CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
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June 30, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #don't #forbidden
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"As he recognized the photograph, his aureole leaped into livid flame—she writhing there to escape his two sepulchral hands."  From Hearst's International, 1921.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #ghost #occult #spiritualism #seance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #giant #meat grinder #tiny men #soldier
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From La Sagrada Biblia, 1883.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angels #moses #biblical
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #drunk #dizzy #reeling #imbalanced #art #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1956.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #contortionist #yoga #bending over backwards
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #star #red star #blood #blood shower #shower of blood #goatee
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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 #spider
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1918.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #monster #menace #illustration #finger pointing
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #russia #bear #deer #feed the animals #cherry #by mouth #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #demon #serpent #garden of eden #eve
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Igla, 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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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"A dream of the future" -- penny farthings on high wires.  From Wide Awake, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #cycling #futuristic #penny farthing #high wire
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #locomotive #cows #cow train #milk train #robot cow #weird train
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #spirit #deity
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern University's yearbook of 1923.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #skull #occult #spirit #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Silent E Fairy, from The See and Say Series, Book Two by Sarah Louise Arnold, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #fairy #letter e #silent e
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel. From New Haven's yearbook of 1978.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #perspective #hallway
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
A sun-tablet of the Blackeet Indians of Canada, from The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #sun #solar deity #symbolism #seven arms #blackfoot #solar symbol
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June 29, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Jambalaya yearbook of Tulane University, 1920.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #cemetery #graveyard #full moon #finis #wolf #vintage yearbook #yearbook #finish #the end #howling at the moon
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The Right Word (permalink)

Many feel worried about being labeled a homophone.  And for good reason!  Homophones live in constant turmoil.  They might be inappropriately complimented on their tails instead of their tales.  They may seek a night out and instead find themselves with an out knight.  Oiling up for a hot sun in the sky, they may find themselves burning for a hot son in this guy.  They may fear that wholly idle hours "could make a holy idol ours."  Their addressed mail could transform into a dressed male.  They can forget joining aural sects.  They must be careful lest they gaze farther at a gay's father.  The very idea of wresting yore feat on a pouffe leaves them utterly confused.  

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#homophone
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1924 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #bird costume #vintage yearbook #peacock #yearbook #headdress #peacock costume
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #on fire
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Your Ship Will Come In (permalink)
From Shtyk, 1906.  Our printed collection of vintage nautical postcards is entitled Your Ship Will Come In.
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#vintage illustration #toy boat #boats #shoes #shoe boat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #arbor day #tree surgeon #heart doctor #tree heart #tree doctor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satirikon, 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 #angel #mythology #goddess
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A detail from an illustration in Lustige Blätter, 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 #horse #saint
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #fashion #vintage fashion #antlers #horned hat #hat with horns
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#religion #vintage illustration #eye of god #eye in the pyramid #eye in the sky #yahweh
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #horse #halo #hybrid #fiction #book horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #pincers #human pyramid #echelon
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Un Autre Monde by Grandville.
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#vintage illustration #rain #rainy day #grandville #illustration #watering can
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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 #vintage ad #mustache #medicine #cleansing #detox #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #hybrid #human headed #man dog #paper training
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1889.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #long hair #tiny men
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
As you suspected, the moon is a holy owl-queen who pours a jar of owls upon wicked mousies.  From General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, and Other Poems by Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #owl #moon #poetry #mice
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 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 #anthropomorphism #bird #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
University of Massachusetts Boston yearbook, 1978.

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

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#vintage illustration #magic #vintage yearbook #yearbook #top hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Lone Hand, 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 #bear
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June 28, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you are not a good little owl.  From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #owl #illustration #1910s
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Puzzles and Games :: Which is Funnier (permalink)
[As a bonus, this item overlaps our "Which is Funnier" and "Not Rocket Science" departments.)
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
On a hunch, we analyzed this photo with our custom Uncanny Detector app to see if the figure at the end of the hallway is a ghost.  Sure enough, it has a skull face.
From Florida Southern's 1968 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hallway
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1922.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #dog #dachshund #sausage dog #wiener dog
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tassel
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #music #stars #musical notation #shooting star #treble clef
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Ronnie Corbett / David Nobbs:

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[RLG Dept.]

Writing in the Listener, that distinguished author Anthony Burgess... [said of the Ronnies], "They are a kind of visual epigram made out of the intellectual fact of human variety. This epigram is also a paradigm for conjugating social statements--about class, chiefly--with great neatness." I felt like phoning my dad in Scotland and saying, 'I've made it, Dad. Not only am I an epigram, I'm also a paradigm.

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[David Frost] behaved as if [The Frost Report] was a huge success, and it became so. It was a self-fulfilling prophecy. In fact, looking back on it, David himself was a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Another of our sketches.... was about a man who was paranoid about appearing on [This Is Your Life]. If the milkman or the postman came to the door, he was convinced that it was Eamonn Andrews with his big red book. In the end Eamonn turned up, and he didn't recognize him. [Cf. my story about "meeting" the guy from the Pixies in our parking lot last year. Or didn't I tell you that one?]

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We did a sketch in which Ronnie was Henry VIII, I was a camp, Jewish Cardinal Wolsey, with a large cigar and a costume with a twenty-yard train....

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Frank Muir, former Head of Comedy at the BBC and London Weekend, once said, "God preserve me from good ideas." It sounds strange, but I know what he meant. A good idea can become a straitjacket for comedy....

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's Narcissus from Le Sang des Dieux by Jean Lorrain (1920).
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#vintage illustration #mythology #narcissus
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed image appears in Ridley's 1968 yearbook.

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

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#skull #horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cursed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you have eavesdropped on birds.  From Shtyk, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #crow #blackbird #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #scythe #illustration #choir #chorus #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #electricity #zapped
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #skeletons #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #tiger #hippo #rhino #stag #strange animal #zebra
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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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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This haunted photograph appears in Taylor University's Ilium yearbook of 1991.  Why are glowing lights so ghostly?  We explored the answer in the context of this other ghostly photo.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #oil lamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a gnome from The Fairy-folk of Blue Hill by Lily F. Wesselhoeft. 1895.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale
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Precursors (permalink)
No one thought leetspeak was just an internet phenomenon, right?
From St. Nicholas magazine, December 1917.
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#poem #leetspeak
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A "Sam" you know will likely confirm this diagram.  From The Link, 1954.
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#vintage illustration #vintage diagram #triangle #sacred geometry #god #diagram #1950s
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June 27, 2019

Temporal Anomalies (permalink)

To celebrate having a chapter in Steve Drury's new Dice Mysteries book, we shot a 3-minute video about the weirdness of when to roll unspotted dice upon a dusty tome.  As so often happens, our blank dice rolling created a temporal anomaly at the end of the video.  (We're still woozy!)

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#divination #occult #dice #temporal anomaly
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's some maledicta punctuated by firecrackers, from Purdue's 1916 yearbook.

 

How to translate fireworks as rhyming slang in maledicta [and if any seem old-fashioned, they are!]:

bam = damn

bang = bang [fornicate]; dang

blam = damn

blast = blast[-it] [British]

boom = bum [British for buttocks]

burst = cursed

crack = cack [British for excrement]; whack[-off]

fizz = shit

flash = ass; dash[-it all] [British]

hiss = piss[-off]; shit

pop = pop[-off]

snap = crap

sputter = mutter[-fucker]

whistle = rissole [Australian slang for rectum]

whizz = wiz [urinate]

whoosh = gadzooks

zip = flip[ping] [British]

 

bomb = "f-bomb"

missle = miserable

mortar = mortar-fucker

flare - swear

rocket = fuck it

shell = hell

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #maledicta #vintage car #car
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #mouse #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #faces in things #fountain #harlequin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #saw #robot
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shtyk, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sun #solar deity #outer space #faces in things #sun god
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #demon #monster #serpent #money
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Progressivnyi Izbiratel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #frog #goose #laughing animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #japanese #severed head #parasol #decapitated #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #blindfold #clown #gagged
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Poisoned milk delivery.  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 #milk #milkmaid #untainted milk
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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 Jugend, 1904.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bouquet #satyr #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #illustration #plough
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #modern art #cubism #cubist
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Barnard's yearbook of 1927.

