.  Or acquire the props from a purveyor of stage magic paraphernalia.  It's been said that theater is only real when it is unreal; the theare is a place of magic and enchantment, the role of the imagination being foremost.
 
Trick props can be enormous fun, and you can even use them to entertain your friends outside of your magickal rituals.
 
The great surrealist painter and author Ithell Colquhoun once saw Crowley in a bookstore in Cornwall.  
 
She was struck by how there was no dramatic aura of evil about him, 
 
and by the fact that he resembled only two of the photos she had seen of him.  
 
She didn't seem to realize the reason for that -- those other photos were most likely of other people -- different actors.  Crowley was never who he said he was.  Photographs don't lie, especially when they're faked.
 
Crowley famously added the letter k to magick.  
 
Since he was a spook by profession, why not add another o and make him even spo-o-okier?  
 
Or add some c's to his name so that you sound terrified to speak it: C-c-c-c-rowley.
 
Though C-c-c-c-rowly wasn't the wickedest man in the world, 
 
he was a genuine spook.  
 
If, outside the assignments dictated by his governors, 
 
he communicated anything of value … well, here's how to tell.  Spread the pages of his writings across the floor of the henhouse and see which one gets pecked by a black pullet.   
Seriously!  There's a whole world out there.  Have you seen that video of the mother hen sitting atop an entire litter of kittens?
 
May every ending harbor kittens.
I'm Prof. Oddfellow.  (For a better understanding, check out my videos, here.)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1898.
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#vintage illustration #keg #hybrid #long nose #elephant man #elephant trunk #half elephant #elephant nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #dinosaur #noah's ark #noah
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
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#vintage illustration #infestation #mice #eek #fear of rats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1930.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #cat #wolf in sheep's clothing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #gallows #hanged man #1900s #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #cat #elephant #puss in boots #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
"The night ghost."  From Jugend, 1926.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #demon #ghost #incubus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"He felt sat upon."  From The Sketch, 1895.
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#statue #deity #crushed #living statue #1890s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #skull #pipe #illustration #art
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pick Me Up, 1892.   See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #mouse #hunting #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
How to save the world in a week: get all the people to read each other's newspapers, to daily put their own little worlds and other people's worlds alongside until they got used to it.  From The Ghost in the White House: Some Suggestions as to How a Hundred Million People (Who are Supposed in a Vague, Helpless Way to Haunt the White House) Can Make Themselves Felt with a President, How They Can Back Him Up, Express Themselves to Him, be Expressed by Him, and Get What They Want by Gerald Stanley Lee, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #antlers #horned man #father #house husband
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #ouch #foot pain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #cauldron #severed head #witches #decapitated #illustration
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #beard #sleeping #hand of god #plucked
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Yuki-Daruma.  From A Japanese Miscellany by Lafcadio Hearn, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #snowman #lafcadio hearn #japan #daruma
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June 2, 2018

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Aksioma, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #blackbird #blood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if this is you.  From Lustige Blätter, 1903.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #drinker #alcohol #tiny man #party #bottle #private party #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #hybrid #dog headed #dog clothes #dog woman #dog in a dress #dog dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #going places #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The author reveals that his aim in the book is to kill a passing moment.  From Quips and Cranks by Thomas Hood, 1861.
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#canoe #hunter #1860s #preface #author's note
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 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 #mermaid #lobster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1926.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #mermaid #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 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 #parrot #giant parrot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #writer #knives #knife in the heart #through the heart
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Egyptian canon.  From Nature's Harmonic Unity by Samuel Colman, 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 #egyptian #sacred geometry #illustration
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
INSTRUCTIONS: Click to make it hallucinatory. From Le Rire, 1897.

From Le Rire, 1897
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#vintage illustration #surrealism #modern art #hallucinatory #illustration #gif
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Holme Lee's Fairy Tales, 1869.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #skeleton #fairy tale #giant hand #horror #illustration #skeleton hand
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, 1900.

[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #fairy tale #illustration
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Jugend, 1926.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #sea serpent #sea monster
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Charles Dudley for The Sketch, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #shakespeare #midsummer's night dream #donkey headed #illustration #donkey man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 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 #demon #devil #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Swedish Fairy Tales by Herman Hofberg, 1890.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #haunted house #fairy tale #spirit #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #anti-smoking #addiction #nicotine #breaking the habit #kicking the habit #stopping smoking #anti-tobacco
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #doctor #open skull #brain surgeon #trepanation #surgeon
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Neither Saint- Nor Sophist-Led (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Post-It Notes, plus the patron saint of bureaucracy.  From Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, 1921.
Who is your favorite imaginary saint?  Do share!
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#vintage illustration #patron saint #bureaucracy #post-it notes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've spotted the winged mountain goat sunflower butterfly.  Reblog to save it from extinction.  From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fantastical #creature #sunflower
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Did You Hear the One I Just Made Up? (permalink)

Upon encountering an old poem ("The Haunted Room" by Emma Marie Caillard, in The Lost Life, and Other Poems, 1889), we thought of this trivia question: What is the haunted mansion within Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, and how many chambers does it have?  The answer is the old attic bride's heart, with four chambers.  In the poem, the heart is not consumed by sorrow but remains unchanged and loving (explaining the Mansion bride's intact organ), home to and haunted by the ghosts of friends who have passed away.

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#vintage illustration #haunted mansion #attic bride #ghost bride
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #crying animal #crocodile tears #judge #alligator tears
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1906.
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[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run 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 car #car #homemade car
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From One False Move, by Kelley Roos:

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He was sandpapering it, having a wonderful time. I had never been especially interested in sandpapering per se, but Gramps made me want to try my hand at it.

[There must be YouTube channels for people who get a sensual frisson from sandpapering.]

***

Arch put on his half-lens reading spectacles and perused the letter. It seemed to take hours; I had never seen a letter so perused.

***

If she could project the sincerity she was exuding now from a stage, she would be another Sarah Bernhardt, another Eleonora* Duse. Well, another Doris Day.

[*Thinking this name would normally be spelled like "Eleanor" with an "a" appended, I wondered if "Eleonora" was a typo. But, no, there really is a lion in there.]

***

My mind was not on counting money. I might have been counting chickens before they were hatched. Or my blessings, although at the moment I could have finished that up in a hurry.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #jack-in-the-box
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #rabbit #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe #thirteen #illustration #13
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1929.
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#vintage illustration #sun #anthropomorphism #outer space #faces in things #mars #venus #solar system #1920s #jupiter #planets
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Emerald Wreath by Caviare, 1964.
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"The sea is a cruel mistress. Yet again the sea has behaved unconscionably. It's time to address this terrible problem that is the sea." —Captain Neddie, from the hilarious BBC series Broken News
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #fairy boat #little people #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 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 #bunnies #rabbit #1930s #airplane #aviation #aviator #illustration #aviatrix
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
"In a strangely silent mist all about her, the paper snow was still falling."  From New Adventures of Alice by John Rae, 1917.
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#alice in wonderland #asterisks #paper snow
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1902.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drummer #illustration #bazooms #kettledrum #timpani
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fairy Tales by Marion Florence Lansing and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 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 #devil #fairy tale #beauty and the beast #illustration
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Old News (permalink)
From Everybody's Magazine, 1920.
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#madness #weird headline #vintage headline #month of june #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Sketch, 1903.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dragon #drunk #inebriated #illustration #hallucinating
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1894.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #seeing double #double vision #candle #drunk #illustration
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