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

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by W. P. Bodwell.  From Fairy Tales, Narratives and Poems, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #juggling
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No News Is Good News (permalink)
"Nothing exciting," yet "We may have excitement."  From The Leatherneck, 1932.
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#vintage illustration #no news is good news
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
You've heard that some musical pieces are labeled "con brio," meaning that they are to be played "brightly." Here's what it looks like. From the University of Southern Mississippi's 1985 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #piano #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bright
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 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 #frog
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June 26, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
From the Wilkes-Barre Record, Pennsylvania, November 9, 1931.  Via YesterdaysPrint.
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#weird #mystery
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #piano #hybrid #human headed #cat woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shtyk, 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 #skeleton #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Our illustration is from Nebelspalter, 1958.  Here's also an article about tasting and eating music, from The Literary Digest, Nov. 18, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Poedinok, 1906.
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#vintage illustration
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Suddenly, A Shot Rang Out (permalink)
"The beginning of a book is always the tricky part.  It should arrest.  A shot should ring out in the night ..." —Delano Ames, She Shall Have Murder [a delightful recommendation by literary scalawag Jonathan Caws-Elwitt]
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #flying horse #the people could fly #flying carriage
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #musician #face the music #musical face
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #knight #flying horse #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #falling #out the window #illustration #thrown out
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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 Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #satyr #herm
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #death #skull face #walking dead #living dead
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed photograph appears in Taylor University's Ilium yearbook of 1963.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bottled ghost #specimen bottle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #big mouth #horror #scream #gasp
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Rhetorical Questions, Answered! (permalink)
Reblog if the Roman numeral at the top of the poem doubles as the answer to the rhetorical question.  From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #merman #throne #tennyson #king neptune #poem
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Here's How by William Campbell Whitfield and illustrated by Tad Shell, 1941.
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#vintage illustration #punch bowl #tiny man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the High Point yearbook of 1951.

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

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #vintage yearbook #yearbook #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #war and peace #peace angel
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June 25, 2019

I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)
What happens when we die?  It's a fair question, but this is from a magazine for military chaplains, and we'd have assumed they already had a pat answer for this.  It turns out that most everybody is confused about everything.  God help us.  From The Link, 1962.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #death #cemetery #life after death #graveyard #war dead
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The Right Word (permalink)
"Text fly within the book only."  At first, we interpreted that as, "words take flight within the confines of the book covers."  Given that the book in question (scanned here by Archive.org) is about Merlin, that felt about right.  (Even so, one might argue otherwise, that text can fly outside of a book as well; consider some persons being "crammed to the throat with Scripture, so that they cannot open their mouths but a text flies out" [An Inquiry Into the Nature of Responsibility by T. Simmons Mackintosh, 1840]).  But then we realized that a "text fly" is what emerges from a bookworm's cocoon ... and so this particular book has encased or imprisoned a text fly, presumably for entomologists.
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#text fly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Some of us and -- the rest of us."  From Monmouth's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #giant #giant hand #vintage yearbook #yearbook #hand of god #crushed #thumb
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch Magazine (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 #mustache #illustration
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1891 Hopkinsian yearbook of Johns Hopkins University.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #occult #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Child's Picture Grammar, written and illustrated by Sophia Rosamond Praeger, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #dancing #circle dance
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shtyk, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #collar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1891.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Fliegende Blätter, 1933.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #folklore #anthropomorphism #rabbit #top hat
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Cows think you stink.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Virginia's Corks and Curls yearbook, 1915.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society #red cape
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 1906.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A centaur tries to ride a bicycle.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1897.
You can probably guess what the centaur needs to do.  It's revealed in the next comic panel, here.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage camera #faces in things #cyclops #camera #tripod
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #grave #angel #angel of death #graveyard #burial #vintage yearbook #yearbook #funeral
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From American Cornball, by Christopher Miller:

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[Couches] are a little funny in themselves, maybe because they aren't chairs, and aren't nearly as common as chairs, but bear enough of a resemblance to seem like comically defective or grandiose chairs.

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When a cartoon is set on a desert island now--and this was already the case half a century ago--the first joke is that a cartoonist has dared to do it again.

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[Re. guest towels and related matters:] It could be argued that the sublimation of prosaic household objects into the poetry of uselessness is part of what makes a house a home, but so much the worse for homes.

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Hat takes are one of the most quintessentially cartoonish of all cartoon clichés, and I have the numbers to prove it, since I recently devised a pseudoscientific formula for determining the cartoonishness of any object, situation, or event: you divide its incidence in comic strips (scored on a scale of 1 to 10) by its incidence in real life.

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When McCay... finally gets his idea, it comes not in the form of a lightbulb but a living creature--a bird, presumably, since it has a beak and two webbed feet, and flies away the instant another cartoonist diverts McCay's attention. It looks less like a bird, though, than a flying porcupine; it looks, in fact, uncannily like the Thing I pictured the first time I read Emily Dickinson's line "Hope is the thing with feathers." We know it's a funny idea, as McCay wished for, because it's funny-looking.

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Caspar [Milquetoast] is so meek, he deserves to inherit the earth single-handedly.

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Lunch is a funnier word, but breakfast is the funnier meal....

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[Re. "phooey" and other such terms:] Or is it that we're so inundated with nonsense these days that we've lost our sensitivity to it, our inability to discriminate fine shades?

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The only place [a lucaflect] really makes sense is indoors, where a window might be the brightest source of light in a room, but great cartoonists are not afraid of nonsense, and have no qualms about lucaflecting outdoors too.

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If you imagine what Peanuts would have been like if Schulz had called it Placekicker Charlie and every strip had featured Charlie Brown’s attempts to kick that football and Lucy’s yanking it away, you’ve just imagined hundreds of early comic strips.

 

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June 24, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The Indian Summer Fairy.  From Montreat's 1947 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #fairy #vintage yearbook #yearbook #indian summer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Suddenly the Great Wind Spirit spoke to him."  From Tell-Me-Why Stories About Color and Sound by C. H. Claudy and illustrated by Thomas Wrenn, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #flute #folk tale #musician #wind spirit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if your candle-powered centerpieces not only rotate but also ring bells.  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #angel #candle #centerpiece
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kosa, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull #serpent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The electric decapitation of John the Baptist."  From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla's Goya collection.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #grim reaper #deathbed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed #bird man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #worn out #tired #exhausted #illustration #gay and tired #very tired
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #bat #illustration #pet walker #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #marriage #crushed #under pressure #piled on #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #spirit #candles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the High Point College yearbook of 1934.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man #secret society #giant skull
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
Playing catch with little suns.  From Miss Mouse and Her Boys by Mrs. Molesworth, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #sun #fairy tale #stars #playing catch
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
At first we wondered why a house illustrates the "Literature" section of Butler's 1911 yearbook.  Then we recalled that literature and architecture are inseparable.  

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#vintage illustration #literature #architecture #vintage yearbook
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Go Out in a Blaze of Glory (permalink)
When it comes to recursive fractal patterns that occur on higher dimensions, we're delighted that our Magic Words: A Dictionary is referenced.
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#fractal #abacaba
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #human headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.

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#grotesque #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #crushed #weight #slab #stone
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June 23, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #exterminator #pest control #fly swatter #cake
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #cat #harp #musical animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #architecture #faces in things #home design #garden space
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The poisoned milk salesman shows his respect to the bearers of a tiny coffin.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #skull face #tiny coffin #funeral #bad milk #tainted milk #unregulated
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #eye patch #patches
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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 Whispers from Fairyland by Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, 1875.
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#vintage illustration #fairies #fairy tale #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #black cat #giant cat #puss in boots #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1919.  
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#vintage illustration #light in the darkness #night #illustration #light in the window
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vegetables #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #demon #death #poison #evil spirit #pollution
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern University's yearbook of 1931.

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#vintage illustration #giant #gulliver #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here are the owls of subtraction.  From Ray's New Primary Arithmetic for Young Learners, Book 1, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #owl #full moon #night #math #subtraction
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Union College's 1978 yearbook.

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#magician #vintage magic #vintage yearbook #yearbook #headache #migraine #stage magic #magic trick #arrow through the head
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Book of Whispers (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
* The most profound secrets lie not wholly in knowledge, said the poet.  They lurk invisible in that vitalizing spark, intangible, yet as evident as the lightning—the seeker's soul.  Solitary digging for facts can reward one with great discoveries, but true secrets are not discovered—they are shared, passed on in confidence from one to another.  The genuine seeker listens attentively.  No secret can be transcribed, save in code, lest it—by definition—cease to be.  This Book of Whispers collects and encodes more than one hundred of humankind's most cherished secrets.  To be privy to the topics alone is a supreme achievement, as each contains and nurtures the seed of its hidden truth.  As possessor and thereby guardian of this knowledge, may you summon the courage to honor its secrets and to bequeath it to one worthy.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
An ornate capital T, with skull.  From the Phamacy Department's page of Purdue's 1898 yearbook.  It would seem the pharmaceutical industry has never really been about your well-being.
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#vintage illustration #ornate capital #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #capital t
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the Big Gulp and other super-sized beverages.
The caption, "Love laughs at icebergs," is a Googlewhack.  From Life, 1900. 
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#vintage illustration #ice #iceberg #illustration #beverage #big drink
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #giant #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #giraffe #power lines
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The whole of the slimy old wall seemed alive with them."  From The Life Story of a Squirrel by Thomas Charles Bridges and illustrated by Allan Stewart, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel #glowing eyes
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June 22, 2019

Strange Dreams (permalink)
From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #dream #illustration #castle in the air #1910s #slumberland
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Animals of the cat kind -- the lion.  From Tales About Animals by Peter Parley, 1870.
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#vintage illustration #lion
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Marrying a phonograph.  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #phonograph #weird wedding #strange wedding
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Blue Dwarf by Lady Esther Hope, 1861.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1912.
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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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From La Baïonnette, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #fallen soldier #wounded soldier #rescue dog #k9 #medic dog #canine medic #dog doctor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #death #harpy #hybrid #human headed #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"'Ha, ha, ha!' the trolls laughed, and held on to one another."  From Fairy Tales from the Far North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 1897.
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From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Southwestern University's yearbook of 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #stars #starry night #night
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"My head hits the pillow like an anvil in a world without gravity."  From William and Mary's 1982 yearbook.

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#sleep #vintage yearbook #yearbook #unconscious #dead tired
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #rooster #rooftop
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Henderson-Brown's 1923 yearbook.  We've also encountered this castle with an orange sky in later years.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cine-Mundial, 1934.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #occult #cauldron #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Rock - paper - scissors?  They're standing on a rock, they all played scissors, and there's a paper (the "Post") in the background.  From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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June 21, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Nearly a century before activity tracking gadgets, walkers were counting their miles.  From Rockford's 1915 yearbook.  See 52 Wishes for Walkers.
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#vintage illustration #transformation #vintage yearbook #yearbook #shoes #walking #fitbit #activity tracking #1910s
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
We find that flatbread has the most flats.
From The Link, 1964.
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#vintage illustration #music #bread
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #demon #monster #beast #many headed
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #angel #museum #sculpture #fallen angel
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From David Nobbs's autobio:

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[A friend of Nobbs's] wore a yarmulke jauntily, as if it were a yachting cap, and when he walked he bounced. He looked like a cross between Mendelssohn and Piglet.

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When somebody told Peter Cook that he was writing a novel, Peter replied, "Really? Neither am I."

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[Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.] laughed at my jokes, and unless he was a very good actor his laughter was genuine--but he was a very good actor, so I'll never know.

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There was... an elderly lady called Della who was the Marylebone Correspondent and wrote her stories on lavatory paper.

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[Nobbs wrote] a monologue that began, "How do? My name is God, and I'm here tonight because I'm omnipresent."

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[On the writing team observing David Frost's programmes in real time from the "hospitality room"]

Ian Davidson... claimed that there was an embarrassment order in which people would leave the room, like a pecking order in hens, when David was being particularly shameless.

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David would come up to us and ask our opinion on the show and none of us would admit that we spent most of our time in the corridor. We didn't need to as these inquests were not thorough. The conversation would go:

David: "Super show?"

Us: "Super."

David: "Super."

***

[Re. a "message" play that ended with the actors walking into the audience with paper bags on their heads--a gimmick that did not garner the audience response the director had counted on]

I was sorry for the actors, who escaped having egg on their faces only by having paper bags on their faces.

***

[More Frostiana, this time from an emergency meeting at a time of staleness in the shows]

There was no doubt that it was a crisis meeting, but it was never called a crisis meeting.... David came in, sat down, looked at us all gravely, even sorrowfully, and said, "Thank you all for some absolutely super shows. We're meeting today to consider how we can make them even more absolutely super still."

***

The reviews [of Lance At Large] were actually not too bad, but the public can be very blunt about TV, as if it's their property because it comes into their homes. "What went wrong with your programme?" barked a forthright cousin twice removed, and at that moment I could have wished her three times removed."

**

When he was Head of Comedy at the BCC Frank Muir said, "God save me from good ideas," and I know what he meant. This idea sounded good... but it was a straitjacket. It prohibited all surprise.

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I could see the gap between the good stuff and mine. I didn't need London Transport staff to shout "Mind the gap" at me. I minded it terribly.

***

Round about this time I used to experiment with a particular cliché. I would drop it into the conversation at appropriate moments. It was "What's grist to the mill is nose to the grindstone." It is of course complete nonsense. Nobody ever challenged me. Nobody ever laughed. "That's true," people would say, or "I suppose so," or some such reply.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A ghost falls into bed. From William and Mary's 1982 yearbook.

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#ghost #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A Branston engraving for an 1837 edition of Night Thoughts by Edward Young.
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#vintage illustration #father time #scythe #winged man
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Precursors (permalink)
Apparently, polar bears have been used for advertising for as long as there has been advertising.  Here is revealed how they're lured into the work.  From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #polar bear #eskimo #ad
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #janus #two faces #two-faced #conjoined #double faced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The earth puffs on smokestacks.  From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #smoking #earth #anthropomorphism #smoke #pollution #smokestack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #fairy tale #dragon #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #money #coins #greed
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1907.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bear
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The original loveseat.  From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #practical joke #chair #spring loaded #trick chair #love seat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Johns Hopkins University's Hullabaloo yearbook of 1897.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull #occult #fraternity #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Precursors (permalink)
Before "gay and tired," there was "queerest and restless."  From The See and Say Series, Book Two by Sarah Louise Arnold, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #queen #rat #queer #gay and tired
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June 20, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)

Can you guess why there is no diary for summer?  "Summer is not a season of which we can mark the beginning or the end by fixed days in the calendar" (Robert Mudie, Summer: Or, The Causes, Appearances, and Effects of the Grand Nuptials of Nature in All Its Departments, 1837).  

From Eastern Nazarene's 1948 yearbook.

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Marriage as a giant book.  From Der Guckkasten, 1913.  See The Collected Lost Meanings of Wedlock.
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#vintage illustration #giant book #marriage #tiny people #1910s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #dragon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pet walker
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #gallows #bird #mouse #1900s #pet walker #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #reading #book #peace angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The Kalidahs have the bodies of bears and the heads of tigers.  An illustration by W. W. Denslow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 1900.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Catchy tune?  From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #monster #well #water spirit #pet walker #water creature
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Of the Greatest Sorrow."  From The Singing Mouse Stories by Emerson Hough, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elf #lampshade #tiny person #1890s #faceless #no face #lol
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.  He has learned How to Be Your Own Cat.
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#vintage illustration #gardening #tiger costume #cosplay #cat man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #emblem #king #sauna #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #throne
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1922.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #silhouette
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From the Ridley College yearbook, 1938.
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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A restoration of an image from The Entheogen Review Complete.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Young Chicago talks with an Englishman."  From Walks About Chicago, 1871-1881 by Franc Bangs Wilkie, 1882.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kent State's 1933 yearbook (our restoration).
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
By Athanasius Kircher, 1653.
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June 19, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Sue finds beauty in Jello; its malleability and transparency fascinate her."  From Lambuth's 1964 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #jello #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #food #woman #vintage woman
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Old News (permalink)
Wrongdoing is now so expensive that many wrongdoers cannot afford even necessary wrongdoing, and married wrongdoers are having to move in with multiple wrongdoing roommates.  From The Link, 1960.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
It's time to bring back the bubble pipe as a standard prop.  Corinne Griffith, from Cine-Mundial, 1922.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny woman #gauntlet
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the High Point yearbook of 1951.

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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #animal headed #crown #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The culprit is fingered.  From The Child's Picture Grammar, written and illustrated by Sophia Rosamond Praeger, 1900.
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#cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Globo, 1844.  Courtesy of La Biblioteca Universitaria de Sevilla.
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#vintage illustration #tree #treehouse #topiary
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Cap and Gown yearbook of the University of Chicago, 1917.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #beard #doctor #vintage yearbook #yearbook #medicine
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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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 #neptune #sea god #submarine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #piggy bank #leg #beggar
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #kisses #lipstick
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1925.
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#vintage illustration #hot air balloon #balloons #giant balloon #weird balloon #disturbing balloon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #tanks #upscaling #recycling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #long nose #dandy #cartoonist #sight gag
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demons #devils
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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June 18, 2019

Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny women
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if an imp has ever thumbed its nose at your neckwear.  From Le Charivari, 1842.
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#vintage illustration #imp #thumbing nose #scarf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Punch1885.

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#vintage illustration #dancing #weightless #floating #men dancing
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From If the Shroud Fits, by Kelley Roos:turtles

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[New to me: "so what" as a transitive verb.]

"They'd so what me and I'd never hear the end of it."

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Everything about him still sparkled the way it always had, his eyes, his teeth, even his ears.

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"Look, Haila, you were in a show! We saw it. Mac and Erika and Julie and I."

I shook my head. "Not that many seats were sold, Kirk."

"We all sat in the same seat."

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"My motto is: a book in every library!"

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One more book about a doctor by a doctor and I was going to need a doctor. If I could find one who wasn't all tied up writing a book.

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"She finally did get him a Fifty-second Street engagement, but he flopped. And Erika lost interest in him. An artist had come along who could paint tastes and odors."

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A matinee idol without a matinee.

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"Mind over matter and..."

"Mind over tommyrot!"

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Bonus: A lengthy passage is attached. It's turtles all the way down!

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
You've heard of the way to count seconds with "One Mississippi, two Mississippis," and so forth.  There actually are two Mississippis, with light and dark halves.  This map is from Mississippi Delta Junior College's 1964 yearbook.  Apparently, "two Mississippis ... emerged in the late twentieth century" (Bradley Bond, Mississippi).  And "the two Mississippis, one black and one white, converged momentarily" (Alan Draper, Conflict of Interests).  You may previously have heard of the "two Mississippis of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty."  It's even been said that Faulker himself had two Mississippis, his mythical one and his geographical one.
"Somehow I have to face up to these two Mississippis: the one I love and the one I hate" —W. Ralph Eubanks, Ever Is a Long Time
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #strange map #mississippi
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zritel', 1905.
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#vintage illustration #beard #father time #bow and arrow #age and youth
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #hair growth #long meal
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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 #beard #celtic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pliuvium, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #elephant #musical animal #cymbals #drums
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #birds #bird hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #horse #music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
It rises and rotates to make a most profound impression.  From The Judge, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #invention #novelty #top hat #hat tip
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #giant #sword #redhead #warrior #tiny man #red beard #illustration
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #clown #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #book #bookworm #fishing #visual pun #1910s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Hoisting a giant fish over a pig.  From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
The endpapers of Cowley College's Tiger yearbook of 1972 ask all the major questions of life.

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

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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #questions
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A crooked cat from The See and Say Series, Book Two by Sarah Louise Arnold, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #nursery rhyme
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Ectoplasm, an established marvel or a flimsy myth?"  A photo from Baron Von Schrenck-Notzing's The Materialization of Phenomena, in which a spirit medium summons a ghost through a strong, painful effort of will.  From Current Opinion, 1922.
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June 17, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Book of Romance by Andrew Lang, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #bow and arrow #robin hood #1900s #illustration
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I Found a Penny Today, So Here's a Thought (permalink)

When our new hall of mirrors was delivered, there were cracks … and we had to either process a return or face a shattered infinity.  We chose the latter … but weren't prepared for what it actually entailed.

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Ken responds: "The mirror is cracked in an amazingly artistic way! Radiating heavenward, with occasional communication between the rays. Fortunately it wasn't right in the middle, which would have been "conveniently conventional", but not so far to the side, as to not draw attention to itself. Much more interesting and unique than if it had never been cracked. The video made my head swim, but I got a warm feeling from it."

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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Nope, I can't think of any more expressions.  Wink, discomfort, singing, and determination are all of them.  Cartooning by Milt Hammer, from The Link, 1953.
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#vintage illustration #faces #cartooning #emoticon #expressions
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Memories of college.  From Brevard's 1976 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #rooftop #electricity #are friends electric #power lines
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #king #coffin
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krasnyi Smekh, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #demon
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #saint #birds #bull #plow #saint joseph #oxen
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Poisoned milk delivery.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #milk #bad milk #poisoned milk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #dogs #muzzle #stacked animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #cat #cat and mouse #bottle #shake well
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life's Fairy Tales by J. A. Mitchell, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #demon #fairy tale #djinn #illustration
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
* There is a vast world of reality into which science can no more enter than an elf can be Santa Claus.  We regret to observe that rather than face it, and confess its inability to measure it, science turns its back upon it.  Life is not always every-day life, and the insolvable mysteries are correlated not to formal rules but to spirit and inspiration.  Are bits of wisdom liable to dwarf the subject?  Indeed — and rightly!  James Howell described the ingredients of a good proverb to be "sense, shortness, and salt."  May Howell's cry resound through this present collection of maxims on believing in one's elf.

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#elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #lobster #illustration #giant lobster #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #drunk
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #demon #angel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Blue and Gold yearbook of the University of California, 1901.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #key
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zhurnal, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sun #hands #reach up for the sunrise
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1891 Hopkinsian yearbook of Johns Hopkins University.

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you are a turtle that needs saving.  From the Elson Primary School Reader, Book One, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #fish #under the sea
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June 16, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to our photo of Morro Rock, from The Link, 1956.
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#photography #tree #nature photography #photographers on tumblr #morro rock #rock
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the University of Wisconsin's 1919 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"I don't hear any bugle."  From The Tin Woodman of Oz by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill, 1918.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow #oz
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
In case you ever need it, here's Chicago in a bottle. From the Loyola yearbook of 1977.
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#vintage photo #reflection #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chicago #bottle #loyola
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern's 1906 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #occult #vintage yearbook #yearbook #candle #fraternities #secret society #hooded figure
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Oh, what a lot of boys!"  From Miss Mouse and Her Boys by Mrs. Molesworth, 1897.
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#vintage illustration #rowdy #boisterous #boys
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #king #goat #crown
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo (1867).
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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 #cave #octopus #victor hugo #tentacles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, have suckled from the bottle of coexistence only to be rudely surprised.  From Nebelspalter, 1958.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #axe #calf #butcher #coexistence
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #living toy #living doll
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #demon #end of the world #apocalypse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #father time #hybrid #human headed #prisoner #giant snail #human snail #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #kangaroo #elephant #snail #tiger #turtle #giraffe #animal race #girasffe
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Ulk, 1929.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #haunted #ghost #spirit #yokai
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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#vintage illustration #demon #skull #hell #time is money #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Stories for the Household by Hans Christian Andersen and illustrated by A. W. Bayes, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #flying #hans christian andersen #illustration #the people could fly
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #reindeer #sleigh #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a card reader from Le Journal Amusant, 1931.
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#vintage illustration #divination #fortune teller #card reader
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #faces in things #beer stein
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Long Lines magazine, 1921.
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#vintage illustration #winter #old man winter #illustration #frost
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June 15, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Time is thy enemy."  From The Link, 1966.
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#vintage illustration #time #clock #1960s
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if a floating goat's head has ever watched you cracking chestnuts.  From Millikin's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #goat #vintage yearbook #yearbook #chestnut
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.  See Your Ship Will Come In.
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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 #ship #figurehead
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1878.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #human headed #matches #matchbox
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pliuvium, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #snow #comet #starry night #shooting star
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #rain #mask #umbrella #frog #showering #naked woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #musician #watering can #loud music
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Zephyr carries Psyche down from the mountain."  From The Red Romance Book by Andrew Lang, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #angel #mythology #psyche #the people could fly #zephyr #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #bull #marx
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #bee #binoculars #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fishbowl #hearts
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #candle #drunk
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern's 1906 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #literature #vintage yearbook #yearbook #book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Annancy Stories, illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #folk tale #pamela colman smith
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used as a tool to trigger an altered state of consciousness. From the William and Mary yearbook of 1978.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night
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Precursors (permalink)
You've seen the photos of pets that look like loaves of bread.  Here's a precursor, "the Bread-Panther," by Carolyn Wells in St. Nicholas magazine, 1901.  Since then, of course, the bread-panther has been bred [pun unavoidable] down into house cat size.
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#vintage illustration #cat #hybrid #panther #bread
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Longwood's 1898 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #insomnia #vintage yearbook #yearbook #rat #can't sleep
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if you are affected by architecture.  From Zritel', 1908.
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#vintage illustration #despair #architecture #sadness
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June 14, 2019

Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
If our own hall of mirrors were this wonderful, we'd never be photographed anywhere else.  From Cine-Mundial, 1934.
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#mirror #vintage photo #vintage hollywood #hall of mirrors #hollywood #gracie allen
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1960 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #trees #fog
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Perfect Behavior, by Donald Ogden Stewart:

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A bachelor, accompanied by a young unmarried woman, when stepping accidentally into an open coal or sewer hole in the sidewalk, removes his hat and gloves as inconspicuously as possible.

***

A young man, if run over by an automobile driven by a strange lady, should lie perfectly still (unless dead) until an introduction can be arranged; the person driving the car usually speaks first.

An unmarried woman, if run into and knocked down by a taxicab driven by someone in her own "set," usually says "Why the hell don't you look where you're going?" to which the taxi driver, removing his hat, replies "Why the hell don't YOU?"

***

In order to listen to music intelligently—or what is really much more important—in order to give the appearance of listening to music intelligently, it is necessary for the novice to master thoroughly two fundamental facts

The first, and most important of these, is that the letter "w" in Russian is pronounced like "v"; the second, that Rachmaninoff has a daughter at Vassar.

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CORRECT BEHAVIOR AT A PIANO RECITAL

The same procedure is recommended for the piano or violin recital, with the possible addition of certain phrases such as "Yes—of course, she has technique—but, my dear, so has an electric piano." This remark gives you a splendid opportunity for sarcasm at the expense of Mr. Duo-Art and other manufacturers of mere mechanical perfection; the word "soul"—pronounced with deep feeling, as when repeating a fish order to a stupid waiter—may be introduced effectively several times.

***

[Bewitched dept.]

"On Monday next comes All-Hallows-Even,

My grandmother's maiden name was Stephens."

    or

"On Hallowe'en you may see a witch

If you don't look out, you funny fellow."

***

This invitation would of course be worded differently for different circumstances, such as, for example, if the name of the people giving the party wasn't Weems or if they didn't live at 1063 Railroad Ave., or if they didn't have any intention of giving a dinner party on that particular evening.

***

[New (old) evidence that this was a "thing"!:]

An elderly lady with a closed umbrella, for example, desiring to take a street car, should always stand directly under a large sign marked "Street Cars Do Not Stop On This Corner." As the car approaches she should run quickly out to the car tracks and signal violently to the motorman with the umbrella. As the car whizzes past without stopping she should cease signalling, remark "Well I'll be God damned!" and return to the curbstone.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #castle #knight #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nama und Damara: Deutsch Süd-West-Afrika by Hugo von François, 1896.
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#vintage illustration #death #skulls #horns #illustration #mass grave #family tree #skull tree
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate time travel.  From Taylor University's Ilium yearbook of 1994.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #night #tower #glowing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The melancholy hand."  The caption does not say that this is the hand of a melancholic, but rather that the hand itself is melancholy or perhaps even the embodiment of melancholia.  Therefore, the illustration is transformed into a talisman, akin to the Hand of Fatima.  From New Discoveries in Palmistry by Joseph Bryant Hargett, 1901.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #death #dance of death #grim reaper #zombie
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ovod, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #death #monster #grim reaper
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #janus #two faces #two-faced #double faced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.

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#vintage illustration #bird #roadrunner #running bird #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Krokodil, 1963.
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#vintage illustration #circus #balancing #strength #acrobats
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #tiger #costume #tiger costume #tiger skin
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
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Everybody's Doing This Now (permalink)
From Le Rire, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #hat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1908.
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#vintage illustration #creatures #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat #animal attack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #butterfly
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"In memory of those ground to death."  From Millikin's 1913 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #death #cemetery #graveyard #skull and crossbones #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tombstone #gravestone #epitaph #ground to death
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She imparted to me those terrible secrets of the Black Arts which were deep in her soul."  From Weird Tales, 1936.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #magick #conjuration #black arts #occult
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June 13, 2019

Unicorns (permalink)

Belated thanks to blogger Brizdaz (Darren) in Australia for writing about our Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound:

"I have to say first off that I have had no interest in unicorns, until I came across this book."

Meanwhile, there a thrilling new soundtrack to the field guide by the Seattle band Cuddlebot.

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#unicorn
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Someone Should Write a Book on ... (permalink)
Given that there's the classic Flatland and the follow-up Flatterland, someone should write a book called Even Flatterland or Superflatland, or Flattestland.
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#flatland
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, are reaching the half-way point.  From Lambuth's 1966 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #coffee #half-way #halfway
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a Bewitched (Season 4, Ep. 6) precursor to How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.  The captions read, "You should see what she wrote in the class yearbook: 'Roses are red, violets are blue; it may take a while, but I'll get you."  How and why this works is explained in the book.
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#bewitched
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Typewriters being so rare today, this is no longer a problem.  But back in the day, you had to get little bottles of "correction fluid" (a horrific euphemism!) for "erasing" (again, the horror!) these tiny beings.  From New Worlds, 1946.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #typewriter
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Peace Institute's 1920 yearbook.  Don't miss this guide to the palmistry of the "Don't Walk" hand at intersections: Crossroads Chiromancy: The Secrets of the Glowing Red Hands.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #palmistry #hands #chiromancy #palms
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Speaking Likenesses by Christina Rossetti and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1874.
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#vintage illustration #mayhem #hair pulling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Voices of the Night"  From Mrs. Grundy (1865).
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#vintage illustration #drunk #lamp post #illustration
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Call it a Hunch (permalink)
"You and your hunches."

A still from the classic Young Frankenstein.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #dragon costume #alligator costume #jaws of death #eaten alive
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1892.
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#vintage illustration #cat
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #cat #smiling cat #wishbone #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #orchestra #conductor #cacophony #noise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Then as now -- the lengths to which folks will go for well-defined abs.  From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.  
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#vintage illustration #ladder #abs
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1900.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #nightmare #demon #incubus #sleep paralysis
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Is it all in your mind?  The Haunted and the Haunters, Or, The House and the Brain by Lord Lytton, 1911.
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#haunted #book title
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate astral travel to the land of the red sky.  From Southwestern's 1941 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #red sky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1887.
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#vintage illustration #nose #feather #tickling #mustache #ear
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Every hall tree has one or more guardians, whether or not they're easily seen.  From Duke's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #bust #hall tree
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Sweetness.  The Child's Picture Grammar, written and illustrated by Sophia Rosamond Praeger, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #fairy #angel #sweetness
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June 12, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you never had it to lose. 
"He's lost the knack."  From University of the South's 1940 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #knack
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Two ways to find a cosmic swan.  From Star Lore of All Ages by William Tyler Olcott, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #constellation #swan #cygnus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From der Guckkasten, 1912.
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#vintage illustration #silhouette #trees
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1876.
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#vintage illustration #crying #knife
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse #broom
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Reblog if you, too, require prayers in relation to a great fortune.  From Emerson's 1946 yearbook.  See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.
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#prayer #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1940s #woman #vintage woman
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarnitsy, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bird #mouse #smart animal
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #locomotive
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Apropos of Nothing (permalink)
"Apropos of nothing, I had a weird day."
—David McConnell
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The phrase, "The serpent king watches as the sphinx oversees the burning of the city" is a Googlewhack.  From Deviatya Val, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #sphinx #on fire #end of the world #apocalypse #hybrid #human headed #biblical #serpent king #burning city
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #people who look like their dogs #two headed #conjoined #dog head
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Don't let a butterfly distract from the grim reaper behind the curtain.  From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #grim reaper #butterfly #horror
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #fairy #angel #fairy tale #spilling #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #animals #animal attack #charge
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #bird's eye view
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This photograph of accursed orbs was inverted and entitled "Lent" in the Ridley College's 1973 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #snow #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #orbs
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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 #greece
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Duke's 1973 yearbook.

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

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#arbor day #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tree
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"Was that a rat?"  From The Pedagogue at Play by G. M. A. Hewett, 1903.
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#dog #canoe #old photo #water rat
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June 11, 2019

The Right Word (permalink)
The last two words in this book are not "the end" but "the beginning."  In fact, any author can finish a book this way and thereby turn it into a living text.  A doodle of a crown is optional but can't hurt.  From The Sword in the Stone, written and illustrated by T. H. White, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #crown #the beginning
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #monocle #siamese twins #conjoined #joined at the nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #angel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Not pea-ple but squash.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1911.
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#vintage illustration #vintage magazine #vegetable people #crowded #paris metro #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #chased #horror #pursued #blob
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From Judge's Library, 1907.
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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 #drunk #hallucination #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Mocca, 1939.
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#vintage illustration #rat #illustration #ratten
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Boloto, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #demon #grotesque #smile
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Unicorns (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1913.  See A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.
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#vintage illustration #unicorn #fashion #vintage fashion #long hair #women #vintage women #vintage hair #hair
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #hybrid #giant cat #human faced
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This haunted photograph appears in the Cape Cod Community College yearbook of 1968.  Why are strange glows so ghostly?  Such lights are perhaps manifestations of what Ross Chambers calls "flauntology."  Chambers notes that when a metaphysical subject matter is inexplicable, to demonstrate or manifest that inexplicibility requires abstaining from any attempt to explain it away, with the aim to make hauntedness haunting and not to lay the ghosts; "to demonstrate or display without explanation is ... to flaunt .... [I]t is the flaunting of hauntedness that makes hauntedness haunting.  If it is true that there is no ontology without a hauntology, it seems to be also the case that there can be no hauntology without a flauntology, since flaunting names the apodictic gesture, the act of relay, that, in causing hauntedness to be seen, makes it haunting.  Flaunting is, par excellence, the gesture of visibility" whereby the lacking object can be figurally presented as an interpretive, recognizable object that haunts (Untimely Interventions).
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#strange light #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage photograph #1960s #photograph
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
A fairy caught on camera.  From The Coming of the Fairies by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1922.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#fairy
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Precursors (permalink)
"Shoegaze" was identified as a genre in the late 1980s, but here's a precursor from Swarthmore's 1961 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #1960s #vintage man #man #shoegaze #shoegazing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1881.
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#vintage illustration #dragon
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Precursors (permalink)
Top, from Cosmographiæ Introductio by Peter Apian, 1535. 
Bottom, from Cine-Mundial, 1940.
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#vintage illustration #globe #earth #hand #longitude #temperate zone #frigid zone #torrid zone
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Life (1901).
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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Elmhurst's 1960 yearbook.
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#sun #silhouette #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #pole vaulting
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From A Bit of a Do, by David Nobbs:

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He was a tall, slim man with cool eyes, handsome in a rather theoretical way, like a drawing of a good-looking man.

***

[Re. a cheap suit]

He felt as if it had put him on in a great hurry.

***

His face had an immature, unformed look, as if it were waiting for his personality to be delivered.

***

[As a smarmy photographer takes wedding pictures]

"Relax!" said Nigel Thick. "Let it all hang out."

Laurence regarded this phrase with extreme distaste. He found it impossible to comply... but he did manage to make a bit of it almost hang out.

***

"You can't just say 'but' and walk off. It's unacceptable behaviour both socially and grammatically."

***

Aunt Gladys.... had found an artificial pearl in her portion of cake, and Liz had felt that her outrage was almost as much because it wasn't real as because it shouldn't have been there at all.

***

Eric's reply suggested that he did indeed, he anticipated no problem, indeed he seemed confident that it would be just the job, thoroughly tickety, and probably boo as well.

***

Ted wished he hadn't said "Neville!!!" with three exclamation marks. He knew, really, that there couldn't possibly be anything between Rita and Neville Badger or indeed anybody but especially somebody like Neville Badger which could justify one exclamation mark, let alone three!!

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Queens College's 1971 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#owl #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#mercury #under the sea #winged foot #diver #deep sea diver #diving suit
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June 10, 2019

Precursors (permalink)
Eighteen years before "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter" was invented, there was this unbelievable mystery food (that was prayed to!)  From Swarthmore's 1961 yearbook.  Speaking of which, there's a collection of fake Buddha quotations called I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha!
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mystery food #i can't believe it's not
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Pliuvium, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #dog #organ grinder #transvestite #cross dresser #street performer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #eagle #cow #lion #1900s #stacked animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #seeing double #drunk #1890s #multiple exposure #blurred #many heads #mood
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's looking at you.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1903.
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#vintage illustration #looking at you #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Photobombed by a cherub.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #vintage camera #cherub #cupid #photobomb #camera #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #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 Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #upside down #vintage car #car
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1891 Hopkinsian yearbook of Johns Hopkins University.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook #quill pen #gnomes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Bacon pie.  From Fables and Fairy Tales by Henry Morley and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, 1860.
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#vintage illustration #pig #bacon #people who look like animals
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #scarecrow
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Old News (permalink)
I deamed of "the great question-mark of Europe."  (Headline from Current Opinion, 1922.  See Divination by Punctuation.)
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#vintage illustration #question mark #vintage headline #headline
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This cursed photograph appears in Mississippi Delta Community College's 1993 yearbook.

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#vintage photo #animal head #vintage yearbook #yearbook #cursed #buck
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sprut, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #serpent #hybrid #candle #human headed #snake man
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#ghost #spooky #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #cursed #2000s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1916.
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#vintage illustration #bird #stork
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Tulane's 1935 yearbook.  See How to Believe in Your Elf.
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#vintage illustration #forest #elves #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
Looks like rain.  From Nebelspalter, 1881.
*Inspired by the world's only accurate meteorological report, "Yesterday's Weather," as seen on Check It Out.
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#vintage illustration #angel #heaven #rain #watering can #st. peter
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June 9, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
A frightening number of yearbooks describe college as if alien beings are desperately learning to pass as human.  It's an oddly common theme, and it's disconcerting.  This caption reads, "I am amorphous.  I am nerve ends, ganglia, squeezed, compressed.  I must stiffen, yet stay flexible.  I want to be steel, I am afraid of becoming stone."  Yeah, sure.  Whatever you say, Marvin the Martian.  Of course, these aliens grew up and now rule the world -- Representative Jim Himes actually said this on national television: "the lizard brain that I have says I hope bad things happen" (we're not making this up; Google it!)
From Chowan's 1965 yearbook.

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #library #1960s
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Puzzles and Games :: Tic Tac Toe Story Generator (permalink)
Using our Tic-Tac-Toe Story Generator [instructions and template here], we can translate the game on this student's back into a poem:
A wish for experimental kisses,
unknowable              surprises,
the sun mysterious, shadowing.
(Photo from West Georgia's 1941 yearbook.)
INSTRUCTIONS:
In alternate turns, complete a row, column, or diagonal with three X’s or O’s. Each X and O has a discrete unit of meaning, as detailed in the Dictionary of One-Letter Words. Choose and write a letter meaning alongside each X and O placed in the grid; don’t repeat a letter meaning within the same game. Number each turn on the grid, to establish the linear progression of the story. When the game is finished, use the sequence of key words to construct your story, adding connecting phrases as necessary.

Click here for a printable template.  Thanks to Gary Barwin for inspiration!
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #poetry #yearbook #tic tac toe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #frog #hybrid #human faced
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Zarevo, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #end of the world #apocalypse #war
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Saint Cuthbert's vision.  From The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Abbie Farwell Brown and illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #angel #saint #vision #saint cuthbert
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"Squawk!  Please"  From McClure's (1913).
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#vintage illustration #driving
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #milk cow #milking
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #hobby horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #monster #horror #tentacles #furnace #tentacle monster #furnace monster
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#vintage illustration #cat #insomnia #monkey #rude awakening #can't sleep #noise
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1919.  Relatedly, there was this one about how death can offer fame to a musician.
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#vintage illustration #death #grim reaper #cello #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #witch #silhouette #talk to the animals #geese
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #illustration #roasted on a spit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #knife #vintage car #car #dangerous car
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Ghosts arise in Ridley College's Acta Ridleiana, 1968.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #cemetery #graveyard #full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
The Merry Widow hat from 1908.
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#vintage illustration #giant #fashion #vintage fashion #tiny man #big hat #vintage postcard #postcard
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
"Never be flat, sometimes be sharp, but always be natural."  From Peace Institute's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #musical score #motto #be natural
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #cat people #mustache #third eye #lion man #tail
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the 1910 yearbook of the Chicago Normal College.

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

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#vintage illustration #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook #endpapers #african art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
They arrived at the costume party dressed as each other.  From Nebelspalter, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #mask
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June 8, 2019

Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #piano #flood #floating #piano boat
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Each of these phrases is a Googlewhack.  "When I've coffee, I take cream.  In my world I can not dream.  All the people I know are black."  From Northeastern Illinois' 1968 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Zoom in to see how serpents form the teeth, there's a town in the eye sockets, and a person looks through the nasal cavity.  From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull #skull and crossbones #skull and bones #glowing skull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The queer side of things."  From The Strand (1894).

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#vintage illustration #centaur
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #long nose #goose #sculptor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Hommes du Jour, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #macabre #death #skeleton #spooky #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Vacuuming demons.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #demon #imp #vaccum
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #mask #long nose
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #butterfly wings #illustration #butterfly costume #butterfly woman #butterfly lady
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #occult #blackness #scrying
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1979 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#horror #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vampire #1970s #dracula
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here is revealed why so many movies are awful. "Every one with any authority went into the cutting room with scissors and no conscience." From Picture Play magazine, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #scissors #1920s #film editing
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Southwestern's 1915 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #skeleton #skull #vintage yearbook #yearbook #fraternities #secret society
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Strange Dreams (permalink)
Here's a strange dream from The Garden of Paradise by Edward Sheldon, 1915
If you have a strange dream to share, send it along!
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#dream
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Precursors (permalink)
This question mark got its own portrait in the National-Louis's 1930 yearbook.  This predates the invention of the interrobang in 1962 -- hence, there's an exclamation point in the question mark's name.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #question mark
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1850.
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#vintage illustration #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's so true -- that embarrassing last biscuit can be mortifying.  From Peace Institute's 1920 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #biscuit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)

"The whole aim of a practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." —H. K. Mencken

Our illustration is from Nebelspalter, 1886.

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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #politics #puppeteer #puppet
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Their two favorite albums [links go to Youtube] are the very wacky Romesville by Googie René, and Ahmad Jamal Trio at the Pershing: But Not for Me.
 
From Lasell's 1960 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #music lovers #jazz #women #vintage women
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the David Bowie lyric about "putting out fire with gasoline" ("Cat People," 1982).  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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June 7, 2019

Forgotten Wisdom (permalink)
Philip K. Dick wrote that we can all meet again, in another part of the forest, where a boy and his bear will always be playing ... imperishable, like all of us.  We will wind up with Pooh, in a clearer, more durable new place.
From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook, here is our map locating Pooh's Platonic ideal in the imperishable forest.
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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#forest #map #platonic ideal #philip k. dick #pooh
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is a Googlewhack -- "camels of the middle class."  From Duke's 1975 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #camel
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #death car #over the cliff
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
When a book is too heavy.  From Satirikon, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #tiny man #crushed #big book
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The full-lipped 'Sugar Mouth.'"  From The Strand (1905).
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#vintage illustration #faces #mouth #lips #full lips #men's lips #sugar mouth #sensual lips
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #mythology #flying horse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #star goddess #boat #star spirit #star deity #star navigation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #tree spirit #woodcutter #deforestation #faces in things #tree cutting
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
The Tumblr site Retro-Devil suggested this pairing.  Enlarge the image on the right here.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #vintage cards #playing cards #car #illustration #cards #unusual cards #card
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #beard #man bathing #bathtub #hot day #man in a tub #cooling off #tub
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #boat #clock tower #1900s #low bridge
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
This cabin in the woods may be used for facilitate time travel.  From Lakehead University's 1966 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #winter #vintage yearbook #night photography #yearbook #cabin in the woods
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A restoration of an image from The Entheogen Review Complete.
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#vintage illustration #horns #tribal art
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Zarathustra said that this moment will occur infinite times in the future.  From Elmhurst's 1960 yearbook.
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From Corey Ford:

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Cheerfulness was the word for the Vanity Fair offices, though the startled Mr. Nast, peering incredulously through the door, might have preferred the word lunacy. There were the Keene Twins, a pair of dancing sisters who had temporarily deserted musical comedy to work as file clerks. They kept themselves in shape for their profession by doing limbering and stretching exercises besides the water cooler, or pulling out all the top drawers of the files and dancing past the cabinets, kicking the drawers back in place one by one. Sometimes [editor] Crownie, an amateur magician, would call the staff together to demonstrate a new card trick, or vie with his friend John Mulholland at feats of legerdemain involving canaries or coins. Again, all production would be halted while the editor organized an office game of charades...

***

[On a friend named Alison Smith]

Her hands were always in motion, dipping and swerving to accent what she was saying. The only trouble was that the gesture never quite matched the subject. She would form a circle with a thumb and forefinger to illustrate the phrase "My mother..." or make a victory V as she said, "So I went upstairs..." or else remark, "Next summer we're going to Norway," and point vaguely in the direction of the door.

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[William Faulkner, the first telecommuter?]

After staring blankly at the bare walls of his office for several days, he smuggled a message to Dave Selznick, asking if he might be permitted to work at home instead of coming to the office every day. A couple of weeks later, Selznick decided to confer with him about the progress of the script and phoned his hotel, to be informed that Faulkner had checked out some time previously. A search of all the lodging places in the Los Angeles area failed to disclose any trace. At last a frantic long-distance call located him back in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #secret society
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Child's Picture Grammar, written and illustrated by Sophia Rosamond Praeger, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #horse #smiling animal #smiling horse
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Reblog if, due to budget cuts, your art and language classes were combined.  From Washington College's 1959 yearbook.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #vintage ad #dragon #alcohol #drunk #crying animal #bottle #ad
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June 6, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
A dozen things talking skulls have said:
"There is no use for you to cry, for you are with me now, and you must begin to clean me."
—told by storyteller White Sun, whose grandfather was the medicine-man of the Kitkehahki (The Pawnee Mythology, collected by George Dorsey, 1906).
"Is it just today or yesterday that I have been here?"
—a Nigerian Yoruba story (African Folktales in the New World by William Bascom, 1992).
"I was dreaming. ...I dreamt that I threw my own body down. I dreamt that I was bounding about, merely a skull."
Yana Texts by Edward Sapir, 1910
"There is as much fire beneath our feet and heads as the sky is distant from the earth."
The Book of the Elders: Sayings of the Desert Fathers, translated by John Wortley, 2012
"Shall I remain a skull for ever, or shall I take my own true form?"
—"The Two Sisters," A Staircase of Stories chosen by Louey Chisholm and Amy Steedman, 1920
"Why do you spurn me? I once was living, I now am rolling in the dust; your fate will be like mine."
Smoke by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, 1883
"Tongue brought me here; tongue will bring you here too."
Readers of the Quilt by Joanne Dowdy, 2005
"I have fully enjoyed valuable treasures in my life time—and even after I died."
The skull spoke. Muffled. Sepulchral. "Trick or treat!"
Hunter's Orange by William Dieter, 1984
"Foolishness killed me, and cleverness has killed you."
Research in African Literatures, 1977
"We ask you to look with the eyes of your soul and to engage with the essential. Regaining your luminous nature is a possibility today for all who dare to take the leap."
The Maya End Times by Patricia Mercier, 2008
"I am here to destroy all human beings."
Curse of the Crystal Skull by Drac Von Stoller, 2012
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Our illustration is from Washington University's 1922 yearbook.
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
Today, people will play Space Invaders wearing just anything.  So much has changed since the 1980s.  From Eastern Nazarene's 1981 yearbook.
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#vintage photo #fashion #vintage fashion #video game #vintage yearbook #yearbook #space invaders #hat #1980s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Guckkasten, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #gnome #fairy tale #frog #frog king
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From L'Eclipse, 1871.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #anthropomorphism #fox #human headed
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
We want all the lights in all our photos to look like this.  Please send instructions.  From Elmhurst's 1960 yearbook.
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#photography #vintage yearbook #yearbook #light and darkness #photograph #vintage photography
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's a lamentable duo from Le Charivari, 1846.
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#vintage illustration #musician #clarinet #bassoon #woodwinds #oboe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Volshebnyi Fonar', 1906.
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#vintage illustration #bird headed #anthropomorphism #bird man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Sekira, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #devil #satan #witch #magick #witchcraft #occult #coven #invocation
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1895).
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#vintage illustration #pan pipes #faun #lakeside
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #harp #musical animal #ostrich #1900s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Parables from Nature by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 1861.
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#vintage illustration #owl #spooky #full moon #tree #illustration #old tree
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1920.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From More Tales from the Arabian Nights by Edward William Lane and illustrated by Willy Pogany, 1915.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The ouija board is one o fthe most popular distractions of the Hollywood flapper set." From Picture Play magazine, 1922.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#vintage illustration #occult #ouija #spirit board #gypsy #talking board
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1886.
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#vintage illustration #squirrel
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This ghost appears in the University Rhode Island yearbook of 1975.  It has been said that "ghosts exist because we determine them as ghosts -- narrate them into 'life'" (Clive Bloom, in Ghosts: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, History).
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#vintage illustration #ghost #shadow #vintage yearbook #yearbook #spirit photography #1970s
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
How well do you know your giant bottles?  Is this a Jeroboam, a Rehoboam, a Methuselah, a Salmanazar, a Balthazar, a Nebuchadnezzar, a Melchior, a Solomon, a Goliath, or a Melchizedek?  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #alcohol #giant bottle #vermouth
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to that unforgettable scene in Cabin in the Woods in which a college woman makes out with a trophy on the wall.  From Colorado College's 1977 yearbook.
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#vintage yearbook #yearbook #cabin in the woods #deer #trophy
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
"It's almost impossible to imagine a clock's accuracy being off by such an incredibly tiny figure" (Josepha Sherman, How Do We Know the Nature of Time, 2004).  From Cine-Mundial, 1933.
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#vintage photo #clock #1930s #woman #vintage woman
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June 5, 2019

The Right Word (permalink)
Here's a mention of a nonsensical vowelless word ... and we wish the consonants in question had been included, because it might very well have appeared in Webster's Dictionary of Improbable Words: All-Consonant and All-Vowel Words.
From Million Dollar Baby by Amy Patricia Meade, 2006
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#all-consonant word #vowelless
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle (1965).  From Peace Institute's 1920 yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #vintage yearbook #yearbook #mouse
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Seven Brides for Dracula by Tim Kelly.
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#vintage illustration #bat #coffin #vampire #dracula
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vodovorot, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #ghost #giant
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #demon #hell #juggling
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Collier's (1902).
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#vintage illustration #pegasus #winged horse #vintage automobile #automobile
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Otboi, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #skull #doghouse #tables turned #chained
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #alligator #scratcing an itch
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #dog #people who look like their dogs #crutches #healing
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Courrier Français, 1891.
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#vintage illustration #down the well #murderer
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #fashion #vintage fashion #wearable art #art fashion #fashionable 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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#vintage illustration #skeleton #parrot #living dead #crying #giant parrot #bird skeleton #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Der Orchideengarten, 1920.
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#vintage illustration #devil #sheet ghost
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Elf Maiden and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fairy tale #enchantment #illustration
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Do-Re-Midi (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1904.
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#vintage illustration #musical notes #musician #music lover #forehead #wrinkles
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Washington University's 1922 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #scarab
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From American Farming magazine, 1914.  See The Care & Feeding of a Spirit Board.
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#vintage ad #ouija #planchette #talking board #ad
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
"Treat the Master and sweet the Magic."  From the 1921 Southwestern yearbook.  See Magic Words: A Dictionary and The Young Wizard's Hexopedia.
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#vintage illustration #magic #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
You've heard that behind every great man there's a woman, but of course support can, and should, go both ways.  From Nebelspalter, 1887.
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June 4, 2019

This May Surprise You (permalink)
Possibly all seemingly innocent paintings of fruit are actually nudes.  From Cine-Mundial, 1937.
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#vintage illustration #pear #painter #fruit
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilmington's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #father time #vintage yearbook #yearbook #tiny people
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Miscellanies of Mr. Jonathan (permalink)

Jonathan Caws-Elwitt

unearths some literary gems.

From My Northern Exposure by Walter E. Traprock:
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He looked as if he were about either to embalm a body or tune a piano.
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Silhouetted against the sky I could see the curved feather in his cap, a minute question mark.
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The Right Word (permalink)
Here's an entry from The Dictionary of Ugly Words, a book attributed to us.
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#ugly word #non-zero-sumness
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
It's the journey previously unknown, not the destination previously unknown. From the East Longmeadow yearbook of 1989.

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#easter island #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #starry night #statue
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Reblog if a volcano is your barbecue.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Vampir, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #severed head #hand of god #skewered
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #minotaur #hybrid #human headed #man bull
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Cosmopolitan (1893).
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#vintage illustration #angel #trumpet
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Novogodnii Orakul, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #skull #murder #axe #horror
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #falling #balancing act #horses
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1895.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #saw #blade
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This Terrible Problem That Is the Sea (permalink)
From The Judge, 1913.
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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 #anthropomorphism #sea serpent
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
We note the overseer.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1902.
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"She lamented bitterly."  From The Arabian Nights Entertainments, 1899.
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#vintage illustration #despair #grief #arabian nights #sorrow #illustration #lament
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #comet #star goddess #shooting star
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #demon #devil #hell #his satanic majesty #hell satan
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Buket, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #monkey
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Here's a palm reader in Southwestern University's yearbook of 1979.

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#divination #fortune teller #vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #palm reader #palmistry
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
A safety tip -- to avoid confusion, avoid being be a redhead with an orange robe during a fire.  From Le Régiment, 1914.
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#vintage illustration #fire #redhead
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June 3, 2019

Unicorns (permalink)

Free download: a musical version of our field guide to identifying unicorns by sound, by the Seattle band Cuddlebot.  It's like the baroque majesty of Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade, recorded in the field.  We're tickled and honored to have inspired this beguiling sonic masterpiece.  Physical copies of the original field guide do exist!  A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.

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#unicorn #free music
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Images Moving Through Time (permalink)
One weird trick gives Hollywood stars flattering reflections.  It's all in how you hold it.  From Cine-Mundial, 1922.
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#mirror #vintage photo #1920s #woman #vintage woman
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Carrying the weight of the world up a mountain.  Here's my tip -- see if the mountain offers a gondola ride to the top.  From Monmouth's 1913 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #earth #vintage yearbook #yearbook #weight of the world #mountain #why the earth wobbles
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Les Types de Paris, 1889.
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#vintage illustration #paris #saw
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Satiricheskoe Obozrenie, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #serpent #hybrid #human headed #snakes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #weightless #tea #floating #hallucination
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Same old same old.  From L'Assiette au Beurre, 1901.
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#vintage illustration #the more things change #war #same old game
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1909.
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#vintage illustration #bouquet #yellow flowers #man with tail #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #comet #celestial #star goddess #shooting star #star dress
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From El Mundo Fisico by Amadeo Guillemin, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #candles
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Separated at Birth? (permalink)
Our custom widget that checks for duplicated images suggested this unlikely pairing.  Click each image for its source.
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Old News (permalink)
"Is glass a poison."  From The Literary Digest, 1899.
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#poison #vintage headline #glass #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Ridley College's Acta Ridleiana, 1968.
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#vintage illustration #political cartoon #grim reaper #scythe
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Cats have an innate understanding of Chess.  They merely play it by a different set of rules.  From Cassell's Readable Readers, Part 5, 1885.
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#vintage illustration #cat #chess
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Susquehanna's 2007 yearbook.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#grotesque #mask #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to the They Might Be Giants lyric, "Make a little birdhouse in your soul."  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #cherub #cupid #heart #window #illustration #they might be giants #birdhouse in your soul
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Lebanon Valley's 1929 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook #horus
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Charivari, 1849.
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#vintage illustration #night sky #stars #venus #ursa major #contstellation
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This is as good a depiction of college as we've seen.  From Marion College's 1928 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #egypt #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Strely, 1906.
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#vintage illustration #anthropomorphism #cow
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June 2, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From Wilmington's 1923 yearbook.

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#vintage illustration #full moon #vintage yearbook #yearbook #night #mountain
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The wild geese of division.  From Ray's New Primary Arithmetic for Young Learners, Book 1, 1877.
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#vintage illustration #geese #math #division
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Walks About Chicago, 1871-1881 by Franc Bangs Wilkie, 1882.
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#vintage illustration #drinking #alcohol #pub
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Precursors (permalink)
Here's a precursor to If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow.  From Lustige Blätter, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #rainbow #night #night rainbow
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From the Cap and Gown yearbook of the University of Chicago, 1917.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.
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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #gargoyle
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
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#vintage illustration #blackbird #raven #vintage magazine #magazine
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1988, The Cooking Pot.
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#vintage illustration #pestle #mortar #cooking #garlic
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Here's some haunted wallpaper from Lustige Blätter, 1905.
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#vintage illustration #faces in things #haunted wallpaper #the walls have eyes
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1894.
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#vintage illustration #postage stamp
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The pumpkin pie monument.  From The Judge, 1913.
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#vintage illustration #pumpkin #monument #pumpkin pie #strange monument
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
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#vintage illustration #clown #bear #bomb #purple bear #clown bear #bear clown
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Strange Prayers for Strange Times (permalink)
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#prayer #darkness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Judge, 1915.
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#vintage illustration #dating hazard #hair caught #compromising position
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1900.
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#vintage illustration #skeletons #illustration #art
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Staring at the Sun (permalink)
From Die Muskete, 1917.
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#vintage illustration #illustration #exploding sun #supernova
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Yesterday's Weather (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1919.
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#vintage illustration #rainy day
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
An illustration by W. A. Wellner.  From Lustige Blätter, 1902.
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#vintage illustration #nest #harpy #hybrid #human headed #gargoyle #man bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
The devil watches a spirit leave the body of a living person.  From The Devil's Bride by Milton H. Stine, 1910.
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#vintage illustration #devil #soul #spiritualism #astral body #astral travel #out of body
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
Pluto is counted as a planet in these endpapers for North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #earth #outer space #vintage yearbook #yearbook #solar system #endpapers #planets
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Nebelspalter, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #devil #cauldron #hell
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June 1, 2019

Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From East Carolina's 1934 yearbook.  See Your Ship Will Come In.
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#vintage illustration #tall ship #ship #pirate ship #vintage yearbook #yearbook
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Old News (permalink)
"'Because we like them' reason given by women for buying sheer hose."  From Dry Goods Economist, 1922.
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#vintage headline #sheer hose #headline
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Shut, 1907.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #death #skeleton #mortality #grim reaper #skull face #mourning #sadness
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
"The falling of the stars."  From Prophetic Lights by Ellet Joseph Waggoner, 1888.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #prophecy #end of the world #celestial #stars #starry night #astronomy #shooting star #biblical #falling star #meteor
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Rubl, 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 #architecture #faces in things
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Maski, 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 #owl #bird
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 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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#mummy #sarcophagus #vintage illustration #egypt #coffin #rabbit
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Public speaking used to be thrilling.  From Krokodil, 1965.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #bells #public speaking
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This May Surprise You (permalink)
Unbelievably, it's always June in Florida.  From The Judge, 1922.
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#vintage illustration #florida #travel poster #june
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Kladderadatsch, 1924.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#mummy #sarcophagus #vintage illustration #egyptian #skull face #spooky
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From The Mythological Zoo by Oliver Herford, 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 #mythology #pegasus #winged horse #illustration
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Jugend, 1905.   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 #frog #elves #illustration #art
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
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 #political cartoon #death #war #laurels
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Le Journal Amusant, 1910.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #angel #dancing #ballet
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How to Believe in Your Elf (permalink)
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#elf
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Lustige Blätter, 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 #castle #knight #bull
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
This photograph may be used to facilitate astral travel.  From the Ridley College yearbook of 1983.   

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

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#vintage photo #vintage yearbook #yearbook #castle in the air #parallel universe #mirage
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
From Appletons' Chart-primer by Rebecca D. Rickoff, 1884.
[Inexplicable images from generations ago invite us to restore the lost sense of immediacy.  We follow the founder of the Theater of Spontaneity, Jacob Moreno, who proposed stringing together "now and then flashes" to unfetter illusion and let imagination run free.  The images we have collected for this series came at a tremendous price, which we explained previously.]
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#vintage illustration #umbrella #weightless
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Yearbook Weirdness (permalink)
From North Central's 1937 yearbook.

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

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#vintage illustration #vintage yearbook #yearbook #vintage man #man
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Restoring the Lost Sense (permalink)
Industriousness and idleness.  From The Child's Picture Grammar, written and illustrated by Sophia Rosamond Praeger, 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 #opposites #conjunction #lazy #industrious
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